Hello, I'm Jim Gilligan and have been your Assistant Commissioner for the past 3 seasons. As a father of a gay son and having a gay best friend, I am a strong Ally of the LGBTQ+ Community. I've marched in countless RI Pride parades, have attended as many league events as I possibly can, and will always defend the LGBTQ+ community both inside and outside of this league. I’ve been a RCSL member in good standing for 15 seasons, been to 8 iPRIDE Softball Gay World Series, and dozens of national iPRIDE Softball tournaments representing our league in support of the community. For the past 3 seasons as Assistant Commissioner, I have been preparing the fields for play every Sunday at 730 AM with bases, balls, mats, flags, and raking when necessary and then returning to the fields at 3pm to return all our supplies to the storage facility. I've also ensured that our standings in Quickscores are updated as soon as possible by retrieving scores on a timely basis from your coaches by the end of the day on Sunday. I've been a fierce defender of our Code of Conduct that I produced as former Player Liaison over 10 years ago. I have a zero tolerance for obvious violations including the inaccurate reporting of player LGBTQ+ statuses. In fact, in conjunction with our commissioner, any player(s) and/or teams who were obviously falsifying their LGBTQ+ statuses were simply not invited back to this league. Not too long ago, this league was roughly 60% non-LGBTQ, but now under our leadership, it's almost 70% LGBTQ+! This is how our commissioner was able to get interest back from the other 2 New England iPRIDE Softball Leagues to form a partnership in the now annual New England Cup tournament that I believe will expand to 2 days next season. Finally, after serving on this league's Board of Directors for what will be 12 seasons next year, our commissioner will be retiring as will all that experience of running this league successfully. It's imperative that we have an Assistant Commissioner with 7-years of Board experience to assist our new commissioner after next season to help ensure her/his or their success. Please vote JIM GILLIGAN for Assistant Commissioner for another 2 years! Thank you for your support.