General manager Jodi Brown said the organisation had undergone a minor restructure to ensure human resources reached where they were needed most.
"No-one has lost their job," Brown said.
"We have restructured just to make sure that people are responsible for a certain area.
"Previously ... we were understaffed, and so we had people doing multiple roles and working in a lot of different areas within Basketball Otago."
The organisation has just completed its strategic plan, so the timing was right to "accelerate" the changes.
Basketball Otago has five staff and they have a lot of work to get through.
Brown said the sport was booming and the main challenge was securing enough court space.
"The problem that we have is the facilities. We don’t have enough. So we’re having to cap all our competitions because we just don’t have facilities to run them."
The game’s grassroots continue to grow in the region. Last season, the association had just under 4400 registered players across all the age groups.
Registrations were not complete this season, but Brown expects the numbers to have bounced upwards again.
"We’ve increased our teams in two of our competitions. We’ve got the primary school competitions, which is probably one of our biggest ones.
"And their registrations [closed yesterday], but we’re already at the same amount of teams as we had last year.
"We’re all fighting over courts and, obviously, the leaky floor situation doesn’t help and stuff like that.
"When we have primary school parents come to us and say, ‘look, why is my 5-year-old playing at 7 o’clock at night?’ . . . well, we just don’t have the capacity to spread those games out over time.
"We can’t use schools. So we’re fighting with netball and other sports and stuff like that."
Basketball Otago is based at the Edgar Centre, which needs a new roof.
The old one is leaking and it has taken years of advocacy to get a replacement approved.
Construction starts next year. In the meantime, the mops will remain at the ready.
