Hmmm. I just got a call from Dave Gomberg. Guess he got wind that Tom was
going to make a bid for the AGA convention.<g>
He said he agrees with Tom that Monterey would be an idea area to hold the
convention, but he expressed some serious concerns that Tom would have the
organizational abilities to follow through with it. His biggest concern is
that Tom will assign jobs to specific people who have not committed in their
own minds, and in the process REALLY turn them off.
He suggested, and it sounded like a pretty good idea to me, that we actually
ask the organization submitting a bid to not only designate people to handle
specific jobs, but also ask for letters of intent from those folks. Things
can alway go wrong, causing people to have to back out, but at least we will
have their committment to the project up-front.
Dave said that he has had a fair amount of experience working hotel deals,
so he is very willing to work that part himself. He thinks, if there really
ARE enough people in the area to do the job, that it might be very possible
to get Tom to take over the field trip portion, and let less
organizationally-challenged people take the lead role of chairing the
convention.
He asked if we could send him a copy of the bid document too. I said we
were having a little formatting problem, but that as soon as that was
solved, I'd ask Scott to shoot him a copy too.
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Barr" <tcbiii@earthlink.net>
To: "Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Aquatic Gardener's Association meeting 2005
Yep.
Regards,
Tom Barr
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>
Sent: Dec 26, 2004 2:04 PM
To: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>, Shieber <shieber4@comcast.net>,
davemillman@yahoo.com, rlcain1@earthlink.net, erik@thekrib.com,
pkrombholz@bellsouth.net, mfaulkner@tenji.com, fishfong@juno.com,
Thomas Barr <tcbiii@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Aquatic Gardener's Association meeting 2005
Really cool, Tom! Do you have the number of people out there to help you
get it accomplished?
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Barr" <tcbiii@earthlink.net>
To: <fishfong@juno.com>; <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>; <mfaulkner@tenji.com>;
<pkrombholz@bellsouth.net>; <erik@thekrib.com>; <rlcain1@earthlink.net>;
<davemillman@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: Aquatic Gardener's Association meeting 2005
Hi Karen and Eric,
I spoke to you at the last AGA meeting about hosting next year's event
in
the Bay area. I've found several places in Monterey near the Monterey Bay
Aquarium. We have looked at flights to Monterey vs SFO from a number of
places. Mark Faulkner may be able to arrange a behind the scenes tour at
MBA
and the location is a quait atmosphere, shops, food is top notch
(Dungeness
Crabs, wild Salmon etc). Kayaking in the kelp and other activities.
Rate seem to be about 80-90$ per night.
We are having an Aquatic weed confrence there in 3 weeks. I will be
there
for 3 days and will see about the cost for hosting. The state is paying
for
this and would be similar in numbers to the AGA event and time frame.
Field trips and trips to local folk's aquariums, nature weed infested
lakes, delta boat trip would be very cool(I can arrange that) as it has
about 10 species in epic proportions.
I will contact you folks later about the actual offers in Monterey. We
are
also looking at SF region but cost are high here. So that might take some
doing. Either way, both places have a great deal to offer outside aquatic
plant talks.
The Redwoods and water falls are not far(Down a piece on HWY 1).
I have included Mark here as well as Wilfred from SFAS, Dave from
SVAS, we have talked in SFBAAPS for sometime. There are several clubs that
overlap and many folks out here and the BAKA among others.
Regards,
Tom Barr
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