[AGA-sc] Motion for Award of Aquascaping prizes

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

The following you already know but just as a reminder:
 
We intended to award prizes this year to some or all Aquascaping Contest 
winners.
We sought some sponsorship from clubs and vendors, generally in  the form of 
goods.
    We received goods for 1st place winners plus a few odds and ends, *and* Kim 
(AHS) offered to give $250 to Best of Show.
All of the winners this year are non-USA residents, so shipping costs would be 
high relative to the value of the goods.
We discussed gift certificates as an alternative to sending goods but the 
receipt of goods purchased with gift certificates could present the same 
onerous shipping costs to 
    winners.
The goods can be sold eventually at club auctions for cash.
The contest ended about 2 months ago and we haven't sent out prizes yet.
 
The simplest way to deal with this is, I believe, for the Treasurer to mail 
checks to the winners. Checks are 2nd only to cash as the most widely accept 
gift certificates in the world. And checks mail much more safely than cash.
 
I move the that the Board approve the following:
 
that the Treasurer, as soon as possible, send awards by check to the winners 
according to the following table and
that the goods received from sponsors be sold when it is practical and 
convenient to do so and the funds credited to the AGA general account as 
offsets for Aquascaping contest contest costs.
 

                                                      Place    
Categories             1st             2nd              3rd             Best of 
Show 
Small                  $100            $50              $25                   
$250 (paid by Bryant)
Medium                 100             50                25  
Large                     100            50                25  
XLarge                   100            50                25  
Biotope                  100            50                25  
Paludarium             100            50                25  
_______________ _______________ _______________ _______________   Total
Totals                   $600         $300            $150                   
$250                $1,300 
 
I believe the amounts are reasonable and certainly affordable. Since we didn't 
loudly spell out that only some winners would get prizes, I think it would be 
goodwill to award prizes to all winners, even third place winners, although the 
amounts are proportionately small. Put another way, I wouldn't risk the illwill 
jsut to save 150 bucks ;-)
 
Subject the motion being seconded, I vote yes.
 
 

 
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