Re: [AGA-sc] hospitality

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

Previously, we did a private suite becasue that was thrown in at no further 
cost along with the other event rooms. It could be cheaper to buy sodas and 
chips and use the vendor room than rent a room for Sat and Sunday. We have $500 
in the budget for Hospitality. Let's limit Hospitaality to that -- if it means 
using the venodr room so we can buy food and beverage, so be it.
 
As far as losing money, I don't think we should let that happen. If it's really 
looking that bad this early on, we should just pull the plug on this thing. 
This SF deal has been a slippery slope since just about day one but we ought to 
have limits.  If this thing is going to be a tank job, then we should drop it. 
I think we can do this without losing money and that  we can be reasonably 
certain of that once we have a hotel deal. But it depends onthe hotel deal. If, 
with that in hand, it looks very probable that we can break even, then we go 
forward. There's no sonse going forward with a convention that half the board 
won't even attend, that has such poor general attendance that it can't break 
even.
In that case since we're going to do all the work, we might as well pick a 
venue and agenda that fits our needs.
 
 
 
sh
 



----- Original Message ----
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 6:23:49 PM
Subject: [AGA-sc] hospitality


I've left Jim a message to call me specifically regarding this today.

I really don't care much about how we do hospitality, so I've been staying 
out of it.  In fact, I don't really know what to ask Jim here.  This is 
also further wrinkled by Phil's message about hospitality room 
sponsorship.

I guess if I have an opinion at all, it's "let's do a private suite and 
buy our own booze like we always do".  I can try to explain that to Jim if 
you like.

   - Erik

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Larry Lampert wrote:

> Speaking of which, it appears that Jim does not fully
> understand what we are talking about. Do you guys just
> want to make a decision on what we should do about the
> hospitality situation.
>
> I guess he was thinking that Fri would be socializing
> without any food and beverage or something.
>
> We could look at a cash bar for beverages in the
> Vendor room after whatever we decide Fri night will
> be. We could just pay whatever it costs for chips and
> stuff from the hotel.
>
> At this point I think we should just decide on
> something for them. Otherwise they are making the
> decision with our money and they have not shown yet
> that they should be doing that.
>
> I feel like I am holding up everything for this and I
> want to get the contract to Jean. Let me know your
> thoughts.....
>
> Regards,
> Larry
>
> --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
>
>> I actually think we need to do SF even if it is at a
>> loss, as long as it's
>> not a disasterous loss.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
>> To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board"
>> <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Snow Job -- or report produced
>> inbetween shoveling
>> otherstuff
>>
>>
>>> Hmmm. The text is Times New Roman and the charts
>> and tables are Arial --
>>> pretty standard stuff. Same logo I used last year.
>>>
>>> Btw, comments on the report, like questions, are
>> supposed to in writing on
>>> the prescribed stationary.
>>>
>>> Why would we have a net loss in 2006? I can't
>> think of anything we're
>>> doing diff except the SF convention, which I
>> assume we will not undertake
>>> unless we are sure we will at least break even.
>>>
>>> sh
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
>>> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board
>> <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:45:04 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Snow Job -- or report
>> produced inbetween shoveling
>>> other stuff
>>>
>>>
>>> Other than noting you're using the old logo and
>> the fonts look a little
>>> funky where you substituted new text, this is
>> great news.   I suppose
>>> we'll lose some money this year, which will bring
>> things back down.
>>>
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