----- Original Message ---- From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:47:17 PM Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Convention fri nite On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, S. Hieber wrote: > In the past we've always let host club membership suffice. Is that no so? If you remember, we had a bit of an issue with the GWAPA members because they were significantly cheaper than AGA membership, and we had to insist that prior GWAPA members were grandfathered in but new GWAPA memberships didn't count. Or was that DFWAPC? Naw, I think it was GWAPA. >>>>>Yep. It was GWAPA. As you remember it. SFBAAPS membership is FREE. You just have to be a Bay Area resident. They currently have 200 of these free members. So basically if one went by that rule, all local residents would get in without additional membership fees. But in typical SFBAAPS fashion, I suspect they are not aware of this tradition. >>>>>>>They were offering free membership for a while but I then it was $5 and >>>>>>>now it is again free. I just don't know how gracious we're feeling right now. 1. We could not tell them, and let the bomb explode when all the free-loadin' locals figure out they not only have to pay registration, but an additional $20, or 2. We could formalize the agreement to include SFBAAPS memberships, meaning that all locals would get in at $59. If it were just up to me, I don't have the energy for that particular fight, so I'd go for #2, knowing it's our last time having to make this arrangement. >>>>>> I could go either way here. Otoh, a good convention will mean a good >>>>>> turn out -- lots of regs. We need roomnights too but the locals can't >>>>>> help us there. So I coudl see letting folks that became SFBAAPS members >>>>>> prior to a certain date gettng to reg without joining AGA. Otoh, I wouldn't feel bad making them at least pay $20 since they've done so little work. So I drafted up an agreement -- see attached. Comments anyone?
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