Re: [AGA-sc] Convention fri nite

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

You're jsut too nice. 
 
I had thought about the premium membeship and I say, if the premiums are still 
SFBAAPS members then they can reg without joining AGA. If they feel cheated 
about no convention last year, well they could have gotten off their 
dgosh-darned duffs and met at least one deadline. I think it is in large part 
their fault their was no convention in 2005. I don't want, in effect, to give 
$200 to the club for failing to meet deadlines.
 
Besides, I wouldn't want to get into deciding who worked harder than who -- I 
know at my place of employement, everyone thinks they are the hardest worker of 
all. 
sh
 

----- Original Message ----
From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 1, 2006 9:24:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Convention fri nite


In 2003, everybody paid.

Another fly for your 2006 ointment. SFBAAPS was a Premium Club in 2005. 
Part of that cool deal was 10 memberships, with all the privileges, 
including convention entry. But we didn't have a convention in 2005, so 
from their point of view they are stiffed for that benefit.

Now their Premium Club status has expired. I don't know their plans, 
they might renew.

But I think we should at least offer them 10 freebies for their 10 
hardest workers. More if they renew. Their choice who, but they have to 
provide me a list by two weeks before or something. How's that?

Aside--I did make a couple of exceptions at the last minute for GWAPA. 
For example, Aaron Talbot was not officially grandfathered, BUT for 
goodness' sake he had lupus, and they were holding benefits for his 
medical expenses, plus he was there volunteering the entire weekend. I 
told Rick I would expemt him on his say-so, and he said so. So there. 
Fire me. :-)

Cheryl



Erik Olson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
>   - Erik
> 
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