Karen----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Rogers" <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:24 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, or2. 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_______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc
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