Re: [AGA-sc] noise pain n suffering reim question

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Hi all,
We WORK too damn hard, and worry too much to have to send this money back 
to everyone.
>From what I know there weren't any serious huffs from participants about 
the noise.  FOr those that did complain, maybe we send them a DVD and 
leave it at that.

I like the idea of offering them at a 20-25% discount to convention goes 
as a special because of the noise or if you wanted do a 50%, but really I 
don't think it needs to be sent back.  People just rolled with it, and it 
was Friday's talks, there were ony two it impacted, really not like it 
ruined the whole convention.

Kathy


On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, S. Hieber wrote:

>> From a financial and accounting standpoint, the one doesn't follow from the 
>> other.

The discount isn't a cost of the DVD; if the discount was offered, as I'm now 
guessing, as a convention benefit, then it's a cost of the convention. But this 
doesn't have to get complicated. Any reasonable estimate is worthy, approximate 
value times estimated number of persons that will acutally use the discount.

I missunderstood that the discount was a noise compensation. I understand now 
that it is not.

RE distribution of the liquidated damages. we could do that in any of a number 
of ways -- for example, we could grant an extra 6 or 9 months of TAG to 
convention registrants -- in effect, forcing the number of foks that take 
advantage of the arrangement *and* fixing the value. That would be rather 
definitive and no cost to AGA since it would be covered by some or all of the 
liquidated damages from the hotel.  For example, if 9-moht extensions were 
used, you'd have 103registrants*$18foregone revenues*.75year = $1390, with a 
remainder of $409 in liquidated damages remaining with AGA2K6.

Have we offered the convention discount in prior years. I don't remember.

sh


----- Original Message ----
From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 10:12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] noise pain n suffering reim question


> CR said we gave folks a discount. We should have made that a fixed 
> amount and accrued the liability as a charge to AGA2K6. What discount 
> did we offer? I need to estimate the amount to charge against AGA2K6.

We offered 10% off the 2006 convention DVD via special web site link 
when it becomes available, hopefully in time for Christmas gift-giving. 
We don't know the final price of this DVD, because we don't know how 
many disks it will be. This offer was in the program.

I don't think this should be an AGA2K6 expense. I think this should be a 
perk for registration and an AGA thing, unless we also plan to give DVD 
*profits* to AGA2K6, and therefore SFBAAPS a cut in DVD profits. And if 
we do that, do we retroactively give GWAPA a royalty on 2004 sales? 
DFWAPC a royalty on 2003 DVD sales?

Cheryl
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