RE: GSAS shindig

["Rick Rose" <rick-rose@comcast.net>]

Hi Kate,

Your email poses a lot of questions and issues.  I'll try to address them
all.

1) Any raffle would have to be approved by the Board.  To my knowledge,
there has been no discussion about having a raffle at the October meeting.
If you would like, I will email the Board and we could discuss it and get
back to you.

2) Could you possibly be referring to the door-prize (what we call
fish-of-the-month) instead of a raffle?  If so, Dave and Bob are in charge
of buying some killies to be used for the door prize.  Since you mentioned
that you've been in contact with Dave, I suspect this may be what you are
referring to.

3) Dues must be paid with cold, hard, cash.  (If the club buys killies from
you to use for the door-prize, then you could, of course, turn around and
use that money to pay your dues.)

4) In the past, we have had members bring fish to give away or sell.  In my
experience, this has always been handled privately, after the meeting (not
as part of the "official" meeting.)  We do usually make a quick announcement
about it during the meeting, explaining who people should talk to if they
are interested.  

5)  Another option would be if you are interested in donating some killies
to the club for a mini-auction - that has also been successful (and much
appreciated) in the past.  For example, June donated a bunch of plants to
the club for a mini-auction last year.  With the proceeds, the club was able
to buy two copies of Crystal Castleman's new plant book/catalog.  This,
also, would need to be coordinated with the board ahead of time in order to
make sure that there is enough time available/allotted during the meeting
for the auction.  (Given that we have elections in addition to Dave's
presentation this month, I'm not sure if there would be enough time, but
that would be up to the Board to decide.  If you are interested in pursuing
this, please let me know ASAP.)

6) If you want to prepare a handout, you will need to coordinate that with
Dave, since he is the presenter.  The same would be true for bringing live
food starters - please coordinate with Dave.

7) As you know, I send out a promo-email before each monthly meeting.  After
the questions/issues above have been addressed by the Board (regarding
having a raffle, etc.) if we do end up having a raffle (or even if you were
referring to the door-prize,) I would suggest that you send me a paragraph
of instructions/concerns and I will include it with my regular, promo-email.

Thanks for your enthusiasm and willingness to participate in the meeting.
Please feel free to contact myself or any of the other board members if you
have any other questions or concerns.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Breimayer [mailto:kate@munat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:24 PM
To: rick-rose@comcast.net
Subject: GSAS shindig

I have been emailing Dave Sanford about bringing killies for the raffle, 
was going to sell him some. I am wondering if I can pay my dues with 
more fish, since they are up. Also do you want me to bring fish to sell? 
I don't want to put more in the raffle than people will actually want to 
bring home. What is the ettiquette for all of this? :) I am from 
Portland where they always sell fish at their meetings. It gets kind of 
crazy.
I have pairs of killies that are easy for beginners, some that are 
harder that I would rather offer for sale as I think newbies might kill 
them, and single males for the community tank. The easy pairs and 
singles I think are suitable for raffle. Also will prepare a handout 
covering their basic handling in case people don't pay attention to 
everything at the meeting. And... we are bringing live food starters, 
and I was thinking of emailing the list a couple nights before the main 
event to let people prepare if they want to enter the raffle. They will 
need to get a tank or kritter keeper ready with some live or fake plants 
and aged water, it would be good if they set this up before the meeting. 
  Just going by my own (stressful) experience.
What do you think?
Also I have angelfish and bettas coming out my ears, I have seen people 
bring fish to sell, what is the etiquette on OT fish? The bettas are 
free and the angels a buck. I could do it on the honor system with a jar 
for dollars and bags of fish in the back. I am encouraging angel buyers 
to come to my house though, I don't like bagging fish that I might have 
to bring back home ;)
Kate B
Oly WA




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