RE: Bad news

["Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>]

Erik,

Is correct, we used to rent the room for almost nothing and then shared part of 
the auction proceeds with them.  If no one has talked with them yet, it may pay 
to discuss our situation with them and let them know that we simply cannot be a 
club and pay that much for use of the room upstairs.  They may find a way to 
accommodate us.....dunno.  I have always enjoyed having the meetings at the 
Aquarium and will be disappointed if they cannot work something out with 
us....but, as someone else noted, there are other options available to us.  Not 
sure how the library will work though.

The Aquarium in the 80's used to give us access to the downstairs aquarium for 
almost nothing for our Christmas banquet too.  It seems with the new management 
they have, comes new challenges.

Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Olson [mailto:erik@thekrib.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:12 PM
To: gsas-board@thekrib.com
Subject: Re: Bad news


Perhaps Dave or Clay might have some insight into this, but it's my 
perception that the aquarium seemed to try and do this every year, but we 
always explained we couldn't afford such things and they always backed 
down.  I know times have changed... it used to be that we paid something 
tiny like $40 per month for the room back 5-10 years ago.  Then again, 
back then we also donated a percentage of our auction take back to the 
aquarium, something that hasn't happened in years.  So can't say I blame 
em.

But yeah, that might be worth looking for another venue.  Hey, might even 
be able to find one withpout the degree of "fear" associated with the 
aquarium.


 On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, June Olberding wrote:

> Yikes.
> This is huge dent in the budget.  Even a raise in dues wouldn't cover 
> this. (rest assured no raise in dues has been proposed) Is it time to 
> look at options?
> 
> For $25 per hour, can we expect that the attendant do anything or is 
> he just a  presence?
> 
> June
> 
> on 12/11/03 5:17 PM, Bob and Judy Holmes at jbholmes@nwlink.com wrote:
> 
> > A few minutes ago I got a phone call from Kelly Barth at the Seattle 
> > Aquarium. Beginning in January our rent for the auditorium is being 
> > increased from $100 per month to $205 per month! Here's how it 
> > breaks down:
> > - We have been paying a flat fee of $100 / month for the past year
> > (approximately).
> > - the new monthly rate works like this...there is a $40 flat fee for use of
> > the auditorium. In addition, there
> > is a $25/hr. fee for the Attendant, plus a flat $10/month fee for
> > storing the cabinet.  This all adds up to
> > $205.00 for a Three (3) hour meeting, which equals $68.33/per hour for
> > our once a month meeting.
> > 
> > Thoughts/Comments please...Bob
> > 
> > 
> > 
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