[SBU Board] Fwd: Further Coordination

[Ann Romeo]

thanks tim.  let's hope they say yes!

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **Further Coordination*
> *Date: *November 5, 2015 10:55:16 AM PST
> *To: *Beverly <bcolegrove at iuoe302.org>
>
> Hi Bev,
>
> Thank you for your phone call following our most recent bridge tournament
> at the union hall.  We're glad the trash problem was fixed to your
> satisfaction.  At our unit board meeting this past Monday evening, we
> discussed as a group the issues of not locking all the doors when we left
> Sunday evening and not removing all the no parking signs.  We will be
> implementing fixes to correct these problems.  We also discussed long-term
> solutions to ensuring no recurrence of the trash problem and Susan will be
> discussing some of these with you.  We greatly value the opportunity to
> rent your wonderful facility for our bridge tournaments and are committed
> to eliminating the issues we have caused.
>
> Separately, I'd like to follow up on prospective 2016 rental dates you and
> I discussed over the phone and that were discussed in the email string
> below.  Thank you for describing your process and timing for establishing
> yearly training schedules and how these affect your process for booking
> rentals.  In our conversation, you explained that while you currently have
> no IUOE 302 training or other events scheduled for the April 16-17, 2016 or
> June 4-5, 2016 dates, it will not be until your board approves the 2016
> training schedule (during its year-end review) that you could actually book
> us for our requested rental dates.  You also indicated it might possibly be
> somewhat less likely that June dates would be impacted by your board's
> approval action on training events than would April dates.
>
> Our bridge unit has continued to develop our plans for 2016 and work with
> our national organization toward obtaining sanctions for our 2016 bridge
> tournaments and dates.  This has caused us to make some adjustments to our
> plans.  What we now hope to implement is a plan in which we would rent ALL
> THREE of your classrooms on Saturday-Sunday April 16-17, 2016.  Classrooms
> #1 and #2 would be used for our Non-Life Master tournament and Classroom #3
> would be used for our District 19 Grand National Teams final.  We recognize
> your processes prevent you from committing at this time that April 16-17,
> 2016 will be available for us.  What we would like to ask is that you
> please make a note of our request for April 16-17, 2016 rental and allow us
> to book them in January should your board approve a training schedule that
> would not be in conflict.   At this time we do not envision requesting
> rental for the June 4-5, 2016 dates.
>
> We hope this is workable for you.  I will plan to followup with you on
> this via telephone in the coming days.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Tim
> Seattle Bridge Unit 446
> 206-979-9041
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **Fwd: Facility Rental Request*
> *Date: *October 13, 2015 2:58:03 PM PDT
> *To: *Beverly <bcolegrove at iuoe302.org>
> *Cc: *Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
>
> Bev,
>
> Some additional scheduling constraints, related to national tournaments,
> have emerged in the past day or so.
>
> In addition to April 16-17, 2016 (per below), may I please ask that you
> also check your calendar for conflicts with a potential rental of Classroom
> #3 on June 4-5, 2016?
>
> Thank you,
> Tim
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **Facility Rental Request*
> *Date: *October 10, 2015 10:29:04 AM PDT
> *To: *Beverly <bcolegrove at iuoe302.org>
> *Cc: *Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
>
> Hi Bev,
>
> I serve with Susan on the Seattle Bridge Unit Board.  We look forward to
> our tournament at your IUOE 302 Union Hall Oct 16-18.  Susan has guided us
> in planning and preparations to correct the parking and trash problems we
> caused last time.  We appreciate the opportunity to rent your wonderful
> facility and understand our responsibility to be good citizens when we do
> so.
>
> I also serve on the District 19 (Washington, British Columbia and Alaska)
> Board.  In this capacity I succeeded Pat Dunn as coordinator for the
> District 19 (D19) Grand National Teams (GNT) and North American Pairs (NAP)
> events.  We will be conducting the D19 GNT Finals during the spring of 2016
> and would very much like to rent your Classroom #3 (the room furthest from
> the stage) for this event.  As I understand your policy, you do not
> officially "book" rentals until the first of January of the year for which
> dates are requested.  Respecting this policy, I would like to ask if you
> would kindly check your facility calendar and please let me know if the
> weekend of April 16 and 17, 2016 has been set aside for an IUOE 302 event
> or any another event.  If it has not been set aside, may I ask that you
> please unofficially pencil in ACBL District 19 on your calendar wait list
> for these dates.  I look forward to hearing back from you on the
> availability picture for your Classroom #3 on those dates as I must soon
> notify our national organization of our plans for the site and dates of our
> D19 GNT Finals.  We of course will comply with all your requirements --
> liability insurance coverage, parking restrictions, clean up, etc.
>
> Many thanks,
> Tim White
> American Contract Bridge League
> District 19 GNT & NAP Coordinator
> cell:  206-979-9041
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sbuboard mailing list
> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/sbuboard/attachments/20151105/0e9b5ab8/attachment.html>