[SBU Board] Reminder -- Board Meeting Tomorrow Evening

[Jen Chalfan]

I'm not going to be able to make tonight's meeting. I'm sorry for the late
notice, but I think I ate something that didn't agree with me.

Mike, can you act as secretary tonight?

Thanks,

Jen

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't be there, sigh.  But I have some thoughts, just the same...
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> in terms of start times.  I prefer 1:30 and 7:00 on Fridays (it is a work
> day and tougher for working folk to make earlier starts; also gives us more
> time to set up the game); and earlier starts (10:30 is OK with me) on
> Saturday--I like getting home earlier on Saturday...).
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> I know we asked about start times in the recent poll.  I wonder if it
> would be useful to poll Sectional attendees to see who is actually working
> vs. not working?  Just a thought.
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> In terms of events, I think too many events at one tournament puts a lot
> of strain on the directors (I'm remembering one recent time at Vasa, where
> we had something like 4 different swisses running: a 750, a AX, a BCD, and
> a 199, and the chaos it created--we didn't get out of there until really
> late, and hard to do lunch break. And very disruptive: most of the room was
> done, but the BCD was still playing long after 6:30. Don't recommend that
> ever again-nightmare for us and for directors.
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> Wonder if it might be fun to have a fast pairs on a Friday?  Might work,
> esp if we have a 10:30 start the next day?
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> have fun.  I'll checking out Chick Corea.....
> romeo
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> Ann Romeo
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> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As the day of week is out of the norm, sending  a reminder that we have a
>> board meeting at 6:45pm tomorrow evening (Wednesday), Oct 5,  at the
>> Starbucks at 4000 E. Madison in Seattle.
>>
>> In preparation, please review the Tournament Events Committee report JC
>> sent out last month as we will be discussing and considering recommended
>> changes therein to events & starts.
>>
>> Tim
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