[SBU Board] while fresh in your mind

Thu Feb 20 10:53:59 PST 2020

My notes:

   - Lack of heat was a major issue. The room was very drafty, practically
   by design as Susan noted. (We covered up one of those gaps but the one on
   the other side stayed open.) Most attendees were still wearing their winter
   coats. I would not use this room again for a winter sectional. Other rooms
   on campus might be okay if available.
   - Agree that we need a coat rack available. The only reason it wasn't a
   bigger issue is that most people kept coats on. This should be a minimum
   request for all winter/fall sectional locations.
   - I heard great things about the location proximity/accessibility,
   though.
   - We delayed the awards start until 3:10pm, started with the least
   attended awards, and yet at 3:20pm, we still had barely anyone present to
   accept awards, with a 3:30pm session start time. I think when we have
   mostly 2-session events, people just aren't going to prioritize coming back
   early for awards.  Suggest moving awards to before the first session
   instead of during the lunch break between sessions.
   - Teardown went fast, and I'm told setup did as well (with a minor
   exception that I'm addressing elsewhere). The main bottleneck was the cart,
   and that's to be expected anywhere. Well done to those who helped!
   - The announcement to have board members stand up needs to be removed.
   It's fine to mention that board members are wearing name tags and to give
   them feedback but the "stand up" was misconstrued as an ask for
   appreciation.
   - Heard the same complaints I'm used to hearing about the Swiss on
   Sunday taking too long "why can't we do six rounds instead of seven", etc.
   Disagree on the lunch break being too long.

Ann & Susan - as chairs, appreciate it if you can compile and organize the
comments via the board list (and others you received) into a postmortem
report that we can review during the meeting and append to minutes so that
we can just add/edit that instead of reiterating things already heard
here.  Thanks!

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:20 AM Raymond Miller <raysmiller at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with Scott on the mens room.
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 12:51 AM Scott Chupack <scottchupack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The men's room may have been out of paper towels at one point, but other
>> than the long walk outdoors to the men's room, I didn't see any huge
>> problems with it. An improvement over Vasa Park.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:20 AM Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought the space was just OKAY.  Good location, terrible temperature
>>> control ability, filthy, under-stocked restrooms (am guessing the men's
>>> room was in the same condition as the women's room but I did not visit the
>>> men's room).  Missing windows on each side of entry doors on south side of
>>> building allowed cold air to come in even when doors were closed.  I heard
>>> a lot of complaints about the lack of heat and the condition of the women's
>>> room.  For what we spent on the rent I think the janitorial service should
>>> have been better and been done on both nights, it seems like it was only
>>> done on Friday night.  They did do a good job of emptying garbage.
>>>
>>> Susan
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:20 AM Bill Campbell via Sbuboard <
>>> sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/17/20 7:23 AM, Monty Gray wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For a first-time event at this site, I thought it went very well.  For
>>>> some reason, there was a lot less mess to be cleaned up than has usually
>>>> been the case at Bothell.  Not providing paper plates may have contributed,
>>>> along with the number and convenience of trash bins.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Many people besides Board members pitched in to help with the teardown,
>>>> and it seemed to go very smoothly.  Not having to deal with the chairs was
>>>> a big help.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lack of heat was the main problem that I saw or heard of.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was surprised by the low attendance on Friday evening.  Perhaps we
>>>> should consider running two-session events on Friday, or scheduling the
>>>> tournament for Saturday-Monday on Presidents’ Day weekend instead of
>>>> Friday-Sunday if possible.
>>>>
>>>> This may well have been a result of lack of heat.  It's why I didn't
>>>> come back for the evening session.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>> --
>>>> INTERNET:   bill at celestial.com  Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
>>>> URL: http://www.celestial.com/  6641 E. Mercer Way
>>>> Mobile:         (206) 947-5591  PO Box 820
>>>> Fax:            (206) 232-9186  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820
>>>>
>>>> The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and
>>>> the most rascally individuals of mankind. -- Thomas Paine
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Sbuboard mailing list
>>>> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
>>>> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Sbuboard mailing list
>>> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
>>> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sbuboard mailing list
>> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
>> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Sbuboard mailing list
> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>

-- 
JC Chupack
* Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
* Lead Technical Product Manager, Zulily <http://www.zulily.com>, Inc.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/private/sbuboard/attachments/20200220/992e8f5d/attachment.html>