[SBU Board] Coronavirus discussion 2.0

Fri Mar 6 10:47:30 PST 2020

The clubs will def take a hit from this, and it would be great to offer
some support.  Good discussion for next meeting.
Ann Romeo
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 10:38 AM karen hudesman via Sbuboard <
sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com> wrote:

> I support Tom's and JC's approach.  Ultimately these are personal and club
> manager decisions.  JC's outreach and continued communication, at least at
> this point seems to fulfill our role.  It's a wait and see situation.
>
> On Friday, March 6, 2020, 09:29:25 AM PST, JC Chupack <
> jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> I'm generally in agreement with Tom.  As per our discussion on Monday, I
> did reach out to all of our club managers offering both communications
> assistance and "any other assistance we could provide".  So far, there's
> been no requests. Anne Farmer did reply to note that they're keeping
> sanitizer at the tables in schools and monitoring/cancelling related to
> school closures.
>
> Related - the Everett Sectional (Mar 13-15) and co-located GNT finals for
> D19 is still on as of now; I'm on a thread discussing status and potential
> fallback options for the GNTs. If that changes, you'll all know as soon as
> I know.
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 9:09 AM Tom Brown <tbrown1200 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> My thoughts are that staying open is totally a club decision and attending
> is totally a personal decision.  As to helping out the clubs, I think we
> need to wait and see what (if any) government help might be available to
> small businesses affected by Coronavirus, but I would not rule this out.
>
>
>
> My guess is that we will have our own decisions to make on the NLM and
> Knockout before too long.
>
>
>
> Tom
>
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> *From:* Sbuboard <sbuboard-bounces+tbrown1200=
> comcast.net at mailman.celestial.com> *On Behalf Of *Scott Chupack
> *Sent:* Friday, March 6, 2020 8:32 AM
> *To:* Seattle ACBL Unit Board <sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com>
> *Subject:* [SBU Board] Coronavirus discussion 2.0
>
>
>
> So, I feel like things have changed a little bit since we met on Monday. A
> large number of Seattle tech firms have asked their Seattle employees to
> work from home, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Zulily, Facebook,
> Oracle. University of Washington has now closed to all but remote learning.
> A outbreak has happened in Santa Clara, CA and it has caused the Santa
> Clara Bridge Center to close indefinitely. A leading Venture Capitalist
> firm is calling this a "Black Swan" event and telling their companies to
> prepare for the worst.
>
> I am a little unclear as our role as a Unit Board here. If our primary
> role is to run Sectional tournaments, we have no decisions to make in the
> next month or so. If our role is to provide leadership on bridge in the
> Seattle area, we may need to be proactive in protecting the community, our
> bridge players and their clubs, especially considering the higher risk of
> Covid-19 to older
>
> I haven't spoken to club managers personally, but I can imagine that it's
> possible that they are struggling with the decision whether to close their
> clubs temporarily for the good of the community and their members but also
> am aware of what it would do from a viability perspective of their business
> if they close. They may also not want to be the first to close and risk
> losing their customers going to the location that decides to stay open.
>
> I would like to suggest that we quickly start assessing our options.
> Should we consider offer subsidies or loans to our clubs to offset the cost
> of shutting down their clubs? Our cash reserves gives us a special
> opportunity to help, at least for awhile. Would we just offer this to SBC
> and EBC who has the most overhead or all of the clubs based on average
> tables in a week? We can also use this as the impetus/justification to
> raise our sectional fees to $11 to offset this cost to the unit. Decisions
> are currently being made very quickly in the city. We may need to act
> before our next scheduled board meeting.
>
> To be clear, I don't think we should tell them to close, but we can tell
> them what we can help out with if they need to close. I'm also aware that
> with all of this working from home, there are some that will really want to
> go to the club games to get out of the house, especially our under age 65
> players, so it's a tricky call.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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> https://paloaltobridge.org/games-and-other-unit-activities-suspended-at-the-bridge-center/?fbclid=IwAR0Pq_F2xcm0WOw9wFvGPNs3BD8TqdkDJ3wUOXRC1Q8C62qSOYeSjwNaO2Q#.XmCcwt3pFoM.facebook
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> https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812173963/coronavirus-amazon-facebook-google-microsoft-urge-seattle-workers-to-stay-home
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> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-05/sequoia-capital-warns-startups-of-coronavirus-black-swan-event
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