[Nfbf-l] Changing the Dates of the Convention

[Tinetta Cooper]

Thanks for the enlightment Dan.  MLK weekend sounds good to me.

Tinetta

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Hicks" <danjhicks at yahoo.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Changing the Dates of the Convention


> As our convention expanded to encompass four days, we needed a three-day 
> holiday weekend and those are in short supply. Long ago we had them in the 
> fall, but the dangers of hurricane season drove a change to the spring and 
> Memorial Day weekend. I support the change to Martin Luther King weekend 
> with appropriate commemoration of that event (as we do for Memorial day 
> now), as long as we can get good hotel rates. I don't see a problem with 
> our getting good rates for MLK weekend.
>
> Dan
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 21, 2012, at 7:33 AM, "Tinetta Cooper" <tanetjec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know the original reason for having the state convention over 
>> Memorial Day weekend, but I think moving it to earlier in the year is a 
>> good idea.  The state and national conventions are too close together 
>> now. Members barely have enough time to recuperate from one before the 
>> next one rolls around.
>> That's my two cents worth. :-)
>>
>> Tinetta
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gloria Hicks" 
>> <glorianfb at irescue-tax.com>
>> To: <NFBF-Leaders at yahoogroups.com>; <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:41 PM
>> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Changing the Dates of the Convention
>>
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> There is a lot of passion in the Nfbf so much that I will broach another
>>> subject which I am sure will bring out differences of opinions. On like
>>> other thing this does not mean changing the Constitution, just a simple
>>> vote.. I would like to see us change the dates of the state convention 
>>> to
>>> sometime in the winter. For the next five years the national convention 
>>> will
>>> take place in Florida. I believe that many Floridians will want to visit
>>> that convention in July. It will make easier for us to change the 
>>> weekend
>>> that we have ours and also to raise the money to go to more than one. I
>>> recommend the weekend that has Martin L King as a holiday on Monday. We
>>> could also commemorate King as we do now with Memorial Day. What do you 
>>> all
>>> think.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gloria Mills Hicks TR
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