[Nfbmo] Important for St. Louis area members

[Gene Coulter]

Fair enough. Local events are always a consideration. In St Louis not only 
is baseball a consideration but NCAA  men’s or women’s college basketball is 
also a consideration as I believe St.Louis is in line to host one of the 
rounds one of those two years and there are probably other events going on 
in a thriving city. I always give the hotels a window of mid March to 
mid-April and work with them. It can make a difference in rates. For 
example, a couple of years ago in Springfield  it was $10 cheper to have the 
convention  last weekend of March thend second weekend of April because 
Silver Dollar City was opening and had some special promotion. While this 
year we saved $5.00 a night waiting until second weekend in April. My 
preferred weekend has been the last weekend of March but this year we had a 
big snow storm of all things that weekend.
Gene
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From: Bryan Schulz
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:13 PM
To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Important for St. Louis area members

hi,

one suggestion is move it back to mid/late march before baseball season
starts so there is a chance of better hotel rates.
Bryan Schulz


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Coulter" <escoulter at centurytel.net>
To: "NFB MO List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2:17 PM
Subject: [Nfbmo] Important for St. Louis area members


> Hi,
> If the regular rotation of conventions  is kept the St. Louis area
> chapters
> would be in line to host in 2015. Believe it or not it is time to send out
> request for proposals to area hotels  in the very near future.
> At your meetings this week the Lewis and clark chapter and St Louis
> chapters
> need  to discuss two things. First, whether or not the chapter wants to
> ask
> for the opportunity to host the 2015 convention. And, second if the
> chapters
> want to host together or each take a turn hosting. Realize if you decide
> to
> host separately that there is no guarantee that you will host in back to
> back years although that scenario is most likely. But more importantly the
> state board will make the decision as to what they think is best which
> could
> be that they think that ya all should work together or that yeach chapter
> should have it’s chance to host. I will be drafting the prelimanary
> Request
> for Proposal next week but  won’t send it until after the June 8 board
> meeting.
> eugene Coulter, Convention Coordinator
> National Federation of the Blind of Missouri
> Phone: 573-474-3226
> Fax: 474-7322
> Cell: 573268-7864
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