[Tall-Corn] NFBI State Convention

[bray at nfbi.org]

Yes, you heard that correctly. We are looking forward to this
year's state convention coming the third weekend in October. Many
of the plans for the convention are already in place and we are
working hard on many others that need to be considered now.

 

One of the things that has long been on the list of many of us for
our convention the subject of transportation to and from the
convention. Public transportation options are certainly not what
they once were so we need to be more creative. In today's climate
for example there is only one bus going each way from southeast
Iowa to Des Moines. It arrives in Des Moines from the east late in
the afternoon and leaves Des Moines at around 8 in the morning.
This year's convention, if you are going to attend everything from
Friday morning for the seniors meeting until noon on Sunday after
the business meeting is over you would need to come in on Thursday
and go home on Monday. Routings for other parts of the state
aren't much better either. 

 

Yes, many people will make their own arrangements and that is
excellent. What we are proposing would possibly give those who
don't have their own transportation and option that should cut
their stay by at least one night

 

If there is interest in doing something like this our thoughts at
the moment would look like this. If two or three people would be
willing to travel together the cost of hiring a driver and vehicle
to make trips on agreed schedule to get people there and back home
after the convention is over. It appears if we were to use the
cost of a bus ticket as a price for this service it would take
probably three people to go together . For example, if someone
from Burlington, Washington, or Muscatine were wishing to attend
the price could be roughly $150 to $180 per person. The bus ticket
from Burlington roundtrip to Des Moines is approximately $150 and
you still have transportation cost from the Des Moines bus depot
to the hotel and back. Our service would go directly to the hotel.
Remember to do this we would need to hire drivers to make the
roundtrip both days or we would need to find ways to cover their
cost for staying for the whole weekend.  

 

If you have any thoughts on such arrangements please contact me by
phone at 515 334-7231 or by email at 

bray at nfbi.org <mailto:bray at nfbi.org> 

 

We of course are willing to look at any options that would be
workable. The sooner we start talking about this the better so it
can be arranged.

 

There are plenty more pieces of information coming in the next
week or so about the convention. Let us plan how we can have the
biggest and best convention that we have had in many years.

 

Bob Ray,

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