[Lnc-business] Meeting costs

[Arvin Vohra]

I agree with Josh and Starchild on this.


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Joshua Katz <joshua.katz at lp.org> wrote:

> Ron posted an excellent letter from Starchild on the costs of conventions.
>  I thought the $2500 I had heard was high.  As I said a few days ago, when
> I was corrected and found it was much higher, I was shocked.
>
> I do not want to meet in DC every meeting.  We should use the office we
> own when feasible, but it's just not fair to hold every meeting in the same
> location.  If LNC members want to bring a camper instead of staying in a
> hotel, that's fine, but irrelevant, since it has nothing to do with what
> the LP pays for our meetings.  But, really, $3000 for a room for 18 people
> to meet (or $2000 in food and beverage to get the room for 'free?')   I
> used to work at a school that weekly held meetings for 40 people.  I assure
> you we could not have rented out the room we used for $3000/weekend.  And
> we were on the beach!
>
> 18 people can meet in a park in nice weather.  18 people can meet, as I
> said before, in a suite.  18 people can meet in a coffee shop.  18 people
> do not need to pay $3000 for a room - and we wouldn't if it were our money.
>  We should be as careful, if not more so, with our donors money, as with
> our own.
>
> Convention is one thing.  This is quite another, and is quite insane.
>
> Joshua A. Katz
>
> Region 8 (Region of Badassdom) Alternate
> Libertarian National Committee
>
> Chair, Libertarian Party of Connecticut
>
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