[Lnc-business] Meeting costs

[Norm Olsen]

May I suggest that Robert check out the following hotel:

 

http://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/colorado/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-denver-RLDV-DT/index.html

 

This is a special situation.  The hotel was built at the location of the old Denver airport shortly before Denver decided to move the airport 20 miles into the hinterland.  Consider::

1>    The hotel is still there.

2>    It’s a modern facility.

3>     It’s managed by a brand name firm: “Hilton Double Tree”.

4>     The AAA rate for the December meeting dates (just an example, as advertised on the WEB) is $84 (+tax) a night.

5>     The local neighborhood has been completely redeveloped following the demolition of the old airport.

6>     Hotel shuttle to/from the airport.

7>     Denver airport is a hub for three major airlines (United/Continental, Frontier, Southwest); lots of flights, lots of competition; low fares.

8>     We do have winter storms in Denver, but then again, we have the facilities and “know how” to deal with them.

9>     Mountain time zone means you don’t have to take Friday off in order to get to the meeting. 

 

Yeah! This is my home town.  Because it is my home town, I am aware of the situation.  I’m sure there are many others out there.  Let’s make these known to Robert, let Robert haggle, and I think we can get the cost of attending (in both dollars and lost work time) down to more reasonable levels.

 

Norm

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Norman T Olsen

Regional Representative, Region I

Libertarian National Committee

7931 S Broadway, PMB 102

Littleton, Colorado  80122-2710

303-263-4995

Norman.Olsen at lp.org

 

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Gandhi

 

From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Katz
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:26 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: [Lnc-business] Meeting costs

 

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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