[Lnc-business] Fwd: Quarterly Board Meeting Hotel Proposals

Wed Jan 6 14:25:53 EST 2016

If somebody just voted for Oklahoma and did not put their name in the
comment box, please let me know.  There is one blank vote for OKC.  I tried
to make it obvious that leaving your name was important :)

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:

> On a scale of 1 to 100 for this upcoming meeting, I rate OKC an 82, and
> Phoenix a 79. My point being that they both have plenty of pros and cons
> and it doesn't matter to me much which is picked between the two.
>
> The online voting is running neck and neck right now.
>
> If the LNC-EC votes on this tonight, based on their individual preferences
> expressed so far, I think they'd pick Phoenix by a one-point margin.
>
> I think we could all live with that, but if they pick OKC, I think we
> could all live with that too. So, I'm hoping they pick it tonight.
>
> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
> 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.orgfacebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>
> On 1/6/2016 10:56 AM, Wes Benedict wrote:
>
> Your welcome Brett. I see 4 votes already, so we're on our way to a
> resolution. Tonight at 10 PM we have an LNC-EC meeting. I don't know if it
> would be considered appropriate for one of the LNC-EC members to make a
> motion to pick a specific city based on the poll results.
>
> But just in case that does happen, I encourage people to express their
> preferences before 10 PM Eastern tonight.
>
> And many thanks to Kevin Ludlow for putting the polls together to help
> achieve consensus.
>
> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
> 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.orgfacebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
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> On 1/6/2016 10:35 AM, Brett Bittner wrote:
>
> Wes,
>
> Thank you for sharing these with us, as well as the alternate idea for
> Phoenix.
>
> With Kevin's poll (
> http://polljunkie.com/poll/zamzoj/poll-2-please-do-not-open-the-page-and-then-not-vote
> ) active and now equipped with this information, we should be able to come
> to a motion by the end of the day, one would hope. Some of us have to
> arrange travel from places other than our home cities for this particular
> meeting, coordinating with people who are chomping at the bit to finalize
> travel for their events in New England.
>
> Brett C. Bittner
>
> brett at brettbittner.com
> 404.492.6524
>
> "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
> liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:
>
>> See attached spreadsheet from Helms Briscoe (and email below), plus a
>> spreadsheet on Oklahoma from Robert Kraus.
>>
>> In summary:
>> 1. Phoenix convention hotel will be $189 per night for the sleeping
>> rooms. Free meeting space. $1,000 food and beverage minimum (so we'll
>> probably do something like pay for your lunch and coffee to reach that
>> $1,000 minimum).
>>
>> 2. OKC hotel will be $82 per night for sleeping rooms. Free meeting
>> space. Free breakfast. No Food and beverage minimum.
>>
>> HOWEVER, Robert Kraus noted to me from his vacation today in Miami that:
>> "Also we do not have to hold the meeting at the Phoenix locations to see
>> them. We can have the CVB send us a van to take us to the 2 locations under
>> consideration and stay at the Holiday Inn & Suites Phoenix Airport North
>> again for about $119-129 a night. . "
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Wes
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Quarterly Board Meeting
>> Hotel Proposals Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 22:12:58 +0000 From: Sandy Graves
>> <sgraves at helmsbriscoe.com> <sgraves at helmsbriscoe.com> To: Robert Kraus
>> <robert.kraus at lp.org> <robert.kraus at lp.org> CC: 'BetteRose'
>> <betterose at aol.com> <betterose at aol.com>, 'Alicia Mattson'
>> <agmattson at gmail.com> <agmattson at gmail.com>, 'Nicholas Sarwark'
>> <chair at lp.org> <chair at lp.org>, wes.benedict at lp.org <wes.benedict at lp.org>
>> <wes.benedict at lp.org> <wes.benedict at lp.org>
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> Attached please find the completed Hotel Availability Report showing
>> those hotels that have the Feb 20-21 Board Meeting dates available.  Of the
>> five properties selected to receive the RFP, four of them have availability
>> and have offered a proposal.
>>
>>
>>
>> The attached report has three tabs.  Tab 1 is an overview of each hotel’s
>> offer showing room rates, meeting room rental and F & B minimum. Tab 2 is
>> an in-depth, detailed breakdown of each property’s proposal and Tab 3 shows
>> the lone property that turned down the RFP due to no guestroom
>> availability. By the way, initially the Hyatt Regency Bellevue also turned
>> down the RFP but has since come back with availability due to being able to
>> offer alternate meeting space.
>>
>>
>>
>> Once you’ve had an opportunity to review each property’s proposal, please
>> contact me with any questions that you may have. Each of them sharpened
>> their pencil the best that they could and each of them in anxious to earn
>> your business. I look forward to your feedback.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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