LCRA contact for reserving board room

[Wanda Hill]

My mistake about the city council causing STC meetings to get
pre-empted. The city council did hold their meetings at LCRA board room
Thursdays a few years, but looks like most of their meetings were in
the morning or lunchtime, according to quick glances at some of their
minutes. --Wanda

--- "Robart, Kay" <Kay.Robart at tea.state.tx.us> wrote:

> Actually, LCRA was pre-empting our meetings for their own meetings,
> which they still probably claim the right to do, so you'd better ask
> about that. One spring they pre-empted every one of our monthly
> meetings, which is why we moved. They weren't pre-empting them for
> the
> City Council, which was held on another night.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-stc-austin-admin-170199 at lists.stc.org
> [mailto:bounce-stc-austin-admin-170199 at lists.stc.org] On Behalf Of
> Wanda
> Hill
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:59 AM
> To: STC Austin Administrative Discussion List
> Subject: [stc-austin-admin] Re: LCRA contact for reserving board room
> 
> Tom,
> 
> Sorry for the misunderstanding. The LCRA board room is what gets
> reserved for meetings. Many years ago, STC Austin had held chapter
> meetings at LCRA on Thursday evenings, free of charge. The
> networking/socializing area for before meetings was outside the board
> room. Inside the board room, there was a conference room that we also
> used before the chapter meetings. Don't remember if we used the
> conference room every ch meeting, but it was available. I believe it
> was used at least occasionally for pre-ch meeting resume assessments
> or
> mini-topic meetings. Hospitality was responsible for obtaining and
> bringing outside food and setting up--no at-site catering like MCC &
> Pickle Center, which UT runs.
> 
> I believe LCRA was pre-empting STC Austin ch meetings to host the
> city
> council meetings, forcing us to go somewhere else. Now the city
> council
> has city hall, and we've been holding our meetings on Tuesdays. We'd
> been talking about the feasibility of returning to LCRA. Main reason
> driving the possibility is that monthly ch meeting hostings run appx
> $350--$200 alone for site rental. AFAIK, the board room wouldn't
> cost.
> 
> There has been no discussiion of doing things differently for board
> meetings, just continue to reserve the room at the library around
> June
> for the year. (I think I fwded you info about contacting the library
> person.)
> 
> Wanda
> 
> --- Tom Comey <tcomey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Are you guys thinking about moving the location of the Board
> > meetings?
> > 
> > Wanda Hill <whscribe at sbcglobal.net> wrote:  Per discussion about
> > LCRA, excerpt from a friend who had reserved the board 
> > room one Saturday in February and some other previous times.
> > 
> > "I reserved through Stacy Byous--Stacy.Byous at lcra.org. I called
> first
> > then followed up through email."
> > 
> > Wanda