dates available at Old Quarry (4th Tue not available)

[Marian Blake]

Well, now I don't know what to tell the folks we have scheduled for the
upcoming program year.  
I will go off line (off Admin list) & discuss these & some other options
with Tom.  
Also, Wendy Painter will not be able to be our Seminars person this upcoming
program year.  So we still need someone who can help plan the upcoming
Seminars.  If you have any ideas, please let me know.

Thank You,
Marian

Marian Blake 
Director Education & Programs
Austin Chapter Society for Technical Communication
H: 830-798-1087
Cell: 512-470-1583
maidmari at tstar.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-stc-austin-admin-276496 at lists.stc.org
[mailto:bounce-stc-austin-admin-276496 at lists.stc.org] On Behalf Of Cheri
Mullins
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:15 PM
To: STC Austin Administrative Discussion List
Cc: 'Tom Comey'
Subject: [stc-austin-admin] RE: dates available at Old Quarry (4th Tue not
available)

Let's let Tom handle this. Too many cooks will just confuse the issue. He
has it under control.


Cheri Mullins
Director, Information Development

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-----Original Message-----
From: Wanda Hill [mailto:whscribe at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:49 AM
To: STC Austin Administrative Discussion List
Subject: [stc-austin-admin] RE: dates available at Old Quarry (4th Tue not
available)

The situation at the North Village branch had been similar a few years
ago--no reservations made until the beginning of August. One year, I
contacted earlier than August, and they had changed it to a couple of months
earlier, I think, and had already been taking reservations.
Fortunately, no one had taken our board meeting spot.

As John had mentioned that certain days were actually still open now, it's
possible Old Quarry might still have those days open when they announce the
window for reservations. I'm thinking the strategy of keeping close tabs on
the very first day for scheduling, then jumping in and making the
reservations. Did the OQ contact person say exactly how or when the
availability would be announced? Email list? Newspaper?
Web? We need to periodically call in?

As for scheduling only September for MCC, and we don't actually move, we'd
be gambling that the rest of the year might still be available. No matter
what happens, we have the potential to be "homeless" for a year.

Leaning towards having ear to OQ wall and lining up whatever ducks there we
can so we can be first or nearly first to reserve.

Wanda

--- Tom Comey <tcomey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>    
>   Sorry for the bad news but the Old Quarry is not taking reservations 
> after August. At some point, the library will announce a date/time in 
> August to line up for reservations from September 2006 to September 
> 2007. It's not clear whether existing reservations will be given 
> priority.
>    
>   We could hope for the best in August and book MCC for September? If 
> Old Quarry does not work out, we could schedule the rest of the year 
> at MCC. We may lose our regularly scheduled day at MCC but we're 
> considering changing the day anyway. If it works out at Old Quarry, we 
> would lose the MCC room fee (not too bad).
>    
>   tom
> 
> Marian Blake <maidmari at tstar.net> wrote:
>   The 2nd Tuesday works Great for me - or the 1st Tuesday. 
> I'm also OK w/ Mondays or the 4th Thursday.
> Wednesdays are out - I'll never be able to make a Wednesday meeting. 
> Thanks!
> Marian
> 
> Marian Blake
> Director Education & Programs
> Austin Chapter Society for Technical Communication
> H: 830-798-1087
> Cell: 512-470-1583
> maidmari at tstar.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-stc-austin-admin-276496 at lists.stc.org
> [mailto:bounce-stc-austin-admin-276496 at lists.stc.org] On Behalf Of 
> John Gough
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:35 AM
> To: STC Austin Administrative Discussion List
> Subject: [stc-austin-admin] dates available at Old Quarry (4th Tue not
> available)
> 
> I stopped by the Old Quarry library on the way home from the board 
> meeting last night.
> 
> It's nowhere near as classy as the MCC auditorium (or LCRA), but it 
> looks like it will work. And the price is right. :-) Note that the 
> capacity is listed as 80 online but the fire code notice on the wall 
> says "60 with chairs." There are about stacking 80 chairs available 
> (padded, hotel-conference-room-like, but no desk surface like MCC). 
> Note that we would have to put them back in the chair closet after the 
> meeting.
> How's
> your back, Tom?
> 
> Some club was there and they were projecting on the wall using a table 
> in front of the audience. It seemed to work. We'd need to be sure of 
> extension cord availability or bring our own.
> 
> Now the bad news: The 4th Tuesday slot has already been claimed. As of 
> last night the following recurring slots were available:
> 
> Mon: 1st, 2nd, 4th
> Tue: 1st, 2nd
> Wed: 1st, 2nd
> Thu: 4th
> 
> We should probably move fast if we really want to claim it. What about 
> the 2nd Tuesday?
> 
> It may help to poll the incoming leadership. I'll do that separately.
> 
> Running to the dentist...
> 
> John

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