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color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Larry,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=796122616-29112005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks for your note. What I don't understand is how we
went from hearing from the local convention folks that everything fit in the
schedule just fine to then hearing from CORSA (Sarah) that there's no room for
the longer SCG event. The SCG members are just reacting to what we are
told.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=796122616-29112005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>At no time did any SCG folks pressure the local convention
folks for a decision. They came to us when they felt everything was set so we
proceeded in good faith with that knowledge.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=796122616-29112005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>--Kent</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Larry Claypool
[mailto:mr.vair@urbancom.net] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:21
AM<BR><B>To:</B> sarahvair@juno.com; hljensen@comcast.net<BR><B>Cc:</B>
"CORSA/CPF BoD"; airvair@richnet.net; "Rich Thompson"; "Stan East";
mandolin@rochester.rr.com; "Kent Sullivan"; "DaveEllis"; "Bill Chellis"; "Dave
Newell"; scg-list@tiger.skiblack.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> SCG
meeting<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>gentlemen-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> the corsa board,
convention folks, etc are not denying the SCG a meeting; this is not a "Corsa
VS. STG". we recognize the SCG and have planned all along to scheduled a
time slot that is as long as any other special interest group @ 90 minutes. we
have additionally tried to schedule it during daylight hours so you can opt to
have your meeting outside if you wish to do the car by car look
over.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> convention scheduling is a very
difficult task. we (harry, myself, sarah, chuck, stan, and the <FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>andolinos)sp</FONT>ent much time trying to slot
everything into the available time. we have 69 line items on this year's
schedule and only 4 days to hold them all. of particular circumstance this year
is 2 major evening events, a dinner cruise on friday and a CPF presentation
(building the corvair engine) on thursday, so we effectively "lost'
two evenings where we would normally hold some of the special interest meetings.
do you want to have a STG meeting the same time as the dinner cruise? neither
does any other group. we have in the past tried to keep all the special interest
groups in their own non conflicting meeting time, but of late, because of the
tight schedule, now have corvanatics, V8 registry, and oil filter collectors at
the same time. this year we added SCG to the list; we had to
overlap ultra van and the STG meeting to make it all fit. our event
schedule already starts at 8 am or earlier every day and runs to 10 pm.or later,
so we don't really have room to go earlier/later in the day. do we move meetings
to tuesday? nobody wants to schedule their meeting then because it's early on
and it's generally felt not everybody will be there yet. unless we are proposing
adding a day to the convention- which is a completely different topic- we are
just flat out of time to add any more non conflicting events to the
schedule.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> announcing the STG meeting day
and time over VV before the convention schedule itself had been worked out was
premature. we don't know how the schedule for a given convention looks until the
convention committee sits down with the local hosts and sorts one out that
is the most reasonable , non conflicting schedule we can do given the days
available. i believe we did that.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> i am sorry there were not slots
available for the SCG to hold a regular chapter meeting
<STRONG><EM>AND</EM></STRONG> a SCG event in the lot without going timewise
against some other convention events. the SCG can utilize it's scheduled
time slot on thursday 3:30-5:00 PM any way you like. and, as sarah mentioned, if
at the conclusion of that meeting, if you feel there's more to cover and want to
organize an unofficial gathering at some other time during the convention,
that's ok with us- it just won't be on the published schedule.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> in summary, i want to restate
that this whole recent SCG thread has been taking a "Corsa VS. SCG", and
that is not the case. the convention committee is simply trying to
schedule the SCG meeting- along with the 7 other special interest groups
chapters- in reasonable time slots along with all the other many events and
tours that make up a corsa convention</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>best regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>larry claypool</FONT></DIV>
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