[SCG] Re: SCG meeting

[airvair]

Hi all,

If I might make a suggestion. Perhaps we could schedule the SCG field
event the afternoon of the autocross? Most of the stock persons will
either be done with the racing, or not be attending anyway. What do you
think?

-Mark C

Hi Larry,
 
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.
 
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.
 
--Kent


From: Larry Claypool [mailto:mr.vair at urbancom.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:21 AM
To: sarahvair at juno.com; hljensen at comcast.net
Cc: "CORSA/CPF BoD"; airvair at richnet.net; "Rich Thompson"; "Stan East";
mandolin at rochester.rr.com; "Kent Sullivan"; "DaveEllis";
"Bill Chellis"; "Dave Newell"; scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com
Subject: SCG meeting

gentlemen-
     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.
    convention scheduling is a very difficult task. we (harry, myself,
sarah, chuck, stan, and the andolinos)spent 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.
    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.
    i am sorry there were not slots available for the SCG to hold a
regular chapter meeting AND 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.
    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
best regards
larry claypool