Re: Sprite 50th Anniversery

Frank Clarici wrote:

>         Insurance costs, meeting room fees, banquet dinner, tee shirt,
>         mailings, stamps, phone calls, and other "ways & means"
>         stuff.  BS fees associated with autocross timer rentals and/or
>         parking lot rentals, rent a tent(s),  Stuff like that. 


OK.  I see, said the blind man!

Suggestion:  In the past I have negotiated with hotels (and even one 
motel) to make them them the event hotel, headquarters, dinner site in 
return for meeting space, chairs, tables, xerox, etc.  And, of course, 
make sure that the groups did not have to pay rack rates for their 
rooms.  The numbers ranged from 35 upwards.  One of the keys to getting 
these subventions is picking a time when the room demand is normally down.

Buster