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Subject: RE: Electronic Court Filing TC May meeting plans
From: "Carol Geyer" <>
To: <>,<>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:52:57 -0500
John,
First, I'm very glad your TC will meet in conjunction with
the Symposium. It's great to get OASIS members together for this annual event,
and we appreciate your support.
With regards to the meeting fee, I respect your
perspective, but please understand that hotel
meeting rooms, a/v equipment rental, internet access, coffee breaks, and lunches
come with a price tag. If you've ever coordinated an event at a large hotel in a
major city, you know just how exorbitant those charges run. The $30/day meeting
fee only covers a fraction of our costs--we rely on Symposium sponsors to make
up the rest. If we had enough sponsorship revenue to waive the meeting fee
entirely, believe me, we would, but we simply do
not.
Understand too, that the Symposium is not a
revenue-generating activity for OASIS. We set the registration, meeting, and
sponsorship fees at a level that allows us to break even--nothing
more.
Many TCs have expressed strong support for the meeting fee.
They see a distinct advantage in having lunch and breaks provided, so
they can work and interface with other TCs. They don't want to incur
the transportation costs involved with meeting at a remote site, they don't
want to leave the hotel for lunches and coffee breaks. In fact, they
look to OASIS staff to provide more services--speaker phones and LCD
projectors. They realize the meeting fee is essential in providing those
services. They are also accustomed to paying (often much higher) meeting fees at
similar organizations.
I'm glad your TC was able to secure meeting space at a
local court, but I regret you see it as some sort of "voting with your feet"
action. I hope you will trust that OASIS staff works very
hard to meet everyone's needs to the greatest degree possible.
We remain open to practical suggestions for how we can better serve the
OASIS Electronic Court Filing TC.
Carol
From: John M. Greacen [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 10:12 PM
To:
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Cc:
; Electronic Court Filing Technical
Committeee
Subject: Electronic Court Filing TC May meeting
plans
Our TC will meet in in
conjunction with the OASIS symposium. However, we will not meet at the OASIS
hotel and we do not seek your assistance with our meeting logistics. We will find our own meeting space at a
local court so that we will not incur the OASIS $30 per member per day fee. We complained about this fee last
year. It is exorbitant and an
unreasonable expense for governmental entities to incur. OASIS is charging the same fee this
year. We are therefore voting with
our feet.
John
M. Greacen
Greacen
Associates, LLC
HCR
505-289-2164
505-289-2163
(fax)
505-780-1450
(cell)
References:
Electronic Court Filing TC May meeting plans
From: "John M. Greacen" <>
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