Conference site and sessions look great, Ben!<br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div>Lori</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Ben Hyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben.hyman@bc.libraries.coop" target="_blank">ben.hyman@bc.libraries.coop</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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Evergreen 2013 Conference Committee Report:<br>
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-The full conference schedule is now posted: <a href="http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/schedule/" target="_blank">http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/schedule/</a><br>
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-120 conference registrants (58% of original target)<br>
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-99% of the room block is now booked (wahoo!). Priceline, Hotwire, Expedia and others are showing reasonable availability for nearby hotels, so at this point we do not plan to negotiate a secondary room block with another property<br>
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-$32,300 in sponsorship commitments/slightly less collected. (24% ahead of target)<br>
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-A/V addendum being hammered out this month; Catering addendum will come together once registrant figures firm up. Tony @ SFC is standing by for penultimate addendums in March.<br>
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-Budget; still planning within approved overall budget envelope, though registration numbers, catering and A/V are now expected to exert influence on revenues and expenditures.<br>
The local planning team meets Feb 20. I will bring revised budget targets to the Oversight Board by the end of February.<br>
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-The local 100% voluntary planning team continues to do an amazing job - I'm really impressed!<br>
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Look forward to our call tomorrow.<br>
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Ben Hyman<br>
Managing Director | BC Libraries Cooperative<br>
<a href="mailto:ben.hyman@bc.libraries.coop">ben.hyman@bc.libraries.coop</a> | <a href="http://bc.libraries.coop" target="_blank">bc.libraries.coop</a><br>
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Join us in Vancouver April 10-13, 2013 for the Evergreen International Conference<br>
<a href="http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/" target="_blank">eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/</a> | Follow us on twitter @egcon2013</blockquote></div><br>