[Accrs] URGENT - Please Plan to Attend the Friday 4/6/18 ACCRS Business Meeting to Discuss the Fairgrounds and teh Future

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

As many of you are aware, recent interactions with the Fairground staff, including the CEO, Jerome Hoban, have confirmed that the current and approved Fairgrounds strategic plan does not include the ACCRS and that the plan is to demolish the current railroad building at some point. Based on this confirmation, we, as the ACCRS membership, must decide what options and actions are available to us and what our strategy/plan is.



Gary asked me to lead a discussion this Friday at the membership meeting on this topic. We will review the state of our relationship with Hoban, Fair Staff, and the Fair Board with discussions by our team that met with him. We will review and discuss the potential options going forward, the financial cost and time investment as well as the action timing and potential outcomes. The goal of the meeting is to eliminate any "fake news" about the ACCRS and the fair, get the facts clearly understood and the options clearly defined so all of us can make intelligent decisions about the directions for our club.



Gary indicated that Hoban said that he sees a 3-7 year window for the time frame of projects/construction work that would demolish our building. Based on this, we are facing an existential threat to the existence of the ACCRS layouts and a model railroad club in the tri-valley area. We will have to make tough choices and work together as a team if we are to prevail in maintaining the current layout/location or attaining a new facility to build layouts in. We also need to discuss our capacity for the investment levels necessary to construct new layouts in a new facility.



This may be the most important meeting in the recent history of the layout. Our decisions on the path/options we are to take and how we are to proceed will be the keys to the future existence of the ACCRS. Your attendance and participation in this meeting is critical if you are interested in continuing to have the ACCRS exist.


Phil Edholm
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