[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]

Channel 7 weather news has forecasted a category 3 rain storm for tomorrow.
That will impact those of us who have to drive long distances.

Andy H.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Gary Lewis  glgslewis at comcast.net
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> Folks,
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> A little clarification is needed here.  Many of you are aware that John,
> Dick, and I attended a meeting with the Fair CEO over a month ago.  We
> reported on the meeting at our March business meeting.  At some point, we
> need to develop go forward plan or plans to not only convince the fair we
> add value but to develop alternate plans for us to survive.  At the meeting
> we were told it would probably be 3-5 years before anything happened, so we
> have some time to develop our plans, but we need to get started.  Rain
> permitting, we hope that a lot of members show up tomorrow night to help
> start the process.  The BOD will meet from 7:00-8:00 to agree on some
> recommendations and general approach including the brain storming during
> the 8:00 general meeting.  Phil has business experience which will be of
> value in organizing the input we get from membership which then can be
> fleshed out into workable action plans.  It may take more than one of these
> sessions, but we need to start the process.  There is no indication of
> eminent action on the part of the fair.  So let's calm down and think this
> thru.
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> The President will conduct the business meeting.  Decisions regarding the
> format of the brain storming part of the business meeting will be made and
> agreed to in the BOD meeting prior to the business meeting.
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> If we have light attendance due to heavy rain, we'll just have to
> reschedule.
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> Gary
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> On 4/3/2018 3:22 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
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> Message From: Phil Edholm  pedholm at pkeconsulting.com
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> *Phil Edholm*
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