[Accrs] Access Friday night

Thu Aug 30 22:29:45 PDT 2018

Robert, I agree with you. We might change the course of The Fair management. The Fair Board is appointed by the. County Board of Supervisors. The County Board Of Supervisors answer to the voters. Votes count more than money in the end. Google Fairplex in Los Angeles. Same management. Turned in to a monster. Community is angry, neighbors angry, court cases. Grew too big. Too many events. Congestion, crowds. 

I was one of the leaders of a group that saved open space and a horse stable in Oakland Hills Through community activism and working with politicians we secured two million dollars, bought the property for the East Bay Park District.

 I have a strategy which is similar to ideas from Phil Edholm. I have talked with Gary about this a bit. I am not on the board of the club but Gary could appoint a committee to pursue this. I would be interested. We may lose and may win but are sure to lose if we do nothing. Working with Candace and Jerome while preferred is not working. 

Larry Brickell
925-314-5003 cell

> On Aug 30, 2018, at 8:02 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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> Message From: Robert Lopez  robertlopez at sanjosefop.com
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> When I went to the goodguys show last week. I was surprised to find the main entrance not blocked and the back door not blocked. They did have the back fenced off but there was no equipment stored back there. I am finding it a little concerning that this week we are not going to have the ability to go to the club and form what is sounds like not have our Friday meeting. From my point of view and what I have read. I think it is time for the club have a sit down with the fair board and figure this out. It is clear to me what the fair is trying to do I have seen it before. We are a anchor to there feature plans and the cheapest way for them to get what they want is to make our life difficult and drive us out. The  easiest way to accomplish that is to cut our access to some of the most important events we have to keep the funding flowing.  Yes I know some members don’t want to see what is staring them in the face bit I think it is time to be proactive and defend our feature at this location. This year lots of changes have been made not to our favor. Here is a short list.
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> 1. No I’d cards (possible mis use)
> 2. First event with no I’d cards (we had a list of members that we drafted and handed to the fair for distribution the list I saw was not current and not what we handed them.)
> 2. No fair passes (when the fair was being setup there was no clear communication on how the fair system was going to work the list system did not work for a both party’s. I did not think we where going to be open form the lack of communication) 
> 3. Wrong entry passes (we where given  regular day passes not early entrance passes. Week before the event started ) 
> 4.  Corrected entry passes (  The correct passes had to be exchanged for the wrong passes two days before the event started)
> 5.  Fire marshal explained to us that he has written up our club for four years straight for the same violations and the club has not been notified of all these violations or report.
> 6.  Surprise visit from the fair chief Jerome ( he was not smiling  dammanding action on the layout not enough equipment running on the o scale side) 
> 7.  Our first no good guys show.  (No explanation why)  orders not to contact the good guys staff.
> 8.  Our second good guys show cancellation (no room when there was room) 
> 9. Now no meeting and no entry because of this event (with no good excuse)
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> It seems to me that the future of this organization is in jeopardy.  I don’t think it’s too late to change the course. From what it sounded like from vice mayor he did not seem to like where the fairgrounds is heading towards. The community also seemed to be concerned as well for our feature. With all the support i saw from the community that walked through the fair. I think we have a great shot on modifying the fairs mind or possibly triggure a fair board replacement if enough issues come up from the community. Yes it is going to take some work but it might be worth it to stay in our “home” for past 30+ years and hopefully our feature home for the next 30+years.
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> Thanks,
> Robert Lopez
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