[Accrs] Access Friday night

Thu Aug 30 22:35:11 PDT 2018

Gary,
I am glad you are working with The Fair management. I don’t want to confront The Fair people except as a last resort but have been down this road. I am glad you and Phil are working together. He has good ideas. 

Larry Brickell
925-314-5003 cell

> On Aug 30, 2018, at 10:04 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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> Message From: Gary Lewis  glgslewis at comcast.net
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> Just a note about the Good-Guys and a couple other things.  I was down there the Thursday evening before the show started.  They had a lot of stuff in the storage area so I understood why they wanted it blocked off.  I had e-mail communication with Harry Daviess at GGs Wednesday and Thursday that week trying to work it out.  They are OK with us being open but want no traffic thru the storage area and want it to be blocked off.  Fire code says we must have two exits.  I told him we could direct the back door traffic to the south by removing the fence and having the fair set up chain link fence across the north end of our little break area outside the door.  He would be fine with that.  However, when I proposed this to Candice she was not happy that I had contacted Harry directly.  She settled down later in the day and suggested we set down with her and map out the events to the end of the year.  That is something Phil suggested separately, so it's a good opportunity.  I also sent Harry an e-mail saying there wasn't time to make the changes for last weekend but want to do it in November and we would coordinate it thru Candice.  I copied Candice on the e-mail and he replied favorably and said "stay in touch".  Candice was copied again.  Phil and I have been working together on this situation and want to set up a meeting with the CEO after Phil talked to him at a fair board meeting.  Be sure, we are not just setting around waiting for stuff to happen.  BTW, the fair people usually come thru our building at some point during the fair.  I was somewhat irritated that I was there and no one told me he was there.  It was a missed opportunity.  Why weren't there enough O scale trains running?  Same thing happened with the fire marshal visit.  Nobody told me he was there.  He must be giving his reports to the maintenance department.  Candice knew nothing of it and the maintenance folks never seem to have a problem with us.        We now know what the problems are and they are easy fixes.  So let's get those fixed.  
> BTW, the easiest way to nail us is to charge rent and electrical.  
> Gary
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>> On 8/30/2018 8:02 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
>> 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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