Dear Mike,
A massaging shower is always good; our beds were never made. I'm
not sure if it was because Christy or Amy were in the room when they wanted
to do it, or if we were just missed. The coffee in-room was also good,
though I only made some the first morning.
Darla & hardworking Huck Who says he didn't steal the chairs
-----Original Message-----
From: ATI [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 10:38 PM
To: Adaptive technology information and support.
Subject: Re: [ATI] the hotel was Re: elections
I think my trash cans were emptied, then again, I didn't put a whole lot in
them. My room definitely had the necessities covered though, the bathroom
was a bit on the small side, but not too bad there. The shower was nice, had
a built in massage feature.
On Oct 14, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Steve Schnelle <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I thought the staff were awesome but the room service was lacking. I had
to go to the front desk at 7 P/M on Saturday night and let them know that
our room had not been cleaned and trashcans not emptied. I think the
clincher was that I told them I had no where to throw my cans but on the
floor. That did it, the room was spotless in the next 30 minutes. Actually
they were really over the top on accomodating us!
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Mike Arrigo
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 4:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [ATI] the hotel was Re: elections
>
> I would say over all the hotel was good, though a bit expensive. I
> think internet access should have been free with the prices they were
> charging for the rooms, fortunately I was able to get around that
> using my phone as a hot spot. Also, it was much cheaper to get food at
> places outside the hotel.
> Original message:
>> Dear Mike,
>> Great!!!!!! There have been some negative experiences around
>> this hotel--my suitcase is missing in action--but they are trying to
>> make that right, but the guy from Maine whose luggage ended up going
>> to KC, is not to happy, to say the least.
>> Glad you got home safely; that is along way and no busses
>> there, as I understand it; now hopefully, I can remember the voice with
your name.
>> Darla
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Arrigo [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 2:18 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [ATI] elections
>
>> Hi there, that was me, thanks for asking, glad you got home safe.
>> Yes, I did make it home ok. There was some confusion on when the
>> shuttle back to the MCB building was supposed to head out. At one
>> point it was 2:30, then it was changed to 1:30. I was actually
>> thinking of just taking the shuttle to the train station and catching
>> the Chippewa bus home, I could have gotten off the bus about 2 blocks
from my place.
>> Because of the confusion, the hotel offered to pay for a cab which I
>> gladly accepted.
>> Original message:
>>> Dear Bob and John,
>>> That was a long, long morning, and I, too, hope a more
>>> efficient way can be found for all the reasons John states so well.
>>> BTW, I ran into a young man who missed the bus back to the
>>> MCB office; I hope he made it home safely.
>>> Darla & hardworking Huck
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ATI [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bob jaco
>>> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 10:52 AM
>>> To: Adaptive technology information and support.
>>> Subject: Re: [ATI] elections
>
>>> I am actually in favor of having one election Saturday. However, if
>>> we were to do that, any additional meetings or speakers might need
>>> to be canceled the rest of the afternoon, but we are there to
>>> conduct
>> business.
>
>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: John and Donna Weidlich <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> To: Missouri Chat <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Adaptive technology information and support.
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> ; Missouri List
<mailto:[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 5:15 PM
>>> Subject: [ATI] elections
>
>>> After sitting through that interminable process of electing
>>> three directors to the MCB Board, which may still be going on for
>>> all I know, I think we really need to brainstorm some ways for
>>> speeding up that process and making it more efficient. Here is one
>>> thought. At one time, we elected one Director on Saturday afternoon
>>> and two on sunday morning. In fact it was written that way in the
>>> Bylaws and therefore had to be done that way. When the Bylaws were
>>> revised, we took that out, not because we thought it was a bad idea
>>> but because we wanted to leave that up to the discretion of the
>>> Presidents and let each President continue to do it that way if
>>> he/she wanted to or do them all on Sunday. Perhaps we could try that
>>> process again to see if it helps. the Bylaws would not have to be
>>> changed to allow that since the Bylaws don't specify when directors
>>> have to be elected. Now all three directors are elected in
>>> odd-numbered years. Should we consider electing two in odd years and
>>> one in even years? Some believe we should eliminate the directors
>>> altogether. I don't particularly favor that
>> approach but it could be debated again. the process needs to be
>> changed in some way.
>>> Each position requires multiple elections because of runoffs and
>>> with each election, the number of voters drops dramatically so by
>>> the end of the process, only a few voters are making the important
>>> decision of who will compose the Board, which is not a good thing. I
>>> wonder if there was even a quorum present for the final election.
>>> You can argue that people should stay but transportation often
>>> dictates when people leave as well as check-out times at hotels. And
>>> taking almost four hours for five elections seems ludicrous to me
>>> and I certainly can't blame people for not sitting through such a
>>> lengthy process. In fact, I admit that I bailed before the final
>>> director's contest and that a
>> candidate that I would have voted for lost.
>>> The Board is looking at a new voting machine but I don't believe
>>> that it will actually speed up the process and I feel that the
>>> machine being considered could at least slightly compromise the secret
ballot.
>>> Whatever we do, the process needs to be overhauled because at least
>>> in my opinion it is not working well. I don't want to open an
>>> argument here but just to get some thoughts and get people to think
>>> about what could be done to have a more fair and efficient election
>>> for our
>> organization. John
>>> GO CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
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