Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:43:39 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: I have reservations
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 09:21 PM 11/13/03, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>Walter Miles <walter at nova.org> wrote:

> > It strikes me, that before I could urge other WSFAns to use me as
> > their exemplar, that I should like to see published the conditions
> > governing the room block guarantee (deadlines, numbers, and
> > penalties).  We should understand precisely the catastrophe we
> > are trying to avert.
>
>Me too.  Does the club lose *more* than $94 per room night not booked?
>If so, the club can save money (i.e. lose less money) by booking rooms
>itself, and letting them stand empty.  If *not*, then a WSFAn can
>benefit the club more by donating $94 to the club than by booking a
>room night.

I've already sent Sam and Peggy Rae a spreadsheet for calculating the
points at which it costs less to rent sleeping rooms and letting them stand
empty.  It's a fairly complex matter, since the cost of function space
changes depending on how many rooms are booked and there's also an
attrition, or penalty clause.  But the way that the spreadsheet (which I
can't take credit for) is set up all they have to do is plug in the room
pick up.

Elspeth