From: "Michael Nelson" <mike.nelson at seahunt.org>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: DC Hotels
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:13:53 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith F. Lynch [mailto:kfl at KeithLynch.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:48 PM
> To: WSFA members
> Subject: [WSFA] DC Hotels
>
> Michael Nelson wrote:
>
> > It was my understanding that the negotiation for the final piece of
> > land needed for the hotel has not reached a settlement.  It seems to
> > me that the DC City Council has been too busy lately worrying about
> > the new baseball stadium parking to have time to work on the
> > convention center hotel.
>
> I got another Washington Convention Center Board of Directors meetings
> to proofread today.  It was very frustrating, since I was given far
> too little time, as WCCA paid for next-day expedite service.  The
> sound quality was awful, as it was recorded with a single mike in the
> middle of large echoey room with about 40 people in it, some of them
> eating, chatting with each other, or talking on a phone.  There were
> slide shows, but I wasn't given the slides.  I did get a blurry
> photocopy of the handwritten sign-in sheet, which not everyone present
> bothered to sign.  The transcription was done overnight in India, and
> was dreadful.  I didn't have time to proofread all of it, but I did
> make it a point to do all the hotel parts.  Here's what was said.
> This was at about 10:00 a.m. yesterday (Thursday).

Thank you, Keith.  It looks promising.  I was trying to say that
the public sources of knowledge such as newspaper or trade journal
articles found through Google News searches led me to assume that
the negotiations had stalled in 2005.  However, I did stop my monthly
investigations last spring and wasn't aware of the current status.

Are these meeting minutes released to the public?

Michael