They have set up our time in the Mariners differently this year. Instead of a Friday night event for Das and a guest, Marc is making it a 2-day event. Friday night would be (from. Marc) “The one on September 30th we will be inviting all the DAs and all the league Presidents. We will roll out the dates for next season and give everybody a meal.” According to the schedule that is a 6:40 game time. Then on Saturday (per Marc) “I’ll be putting the DAs up in a Suite. I’m finalizing all the details soon, but invites will be going out next week.” According to the schedule that is a 1:10 start. I told Marc of the dilemma. This gives us 2 choices – 1) have the state meeting a different day altogether; 2) After I told him the difficulty he wrote “He wrote “If you wanted, you could hold the meeting in the Suites. I’ll come in early and let everybody in and walk you up. Then you can just meet in the Suites and stay for the game while it goes on. The food and drinks would be brought in closer to gametime. It’s a 1:10pm afternoon game on October 1st.” The difficulty for the second option is it would be limited to D.A.s and a guest. This would exclude a lot of our support people. If we choose to have the state meeting on a different day, could we still have a mini meeting – report from the region, since Andrew and Kit are planning to come that weekend – a little earlier on Saturday. Maybe start at 11:30 or 12 in the suite? Please provide input on this so we can make arrangements. Bob has already reserved the building in Redmond for those dates. I would think any chance of us (it is a group obligation – not district 9) getting out of that would mean a decision right away.