[TowerTalk] Stadiums as Tower/Contest Locations

[Bill Parry]

You have hit the nail on the head. It sounds like you may have some personal
experience...even!

Bill, W5VX

"All organizations are perfectly aligned for the results they get."



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>From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
>bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lux
>Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:21 AM
>To: Bill Parry; 'Gary "Joe" Mayfield'; towertalk at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Stadiums as Tower/Contest Locations
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>At 08:39 PM 7/4/2007, Bill Parry wrote:
>>Howdy Jim,
>>
>>I believe that if private or parochial schools take federal money, and
>many
>>do, then they have to follow the same rules.
>
>But the liability negotiation could be a lot easier.  Rather than
>dealing with the public school bureacracy (which has to manage dozens
>of schools in a given district) and with an elected school board (all
>the members of which tend to have their own particular hot buttons),
>it's more like dealing with a business.  You have one decision maker
>to convince rather than dozens.  The public schools are, in general,
>underfunded, understaffed, and serve very many masters (not only the
>school board, but also, the city, county, state, and feds all weigh
>in on what the schools should be doing with those insufficient
>resources) tend to have a lot of inertia and not interested in
>unuusal things that add work. It's a struggle to keep up with their
>"official" responsibilities.  So, unless you have some advocates in
>the right places, it's going to be tough.
>
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