[TN-Bird] Joint TOS / VSO Spring Meeting set May 2012 at Johnson City, TN

From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "TN-birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:30:44 -0400
 The Bristol Bird Club announced Tuesday night that the joint annual spring 
 meeting of the Tennessee Ornithological Society and the Virginia Society of 
 Ornithology will be held at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Johnson City
 TN the weekend of 18-19-20 May 2012.  It is sponsored and hosted by BBC.

 Johnson City is located just south of the Virginia stateline in Northeast
 Tennessee.

 Members voted unanimously to authorize the club's leadership to enter a
 contract agreement for the event with the Holiday Inn management .  Venue
 Committee Chairwoman Wilma Boy brought the motion to the floor at the BBC
 October meeting. 
 
The BBC Venue Committee for the joint state meeting, has been busy 
working  with the project for three months.  Committee members met 
twice to plan needs and work on details.  Visits were made to a 
number of appropriate facilities in Abingdon, Bristol, Kingsport and 
Johnson City to survey sites, photograph rooms, parking, access, 
overnight accommodations, banquet  rooms requirements and to meet 
and discuss the meeting and needs with hotel managers. Committee 
members canvassed areas including Boones Creek,  Tri-City Airport 
and facilities along I-81 and I-26.  Locations such as East Tennessee
State University, the  Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center at
Abingdon, Martha Washington Inn, Northeast State Community College 
and the Natural History Museum and  Visitor Center at the Gray Fossil 
Site were considered.

 It finally came down to the Holiday Inn Convention Center at Johnson City, the
 Millennium Conference Center in Johnson City and the MeadowView Marriott
 Conference Resort and Convention Center at Kingsport. 

 The Virginia Society of Ornithology Board of Directors consented to a location
 in the Tri-Cities metro area of Northeast Tennessee so that a large facility 
 with enough staff, banquet facilities and hotel rooms could be secured. 

 The Holiday Inn, which was extensively renovated in February 2008, won out
 hands down with the Venue Committee due to size of banquet facility, no 
guarantee
 required for room accommodations, the extremely low extra fees and small 
deposit.
 The hotel has  200 rooms.  BBC will lease the 11,000-square-foot convention 
 center with its private outside entrance.  It is also central to some of the 
most 
 desirable field trip areas in the 6,000+ foot elevation of the Southern Blue 
Ridge
 Mountains along the North Carolina line, just east of the Convention Center.

 Let's go birding . . . .

 Wallace Coffey
 Bristol Bird Club
 Bristol, TN 
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