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Purpose:

To recommend to the Council specific hotel options and areas for holding the Annual Conference.

Duties:

1. Visit hotels in the cities specified by the Regional Council as potential conference sites.
2. Gather specific comparative data on the adequacy of the conference facilities, number and cost of rooms, cost of food, other ancillary costs for such things as audio-visual equipment and other specific contract terms.
3. Gather information on the availability of the various options.
4. Prepare a budget for annual operations and account to the Treasurer for all expenditures with all necessary supporting documentation.
5. Sign contract on behalf of the Association.
6. Select conference sites three years in advance (the year the Chair is Past-President). The process is as follows: At the Retreat, the state representative should indicate if the state wishes to have the conference in their state. During the fall council meeting the state will present three potential sites and at the winter council meeting a recommendation from the President-elect shall be presented to council for approval.

Membership:

The President-Elect is the committee.

Tenure:

Term of office.

Approved:

February 1994; Revised May, 1995; Revised November 1998

Rotation:

Conference site rotation: New York, Delaware, New Hampshire, Maine, DC, Connecticut, Puerto Rico, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Vermont

Previous EASFAA Conference Sites:

1967    Albany, NY

1968    New Brunswick, NJ

1969    Boston, MA

1970    Philadelphia, PA

1971    Washington, DC

1972    Providence, RI

1973    Philadelphia, PA

1974    Hyannis, MA

1975    Cherry Hill, NJ

1976    Ocean City, MD

1977    Albany, NY

1978    Portland, ME

1979    Hershey, PA

1980    Washington, DC

1981    Hartford, CT

1982    San Juan, PR

1983    Newport, RI

1984    Philadelphia, PA

1985    Boston, MA

1986    Baltimore, MD

1987    Buffalo, NY

1988    Hartford, CT

1989    Portland, ME

1990    Philadelphia, PA

1991    Newport, RI

1992    San Juan, PR

1993    Baltimore, MD

1994    Atlantic City, NJ

1995    Burlington, VT

1996    Lake George, NY

1997    Portland, ME

1998    Washington, DC

1999    San Juan, PR

2000    Foxwoods, CT

2001    Baltimore, MD

2002    Boston, MA

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