2017 Round Table Summary

Convention
Feb. 21 - 23, 2025

Ask midway how you can help them
Make sure contract has clauses about rain
Building open with water and showers if possible
Look at contracts before the rides come
Let rides know that you are raising gate prices this affects them
Make sure closing times can be after your special shows as they can make money afterwards
Work with rides to control traffic from main gate so they can come to rides without a lot of obstacles
Pay for rides and no takes
No % from the rides
Worried about the cost of fuel and insurance is doing to the rides
Needed younger board members to help to change so that get younger people will come to go on rides along
Land locked fairs to have the rides there trying to get all shown
Seasonal employees and the new laws that effects the rides
How expensive to pay for the rides to cam to the fairs and not get any profits
Training locals to run rides how much training and liability, whose liability?
OAAS to advocate employment changes for seasonal workers to help get worker for rides
Rides are going to other festivals not just fairs and will make more money at these festivals so they drop the fairs
Listen to younger members so some of these issues can be a lot with in a different way

Disrespectful with past problems
Emphasize position. Job
Helping with workload
Make it everyone’s responsibility and not for one person
Code of conduct discussion overall with board members
Our way or no way
clicks- frustration
talking down to people
Reinforcing working together
General level of respect
Code of conduct read at AGM and people sign
Positive feedback
What do we need to do as a committee to move on past this
Take the high road forgot the pettiness
People like to create problems
gossip to community preventing negative gossip
Dorchester of paying- convention- need to recognize new ideas this is an investment – future

Getting volunteers together – supporter dinner served by 4H
Board social activities- like curling not all volunteers want to go
Fairs rent out space to others run dinner theatres, ladies nights
Fair board meetings and work nights
City meets farm events
Silent auctions
Christmas pot luck
No fundraising or extra events for most of the fairs in the room
Change the word volunteer to supporter
An event every month family fair in the spring , expo. Exhibits in a day for fair classes
Partner with other service groups to put the events on
Prime time country dance/party new attraction

Homecraft topics- meeting 1:30- 3:30 on Friday
Hc meeting took a lot of people away from other seminars and round tables
Mandatory so should be scheduled at a different time not overlapping with 2 seminar slots
Under 40 session should be after New delegate orientation
Question: can we extend the convention longer on Saturday- no hotel check out and train schedule
Incorporate more technology- conferment app- suggestion- WHOVA
On line surveys, twitter feed, share ideas, vendor info
Round tables very low turnout
Seminar topics are only offered twice so you can’t always attend
Liked- more time to get lunch and get to next thing- see trade show or craft room
Provide a schedule pictorially to visualize when to go to things like the trades show
Discussion boards to provide feedback, share ideas, ask questions, post its/ sharpies
Question wall, idea board on line as well
Location affordability – only place big enough for all to attend
Seminars: more real work ideas, specific things that have worked- Canada 150- no 60 tips – yes
Maybe identify seminars that are for small fairs
Panels include all size of fairs