To: NYSFAAA’s Executive Council

Anne Barton, NYSFAAA President

From: Beth Turner, St. Lawrence University

Sue Aldrich, SUNY Potsdam

Laura Dominy, SUNY Plattsburgh

Brian Levy, M&T Bank

Kerrie Cooper, SUNY Canton

Date: June 18, 2004

RE: Proposal to host NYSFAAA Conference XXXVIII in 2006

The members of Region VIII have looked forward to submitting another NYSFAAA conference proposal since we last hosted the unforgettable event in 1999. Many are still talking about the conference of 1999 in breath taking Lake Placid. Some of you will remember it as the year that Mother Nature made herself the honorary entertainment chair. She revealed her position the first day of the conference with an 80 degrees and pristine blue skies to greet our guests. 24 hours later we were hit with a rain/sleet/wind storm that knocked out power for 13 hours and a day later we woke to a few inches of fresh snow. Mother Nature made it obvious that our scheduled D.J. and a popular band from Rochester were just not what she had in mind for entertainment. We will invite her back in 2006 but hope that she will work a bit more as a team player and take our wishes into consideration rather than taking the entire event into her own hands!

On behalf of Region VIII, we would like to invite the membership of NYSFAAA back to beautiful Lake Placid in 2006, November 5^th through the 8^th, for another memorable conference. We have been working with Don Taylor from International Meeting Network (IMT) and he has secured the site for our proposal. After a visit to the Lake Placid Resort, we too were sold on its spectacular setting, its 24 multipurpose meeting rooms and its central location in the heart of this quaint village. I have attached a copy of IMT’s logistical summary for conference 2006. You will find that the guest room prices are sure to please even the most frugal. Conference registration will be taken care of by the Lake Placid Resort. They will also take the lead for all over flow reservations at the Best Western and either the Hilton or a newly refurbished Comfort Suites. Conference room space will be exclusively at the Lake Placid Resort at no charge for usage. Other particulars are listed on the attachment to read at your convenience.

If granted the opportunity to host Conference XXXVIII in Lake Placid, our theme will be: NYSFAAA XXXXVIII – Mirroring Excellence – this of course ties in with the infamous Mirror Lake that the Lake Placid Resort overlooks. Conference 2006, if hosted by our region, promises to be another unforgettable event. The amount of support and number of volunteers that have already come forward is a resounding, a true sign of a successful event.

We will also utilize the enormous amount of talent that we have in our region by inviting students from SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music to entertain our guests during one of our receptions. Paul Smiths’ program of Culinary Arts will also be on hand one evening to share a delicious dessert of their choice to our guests. Olympic athletes will be in town training and ski jumpers will also be practicing their events using special made mats during our stay.

As you can see, we’ve only just begun but already have so many wonderful plans for another unforgettable conference. We thank you for considering Region VIII as the host of NYSFAAAA’s 38^th conference in 2006.