Eric Aldinger
Don should not risk his 2017 event permit like that and KRis has already
lost too much planning time to put on the quality of event we would expect.
This chaps me, honestly. Last year we built such a nice maze on course, and
the weather did not shine on it. I was hoping we could try it again this
year.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Mike Murray via OBRA
wrote:
> One needs to remember that it is not Don Kruger that puts on the race. He
> just supplies the venue, for a fee. Kris Schamp puts on the race. He needs
> to collect money to pay the fee to Kruger as well as cover the costs he has
> for running the race and to provide himself compensation for the work he
> does to put the race on. That cash has to come from somewhere. Simply
> purchasing produce, even if the purchase was mandatory and the price was
> inflated much higher than market value, would be a stretch. It would also
> be
> easily seen as trying to circumvent the fee-based activity deal in a not
> particularly valid way.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OBRA [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On Behalf Of sean via OBRA
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 08:12
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: [OBRA Chat] Krugers
>
> Thanks Jonathan for that refresher, I remember that well. I am super into
> this concept noted in the artcle "Another thought some commenters have had
> was, ‘Why not just make the bike races free?’ (thus, getting around the
> “fee-based activities” stipulation). Kruger said that could be an option.
> He
> envisions that the race entry fee could come in the form of a purchase from
> his store."
>
> I'd purchase at least $30(cost of most reg) of produce/farm merch for them
> to be able to throw the race!
>
>
> For some background on the County policy driving this situation, check out
> my reporting from 2009
> http://bikeportland.org/2009/07/15/kruger-considers-legal-
> options-remains-commited-to-bike-races-21046
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