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Alright folks said President Bob. This is the post-fourth of July (7/5/19) WSFA meeting. Yawn.

Sam L. summed up minutes. Treasurer up $$$.

Capclave Present. Bill said, We got the contract for Capclave 2020 and submitted it to the hotel, so now we have a hotel and date. I will let Collette know that George is interested in same weekend third weekend after Columbus Day. For Capclave 19 the Dodos have started tweeting fun facts about our guests. Martha Wells’ first sf convention was Armadillo four when she was still in high school. Rob Sawyer went to university with Tanya Huff. Membership is up to 143 members, about where we should be. Drum up more business. Table at Shore Leave. Martha Wells will be in Dublin for Worldcon so we will do a photo with her. Program is progressing. The survey is out and ## people responded. Catherine Asaro is moving to NY in September so will not be able to come. People need to take bookmarks and rack cards. Hand them out. Both Rob and Martha are interested and excited. Sam S will be getting flight information from Rob soon. He wants to know which airport is best. We are still on track to hit our publishing deadline with the understanding that things can change. We brought up the idea of using big foyer area for mass signing. It depends on if it is available. So won’t know where put the AV equipment until a month out. If you haven’t got your room please get it. If we get 110% of room block $$$.

Click the link for the full text of the July/August 2019 WSFA Journal, including the Minutes of the July 5th, 19th 2019 / August 2nd, 16th 2019 meetings.

Note: Publication date is set to the date of the Journal, rather than the date posted, for indexing purposes