[SJAAboard] Phone call with San Jose PRN Reuse group

[Gary Mitchell]

Rob Hawley wrote:

> I chatted with Rudy in the reuse group for about 15 minutes today.  He was able
> to provide some very high level information on what the goals are.  The overall
> goal is to find users for the facilities.  I think that will be challenging
> since Houge lacks some of the creature comforts of the newer centers.

Even more challenging if they're going to squeeze money out
of potential users, (i.e fee for our auction).

> The reuse group is currently putting together a request for proposal. The
> Request For Proposal will be issued "soon". We will have to submit a proposal to
> continue to use Houge.  The application that we just completed will be
> terminate.  Once we submit a proposal they will evaluate it.  Two types of
> groups will be serviced; Service Providers and users.  Rudy was not able to give
> me very much detail, but his general description made it sound like it would be
> better if we were one of the former. The latter though might have fewer rules.
> 
> 
> I educated Rudy on why Houge was unique for us and moving to another city
> facility would be difficult.  He acknowledged that our hours of use made it
> unlikely that we would have a schedule conflict.

Plus Houge's location away from most of the city lights.

Gary

> One good thing is that the process is free.
> 
> Thus we are going to have to wait until the detailed RFP is issued.  One that
> happens we will have to scramble to respond.  It does not sound like we can
> ignore this thing.
> 
> 
> Rob Hawley 
> 
> 
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