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2005 Annual Convention

June 25 - June 28, 2005

Savannah, Georgia

Official registration forms will be mailed on Friday, February 25 and on-line

registration will open on Monday, February 28 at 9:00 a.m.

Planning Form

Program Outline

There are a few changes that GMA is incorporating in an effort to keep the

registration fee as low as possible.

First, we have lowered the member registration fee and will be replacing the

Awards and Installation Banquet on Monday evening with an Awards and

Installation Breakfast on Tuesday morning. This will be a separate ticketed

event. Please make sure to ask your folks if they want a ticket to the

breakfast or not, so that they do not come to Savannah expecting that meal if

they have not paid for it.

Also, we have cut the registration fee for spouses and will not be offering

spouse tours this year. There are many tour operators on River Street that

offer quite a variety of tours. We have found that we do not usually meet the

minimum requirement when we schedule special tours and therefore, GMA has to

pay for the empty seats. The spouse registration fee covers the Festival of

Foods on Tuesday night, the delegate gift and door prize tickets.

Additionally, we have cut the child registration fee and will not offer a Kids'

Korner during exhibit hall hours. We will have a Kids' Korner on Tuesday

evening at the Civic Center during the Casino Party.

Due to declining participation the last couple of years, we are discontinuing

the youth delegate program. Of course, we still encourage you to register your

youth leaders as a child and bring them to the GMA sessions with you.

We are offering one new training course called Council/Staff relationships.

This course was offered last spring in Rome as a pilot. Please do not register

for this course if you took the April class.

There are several exciting hotel changes. First, the Hyatt has been completely

renovated over the past couple of months. The lobby has a completely different

look and feel and all meeting rooms and sleeping rooms have been redecorated.

Also, the Radisson Inn on Bay Street is now a Doubletree, which is a Hilton

property. Just next door to the Doubletree is a brand new hotel, scheduled to

open in late May, called the Garden Hotel. It will be similar in look and

service to the Hampton Inn and the Doubletree Inn.

Conact Janice Eidson at (678) 686-6256 for more information.





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