[Sca-librarians] A question as regards libraries in general

[Nancy Shapiro]

Sorry, I was trying to be funny.
But now that you elaborate, it _was_ pretty crumby of them

Um..Sorry..again.  Not enough caffeine today, I guess.

Ki-lin

sca-librarians-bounces+nshapiro=rohmhaas.com at lists.gallowglass.org wrote 
on 03/11/2005 12:48:18 PM:

> > Hey Saradwen,
> > 
> > Did they try investigating just how the contract issues got 'sticky'? 
:-) 
> > Were there any crumbs?
> >
> > Ki-lin
> 
> Yeah, see, what Sodexho wanted out of us is a $180,000 "guarantee" 
> payment; in other words, before they'd set up shop running a café in 
> our library, they wanted us to pay that sum up front as a guarantee 
> that they wouldn't lose their shirts running such an etablishment in a 
> library, and the library, already having spent $7 million over the 
> original projected cost of the Main Library, is short of that kind of 
> cash to pay such a sum, so....therein lay the dilemma. 
> 
> So I guess they've been in contract negotiations ever since that first 
> demand of "guarantee" money. 
> 
> Sounds like blackmail to me....   :-\
> 
> ~Saradwen
> 
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