Image Salon Report
Stats - 29 entries
Manitoba - 15
Saskatchewan - 14
manitoba - 1 album - accepted
entries - 14 accepted, 6 Merit, 4 Excellent
percentage of accepted or better 20/60 33%
Image Salon Entry fees - $3,836.00
Costs include:
3 judge airfares - 1193.85 1 judge mileage - 388.50 (2 judges flights through PPOC executive) 1 local judge
Hotel - 2 nights ea. 6 people (5 judges 1 jury chair, 1 local judge) @ 115.00 plus taxes = 1752.00
Playall awards - estimated $800
On the Edge Glass studio for POY award (engraving to follow) est. 160.00
Maple Leaf Rubber stamp - judges choice ribbons - est. $40.00
Catering for judges/committee breakfast and lunch - 336.00
Mimi office supplies for certificates etc. $124.48
Dinner for judges - the keg est. 410.00
Room rental - 275.94
Equipment rental - 0 (thank you tech voc)
Sponsors - expected income for awards $700.00
This leaves us with a deficit of approximately ($1705.64)
We may still be able to generate more income by providing a digital audio critique of the "actual judging" to anyone who was not able to attend and would like to hear what the judges had to say at the time of judging as opposed to the post judging critiques provided at Nationals. It is important to note that the cost of accomodations and meals for the judges was more than all of the entry fees generated from a TWO PROVINCE image salon. Before the Salon began, we had lost money due to low entries despite trying to minimize or eliminate costs for the judges to come and help us out. We had one local judge which saved us an airfare and a meal after the judging was completed on Saturday around 6:30. One judge only stayed one night at the hotel. We also had two judges whose airfares were covered by PPOC as they were here to attend Federal council meetings. Even with these cost saving decisions, we were still operating from a loss based on entries. My recommendation would be to have a joint image salon with another province every year to make it at least a close to break even. The alternative is to having local judges and deal with the potential animosities that may arise. I do maintain my belief that if you want to have affiliate judging, and have out of town judges it should not cost the judges anything to assist you in your salon, and that is why I would also like to see in the future, a salon for our province every year, but operate it only every second. At present membership of our association at 66 and an average of between 15-20 entries each year, we will continue to lose money on running an image salon. I would like to suggest also that the association get a credit card as I have had to use mine for many large purchases associated with the salon. I feel Image Salon is a large committment that would be better handled by two people. A co-chair could be added to one of the smaller portfolios as well as splitting well defined duties. The hours involved in this job were too numberous for me to want to do again.
In conclusion I feel that we need to make some tough decisions as an association on whether or not we agree that the Image Salon should be run as a top notch affiliate judging with all the costs associated or a smaller yearly salon that would try to minimize costs in every way, which would make it less likely that we would have affiliate level judging. We would be relying on peoples' generosity to come and donate their time to squeak out an affiliate salon. I feel the latter would require even more hours and "attempts" to lure judges to help us with our image salons. My personal recommendation would be to host a salon in Manitoba every second year for two reasons - cost and volunteer hours necessary run an image salon.
respectfully submitted,
Brenda Westwood
