I sent a rather detailed proposal to my SAC contact on Thursday, and I was hoping I’d get a quick response since their board meeting was yesterday, but Friday came to a close without any news from my contact there. I’m still reasonably confident that they’ll give us approval for vehicular access, but as mentioned, I plan to move forward either way—with or without vehicular access to the Abandoned Turnpike.
I’ll create an event sign-up page (just like Golden Spike meet in September)—I’ll be sending a final count of planned attendees over to SAC before the event.
As mentioned earlier, my SAC contact said that the organization would like to receive either a monetary donation or an “in-kind” donation (i.e. volunteerism) in exchange for allowing the event to take place. In my proposal, one of the possible in-kind donations I suggested is that we would pick up litter along the route during our tour. There isn’t a ton of litter along the route, and most of it is concentrated at the tunnel portals—empty beverage bottles and cans, spent spray paint cans (surprise, surprise), etc. I imagine most of you would prefer this little bit of work to chipping in an additional $20 or so for a monetary gift, plus it would be doing some good for the property as well. But if no one likes this idea and SAC decides to exercise the litter clean-up option, I could just show up a few hours early and do it myself prior to the meet.