Originally Posted by Dovster
I can tell you this -- in private industry, anyone who authorized the rental of these extension cords would be fired. Presumably, Telluride has a hardware store where all 14 could have been bought for a total of about $60 and then kept for future conventions.
Last large government meeting I had to go to (earlier in the Spring), they were short a good # of power strips. They sent someone out to BestBuy or somewhere else nearby to buy the cords rather than trying to rent them.
I know the food catering costs ran fairly high (the meetings ran long enough each day that we had three meals plus coffee breaks catered), but from having used the same caterer myself before, I know the coffee didn't run anything near what the TSA paid--we just had plain black and decaf, not some Starbucks blend!
