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Re: Local government ordinance hampers Beatty finances.

Lets also keep in mind that teams quit FRC for more reasons than just sponsorship. Some teams may decide to leave FRC for something they view as more challenging. Schools could pull their support, closing the team. The students in the school might not have enough interest in joining the team to keep the team alive.

IMO, sponsorship is the easiest one for FIRST to help a team solve, if the team really needs it and lets FIRST know they need help. As it stands, there are people around the country who spend enormous amounts of time helping find new sponsorship for teams. I know that's how my company (and then me) got involved with my team. That's also how a lot of teams in Minnesota get to Champs - through the work of those volunteers making phone calls starting the minute the team earns themselves a berth. When we made it to Champs in 2011, We knew where most of the funding for the trip was going to come from before we had even packed up the robot.

I'm confident that a great team like this will be able to find alternate sources of funding for their team, and that they won't be afraid to ask their regional FIRST volunteers and staff for assistance if they really need it.
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