[Mr.Frishman]

It is definitely more difficult to operate when the team is not district affiliated. We are the second FRC team in the area and the original has been the only game in town for a long time. Because of that our district does not look very kindly on us. Having said that, it is is still possible to operate without district help. We have to find alternate funding sources and so far we have been successful.Teams cannot exist year to year on grant funding alone.It was very easy to get a lot of money to start a team but most fund sources seem to want rookies.Time Warner Cable was a great example of this.