Letter of Intent Mentioned in March 10th Email
This is our bad. Amy looked over some old emails, and Kyle told Amy in passing about the letter of intent on March 10, about two weeks before I wrote the letter to Kyle and the Ath (March 24). I first saw this email today, and I’m sorry to the ASU exec for claims that the they *never* talked with us about this. Amy emailed Kyle to setup a meeting about Bottled Water in the SUB, with a congradulatory note about the ASU buying out the contract. In his reply, along with information about the Pepsi contract, he mentioned a letter of intent from a “coffee shop”. Kyle has asked me not to post this email, although I’m not entirely sure why.
In the meeting Amy says she was “trying to show support for the sustainability initiatives, and THEN see if they could go further than that by considering another option.” She also describes Kyle as “super on-edge about it.”
To quote her some more (having her write this would have taken way less time, however she is taking a well-deserved break and I feel we should report this as soon as possible).
In all honesty- at first i thought it wouldn’t be as bad if we were included in the process of the contract, but then I soon realised after talking to you about the large-corporation side of it, that there should be no compromise….and THEN I realised the opportunity with TAN coffee, and was very anti-Tim’s when I “discovered” TAN.
I think this illustrates a large portion of the student population - those who are unaware of the consequences of a “sustainable” Tim Horton’s (see Alan’s letter and the facebook group to see some points with regard to this) versus those of a locally-based coffee shop, and would rather see an environmentally friendly alternative should several important concerns be met.
I personally waited to write the letter because of a few end-of-term essay obligations, and because I didn’t understand that “letter of intent” means “end of the world” in business terms. The ASU says that discussions with Tim Horton’s began in September 2008, making it 6 months before this was mentioned to us. Our tree-hugger brains aren’t sure if this would have been the appropriate time to talk to us to negotiate specific terms of a contract, but we would still be in exactly the position we are now: dismissed as a vocal minority, and told that there is no going back.
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