[LMNA] Fwd: Resident Passes for Football Games - HELP

[Thomas Boyd]

Donna,
     You're certainly welcome. Sounds like the University responded with a
working plan. It's too bad that the first plan was not very well thought
out as to the effect it had on the part of the neighbors.But maybe the UVa
authorities will remember this consideration in the future.I'd like to
think so.And I think we in the neighborhood should consider what the UVa
staff is going through,as the Fall semester begins ( I like to think of it
as,"the circus returns to town...! )
     On a personal note,I want to say that I do understand the strain of
the extra traffic and people sometime puts on the neighborhood.My wife and
I have to pick up trash,including cigarette butts,cans,and food
trash,cups,etc, thrown out of cars and passers-by..This as well as a few
hours of not being able to drive easily on our streets. But luckily this is
a small price to pay for living here.
     I am a native of what you called,"our lovely town",and began my life
in this very neighborhood.I am a graduate of UVa,and my family has been
associated personally and professionally with the University for over 100
years. It was never a 9 to 5 job,but a much bigger part of our lives,as are
our neighbors associated with it who spend/spent much of their lives with
the University,including a number of times that were difficult.
      I am glad you expressed your frustration,and I am glad it has worked
out for you.And I hope all is going well for you at the University as well.
Let me know if we can help you as your neighbors.

  Sincerely,
  Tom Boyd





On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Donna Sy <donna.a.c.sy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Mr. Boyd,
>
> Thank you for your kind offer. I appreciate it very much, but I believe
> that the responsibility for distributing these passes should remain with
> the department responsible for causing the traffic problem and bringing in
> large numbers of people to our neighborhood who are not residents of our
> lovely town, and who have little incentive to behave in a neighborly
> fashion. I spend enough of my waking hours working at the university that I
> feel little obligation to donate any more of my personal time, or that of
> my neighbors by proxy, to the cause of UVA Athletics.
>
> I am glad to report that Alli Slater, Director of Facilities and
> Operations, Athletics, University of Virginia (434-982-5775 phone,
> 724-388-4346 cell, email allislater at virginia.edu), has informed me that
> passes for my household will be delivered to me by the end of the day on
> Thursday. I hope that anyone else who has scheduling or mobility issues
> that make it difficult to make a special trip out to pick up these passes
> will not hesitate to request similar service from Athletics.
>
> Best regards,
> Donna Sy
>
> > On Aug 28, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Thomas Boyd <tboydsails at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mrs Sy,
> >     Sorry that this has become such an inconvenience for you. I will be
> going over to the U Hall office tomorrow (Tuesday) to pick up my passes. I
> have found the ladies there to be very friendly. If it would help you,I can
> pick up your passes as well,if they will let me,and deliver them to you. Or
> I can give you a ride over. I live on the corner of Alderman and
> Kent,across from Lewis Mt Rd.
> >      I think that if we all work at it,we can make this new process
> work,or evolve. Same principle applies to many of the issues in our lovely
> town.
> > Sincerely, Tom Boyd
>
>
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