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Iowa State Association of Counties
2012
Spring School of Instruction
March 15-16, 2012
Des Moines Marriott Downtown
Des Moines, Iowa
Registration and Hotel Reservation
Information and Instructions
 CLICK
HERE TO REGISTER
**Registration and hotel room blocks opened at 8:30 am on
Tuesday, January 10, 2012.
Conference Registration Fees
Advanced registration fee - $130 (February 28, 4:30 pm
pre-registration deadline)
At-the-door registration fee - $150
Additional family/spouse lunch ticket - $25
Non-member
advanced registration fee - $390
(February 28, 4:30 pm pre-registration deadline)
Non-member
at-the-door registration fee - $450
**For assistance with non-member registration, please contact
Tammy Norman at
tnorman@iowacounties.org.
Please pre-register for the
ISAC Spring School of Instruction! This greatly helps the ISAC staff
to plan accordingly for conference meals, refreshments and materials. It
also saves your county money! The last
day to pre-register will be at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, February
28, 2012.
After that date, all registrations must take place on-site in
Des Moines, and you will be charged the at-the-door registration fee
of $150.
Please note that your name
badge is REQUIRED for ALL conference events.
Conference attire is business
dress. Please remember that meeting room temperatures do not feel
the same for everyone. You may want to bring a sweater or jacket
should the meeting room temperature be too cool for you.
Conference Registration Instructions
Here are some key details to
remember when registering and making hotel reservations for the 2012
ISAC Spring School of Instruction. The new registration
process (same process procedures as at previous schools) includes both your conference registration through the
ISAC website and your hotel accommodations through the Iowa Housing
Bureau. Thanks in advance for your understanding of these registration
guidelines, which we believe are beneficial to all our
conference attendees as it gives everyone a fair opportunity to
reserve their conference hotel room.
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Before you are able to reserve a
hotel room, you MUST register for the 2012 ISAC Spring School of
Instruction on the ISAC website. Registration will open at
8:30 am on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. The ISAC online registration
process is the same as previous conferences. Please make sure
that you double check your email address and/or fax number and
hit confirm. You will then be registered for the conference and
emailed/faxed a confirmation.
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After registering for the
2012 ISAC Spring School on the ISAC website, you will receive an
email confirmation from ISAC. This email will include:
confirmation of conference registration; instructions and a link
to reserve your hotel room through the Iowa Housing Bureau with
their 5-digit unique convention ID housing bureau code; and a
10-digit ISAC ID which is mandatory for each individual hotel
room. In addition to your 5-digit unique convention ID and
10-digit ISAC ID, you will need a credit card to make your
reservation. This credit card is to hold your room and will not
be charged unless there is a cancellation fee.
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You may only reserve ONE hotel room
per conference registration and the name on the reservation must
match the name of the meeting registration made on the ISAC
website. You are more than welcome to share a double room with
another conference attendee. Please have only one of the two
individuals who would like to share a room request a double room
through the Iowa Housing Bureau. If you are registering more
than one individual in your county, you will need to register
and make each hotel reservation individually, but may use the
same credit card. This is a first come, first served
registration process.
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In addition to the conference room
block at the Des Moines Marriott Downtown, there are room blocks at the
Renaissance Savery, Holiday Inn Downtown
and Embassy Suites on the River. To receive the special ISAC
conference rates and services, all conference hotel
accommodations must be reserved through the Iowa Housing
Bureau’s online system after registering for the conference and
before Friday, February 17, 4:30 pm.
Click here for hotel
accommodations and more information.
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Des Moines Marriott
Downtown ($105/night plus taxes)
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Renaissance Savery
Hotel ($96/night plus taxes)
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Holiday Inn Downtown
($94.95/night plus taxes)
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Embassy Suites on the
River ($169/night plus taxes for single or double.)
**Rate includes complimentary breakfast buffet each morning
and complimentary manager's reception every night from 5:30
pm - 7:30 pm.
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Please DO NOT call any of
the ISAC conference hotels to reserve your hotel
accommodations. Hotel room reservations made at ISAC conference
hotels will NOT be valid if you call to reserve a room or
reserve a room on the hotel website. You MUST go through the
Iowa Housing Bureau after registering for the conference to
reserve a hotel room.
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After registering for a
hotel room through the Iowa Housing Bureau’s online system, you
will receive an acknowledgement email by the next business day from the
Iowa Housing Bureau. This acknowledgement email will contain
your hotel location, room type/rate, arrival and departure
dates, and credit card information. This hotel reservation
acknowledgement from the Iowa Housing Bureau confirms your
sleeping room for the conference. Closer to the conference date
the hotel (that you selected during registration and that is
listed on your acknowledgement email) will send you a hotel
confirmation number. Thus, you are receiving two hotel
confirmations; one from the housing bureau at the time of
registration and one from the hotel prior to the conference.
***If you DO NOT
receive an acknowledgement email from the Iowa Housing Bureau within
a business day of making your hotel reservation online, please contact
them promptly at the 800.451.2625. Please also be
sure to check your spam folder for their acknowledgement email.
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The ISAC
conference room blocks will only be available until 4:30 pm on
Friday, February 17.
After this date, the ISAC conference room blocks will be closed
and the special conference rates will be unavailable. If you
have to make a change or cancellation to your hotel
accommodations prior to Friday, February 17, please contact the
Iowa Housing Bureau directly at 800.451.2625.
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The ISAC
conference hotels will receive the reservation lists from the
Iowa Housing Bureau beginning on Monday, February 20. The hotel of your
choice will send a confirmation number to confirm receipt of
your reservation. On Tuesday, February 21, you may contact the
hotel directly for any changes to your reservation. You
must call the hotel directly if you decide to cancel or change
your room reservation prior to or during the conference.
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Please
remember that there is an ISAC Hotel Cancellation Policy and it
will be in effect for the 2012 ISAC Spring School of
Instruction. No cancellations will be accepted and no refunds
will be given after Tuesday, February 21. If you choose
to cancel your hotel reservation, you will be charged a
cancellation fee, which is one night’s lodging plus taxes to the
credit card on file. Name changes on guest room reservations
will be accepted.
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ISAC will
assist in securing the hotel reservations for the following
people: ISAC board of directors, ISAC past presidents, affiliate
presidents, CCMS board of directors, CRIS board of directors and
individuals with disabilities. For those individuals with
disabilities, ISAC will require you to provide a medical note
stating that you have a disability which requires you to stay at
the conference hotel. According to the ISAC Board of Directors
policy, all other county officials are responsible for making
their own room reservations.
If you have any
questions regarding the registration and reservation process, please
don’t hesitate to contact ISAC at 515.244.7181.
For further questions contact Stacy Horner at 515.244.7181 or
shorner@iowacounties.org. |
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