Re: innkeeping: NCBBI New Members

[bbmorri@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU]

The Indiana Bed and Breakfast Association is currently looking into 
allowing inns of greater (more than 14 rooms) size into membership.  OUr 
current law defines B&Bs as having 14 rooms or less.  The State Boad of 
Health would prefer that it bee only 6 rooms.  Currently a B&B can run 
without a restaurant license and serve full breakfast.  That body would 
fight us at the legislative level if we tried to expand legal 
definition.  Beyond that, many of us little bitty B&Bs are afraid of 
losing what little voice we have if our association changed its focus.  
Currently, the majority of B&Bs in Indiana are 6 rooms or less.  And lots 
of us like it this way.  Our next board meeting is Sunday, 7 July.  There 
is sure to be alarge discussion at that meeting on this isssue.  Could 
some of you respond pro and con   to give me some perspective and to help 
us in our decision?  I love this business and have been in it nine 
years.  We haave onlytwo rooms. Our place is occupied almost 250 nights 
per year and we run it as professionally as possible.  Discussions about 
staff leave me cold and envious.  I have been a part of IBBA since its 
first year of operation.  I don't want to be a bleeding deacon about this 
but I do feel like and ambassador for the little guy.  Joan H. Morris, 
The Nuthatch B&B, Indianapolis.