[MR] Pennsic 30 Budget

[E L Wimett]

Well, actually, Anarra, it is part of the Pennsic budget which means that 
it IS part of the funding that is run through the SCA.  This expenditure 
should be shown as part of our event-related expenditures on the annual 
report that we make to the Feds.

Being built with Society money, it is technically the property of the 
Society and that raises a lot of questions about maintenance, use by other 
individuals and groups, the contractual situation as it is apparently being 
built on land that the Society does not own and may be permanent in nature 
(as opposed to the court platforms for Great Court which are movable and 
could be relocated to other sites easily), liability and insurance issues, 
etc.

Considering the fact that National has in recent times told a number of 
groups that they are not to have vans or other items that involve liability 
or liability insurance, I wonder whether this was run by the powers that 
be. . .

Alisoun
Quondam War Herald


On Friday, May 04, 2001 4:17 PM, Terry L Neill [SMTP:t_neill at hotmail.com] 
wrote:
>
> >Except that we're a non profit organization and if
> >there is thousands in a group account then I would
> >wonder if it weren't time to lower event fees.  Maybe
> >they didn't need to be as high as they thought.
>
>
> Non-profit doesn't mean the SCA isn't allowed to make a profit.
>
> It merely means that a *person* isn't allowed to profit.
>
> Of course, if an SCA group *does* make a profit, then that leaves the
> question of what the heck to do with it.  Buy spiffy stuff for the group? 

> Produce the group newsletter for free?  Donate to the Kingdom?  Donate to 

> Corporate?  Lower site fees and run a few events at a loss?  Donate to 
the
> Longship Company? (of course!!  :-)
>
> If (that's IF) the $25,000 came from Pennsic profits, then perhaps a look 
at
> the site fee is warranted.  But the rebate would be around $2.50 per 
person,
> at 10,000 attendees per year.  Not much of an over-charging of a site 
fee,
> if so.
>
> Regards!
>
>   - Anarra Karlsdottir
>
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