[MR] Non-Member Surcharge

[Craig Levin]

Athalwolf:
 
> Hi all,
> couple questions:
> the BOD can't give an actual cost for publishing the
> TI?
 
 Actually, if you look at:
 
 http://www.sca.org/officers/treasurer/2002budget.html
 
 You'll find that the costs over the last couple of years for
 producing TI are laid out. It comes to a little more than $3.50
 per person per annum. The real big-ticket items are the corporate
 office expenses (like payroll) and the kingdom newsletters.
 
> in all the companies i know of or have been in, if you
> pay someone a salary THAT PERSON WORKS FOR YOU,
> are you saying we pay people to dictate to us what the
> laws will be with no real power to appeal?
 
 The BoD is unpaid. They can draw money for certain expenses, but
 that's not wages.
 
> in this time of "draw downs" and "right sizing" maybe
> its time to take AVERY hard look at this "corporation"
> this monster "we" have let grow and say "it's time to
> cut the dead wood".
> the only power we have left is to say "NO, I WILL NOT
> RENEW MY MEMBERSHIP UNTIL CHANGES ARE MADE"
 
 Well, that's one angle.
 
> can we not have an individual in each kingdom stand an
> office and do the same job, with a set society
> charter?
 
 Could you clarify?
 
> that would give more control to the actual members in
> each kingdom then some board that is out of touch and
> has no controls over it.
 
 In principle, each kingdom has an ombudsman on the BoD, a
 different director than one who came from that kingdom,
 typically. That person's expected to be an interlocutor between
 the BoD and the kingdom. However, in the end, if the BoD has its
 heart set on something that a kingdom won't stand for, that
 kingdom's got little recourse short of pressuring the BoD.
 
In Service,
 
Dom Pedro de Alcazar
Barony of Storvik, Atlantia
Drakkar Herald
Argent a tower purpure between 3 bunches of grapes proper

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