[MR] NonMember Charges

[Nicholas S. Malone]

Its really not as complicated as it seems. Set your site fee assuming 
that everyone is a member ($x.xx) everyone without a card pays 
$x.xx+$3.00. The extra $3.00 goes to Milpitas. My daughter often makes 
things more complicated than they are because she doesn't want to deal 
with it. The proper way to protest this back door Pay-to-play move is by 
complaining directly to the BOD. It would help if your complaint / 
protest also includes some alternative income stream to replace the 
$3.00 NMS. Actually I supported Pay to play back when it got the Whole 
BOD Lynched. A committed , paying and trackable membership is one 
element we need if we want to join the world community of historic - 
educational organizations, or we can decide against and join the RPGA.

Gorm Of Berra wrote:

> I am asking this question not in my capacity as a Herald, but as a private
> citizen who chooses to wonder about something...
> 
> OKay...so now I hear that not only does Atlantian Kingdom Law mandate a $3
> surcharge for Non-SCA members (disguised very thinly as a $3 discount for
> membership) but that the BoD has also instituted a tax on those not willing to
> tithe to Milpitas of $3 as well?
> 
> So how exactly is this supposed to work?  Take the theoretical example of an
> event budgeted as requiring a $10/person site fee to break even.
> 
> Since I know that 75% or more of those attending will be SCA members, and I
> know that the budget requires $10/head, I therefore must set my site fee at
> $13. (Before you say "You're gaming the system", keep in mind that a potential
> autocrat has a fiscal responsibility to his local group to at least attempt to
> break even on event costs, and many site contracts are worded in terms of cost
> per head, regardless of their membership status)
> 
> Do I, as the theoretical autocrat, have to publish this fee structure:
> 
> Site Fee:  $13
> Site Fee for SCA Members:  $10  ($3 Discount per Atlantian Kingdom Law)
> Site Fee for Non-SCA Members:  $16 ($3 Non-Member penalty imposed by the BoD)
> 
> That is, to put it mildly, ludicrous, obviously.
> 
> But what are the alternatives?  I am required to obey both Atlantian Law and
> BoD policy in my event costs, and the way they are worded that is the effect
> that would have to be in place.
> 
> Alternatively, is Atlantian Law being changed?
> 
> And what is the effect on those events that, through fortunate relationships
> with their site, do not have to charge a site fee?  Do we still have to
> collect $3 per non-member head?
> 
> What of "demos" (such as the annual Highland River Melees) which are published
> in the Acorn, thereby making them technically events.  Do they have to tell
> those we are hoping to recruit "IF you want to see what we do, I have to get
> $3 from you?"
> 
> I find it amazing in reading through the most recent financial statements
> published in the TI's that the Board's budget is out of balance, but if you
> add up all of the assets owned by the subgroups of the SCA, the SCA is making
> money (not necessarily hand over fist, but a positive number is better than a
> negative).  It's just the SCA, Inc. that is losing...
> 
> I won't make the obvious point that the decentralized decisionmaking at the
> local levelts appears to be succeeding while the overreaching, seen as out of
> touch monolith is failing...it'd be too easy.
> 
> Alan MacNeill
> 
> (All Gorm knows is that if the ship comes back with more loot than it left
> with, the pillaging was successful)
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