[MR] The whole surcharge thingee

[Neca D Johnson]

2.) I need a bit of confirmation because my memory is a bit fuzzy and I
don't usually trust it anyways. During the Minister of Youth meeting at
Pennsic I believe it was stated that under Atlantian rules the member
discount/surcharge is not valid for minors. In other words non member minors
paid the same price as member minors. However, the Corporate fee will be
enacted for people of all ages. So if family that has 4 children attends an
event had to pay $12 more than for their children? This seems really unfair
to those families that use the SCA as an educational experience and only go
to one or two events a year. Can anyone tell me if this is true.


>>> I am on the SCA exchequers list and I can tell you this is not true.
Tetchubah (the society excehquer) put out on the list 2 days ago that the
specific implemetation has not been decided.  Whether this will be applied to
minors is not known.  Whether we can give an exemption for a person's first
event (to give them a chance to try it out) is not known.

3.) I disagree with the surcharge. Three and half years ago when I joined
the SCA is was still in college. I could not afford the membership. I only
offically joined so that I could become a officer for the group. Three
positions and two event Autocrated later, with two more to come, I am still
a member. However if I had attended my first event and was told that since I
was a newbie I would have to pay extra for something I wasn't sure I would
like anyways, I would have most likely not joined. Sometimes the amount of
paid members in the group is the amount of officers in the group. With all
the other organizations on campus, both extra curricular and academic out
there, college members monies are slim.
Sean Pearson

>>>> Currently Meridies has a non-member surcharge policy, but it is waived for
a newcomer's first event.  That gives someone an opportunity to check out the
SCA first.


The NMS is in, but the details have not yet been worked out.
Neca, exchequer Crois Brigte