[MR] Permenant Crown event site

[Alan MacNeill]

Unless something has changed lately...

There is no "Your event needs to give $1500 to the Kingdom, or else no
bid for you!" rule, however, as event profits are split 50/50 between
the hosting group and the Kingdom (note, that is *profits*, not
*gate*, site rental costs and disposable goods used at the event, etc
come out first, what gets split in half is what's left), and the
Kingdom's budget only has event proceeds to fund itself with (aside
from trivial interest income, and a newsletter stipend from Corporate
that doesn't even cover the costs of the Acorn), the notion that the
Kingdom needs to clear a certain profit to keep the books balanced
isn't that far-fetched.

As such, a bid that is budgeted to barely break even if everything
goes well isn't terribly likely to be looked upon favorably if there
is a competing bid that turns a profit for the Kingdom, all else being
equalish.


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Dawn Davis <baronesskisaiya at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am also confused about this $1500.00 profit "rule". I thought that at a previous curia during Logan and Rowan's reign the Kingdom Exchequer explained that all costs and fees of running the event had to be paid first so that no losses would be accrued by the host group and ONLY THEN would a portion of the profit go to the Kingdom. So I kind of though that if you made money, then a portion of that profit went to the kingdom. I did not think that there was a set amount given. So maybe our Kingdom Exchequer can clarify this for all of us who seem to have different interpretations of this.