[MR] Fwd: [Announcements] Membership Fees --- sca-east Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

[David Chessler]

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    Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:08:53 -0500
    From: "Chris Fraser" <defrisselle at gmail.com>
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    Subject: [Announcements] Membership Fees
    Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:55:57 -0500
   
   
   
    Due to extraordinary legal expenses from an ongoing lawsuit, the SCA has
    determined that our best option is to raise membership fees in most
    classes by $8.00, effective January 1, 2011. Family membership rates will
    not increase, although the family cap for memberships will be raised by
    $5.00 effective the same time.
   
   
   
    When we indicated in 2009 that membership fees would raise gradually over
    the next three years, we were not fully aware of the extent and impact of
    the legal fees required to defend our organization. Earlier this year we
    received a realistic projection for legal expenses through 2011. We are
    committed to protecting not only the SCA Inc., but the assets of every
SCA
    group. This lawsuit may go on for additional years and cost-cutting alone
    will not be sufficient.
   
   
   
    We are formulating a plan to get the SCA back on track and are selecting
    options to restructure our operating business model. One option is a move
    to electronic kingdom newsletters with a print-on-demand option for those
    who would like to get their version in hardcopy. With these changes,
there
    are many details to consider
   
    including: legal issues surrounding the fulfillment of our current
    subscription liability; the development of an electronic publishing
    framework for use by kingdom chroniclers that supports both
web-publishing
    and print-on-demand; writing relevant changes to governing documents,
    officer handbooks, and kingdom procedures; and making dramatic
programming
    changes to the SCA website and corporate systems.
   
    The current migration of corporate and Society officer email addresses to
    a more robust infrastructure is a step in this direction.
   
   
   
    It is our hope that as financial circumstances evolve we will be able to
    re-evaluate the entire membership fee structure once the effectiveness of
    the restructured business model can be determined. This would include
    evaluating the necessity of collecting NMS as well as potential
reductions
    in membership fees.
   
   
   
    There will be many stages in this process where feedback will be needed
    and solicited. We want to be completely transparent with any changes that
    will be made, and will share details as they become available. As every
    year, the budget will be posted on the SCA website as soon as it is
    approved for your review. Our job is to keep you as fully informed as
    possible and in that spirit we welcome any and all questions and
comments.
    For the moment, please submit questions and comments through
    comments at sca.org.
   
   
   
    Finally, this process will be very difficult and take many months to
    complete, so please bear with us. During this time, Board members will be
    attempting to attend as many events as possible to be available to answer
    your questions.
   
   
   
    The SCA Board of Directors
    --
    Chris Fraser ICQ:13329852 Skype: defrisselle argo at twcny.rr.com Amiga,
When
    Computing was Fun! http://www.amiga.org http://www.aros-exec.org Seigneur
    Christophe de Frisselle, Armie nord, Proie devrait savoir quand c'est
    proie. SCA/East/Northern Region/Northern Outpost
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scaoutpost
   
   
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