[MR] lowering event fees

[Maymunah al Siqilliyah]

Very good point.  Also, almost all events provide discounts for minors, 
and many allow younger children to attend for free.  This you CAN budget 
because you have numbers from previous events to tell you how many 
minors attended, so you can estimate.  And, this provides the sort of 
relief that a family cap provides without the budgeting headache.



On 6/22/2010 5:34 PM, Jim wrote:
> Just to play devil's advocate, there's one thing I learned from sitting in on event budgeting meetings when I was part of our barony's financial committee.  That family caps, while they sound nice to begin with, are a budgeting nightmare.  As several folks have pointed out in this thread, everything that goes into the event budget ends up being divided up "per capita" based on estimated attendance to arrive at the event fees.  Once you throw in a "family cap", your planning numbers start getting really complicated, because now you have to start making allowances for how many people are going to attend that are not going to be paying, and trying to guesstimate that is the next best thing to impossible.
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> Just food for thought,
> Mathias
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> --- On Tue, 6/22/10, nualaofneedwood at aol.com<nualaofneedwood at aol.com>  wrote:
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> As a relatively new sca family (6 years) with two adults and five children between us (although only two of the kids regularly play locally) we obviously like the "family cap" on site fees and think that's a really nice and effective thing to do to encourage the next generation of scadians.
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