[Ponte Alto] The indoor site proposal

[cunian@citlink.net]

Greetings to the Barony of Ponte Alto,

I would hope, personally, that being able to continue the building and  
improvement of our Baronial force's skills would be of at least  
similar moment as a well-painted fence.  Sunday practices are useful  
to us in several ways which cannot be covered by Thursday night  
practices alone. Many fighters perforce get to Thursday nights late  
due to work schedules and have perhaps a bare hour of practice time.  
Also because of the basketball schedule, we have no access to the gym  
on Thursday nights at this time of year and must make do with the much  
smaller cafeteria which is not conducive to melee practice.

If the consequence of not considering this an "emergency" is the clear  
loss of 1/2 to 1/3 of the time period for which it is needed, that  
consequence is clearly a substantial loss.

Alternatively - there apparently being no business meeting at all this  
month, doubless due to the holiday - could perhaps a virtual business  
meeting be held?  I would more than happily send a membership card  
scan along with my vote.  I have no idea what rules this would  
violate, so please be gentle with my proposal made only in the hope  
that something could make this work out for January.

I will be more than happy to put forth our family's full donation in  
advance if this would reassure people that we are, in fact, fully  
committed to supporting this venture.

Yours,
Cunen Beornhelm, called Cunian, OL

Quoting Lady Millicent Chandler <millicent.chandler at gmail.com>:

> Greetings to the Barony of Ponte Alto,
>
> I think the proposal for using the Lemon Road Elementary School for
> Sunday gatherings is a fantastic idea and I hope that the members of
> the Barony decide to take advantage of this opportunity. I urge the
> Baronial members who proposed this activity two days ago to bring an
> official proposal to the January 27, 2008 business meeting so that the
> Barony can take a financial vote. (Be sure to bring your membership
> card as only paid SCA members over the age of 18 are allowed to vote
> on finances per Baronial Financial Policy.)
>
> The Emergency Financial Committee votes for expenditures when there is
> an immediate need for capital. For example: we ran out of paint while
> painting the list fence last year and took a quick vote to approve
> more money so that the fence wouldn't go back into storage half done.
> Another example would be if we lost an event site shortly before an
> event and needed to approve funding for another site. We currently
> have a practice space for Thursday nights which does not appear to be
> going away. This proposed Sunday practice is a bonus and, as such,
> does not constitute an emergency.
>
> I may appear a killjoy; however, I have a responsibility for looking
> after the Barony's financial well-being and I must follow certain
> rules for approving expenditures. Again, I urge the members who
> brought this offer to the Barony to please bring a proposal to next
> month's business meeting so that the Barony can vote upon it then.
>
> In service,
>
> Lady Millicent Chandler
> Chancellor of the Exchequer
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