[Cynnabar] BoC - Settlement funding discussion

Tue Feb 7 16:50:20 UTC 2012

As Finn says, there are many many emails floating around on Exchequer, Seneschal and the Landed Baron/Baroness lists...

Know that as your servants we are doing our best to keep you all informed of what is transpiring in as timely manner as possible.

Hannah

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 From: Dennis Higgins <mortisfan at comcast.net>
To: barony at cynnabar.org 
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Cynnabar] BoC - Settlement funding discussion

Johannes,

There has been further discussions and dissemination of information thru normal chain of commands (i.e. Kingdom officer to regional officer to barony, etc.). We have been given the deadline of this weekend by Kingdom.

-Finn

From:barony-bounces at cynnabar.org [mailto:barony-bounces at cynnabar.org] On Behalf Of John Wilkerson
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 11:43 AM
To: barony at cynnabar.org
Subject: Re: [Cynnabar] BoC - Settlement funding discussion

I'm confused. The announcement I read from their Majesties indicated that kingdom is still exploring fund raising options and have not yet requested groups to donate funds, nor has a deadline been announced. Perhaps I misread the announcement. I would suggest proceeding cautiously and awaiting further word from kingdom.

Our Seneschal has raised some excellent points for discussion.

In any event, I think the Baronial dunk tank should proceed. Perhaps at the spring revel. :)

Johannes

On 2/7/2012 11:30 AM, Randy Asplund wrote: 
To make a fair decision in the amount of time given, it sounds like the only manageable way without a meeting before the deadline is to have someone make up a poll and ask the members for a vote via the poll. It should explain exactly what the money will be used for and under what circumstances it may be paid back. If we don't do at least that much, then it is a financial decision affecting all but being made by a few. 

We've been blind-sided by this with no time to meet and make an informed decision. That is "unfortunate," but this is what we've been given, so let's deal with it with as much foresight and fairness as possible in the amount of time given. I would suggest that if we cannot do this, then the default should be to comply only with what has been asked for. If we need to build the SCA with more money afterwards, then we can still decide to add more funds after we know more about what they will be used for.

RanthulfR

On Feb 7, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Cynnabar Seneschal wrote:

Greetings unto the members of Cynnabar.

As I’m sure most, if not all, of you are aware, there has been a settlement of the lawsuit against the SCA finally. In the end, in order to meet with the settlement, the SCA Inc. is requiring all Kingdoms to contribute 18% of their cash assets. This goes down to the individual group (shire, barony) level. So Cynnabar must contribute 18% of our cash assets to Kingdom which will contribute it to the Society level. This must be done by this weekend (2/11/12) and we will be planning on handing a check at Val Day directly to the Kingdom Exchequer.

As far as what is our cash assets, it is only our checking account that falls into that category, so it makes calculations easy (we have no CDs or any other liquid assets to worry about). Now, here comes the fun part…

The 18% calculation is based on the 2010 Doomsday. Our 12/31/2010 balance is $1840.36 which 18% is $331.26.
However our 2011 balance as of 12/31/2011 is $6447.15, which 18% is $1160.49
So our required obligation is only $331.26.

First, the question of should Cynnabar contribute more to help the Kingdom and SCA in this settlement case?  There are some things to keep in mind when considering this:
-          This is a (hopefully) one time situation and the decision must be made before this weekend. We do not have any meetings before hand so all discussions will be done on-line or in individual phone calls.
-          We have already budgeted $600 to Kingdom (for the shade fly and travel funds). This was done before the settlement announcement. So we are already have funds earmarked for Kingdom.
-          If we contribute more than the 18%, how much more should we?

Second, some individuals have also expressed interest in contributing to the settlement funds. There is an investigation going on right now as the best way to make that happen. As soon as there is more information on how this can happen, we’ll let people know.

I feel that we should try to keep these transactions as simple as possible. Therefore I suggest that:
1.       We determine what amount we will contribute to the settlement by this weekend and that’s what we send as far as monies that go directly to the settlement.
2.       Individual contributions to the settlement should be made directly to Kingdom/SCA (method TBD).
3.       Any fundraisers or means to replenish the funds will be done as “normal” Baronial fundraisers and not tied into the settlement. We can always know why we are doing the fundraiser, but it keeps the records and financial books a lot cleaner. We can always tithe these monies directly to the Kingdom later to help replenish our Kingdom’s coffers.

I think that if we follow the above three guidelines, it will keep things clean and straightforward.

Now, onto the big discussion. How much should we contribute to the settlement? The base 18% of our 2010 numbers ($331.26), or more?

In my opinion, I feel if we contribute the 18% of our 2011 budget ($1160.49), it is more accurate to what the Barony can support to Kingdom and gives more than what is minimally required.

I know that there are some that will feel that we should only give the required amount and others that feel we should help out as much as we can. There will not be 100% agreement on this. But I’m hoping that the clear majority of people will let it be known how the Barony should help out.

All feedback is needed and appreciated. If you feel like you need to express your opinion in person rather than to the group list, feel free to e-mail or call me (before 10:PM) at any time at 610-564-2249.

For more details on the lawsuit, the settlement, and the financial impact this has had on the SCA, please see:http://sca.org/BOD/announcements/settlement.html

Thanks,

Finn
Seneschal, Cynnabar

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