[Cynnabar] BoC - Settlement funding discussion

[Greg Less]

The seneschal, Baron, and Baroness of our group have passed along a request
of our King and Queen.

The King and Queen are responding to a directive from the Society Board of
Directors.

The Society Board of Directors are responding to a directive from a judge
of the United States.


We are lucky that we are being given the opportunity to discuss this at
all. Many other groups in the Known World convened an emergency council and
simply wrote a check without ever talking to the populace. Some of them for
more than the 18% We are lucky that the Kingdom or even the Society hasn't
simply stepped in and taken the money from our account, since, in the end,
the account is an SCA, Inc account, not a Cynnabar account. Ultimately, if
we don't pay, the court will come in and take our money and possibly our
non-liquid assets too.


Are we discussing whether we should look generous, yeah, of course.
Perception is reality, particularly in a Society based on the medieval mind
set where appearance was everything.


-Gregoire.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Monique Rio <mrio at umich.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Greg Less <greg.less at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 2) We're telling Kingdom and Corporate that it's OK to spring
> >> mandatory payments without a month's notice. DUDE that's not cool. If
> >> they'd told us a month in advance we could have, within policy,
> >> decided as a group to give them more money at the given time.
> >>
> >
> > Actually, we are telling the judge that it is okay to tell us that if we
> > don't give the victims their settlement money by the deadline he set...
> >
>
> I wouldn't know because we haven't had a meeting to discuss it.
>
> I'm not saying we shouldn't give the minimum. I'm not saying we
> shouldn't give more in the future. I'm saying there's no reason (other
> than appearances) why we need to give above and beyond before we've
> gone through due process.
>
> -Jadzia
>
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