[Cynnabar] Cynnabar Baronial Meeting Minutes + Officer Reports - January 22, 2026

[Seneschal Cynnabar via Barony]

Dearest Barony,

Please see below for the minutes from our

Cynnabar Baronial Meeting January 22, 2026 - 7:00 pm - 15 in attendance.
Yours,

Hannah

Baronial Seneschal


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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Baronial

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   SOCIAL MEDIA DEPUTY NEEDED - Looking for a deputy who would be
   interested in taking over the role of social Media officer. Please talk
   with Beth or Hannah about the position if interested
   -

   Budget review meeting to be held post-business meeting after this
   meeting. We’ll review the 2026 budget and spend together as a Financial
   Committee group. While this must include both our Exchequer and Senschal,
   all are also welcome to review and offer input.



NEW BUSINESS:


Spring Revel
Simone will be putting in a formal bit to be the event steward for Spring
Revel.

   -

   Group reviewed potential dates and decided that 4/26 would work best
   -

   She will be asking an Ann Arbor resident to put in the reservation for
   us.
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   In the meantime, we do need to approve a deposit


$175 - deposit only (1 of 3 meetings)



OLD BUSINESS:
Children’s Healing Center (Asa) in Ypsi would like us to do volunteer
activities. They have been reaching out to area groups and businesses to
see how we can collaborate.

   -

   Possible group activity, but we need to get more information
   -

   Nothing new to report as of yet.



Baronial Website
Aeffe (Baronial Webminster) reminds us again that the Baronial website's
refreshed look is coming soon!

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   ALL OFFICERS, please update your pages before the end of January. We
   would like a state of modernity to the content that’s currently being
   shown. Aeffe will be able to help if you need it.
   -

   If you want to get WordPress access to DIY, please reach out to her.
   -

   Please reach out to Aeffe to confirm you’ve looked at things
   -

   We are looking to go live in February.



Grand Day of Tournaments

Update - the deposit was approved last week

   -

   Throckmorten is interested in putting together the event proposal
   -

   I have an updated contract and check written
   -

   Hannah will sign and send this week (done)

EVENTS

Terpischore - (March 27-28, 2026, Westminster Presbyterian Church)  Lead:
Claire (Not present)

   -

   We need a person to run the lunch tavern - reach out to Claire or Hannah
   -

   Set up/Teardown
   -

      Friday evening set up about 6 pm, start 8 am Saturday. Teardown
      downstairs after classes.
      -

   We have the check to reserve the site – that will be sent out tonight
   for their Feb deadline, mailed directly to the church (Finn managing)



St. Cecelia at the Tower - June 27, 2026, Peoples Presbyterian) Lead: Sir
Mieczko (not in attendance)

   -

   Lunch and dinner budgets are fundraisers and will be separate. Jerry is
   interested in putting forth a menu
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   This has been placed on the Kingdom Calendar



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OFFICER REPORTS

Seneschal

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   My report is due on Feb 1st.
   -

   Thank you to Johannes for stepping in while I’ve been traveling
   -

   Finn and I are still working on the event items for new stewards. We
   hope to have this completed by the end of Feb
   -

   We are keeping the Officer report night on the 4th Thursday (or 3rd
   meeting night). As a note when there’s a 5th Thursday.


Exchequer

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   The year-end Domesday report is in to the Kingdom. Our books balance and
   at the end of the year we have $16,581.40 in our account.
   -

   We have a new Exchequer Deputy in the works. Announcement on who once
   finalized.
   -

   As required by Society and Kingdom, we are doing a yearly budget review.
   Information to be published after the meeting this month.
   -

   Pulling trailer update: I was able to get confirmation that those paid
   members that want to help by pulling the Baronial trailer only need a
   normal ‘Deputy - Other Warrant’ and not the full ‘Financial Warrant’. This
   means only our local Seneschal, Exchequer and Baron/Baroness need to
   sign/approve. It does not have to go to Kingdom and Crown for signing. This
   is great news.



Knight Marshal

No injuries reported


There are new marshalate forms for this new year going forward:

https://library.midrealm.org/marshal/


The SCA marshall's handbook has been updated:

https://society-rules.fullmesh.co.nz/index.php/Armored_Combat:Handbook


Val Day is coming up on the 14th of February and is not a TOC, but 3-person
melees.



Rapier Marshal

4-8 people in attendance for practices. We enjoy seeing visitors! No
incidents to report. Now we go fence!



MOAS

   -

   Her Grace, AnneMarie, will be hosting a Bycocket Salon on Feb 5th (First
   Thursday). Hat Blanks are $15. Tools for felting are an additional $2.
   -

   The first Crafting Night was a success! A total of at least 8 people
   were actively working on projects. Some folks were new/relocated. Others
   came and mingled for a while.
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   Poll for February A&S Theme of the Month will be up next week.



Herald

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   Nothing new to report – making on a couple of additions to the OoP – two
   people. I should have everything up to date in a week or less. Pretty much
   caught up.
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   If anyone needs help registering a badge, device, or name, I am willing
   to set some time up. Please reach out


Chatelaine
Very little to report, given both December and January's holiday seasons
(plus our weather) keeping people home. The Children's Healing Center in
Ypsilanti reached out to us with a nebulous suggestion of partnership, and
have been emailed back to get more information about what they were hoping
that would look like. We had one short-term visitor during craft night, and
others who have moved into the Barony have started attending! I have
continued working on my project proposal for our newcomers quest.


Web Minister

   1.

   Created a form for event contact for Terpsichore, "contact the event
   staff".  If we like this I'll create forms for the other events.
   2.

   Restored TE's personal data to the new website.
   3.

   Creating a Google group to replace our email system (we will have to
   have a new email group when we sunset our old hosting).
   4.

   Still need updated pages


Social Media
Nothing new to report

Looking for a deputy



Chroniciler
The officer change-over form was submitted and confirmed received by the
Kingdom Chronicler. I have full access to the email. I have reviewed the
webpage for Chronicler and have no changes that should delay the website
going live. I will get in touch with Aeffe to get an account set up so I
can make my own changes in the future.


This is the first call for the first quarter newsletter! The newsletter
currently goes out quarterly, and the next one is in April. I would love to
have all submissions by April 15th. Please let me know if you are
interested or have any questions.


Excellencies

Winter Revel was fun – looking forward to Val Day. Please put in some
Kingdom Award recommendations.

We are still a barony.


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Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, Jan 29

There will be a class with AnneMarie on Feb 5th.
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