<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font face="Arial" size="3">I'm good with keeping it simple as well. I just want to make certain that if we give over the amount required that we are doing so out of </font><font face="Arial">generosity</font><font face="Arial" size="3"> of spirit rather than to address a problem that may not even exist.</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; ">Maragarete<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Dennis Higgins" <mortisfan@comcast.net><br><b>To: </b>barony@cynnabar.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:39:14 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Cynnabar] BoC - Settlement funding discussion<br><br>Personally, I feel that while it would be great to try to figure out<br>where/how our generosity could go directly to other groups that may need the<br>help and/or not be able to support the 18%, the logistics of trying to do<br>that considering the timeframe is untenable. <br><br>I prefer to keep this simple. Let's determine if Cynnabar is willing to<br>support the settlement debt of the SCA. Period. Anything else, helping other<br>groups, fundraising to replenish Cynnabar coffers and/or Kingdom coffers,<br>helping other groups, should be done as a separate initiative and NOT<br>(directly) tied into the funds we need to hand over on Saturday.<br><br>-Finn<br>(not as seneschal but as populace member)<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: barony-bounces@cynnabar.org [mailto:barony-bounces@cynnabar.org] On<br>Behalf Of Malachy von Ulm<br>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 1:28 PM<br>To: rufquad@comcast.net<br>Cc: barony@cynnabar.org<br>Subject: Re: [Cynnabar] BoC - Settlement funding discussion<br><br>A somewhat orthogonal question/observation, since I know we have Kingdom<br>level people on list.<br><br>On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:54:31PM +0000, rufquad@comcast.net wrote:<br>> The suggestion for giving more than our required amount appears to be<br>based on other local groups potentially being in a financial bind. Before we<br>give additional money on this premise, I would like to see that need<br>confirmed. Perhaps we could do some quick checking with some of the other<br>groups. If we find that our neighbors are going to come up short, then would<br>it be possible to make a contribution directly to them or pay what they can<br>not? <br><br>If the real problem people are concerned about is whether or not some<br>groups would be driven into a tight financial situation, perhaps a solution<br>is a regional or kingdom level pool for bootstrapping events. While I only<br>had the finances of Hawkland Moor to use as a point of comparison, the group<br>for the most part needed relatively small amounts of cash for non-events.<br>Most of the cash was dedicated toward boostrapping costs for an event and<br>needed to cover cases where turnout was much lower than expected.<br><br>Has any such thing been considered?<br><br>-- <br>Malachy<br><br>"Ancient nightmares. Archaic legends. Enigmatic dreams. All of it is true."<br>Abney Park - All the Myths are True.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Barony mailing list<br>Barony@cynnabar.org<br>http://lists.cynnabar.org/listinfo/barony<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Barony mailing list<br>Barony@cynnabar.org<br>http://lists.cynnabar.org/listinfo/barony<br></div></div></body></html>