<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="margin-top:0in"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">September 25, 2017 Barony of Cynnabar Business Meeting Notes</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.8pt;line-height:normal">Journey
of Faith Christian Church, Ann Arbor, MI<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.8pt;line-height:normal">Pre-meeting
workshop 6:30-7:30: 13 attendees<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 22.8pt;line-height:normal">Meeting
7:30- 8:30: 19 attendees <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal">Attending:
Derian, Edonea, Giovanna, Godhit, Aeffe, Claire, Morwen, Hattie, Malachy,
Eadraed, Daeg, Gregoire, Johannes Jadzia, Martin, Ermenrich, Kasha,
Tairdelbach, Hannah<span></span></p>
<h3><u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">Workshop Topic:</span></u><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"> </span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">Service day: bag packing<i><span></span></i></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">We'll spend this week's pre-meeting workshop
having fun packing gift bags with supplies for the church to donate. All materials provided.<span></span></span></h3>
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<h3>Business Meeting began at <span style="color:windowtext">7:30p.m.<span></span></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><b><u>Upcoming Baronial Events
and Demos<span></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:12pt 0in 10pt"><b>Cook’s Symposium October 13, 14 & 15, 2017 </b>St
Paul’s Church of Christ, Saline MI. <b>Baroness
Hannah, Steward. Budget $525; breakeven 66 attendees<span></span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Classes are almost filled in.
There are 28!<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Website continually gets updated
with any other class details as we have them. <span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Still working with Aelfric on the
site access<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Need volunteers for site set up
and clean up -- please see Tairdelbach for information<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Gate shifts are FILLED -- but we
need some kitchen help (making coffee, taking lunch tickets), please<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We have a vendor coming from
Minnesota with COOL POTS to cook in the fire. Check out the event page on
FB for photos<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Hotel block closed 9/28<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Sign up
for Friday night lecture went out last week, 9 signed up so far.
Please be reminded that we'd like to keep this open to out of town guests,
first. The Library has agreed to do another lecture at a later date for
locals if this generates that much interest!<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dinner will be a potluck! Period-esque foods are highly suggested,
contact Baroness Hannah for information on easy go-to period items.<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Sunday will be Brewery Becker
tour at noon. Come and drink
beer! Any number of people can attend,
multiple tours will happen if we have lots of people.<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ad was in the Pale<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Promoting on Facebook all month
(see today's 9/18 Bacon post!)<span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><b>Grand Day of Tournaments- Nov 4, 2017 </b>Liberty
School, Saline MI.<b> Mistress Genoveva
Steward. Budget $2260; breakeven 174 (may change) <span></span></b></p>
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</span></span><b>Site
is reserved. </b>Deposit is not required because we have
been diligent at paying on time. They
will bill us after the event. <span></span></p>
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</span></span>Staff meeting occurred! Everything is going well, setup and teardown
volunteers needed! Please let mistress
Genoveva know. Another staff meeting
will occur in October. <span></span></p>
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</span></span>There will be a vigil (Zuriel)! Parking lot has been resurfaced and
reorganized; more parking spots in front of the building.<span></span></p>
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</span></span>School has confirmed we have three
meeting rooms, for royalty / scribal, meetings, and A&S<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><u>Old Business</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Officer vacancies to be filled:</b><b><span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>Minister
of Youth– Still seeking a Minister of Youth<span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>New
Business</u></b> (includes items
potentially requiring budget outlays)<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b>Cynnabar Ruby Jubilee: </b> Baroness Kasha, $6,250. September 14<sup>th</sup>-16<sup>th</sup>,
2018. <span style="color:red"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span>Break-even is 250; 209 adults if everyone
camps, 313 adults if everyone daytrips Saturday. Fewer if people rent cabins.<span></span></p>
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</span></span>This event is not planned to make
money. Currently expecting $1000 loss
based on attendance projections.<span></span></p>
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</span></span>Event proposal reviewed (see link TBD)<span></span></p>
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</span></span>Site reservation to occur in October
2017. Proposed backup site is Wayne
County Fairgrounds if Cedar Lake falls through.<span></span></p>
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</span></span>Preliminary website up.<span></span></p>
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</span></span>If you
are interested in helping out or taking a staff position please contact
Baroness Kasha<b><u><span></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span>One set of cabins / tent camping area
designated as quiet area<b><u><span></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span>Preliminary map available<b><u><span></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span>No staking in the septic area, this will be
marked<b><u><span></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span>We should very clearly spell out what our
site fee includes<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">The
event proposal was discussed in depth.
Concerns raised included attendance numbers / cost, the size of the
parking areas, and the bundling of food in with the site fee. We will continue to discuss this proposal for
at least an additional week. Second of n
meetings (n ≥ 4)<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Wassail, December 16<sup>th</sup> 2017,
Chelsea fairgrounds,</b> <b>Albina
Gherardi (Bina), $850 (including $200 refundable deposit) </b><span></span></p>
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county fairgrounds as a site, it is in a shared zip code. Date is scheduled (Dec 16<sup>th</sup>), $450
for the day, plus a $200 refundable deposit.
We can still have our Yule fire.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Third
of three meetings</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>APPROVED</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><br></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Lunch Tavern at Grand Day
of Tournaments</b> – <b>$600, Lady
Ilse</b>, $6 a head,<b> </b>break even 100 meals. Similar menu to last year. $500 original proposal, bumped up to $600 by
group, may need to plan to feed more folks since we will have Royalty at the
event. Third of three meetings; adding
a week to get Ilse’s opinion on the increased budget. <span style="color:red"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>New event. Ancient Imaginings: An Exhibition of Modern
Photography - $500 Lady Daye, November 2018, Riverside Art Center, Ypsilanti
MI. </b>Month
long display of SCA photography, plus a wine and cheese reception (date TBD). $200 fee for the show, $275 for wine + cheese
+ napkins, $25 for Informational PR cards to stay at the Riverside Art Center
for the month. Per exchequer handbook,
the group cannot spend funds on wine, except for small amounts for cooking. Could we arrange extra hours for the weekend
of GDoT? Should not plan the have the
gala too close to GDoT. Shipping details
to be figured out. Third of three
meetings<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>APPROVED<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>School year has started
again!</b> Lady Harriet of
Cynnabar. Fest of fall was last Friday, thank you to everyone who contributed
time and stuff. We got 48 new signups!
We would like to hold a small demo for the new students. October 8th, 12pm-4pm. Pizza and videos provided by the student group
account. Look for an announcement on
Facebook. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Ypsi GLOW, community
unity event / parade / block party, Friday October 27<sup>th</sup>.</b> Lady Edona –
do we want to do a demo at this event?
We could do a parade + table with information. There are also workshops every Sunday
afternoon in October 11am-3pm. Follow-up
meeting with event organizer scheduled. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;line-height:normal"><b><u>Status
check on approved budget items<span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;line-height:normal"><b>Lunch
tavern at cook’s symposium, Baroness Hannah for Renaude de Lunay, $425<u><span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dame Ursula / Lord Eadraed, Heralds. $100
($36 disbursed 11/21/16, $32 disbursed 2/20/17, $16 disbursed 7/10/17) $26
remains to be spent. </b>Lord Eadraed
reported that the registration process is continuing.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in">First
batch of items have gone through, three order names accepted, Elephant’s tusk
is pending<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><u>Announcements</u></b><b><u> & Group Discussion<span></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>OFFICER
REPORTS<span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Min A&S (Aeffe)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> – <span></span></span></p>
Working with Mistress Genoveva to come up with an A&S tournament at GDoT.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Chronicler (Godhit)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> – <span></span></span></p>
Fall Citadel is in production.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Exchequer (Jadwiga)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> – <span></span></span></p>
Sent in report for August, updating it with new information. New project is determining yearly expenses.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Herald (Eadraed)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> – <span></span></span></p>
Lots of people in the Barony have received awards in the last few months. Purple pretty for camp staff, purple fret for Kasha, dragon’s tooth for Harkin, Finn made court baron, Moneyer’s guild got purple pretty, scribes got a royal augmentation of arms of a golden quill (six or seven in Cynnabar, see the list online). Dame Ursula has been spearheading the awards and orders registration, working on device designs. Report due at the end of the month, will be submitted this week. Herald’s nights starting up again next Monday at Derian & Ursula’s, starting at 7:30. Potluck as before.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Knight Marshal (Zygmunt)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> – <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We
are still looking into a fighting site for the winter. Hjorleif has a line on a
place. Not getting a lot of feedback
from the potential site, please start looking for a winter practice site!<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Fencing Marshal (William) </span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">– <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No
report<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Chatelaine (Edonea)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> – <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Currently
restructuring pamphlet design, we ran out of materials that were printed during
the summer, will be reprinting more soon.
Have been scouting new demo opportunities.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Webminister (Aaron) <span></span></span></u></p>
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All relevant parties are now in agreement that we CAN post group images to the
web site so long as we have permission (i.e. a release form) from the
photographer. We do NOT need individual model releases for group photos.<span></span></p>
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I revised the text on the Armored Combat/Knight Marshal page at Malachy's
suggestion to make it more outward facing and in particular to make it more
clear what newcomers should expect.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Seneschal (Derian)<span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="line-height:115%">New meeting site seems to be working
out fairly well; I have received lots of positive feedback on the location. We need event stewards for our spring events,
please consider volunteering.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Baron and Baroness (Kasha and
Ermenrich)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> – <span></span></span></p>
We are going to crown tournament and will be swearing fealty there. We will be sending bi-annual state of the barony report within next few days. If you have anything that should be included please drop them a line. HRM will be at Cook’s symposium, do not know if there will be court yet. Please put in award recommendations for both cook’s symposium and GDoT. Baronial court may be held at one of those events depending on what their majesties do. We are still a barony.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b>Announcement/Reminder: Wassail & 2018 events: </b>It's time to start
thinking about Wassail! We need to reserve the site at Chelsea if we want
it. We need a date and a reservation. Also Terpsichore and St.
Cecilia need to be placed on the calendar. Wassail is a good event to try
out being an event steward. <span></span></p>
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Now is the time to start working on your prizes for Grand Day of Tournaments! If you are going to make something by hand, start now! If you can get pictures of your donation, they can be very effective publicity for the event.<br><br> <br><br>Claire: baronial directory? We talked about this about a year ago, there seemed little interest in updating this. Do we want to do this again? We would need to talk about what information we collect, where it would be displayed (printed only?), etc.<br><br> <br><br>Johannes: student group at EMU has been established! Five members have signed up!<br><br> <br><br>Alanna – official count for Canton demo, about 90! Seems like more than last year. Six new email addresses.<br><br> <br><br>Hannah – The Barony’s scribal guild will be meeting at Hannah and Tairdelbach’s on oct 23rd , at least five hours.<br><br> <br><br>Forester Godhit: Closing of the range is probably not happening this year due to a highly compressed schedule in the fall. <br><br> <br><br>HRM has posted a number of things regarding events during Their reign. A&S faires are undergoing significant changes; check out the new rules in the Pale or the Midrealm gazette.<br><br> <pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Meeting ended: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">8:57 p.m.<span></span></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span> </span></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">[Next Meeting: Monday October 9<sup>th</sup>, 2017, at Journey of Faith church in Ann Arbor]<span></span></span></pre></div>