[Ansteorra] pay and play

[Harris Mark.S-rsve60]

It's easy to say the BoD should do these things. Implementing such
things can be complicated. The way to get action on these things
is to present the material, not just say someone else should do it
and cast blame when they don't.

If someone thinks that moving the corporate office out of the Bay
Area will save money, and I suspect it should, then they should
research the costs in other likely areas, or get someone in those
areas to, and present that. It would also help if they could also
come up with the costs of moving the office to there. Then the
BoD would have some numbers to work with. The BoD are not a full-time
outfit, nor do they have a paid staff to research such things. Any
help we can give them, the better.

The same goes with the grants. There is probably a lot that a non-BoD
member could do to research this, especially someone who has had
experience writing up grant proposals or knows the procedures. Then
present it to the BoD in a form they can work with.

I think both of your suggestions should be looked into. Perhaps others
along with yourself can form a committee and check out some of this.

Stefan

> Applying for grants, moving the corporate office out of the area with
> some of the highest costing office space in the country, etc are ideas
> that have been suggested to the BoD.  However, there has been no
> comments in the BoD minutes about cutting costs or looking for
> alternative funding.  The BoD is taking the easy way out by just
> charging more money.  The only cost cutting the BoD has done recently
> that I know of is moving responsibility for storing nonmember waivers
> from Corporate to the Kingdoms.  So the kingdoms foot the bill for
> storing waivers for up to 21 years.
>
> Mirrim
>
> Stefan wrote:
> > They have asked several times for input from the membership
> > about what we would like to see done. Did you write them? Are
> > they overlooking an "easy way" out of this situation that you
> > or someone else has suggested that you are aware of? If so, then
> > write them again, or consider other avenues to get it out to
> > the SCA membership. They can't act on something they are
> > unaware of.