[Ansteorra] The original complaint filed.

[Rose]

The problem with dividing costs is that you'd have to do it for everyone. How much do fighting activities cost? Surely more than art activities. You don't want to pay for my kiddos, I understand. I don't want to pay for your martial activities. Then we have a gate where you're charged based on what you're planning on doing (or what you claim you're planning on doing) and it all goes pear-shaped. As for the MoC position, it's never been a required position. You're free to skip on that office and those activities. Of course, I've found that the people generally filling those offices are parents themselves, so I don't know what we'd save, aside from that $2,500 a year.


I see your point about the costs of the lawsuit, but I disagree with placing this lawsuit on the heads of children. Remember, this lawsuit wasn't about children's activities. It was about the inaction of our adults. Instead, it should be placed on our legal counsel, who didn't see this coming after it came for everyone else and didn't heed many, many warnings about our honeypot of a corporate organization, and everyone who was content to allow our legal counsel to do nothing. Which is almost all of us.


 
-Rose

 
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> From: Cionaodh O'Hosey <CionaodhOHosey at verizon.net>
>To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 7:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] The original complaint filed.
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>My intention has never been an adult only SCA, but rather to be honest about the expense and manpower requirements required to be a "family friendly" SCA. I know such talks are never popular with "I want it all for nothing" types but is necessary for our survival. I have been trying to express the fact that transferring the costs involved in serving non-underage participants to the adult participants can become a barrier to some of those adults playing.
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>For instance what would people say if it was pointed out that $3.00 of every event fee was to pay for the expenses involved with having underage participants. (at $3.00 a head times 20,000 people attending in one year we can pay off just our share of the settlement, not to mention all the other costs involved)
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>For instance is it true the Kingdom pays for part of the background checks? How much is that running every year? How is that money raised, oh yes, from all of us.
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>From a local group level the MoC position is always the hardest to fill, it is the most demanding job we have in a lot of ways and gets harder every day, what do we do if we can't fill that position any more?
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>The Idea of adult only events is interesting and sounds fun but does not reduce the costs in money or manpower required to serve underage participants.
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>Cionaodh O'Hosey
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