[Ansteorra] Corporate Budget (WAS: Travel)

[Haraldr Bassi]

Hello Rose,

To be fair, the corporate office budget includes the expenses of printing and distributing 
membership cards and renewals (circa 70k). In addition this year there is a massive increase in 
legal fees budgeted (from 30k in 2009 to 221k budgeted and sitting at 243k actual thru Nov 
2011), which almost by itself is responsible for the corporate office moving from circa 700k in 
2009 to over 1 million already by Nov 2011.

The current budget, which shows actual values for the prior years back to 2001 is at:

http://sca.org/officers/treasurer/2011budget.xlsx

Haraldr Bassi
(frmr chair of the SCA Budget Review Committee)




On 2/3/12 9:32 PM, Rose wrote:
> "Honestly I am not really sure what the dues go to other than allowing
> you to be a marshal or an officer. I thought it was for liability
> insurance... If someone knows please let the rest of us know what the
> dues go to. -Dante"
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> A [very] rough view of what we spend:
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> Twenty thousand on Society Officer Expenses, mostly office and travel.
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> Seventy thousand on BoD expenses, mostly travel costs.
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> Over one million dollars on Corporate Office expenses, including salaries, stipends, payroll taxes, employee benefits, rent, utilities, telephone, office supplies, printing expenses, bank fees, corporate licensing, property tax, legal services, background checks, computer stuff, accounting, and insurance. The insurance is less than two hundred thousand of that million bucks.
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> ^^This comment is in no way voicing an opinion on the value/necessity/validity/ect. of these expenses. Just passing on the info.
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> -R the O
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