[Bryn-gwlad] Board actions

[nweders@mail.utexas.edu]

>  The people who know don't talk, as a rule.  Corpora part X
>(http://sca.org/docs/govdocs.pdf) for Royal Sanctions says "The
>specific cause and occasion of the sanction must be explained in
>writing to the sanctioned individual, but must not be published in the
>kingdom newsletter or otherwise made public."  I'm pretty sure that
>that requirement used to apply to Board sanctions as well, but if so,
>I don't see it in Corpora.  But in any event, they won't talk either.

         The Board doesn't do any original action.  The request for 
Revocation and Denial (R&D)  has always come from the Kingdom who banished 
the individual and they generally uphold the decision.  Any particulars are 
discussed in closed executive session and the formal meeting is held 
Saturday.  You do hear bits and rumors from sitting in the meeting but it's 
nothing I would publically say. (grin).  If you use logic and think, you 
could probably figure out some of it.  I will say that this is the first 
time the Board of Directors have removed any peerage from an individual so 
I imagine it was for something that dishonored the ideals espoused by the 
peerages.
         I went to this Board meeting in Memphis as a guest and found it 
interesting (even the boring bits) not from any political agenda but from 
the fact that these people spend the entire weekend looking at budgets, 
trying to figure out how to make the Corporation work (not the Kingdoms) 
and actually how to fix problems.  It's a big change from when they first 
got started and how they do it now..... it's changed from 5 years 
ago.  Watching them go over the budget line by line and discuss every bit 
of it (that took from 8 in the morning to about 5 in the evening) was very 
enlightening.

         Our Ombudsperson for the Kingdom (Gabrielle Underwood) is very 
cool.  I found every member of the Board friendly, interested in what I had 
to say and serious about trying to do the best they could for the group. If 
you ever have a chance to go to a meeting I would encourage you to do so.



Clare