[Northkeep] Demos (and some rhetorical questions...)

[Burke McCrory]

At 01:30 PM 10/30/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>GREETINGS
>
>PLEASE READ A WAIVER FORM AT YOUR EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY.... THE SCA 
>DOES   NOT PROVIDE INSURANCE ... FOR PERSON OR PROPERTY , YOU ACCEPT ALL 
>RESPONSIBILITY FOR THOSE DAMAGES WHEN YOU SIGN A WAIVER ..
>
>TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE , THE " NON MEMBER SURCHARGE " WAS SUPPOSEDLY 
>INSTITUTED TO OFF SET THE COST OF " ALL THE PAPERWORK " INVOLVED IN 
>LETTING THEM ATTEND ..
>ALTHOUGH  , I  NEVER KNEW IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE TO HAVE 22 PEOPLE SIGN THE 
>SAME SHEET OF PAPER ..
>BE SAFE, BE HAPPY , HAVE FUN
>LD.BLACKMOON



The SCA has to provide liability insurance for the organization, so that we 
can get sites and officers can do their jobs.  This costs money.  That 
money comes from people's membership fees.  Your membership also covers the 
cost of running the national office in California and your subscription to 
your kingdom newsletter.  These costs do not change, no matter how many 
people come to events or are paid members.  After a number of years where 
the costs to do business went up, but membership fees did not, something 
had to be done.  The Board spent over two years talking with kingdoms, 
officers, people in general and finally decided to make a significant 
change in the structure of membership.  The national newsletter (TI) was 
unbundled from your membership and made an optional item.  The money that 
was freed up by this move was given to the Kingdom newsletters who had been 
loosing money for several years.  To help cover the increased costs of 
insurance and such, the Board decided to tap those people who come to 
events but do not currently pay to help cover the costs (ie non 
members).  You can look at it as a non-member surcharge or a membership 
discount, they are exactly the same thing.  The waiver is a legal 
requirement that we have had for over two decades, it is not new.  If more 
people become members then the non-member surcharge may be dropped of 
reduced.  Either way, I personally prefer taping the non-members to a 
prince increase in memberships.

Sir Burke
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