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At 01:30 PM 10/30/2003 -0600, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>GREETINGS<br>
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PLEASE READ A WAIVER FORM AT YOUR EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY.... THE SCA
DOES
</font><font size=2 color="#FF0000">NOT</font><font size=2> PROVIDE
INSURANCE ... FOR PERSON OR PROPERTY , YOU ACCEPT ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
THOSE DAMAGES WHEN YOU SIGN A WAIVER ..<br>
<br>
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 ..<br>
ALTHOUGH , I NEVER KNEW IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE TO HAVE 22 PEOPLE
SIGN THE SAME SHEET OF PAPER ..<br>
BE SAFE, BE HAPPY , HAVE FUN <br>
LD.BLACKMOON</font></blockquote><br><br>
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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.<br><br>
Sir Burke<br>
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