[Ravensfort] Fwd: [Ansteorra-announce] [Announcements] Announcement Re: Membership

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--- Andrew Smith <riga at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> From: Andrew Smith <riga at ix.netcom.com>
> To: announcements at sca.org
> Subject: [Ansteorra-announce] [Announcements] Announcement Re: Membership
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:18:58 -0700
>
>  
>     Greetings unto the membership of the SCA.
>
> At the Third Quarter 2002 meeting of the SCA Board of Directors, held
> July 20, 2002 in Herndon, VA, the Board acted on the membership
> unbundling/fee increase proposal that has been out for comment.  A total
> of 525 comments were received (a very high response rate in comparison
> to other items for which comment has been requested). No one option got
> a majority, but the most popular ideas were:
>
> 1) removing either Tournaments Illuminated (TI) or both TI and the
> member’s Kingdom newsletter from the basic membership package (33%)
> 2) simply raising fees across the board (31%)
> 3) reinstating the Non-member Surcharge (22%).
>
> It is noteworthy that, despite the Board’s definitive statement that
> “pay-to-play” was not being considered, 11% of the respondents
> specifically said they favored that option.
>
> The Board decided that:
>
> 1. TI will become an optional publication.  The price of a sustaining
> membership will remain US$35 per year, but will no longer include
> TI-those subscriptions will be sold separately. The price of a TI
> subscription will be decided upon after consultation with the editor and
> the Corporate office to determine actual costs--the idea is that it will
> become self-supporting.  Existing memberships will remain unchanged
> (that is, will continue to receive TI) until their expiration date.
> 2. The subscription price for additional publications will increase, as
> will the first-class option price for all newsletters (whether included
> in a membership or as an additional publication)
> 3. The kingdoms will get US$2 more per label per year in stipends.  This
> is in response to the increased costs of producing and mailing the
> newsletters (for example, postage just went up again).
> 4. A nonmember surcharge of US$3 per event per non-member attendee will
> be instituted. These fees will go directly to the Corporation. The
> Society Seneschal and the corporate office will work with the kingdom
> officers on details of implementation.
>
> All of the above items are to go into effect January 1, 2003.  Some
> corresponding change to International memberships will be made in the
> future (hopefully in time to be implemented as of 1 January) but has not
> yet been decided upon by the Board of Directors.
>  
> Respectfully,
>
> Andrew Smith
> Andrew of Riga
> Secretary, SCA Inc.
>
>
> Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
> SCA Inc.
> Box 360789
> Milpitas,  CA 95036
>
> You may also email comments at sca.org or reply to this message.
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