SC - [Fwd: Re: EK: And Speaking of Exchequer Policies...]

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Fwd via the East Kingdom List, from Baron Tibor of Rock Valley,
respected resident Law and Policy wonk, re High Table expenditures 

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[Admantius, feel free to forward this this back to sca-cooks, if you like.]

  It was mentioned that on some level of SCA law, be it some kingdom's or
  Corpora, that in addition to the various policies enacted regarding
  things like event expenditures for alcohol and prizes, there was,
  somewhere, a rule stating that event funds cannot be used to provide
  food for high table when the same food is not being provided for the
  rest of the event attendees.

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  Has anybody heard of any such policy, in any part, or at any level of,
  the SCA?

In a word, no.  It is not in Corpora, G&PD, in any of the Board Minutes I've
read (I haven't read the last one yet), East Kingdom Law or in any
experience I have had.  It could be a local group policy, or even a Kingdom
policy somewhere like that. It's not in the versions of the Society
Exechequers Handbooks that I have read.

Now then...  There are a large series of rules and regulations about a
modern regulations called private inurement.  It is POSSIBLE that
someone is
over-interpreting the regulations of private inurement to High Table.  But
in my personal opinion, this is a mis-interpretation.

Private inurement (to simplify it quite a bit) is when people who are
fiscally responsible for making rules and spending decisions systematically
and methodically direct funds to their personal benefit alone.  So, say we
were a charity that raised money for free books for children: it would
be OK
for that charity to set things up so the Board of Directors kids were just
as eligible for books as everyone else... but not so that their kids (or
they themselves) got preferential treatment.

I would say that, even if the people that sit High Table controlled the
event spending to that level, that one could reasonably argue [1] that
better food for High Table is as much good re-creation as private
inurement.

I think it shows admirable caution, if ill-founded reasoning.

	Tibor

[1] See "Fast and Feast" by Bridget Henische"
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