SC - NRW Feast Recap - costing issue

[Decker, Terry D.]

Many Kingdoms have a tradition of helping to defray the cost of travel for
the Crowns and in some cases, there are Kingdom accounts to help the Crowns
cover some of the bills.  These are to support the office rather than
benefit specific individuals  Comping Royalty the feast and site is in the
same vein.

Entourage is not an official position of the SCA, Inc., so comping them is
more dubious.  While a case can be made that comping the entourage helps
support the office of the Crown, the situation is more open to abuse and to
be seen as an improper expenditure.

Bear


> Whatever accounting games one plays with the numbers, it all adds up to
> whether people knew the Royals, et al.  were receiving personal enrichment
> without the expenditure of personal funds.  While not a huge sum, and
> certainly below the radar of Corporate NFP statutes, but a meaningful
> question.  Whether the money is deemed gift from the group (which would,
> methinks, require a group decision before the fact and not post hoc) or
> money from the people paying at the gate, someone is gettingpersonal
> enrichment from SCA funds, the more we spend toward that, the closer we
> get to the black side of the grey area.
> 
> pacem er bonum,
> niccolo difrancesco
>