SC - NRW Feast Recap - costing issue

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear commented:
> 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.

For more details on this and how its done in different kingdoms, take a
look at this file in the SCA-INC section of my files:
travel-funds-msg   (7K)  4/14/00    Kingdom travel funds.
  (Ummm. Well, not as big as I remembered but...)
 
> 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.

This matches my thoughts. I feel the Crown is forced to do a lot more, 
although both the Crown and the entourage volunteered for the work and
the 
expenses involved. Nothing says the same entourage folks must be at an 
event week after week. That's not so with the Crown.
crown-cost-msg    (24K)  4/20/00    The monetary and other costs of
being a  
                                       crown in the SCA.

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THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
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