SC - Profit was Opinions?

[Michael Newton]

Has your group considered dropping back to Shire Status? I mean it would be
an option, especially if your teetering on not having the 30 required to be
a barony.

of Course if your kingdom credits your zipcodes with 50 members then I guess
your Chatelaine needs to contact some people.

Thorbjorn
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine Koogler" <ekoogler at chesapeake.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: SC - Profit was Opinions?


> No, dearest Stefan, we don't have a lot of folk in our barony.  We usually
run
> around 25-30...just enough to be legal.  I guess we have more on paper,
but several
> don't play in our group, but rather in other groups or only at the Kingdom
level.
> This makes it difficult.  So, even if every single member of our barony
reserved to
> attend, we would only have 25 or so reservations.   Even if the site fee
were $10,
> that would still only be $250 toward a cost for the site of $325!
>
> Stefan wrote:
>
> But your group is a barony? Wouldn't you have several times that many
>
> > reservations from your baronial members alone? I'd think even in a
> > shire, if the group took a vote and decided they were going to do an
> > event that there would be more than 10 prepaid reservations.
> >
> > I'll admit that I am used to being in a barony with over a hundred paid
> > members, plus the family and non-paying folks. So maybe I've got a
> > skewed idea of things.
>
> So yes, there probably would have been more than ten reservations, but
they hadn't
> come in...and we didn't want to run the risk of going in the "hole"
without the
> funds to cover the overage!
>
> Kiri
>
>
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