[Sca-cooks] What would you do?

[Terry Decker]

Which is why the Kingdom should require the accounts to be settled and the
event report and financials to be in the mail within one week of the event.

With a month between the prepay deadline and the feast, the funds should
have been available, and with proper planning and budgeting, adequate.  With
the feast money already collected, reimbursement should be immediate upon
presentation of the receipts.

Bear

>For whatever reason the cook did not get the money from the smaller group
>until the evening before the day before the event, and then it was in the
>form of a check that couldn't be cashed until the next day (the day before
>the event). The event had 250-300 people, but not that many signed up for
>feast, so a rough guess would be 75-100 feasters. The prepayment deadline
>was about a month before the feast, but in my experience getting money out
>of some of the local groups can occasionally take awhile (up to weeks).
>
>Cecily