[Steppes] money at gate

[Maeva Beiskaldi]

During the years I was doing waterbearing for Warlord, the gate money
was stashed in the padlocked-shut ice machine by Gate.  Safer than a
car, we thought, and conveniently close.

Maeva


Kevin Black wrote:
> I may not be thinking this through, but if we cannot provide an ATM card
> (which is understandable), how about a safe?  One with enough heft that a
> snatch and grab couldn't carry it off (the average floor safe which you
> could pick up for under a couple of hundred bucks would probably suffice).
> It would require assisted movement of course (such as a cart) when moving
> the cash, but it would be some measure of secured alternative.
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> Hubert d'Aiguës-Mortes
> Qui fait plus, mieux vaux
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>> From: Catherine Sims <arianne_steppes at yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: steppes at ansteorra.org
>> To: steppes at ansteorra.org
>> Subject: Re: [Steppes] money at gate
>> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:01:37 -0700 (PDT)
>>
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>> Speaking as a former treasurer, there is something that should be
>> mentioned
>> here.  The ATM idea is a nice one, for the sake of getting the money
>> deposited ASAP.  Unfortunately, the SCA rules do not allow branches to
>> have
>> an ATM card.  It's just too easy for one person to make unsanctioned
>> withdrawals with an ATM card.  As embezzlements, or more politely,
>> financial embarrassments, happen in more branches around the Known World,
>> the chances of the ATM card becoming a useable tool for depositing gate
>> moneybecome less and less.  An alternate plan that we used at Ansteorran
>> Twentieth Year Celebration was to take the cash and purchase money
>> orders.
>> There is a charge for this, of course, but it makes the gate money less
>> immediately spendable if it fell into the wrong hands.
>>
>> Arianne