[Steppes] money at gate

[Catalina Damiana Sanabria Rosado de Xerez]

Just so you know while John has been treasurer the money was taken off site
and locked up. The concern is not that any robbers will get a lot of money
but if they think they can, it could lead to someone's getting hurt.


>From: Maeva Beiskaldi <maeva at timecastle.net>
>Reply-To: steppes at ansteorra.org
>To: steppes at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Steppes] money at gate
>Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 01:03:55 -0500
>
>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>Hubert d'Aiguës-Mortes
>>Qui fait plus, mieux vaux
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>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
>
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