October 2012 Meeting Minutes
- Introductions in case of any newcomers
- Welcome Nigel and Richard!
- Officer reports
- Marshal -
- Aleator stepping back into this office
- Practices Mondays and some late Sunday mornings
- moving to indoor site soon for Monday evenings, probably back in the Stock Pavilion if it's available
- Seneschal -
- Aleator stepping down, Roana stepping up on an "interim" basis -- as soon as we have a change of officer form for them to fill out
- Nigel willing to act as Roana's deputy seneschal. Will take a look at the meeting minutes and think about taking them next month, no pressure or anything. :-D
- Huzzah!
- MoAS -
- Spring regional A&S March 2. It's time to think about making something and showing it to people with documentation! (Research papers due Dec. 31)
- Roana - willing to teach a bookbinding class!
- will teach 4 different stitches that can be used to bind pages together
- coming up at the November's A&S meeting this month
- Sofya needs to reserve another meeting for the 5th Thursday in November
- Dena/Lynette: finished her yearly project to test colorfastness of illumination pigments!
- Monthly challenge: Learn something new!
- Cindy: learning about the website.
- Sofya - working on purses and pouches
- Nigel - learned a dance
- Roana - learned how to bind a 14th c. ledger book
- Gerhard - learned how to coerce a friend
- Alise - Al-Gebra, pictures of felted socks
- Next Month's Challenge: "Make something with basil!" -- Alyse
- SHOE THE SHIRE PROJECT!!!!
- October A&S Night - plan to start measuring feet and working on lasts
- Dena and Nigel also interested (up to 9-10 people)
- Exchequer -
- $2,337.21 in our bank account, plus $1100 in the RSO account
- Parking bill from last Maidens has been paid!
- Change of account signatory form sent
- Adding Genevieve as deputy, removing Sofya from bank account
- Sofya needs to be reimbursed for the Bluehost bill that was charged to her credit card. The amount is on a printout given at the last business meeting, that didn't make it to this meeting to record the amount and write a check.
The shire has agreed that it's ok to reimburse Sofya. Huzzah!!
- Pursuivant -
- Webminister -
- Cindy stepping into this office! Still need to fill out change of officer form
- Has already talked to the kingdom webminister, working on reading the handbook. Apparently we have things that need to be changed on our website for it to be SCA-"legal", will look into what needs to be done.
- Deputy: Dena!
- Plan to meet sometime, Cindy and Dena and Sofya to talk about webbystuff.
- Bluehost emails still going to Eadric, need to change email addresses somehow on the bluehost account
- Huzzah!!
- Open offices:
- Chronicler
- Chirurgeon- thinking of looking into it
- Minister of Youth
- Archery marshal
- Youth marshal
- Maidens
- Feast theme: The Fountain of Youth - foods that were used to promote longevity and look youthful
- Feast budget:
- Site: $100 + $240
- non-food: $24
- food: $140
- 42 tickets break-even point at $12/head
- cap of 48 (8 tables of 6) + head table + servers
- We are lowering the feast ticket price to $10 at the door (voted)
- Other budget:
- lower catering costs to $500
- Site tokens:
- Roana has 200 scales of veg-tan leather already cut out
- Stamps: 4 X's + misc. stamps
- Volunteers: send out email to google group and facebook page
- Feast Hall Steward / Entertainment Coordinator?
- A&S Display Coordinator - Philippe
- Combat Liason - Aleator
- Herald's Point - self-staffing, a sheet of paper across from Troll
- Chatelaine's Point -
- Sunday Coordinator - Aleator (regional practice? ask Thorfinn)
- Priya may be willing to volunteer for something -- acc. to Gerhard
- Catering - people interested in doing potluck dessert revel. I am holding them to this and will make them feel bad if they all flake out at the last minute. :-)
- Jenna - make a list of who's bringing what for the revel