[Moo] SCA membership fees increase

[Jonathan Blaine]

What lawsuit is going on?
On Dec 2, 2010 6:58 AM, "Shannon D. Combs-Bennett" <
sdcbennett at alumni.indiana.edu> wrote:
> From the Announcements list:
>
>
> Due to extraordinary legal
> expenses from an ongoing lawsuit, the SCA has determined that our best
> option
> is to raise membership fees in most
> classes by $8.00, effective January 1, 2011. Family membership rates
> will not
> increase, although the family cap for memberships will be raised by
> $5.00
> effective the same time.
>
> When we indicated in 2009
> that membership fees would raise gradually over the next three years, we
> were
> not fully aware of the extent and impact of the legal fees required to
> defend
> our organization. Earlier this year we received a realistic projection
> for
> legal expenses through 2011. We are committed to protecting not only the
> SCA
> Inc., but the assets of every SCA group. This lawsuit may go on for
> additional
> years and cost-cutting alone will not be sufficient.
>
> We are formulating a plan to
> get the SCA back on track and are selecting options to restructure our
> operating business model. One option is a move to electronic kingdom
> newsletters with a print-on-demand option for those who would like to
> get their
> version in hardcopy. With these changes, there are many details to
> consider
>
> including: legal issues
> surrounding the fulfillment of our current subscription liability; the
> development of an electronic publishing framework for use by kingdom
> chroniclers
> that supports both web-publishing and print-on-demand; writing relevant
> changes
> to governing documents, officer handbooks, and kingdom procedures; and
> making
> dramatic programming changes to the SCA website and corporate systems.
>
> The current migration of
> corporate and Society officer email addresses to a more robust
> infrastructure
> is a step in this direction.
>
> It is our hope that as
> financial circumstances evolve we will be able to re-evaluate the entire
> membership fee structure once the effectiveness of the restructured
> business
> model can be determined. This would include evaluating the necessity of
> collecting NMS as well as potential reductions in membership fees.
>
> There will be many stages in
> this process where feedback will be needed and solicited. We want to be
> completely transparent with any changes that will be made, and will
> share
> details as they become available. As every year, the budget will be
> posted on
> the SCA website as soon as it is approved for your review. Our job is to
> keep
> you as fully informed as possible and in that spirit we welcome any and
> all
> questions and comments. For the moment, please submit questions and
> comments
> through comments at sca.org <mailto:comments%40sca.org <comments%2540sca.org>>
.
>
> Finally, this process will
> be very difficult and take many months to complete, so please bear with
> us.
> During this time, Board members will be attempting to attend as many
> events as
> possible to be available to answer your questions.
>
> The SCA Board of Directors
>
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>
>
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