March 2025 Business Meeting Minutes

Barony of Buckland Cross: Business Meeting March 21^st, 2025

Officers’ Reports

• Exchequer:        
  • need kingdom on our account or will be sanctioned; checking with Warminster
  • Balance: $7, 395.96
  • 4^th quarter report straightened out
• Chronicler: newsletter needed ASAP
  • Steps to be warranted
• Chatelaine/Knight Marshall: no heavy info
  • 1^st & 3^rd Tuesday is fencing practice
  • Volunteered to be Deputy Seneschal
  • Nothing to report for chatelaine
• Webminister:
  • everything on hold due to website issues and switch over of webminister
• MoAS:
  • Certification done
  • Will be doing poll for gathering dates people will be interested in
    • Sundays will be popular
  • Calendar done, but bots are causing issues
  • Waking of the Salamander April 19^th will have artisan village
    • Cailleach likely to do glass bead workshop
• Herald:
  • not much locally
  • People interest with registering devices and names
  • Kingdom Herald positions open
• Seneschal:
  • financial committee has not met yet for Southern Region event

• Baroness & Baron:
  • there has been interest in an inter-baronial event;
    • lots of local support but not much traction so move it to being a “southern-region” event as a whole
      • Sterling volunteered to be event steward of the event
    • Briarwood Daycamp possibility
      • $4500 site fee; would need minimum 200 people (with site fee of $25) to break even
      • Site only has parking lot for 100 people
    • Camp Nockamixen wants $45 a head before any other costs are even added
    • Okamixen Boyscout Camp is in price range but have veryt narrow window of availability, which happens to be immediately after Pennsic
    • Other option is to reach out to neighbor baronies, to see if they will house event in their area
    • Hartshorndale 4H site is possibility, barony would also likely be willing to share an event
    • Boyscout and Girlscout camps good options because usually have archery ranges
      • (for sites without, can include the archers in a type of game. If does well, can maybe afford site with archery range at it)
  • Reached out to Bensalem School District to possibly have a Schola or indoor Artisan Village. Discussions started.

((Fundraiser with a marginalia or “sexy” medieval calendar))