[Artemisia] Youth Fees

[Syeira]

The only thing I saw was the statememt that we need a standarized AGE for Youth fees not the fees themselves. And I agree whole heartedly! 
  My personal opinion is that the age should be either 16 or 18. It was brought up before that it is wrong to charge someone an extra fee if they cannot legally buy a membership nor can they participate in all activities (depending on the age requirement for activities in each kingdom). 
   
  Just my opinion,
  Syeira
  
"Theodora (AKA Rachael)" <ladythea at myway.com> wrote:
  
That page only addressed the BoD institiued NMS, and the money that goes to the corporation. It does not address the other issues that have been presented. It says that no more and no less than $3.00 **goes to the corporation** - it does not say that groups cannot charge more. The corporation1 says NO YOUTH should be charged the corporate surcharge. If they are paying an adult site fee and getting the benefit of adult activites, the NMS should apply.

As far as a standard youth site fee throughout the Kingdom - I don't know how realistic that is. Some sites charge more for use of spaces that are conducive to youth activities. Some groups spend a lot of money on youth activities. Should they be told they cannot charge an appropriate site fee? I firmly believe that non-adult site fees should be used for activities to benefit those youth/teens. If that is not happening, maybe a site fee shouldn't be charged for them at all. But that is another story.

~thea



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--- On Fri 05/19, Redhawk < sca_redhawk at yahoo.com > wrote:
From: Redhawk [mailto: sca_redhawk at yahoo.com]
To: artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:42:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Artemisia] Youth Fees

Thea,
Thanks for the link. It really helped alot. "Will not be" is pretty cut and dry and the 'fee "is"' 3.00$ US is cut and dry as well. No more, no less. I didn't see on that page where a group can charge more than the 3.00$ unless I missed it someplace. If I did, maybe someone can point to the place where it is stated so we can all read it.
My feelings on the youth fee is, there really needs to be a universal fee. The same for every group. That way everyone knows ahead of time that a youth of X age will or will not have to pay the 3$. My thoughts are 16 years of age is a good cut off. 16 and up pays the 3$ and 15 years and under is excused from the NMS. Having fees universal, IMO is a good thing so we are all on the same page. I never did care for gray areas. Black and white is always best.
Redhawk

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