Minutes of February 2000 Populace Meeting

February 22, 2000

With 12 people present, the February Populace Meeting got under way at 7:45 PM on 2/22/00 in the conference room at Parker and DeStefano. It was called to
order by our wonderful Seneschal, Debbie Jo.

New Business

• PBS Fund Drive: Toby discovered that PBS in not broadcast from Charlottesville, but from Richmond, and they are looking for people to man the phones. We decided to see if we could have the March 4 slot from 10:30am-4:00pm, since we would only need 4 or 5 people.

Old Business

• Inns of Court: The Red Mountain Inn was a great success, making plans to do it again next year.
• Sudentur: We never heard back about the event, so we decided not to do that one.
• Caer Gelin: They are planning on having Kingdom War Practice and a Spring Revel on Saturday, April 29. We will be taking the RMI there, and we will also be selling lunch. At Handcrafters we will be having an organizational meeting with the people from Caer Gelin.
• Summer University 2000: Having lots of trouble finding a site. We agreed that using Fluvanna High School as a site would be okay, but we would really prefer Cabell Hall at the University.
• Pennsic: Trying hard to find a happy-medium between party area/no bad drainage/no desert plain area. Still trying to locate the perfect area that isn't already taken.
• Silver Anniversary Event: Still looking for the perfect site.
• Hat Fund: Going well, need people who pledged money to get it in.

Officers Reports

(Herald, De Facto Heavy Marshal Absent)

• Chatelaine: Toby has been keeping up with email requests for info. Has had phone contact with a person from the newspaper "Echo". The calendar postings are free, and they would like to do a story on us. The Spotswood Demo has been postponed to April 23, we will be doing this instead of Handcrafters. Decided on one hour slot on the stage for the Duck Race in May.
• Minister of Arts and Sciences: Trishka has been drowning at work, so not much new on that front.
• Exchequer: Same as last month. Nothing has changed.
• Dance Master Extraordinare: Dance is good. The graduation will be moved to March 12, instead of on March 11.
• Rapier: Lucrezia is making tabards and getting info on loaner doublets. Blue and Gold scarves are also being made for awards. Practice has been going well, and will give us some ideas for competitions at our  Silver Anniversary.
• Archery: Bob and Sally are willing to get the information to get archery rolling in our shire.

Events of the Month

• March: 11th Kingdom A&S Festival Fort Meade, MD
• April:
  • 1st Coronation Wake Forest, NC
  • 29th Caer Gelin Spring Festival Palmyra, VA
• May: Tentatively Emerald Joust
• June: University 2000
• July: Any suggestions?
• August: Pennsic
• September: Isenfir's Silver Anniversary

See the CALENDAR for a summary of planned activities