Sincerely,

Lady Leah, Baroness of Seven Sleeping Dragons

Sincerely,

Griffin Köford, Prime Minister of Seven Sleeping Dragons

The most recent audit period has been excellent for us financially - the donation of the materials for our feast at Westmarch Quals meant that we made a $103.27 profit rather than taking a loss of approximately $120.  Furthermore, our recent uptick in membership has come with a corresponding increase in dues-paid members.  Dues payments have accounted for at least as much income as the feast, and our ledger balance stands at $406.51.  A scanned copy of the ledger is available for perusal here.

There were two minor problems with the ledger during this period.  First, the initial count from the feast profits was flat-out wrong, as some spare change was apparently simply dumped into the cash box.  Wite-Out™ corrected the problem once an accurate count was made.  The second problem was one of addition based on the faulty first count.  Corrective fluid once again got us back on track.

Meanshile, our account with ASI at Cal Poly still exists, but continues not to be our primary method of storing or moving funds.  The readout from our account is available in a 2-page PDF here.

Our recent uptick in membership has necessitated an increase in average sign-in sheet length.  Fortunately, Adobe Acrobat Professional has managed to compress the resulting 49 page file down from 8.2 megabytes to 4.1 megabytes - the compressed file is here.  We have also had a large number of visitors spreading out to other lands - Wavehaven's Pro-Tem Prime Minister was kind enough to provide us with this report showing some of these visits to the lands beyond our own.

As the audit period extended a month earlier than our Prime Minister had earlier realized, an additional file is needed to represent all sign-ins for the audited period.  This is that file, showing sign-ins for January.

There was, as indicated in this thread on the caamtgard.com forums, no meeting the weekend of February 7th.

We have recently been blessed with an upsurge in membership, and a corresponding uptick in the number of people wishing to pay dues - often for multiple terms at a time.  Very few of the people on this list are voting qualified, many are underage, and many more payed as family groups.

Note that entries marked with an asterisk after their persona name payed as a family.

Therefore, our currently dues-paid (though not necessarily voting-qualified) members comprise the following list:

Dave I. (Deimos)
Jessica F. (Leah)
Mike P. (Cronin)
Nate W. (Nate)
Daniel N. (Tycus)
Ian S. (Reptar)
D.J. M. (David*)
Daryl M. (Borak*)
Daniel M. (Vorsk*)
Marissa M. (Vael)
Holly W. (Holly)
Ben S. (Ben*)
Cameron S. (Cameron*)
Brian T. (Brian*)
Gavin T. (Gavin*)
Connor T. (Connor*)
Ki T. (Ki*)
Tony R. (Tony)
Kristina C. (Kristina)
Shelby M. (Shelby)
Monica O. (Monica)
Bruin S. (Bruin*)
Noah M. (Noah*)
Emily M. (Emily*)
Evan S. (Evan*)
Holly M. (Holly*)
Merlin T. (Merlin)
Megan F. (Faye)
Griffin M. (Griffin)

As Westmarch Quals and Midreigns are hosted by a different Westmarch land each time they are held.  This time, Quals for Westmarch occured on our field, and, as such, the event doubled as our own set of Quals.  The results were made available to the public through this thread on the Westmarch forums, and the full results of the A&S competition are available on Google documents.

As detailed in this post on the Westmarch boards, the results of our latest round of elections were as follows:
Baroness:
Leah: 8 Confidence
Regent:
There will be a special Althing next week to consider Lady Faye for the position of Regent Pro-Tem, as she is our only mostly qualified candidate.
Champion:
Reptar: 7 Confidence, 1 No Confidence
GMR:
None

It should be noted that the subsequent Althing unanimously approved Lady Faye for the position of Regent, and that issues with housing forced our Champion-elect, Reptar, to move out of the area.  The duties of Champion have been nobly shouldered by Baron Deimos, the Champion of Westmarch.

Baron Deimos
Monarch of Seven Sleeping Dragons

Our statement from ASI - our equivilent of banking through Cal Poly - resides here, and a copy of our ledger accompanies it here.

Baron Deimos included the following letter along with the file:

The bank statement provided with Seven Sleeping Dragons audit package is a printout of the bank statement provided by the Cal Poly Associated Students Inc.  Seven Sleeping Dragons is also a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo university club, going by the name of The Amtgard Society of Poly (Cal Poly Group #73440), and as such, are provided a club bank account through the Cal Poly ASI.  Funds in the account are accessed through written submission for reimbursement of funds through the ASI.

Item 12/5/08 was a deposit by the Cal Poly ASI.  Cal Poly ASI provides $500 per fiscal year to any club who makes a request for the funds.  This is the second year our group has taken advantage of this policy.   This is the only activity in the account from 7/1/08 to present.  Cal Poly has control of the account, and this is the only statement available.

The monarchy is currently soliciting ideas and budgeting for use of this year's disbursement.

Due to the eccentricities of my scanner, some of these are a little crooked, but they are all present and accounted for, and have been combined in to this attractive and compact file.

Thanks to income during period when the ledger was elsewhere, the current available cash balance of the Barony of the Seven Sleeping Dragons is $124.24.

Monarch: Baron Squire Deimos
Regent: Page Leah
Prime Minister: Man-at-Arms Griffin
Champion: Woman-at-Arms Braith

Currently our dues-paid (though not necessarily voting-qualified) members is as follows:

Dave I. (Deimos)
Griffin M. (Griffin)
Jessica F. (Leah)
Mary G. (Braith)
Megan F. (Faye)
Mike P. (Cronin)
Nate L. (Ysea)
Nate W. (Nate)
Robbie S. (Laoric)
Seth B. (Qazyr)

After a brief panic, the results of the most recent Crown Quals have been located.  They are located here.
The results of the Warmaster are in this file.

Baron Deimos, Regent Leah, and Champion Braith each received 10 out of 10 votes cast during the last elections.

Man-at-Arms Griffin
Prime Minister of Seven Sleeping Dragons

The ballot can be viewed here.

Update: Siar Geata's barony promotion has gone through without a single naysayer in Westmarch, and the reign has been extended!  Minutes will be posted eventually.

• Copies of bank statements and financial records for the past six months

We begin with our General Ledger.  We currently have $74.24 in cash and mixed coinage to our names, and more should arrive in the next month as more dues are paid.

At one point (6/28/08), there is a major error with the current value of the ledger.  This was a rather odd day - our latest quest day, in fact - during which the intake of the cash box was not monitored, and it has become apparent that not everybody who ate food at the event paid.  After our Regent had been reimbursed, the value could not be determined on site in a timely fashion.

The following text comes from Baron MaA Deimos to explain our current bank statement:

The bank statement provided with Seven Sleeping Dragons audit package is a printout of the bank statement provided by the Cal Poly Associated Students Inc.  Seven Sleeping Dragons is also a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo university club, going by the name of The Amtgard Society of Poly (Cal Poly Group #73440), and as such, are provided a club bank account through the Cal Poly ASI.  Funds in the account are accessed through written submission for reimbursement of funds through the ASI.

Item 5/8/08 was a deposit by the Cal Poly ASI.  Cal Poly ASI provides $500 per fiscal year to any club who makes a request for the funds.  This was the first year our group took advantage of this policy.

Item 6/30/08 was a reimbursement for funds used to procure materials for a garb making day, and for materials procured for use during our June quest.

Item 6/6/08 was a reimbursement for funds used to procure materials for a weapon making day, and for feast supplies for lunch provided by SSD at Darkshore.

Item 3/18/08 and 6/23/08 were in error.  Funds were credited to our club account intended for a different club.  We notified ASI of the error and they made the appropriate correction.

• Copies of sign in sheets for the past six months

Anybody wishing to download these sheets should be warned: They total more than 8 megabytes, and I have been unable to reduce the file size without reducing the quality to the point of being illegible.  The sign-in sheets for 1-5-08 through 1-26-08 are online here.  The sign-in sheets for 2-2-08 through 7-19-08 are available here.  The sheet for 7-26-08 has the dubious distinction of having its own file, which resides here.

• List of current officers

Monarch: Baron Man-at-Arms Deimos
Regent: Page Leah
Prime Minister: Griffin Köford
Champion: Man-at-Arms Ailliath
GMR: Lady Faye

• List of current dues-paid members

Dave I. (Deimos)
Griffin M. (Griffin)
Jeff M. (Amadeo)
Jessica F. (Leah)
Luke S. (Archtos)
Mary G. (Braith)
Megan F. (Faye)
Nate L. (Ysea)
Nate W.
Patrick S. (Ailliath)
Robert B. (Raab)
Skyler L.
Tina S.
Viet M. (Pai)
Zach H. (Krom)
Zane H. (Thorik)

• Results of most recent crown quals

The results from SSD's Crown Quals are as follows; shown with entrant's name, name of entry, and average score from judges:

Leah
Rose Cross-stitch: 4.0
Black Necklace, Bracelet, and Earrings: 4.2
A Fable: 3.83
Blue Tunic with Yellow Trim: 3.36

Deimos
Leather Satchel: 4.06
Black Tankard Strap: 3.33
The Serpent's Fang: 4.16
Black Flatblade Shortsword: 3.83

Griffin
Pair of Bracers: 3.8

Alliath
Green Cloak: 3.73
Red Belt: 3.9

Braith
Blue Short Sword: 3.16

Krom
Pair of Black Short Swords: 3.23
Black w/Red Applique (shield): 3.16
Black Polearm: 3.3

Thorik
Javalin: 3.13
Black Shield: 3.1
Polearm: 3.23

Seth
Daisy Dagger: 3.03

The top scores were, Leah, with an average of 3.8475, followed ridiculously closely by Deimos, with an average of 3.845. Third place was Krom, with an average of 3.23.

• Results of most recent crown elections

In our last election, all candidates ran uncontested, as there as only a single no-confidence vote cast for our champion, Ailliath and or regent, Leah.