Cluain Council Minutes Date: 20/05/2023

Meeting started at 2:09

Present: Rudiger, Alyenora, Maerwynn, Dominego, Melissa, Nathanael, Gerrard, Florence, Ed, Bess

Apologies: Aethelred

Officer reports:

Marshall: Practices not happening at the moment due to weather

Reeve: Balance is at 7385.41, including income from Gardens event (received)

Other updates:

Mother & Daughter day seemed to turn out ok in the end. The site has a large kitchen, archery butts.

Canvas: have submitted plans for awning to Hamilton Canvas Company, but haven’t heard back yet. Rudiger to follow up

Signatories: may make progress toward SCANZ changing bank account

Have-a-go-day

·         59 people booked. 36 adults & 3 children for the feast. 32 newcomers, and 9 fairly new people. 18 regulars

·         Most people have paid. $850 in the account so far

·         Someone registered as a SCA member, but put “none” as their SCA number

·         Activities

o   Pewter is available for casting – would need to think of a costing for heavier items like spoons (gold coin)

o   Leather 101 – need leather. May want to consider purchasing leather for Cluain as we have done with pewter and tool steel

o   Heavy have-a-go – need list field. Green and white list field can be brought indoors – good choice. Ed will bring heavy rope. Will alternate heavy and boffer.

·         Lanterns for table settings – Rudiger will bring tea lights

Labour Weekend

·         Ed has submitted a bid for labour weekend. Council approved over e-mail. Needs to go through the SCANZ channel. Rudiger proposes acceptance, Maerwyn seconds, all approve. Will be the last royal event for kathryn and Ratbot

Ed: Proposes Cluain to buy vegetable tanned leather for tooling for a cost of ~$400. Seconded by Florence. All approved

Actions:

•  Check back with Hamilton Canvas
•   Put Ed back on council listserv
• Get Ian signed up with bank so he can authorize payments – still need to get Rudiger, Netty, and Ian physically together to do this
• Buy leather for Cluain

Meeting closed at 2:50pm.