Knight's Marshal: Alexander is planning a baronial fighter clinic in mid-March, weather permitting. He's waiting for the update on MK siege weapons so that he can make sure all local siege weaponeers are up on the new regulations. Currently, there are new Society level siege weapons regs, but there's nothing from Palymar regarding the MK regulations as yet. (Frederich notes that this is frustrating, as his siege weapon is taking up space in his garage, waiting for the new rules.)

Chronicler: Katarina is planning to publish the newest edition of the newsletter before March 10. The top feature will be Alderford's successful Masque 6 event. Next publication date will be on or around June 10. Again, she reminds the barony that her position as chronicler is TEMPORARY, and she's looking for a replacement to take the office as soon as possible.

Herald: Master McPhelan has accepted Katarina's application to be the barony's new herald. She's reported to kingdom and Oaken regional. The biggest thing coming up for the office is the Northern Oaken Regional A&S, which will involve a royal court. She hopes to incorporate the voices of all the baronial heralds in this court, if possible.

A&S: Saradwen has not yet planned quarterly activities for this office. Ailith asked for a tentative list by next meeting. As Saradwen is focused on the upcoming A&S event, this gives her time to schedule things. Ailith gave some alternatives, and encouraged Saradwen to plan activities that wouldn't result in costs to the Barony, perhaps seeing if members would be willing to host activities in their homes. As Saradwen mentioned only having had the office since the beginning of the month, she feels she has lots of planning to do.

Exchequer: Genofeva announced the current balance at $365.85; Ailith shared with her that the baronial auction at Alderford's event made $277.50. The barony also paid $400 toward the rent for the Northern Oaken A&S site.

GROUP NEWS

OLD BUSINESS

The members gathered reviewed Master Patrick's event proposal that was initiated at January's meeting. After much discussion, it was decided to table the proposal, mainly because the barony will poll for status before the proposed event date, and it would be good to have proceeded to full status before attemping an event of this scope. Ailith made clear that any official, (ie, listed in the Pale) event or activity scheduled for the fall is subject to this tabling, as we must wait on our status notification. Quarterly activities are expected to go on as scheduled, as they're informal and not listed in The Pale.

NEW BUSINESS

Saradwen emphasized the necessity of reaching the disenfranchised in our area, particularly the folks who are "Pennsic members", and those who don't regularly attend group meetings.

Ailith encouraged everyone to talk to folks who they knew didn't attend group meetings regularly. She focused on a sharing of information, resources, and so on.

It was mentioned that quarterly activities provide an opportunity for those not involved on a regular basis with local groups or the barony to get to know us better.

Gourdon noted that there's a large group of Tu-chux in Trumbull County, and asked if anyone knew how to contact those folks.

Frederich asked if there were areas that we could leave out of the poll, as they'd already said they didn't want to be included in the barony. (Ie, Rivenvale, Falcon's Quarry.)*

Justin, as Kingdom New Groups officer (as of 2/1/03) has offered to ask Rivenvale how they feel about the baronial issue, and if they want to be included in the poll or not. He has noted that he will report back at the next baronial meeting if possible.

An outgrowth of this offer is the Baronial Road Show, suggested by Milica, where teams of two or more folks from the barony go to local groups in the area to answer questions and concerns. The emphasis is to be on a postive sharing of information, and an open conversation, as well as letting groups know about the planned quarterly baronial activities. There were no volunteers for teams immediately, although Saradwen volunteered to go to Rivenvale. This may happen after Justin's visit.

Those who wish to volunteer for this program (either singly or in teams) should report to Ailith so that she can work with scheduling the visits with the senechals to the local groups. The plan is to present an open, relaxed forum, in co-operation with the local groups.

March's meeting will be held at the home of Milica and Justin on Sunday, March 16 beginning at 2PM. Details will be posted later.

*Seneschal's Note: Falcon's Quarry opted out of the baronial process at the very beginning.