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Scientology New Year’s event COST $533 per public attendee?
From Possibly Helpful Advice: More signs that shrinkage is in progress
http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=16028
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From Possibly Helpful Advice: More signs that shrinkage is in progress
http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=16028
Excerpts:
From a copy of an e-mail making the rounds under the radar:
Most importantly, at LA-area Int Events all SO and non-SO staff are required to attend, or get their butts KR’d for being non-compliant and counter-intentioned.Just talked to a friend under the radar, a trusted source. It’s confirmed the New Year’s event at the Shrine had only 2,000 attendees. Those of us who have been at that event knows this is a flap. That means about 2/3rds of the lower bowl was full. The Shrine seats 6500.
But now, in the “70x expansion” Scientology Inc, by using enforced staff and crew attendance, you can get about 1550 people into the Shrine, leaving room for 450 die-hard non-ARC-broken public parishioners to attend an event in the Shrine to bring the total to 2000.
This means a healthy round of lower conditions to everyone involved in the evolution of the Pac-area New Year’s Event at the Shrine.
Because if you take 450 public Scientologists and divide it by the 13 public-servicing orgs in the LA basin, you get a average of 35 public per org in attendance.
Renting the newly-renovated Shrine costs an estimated $50,000 per day, and “setups” and “breakdowns” for the event (sound systems, projectors, overflow attendance, security, metal detectors and putting tables and displays and crappy food in the exhibit hall) costs about $10,000 a day and distracts hundreds of Pacifica-area staff. When I was in Pac, crew would disappear for four days before an Int Event. So let’s conservatively estimate that it cost Miscavige $240,000 out-of-pocket to have an event poorly attended by only 450 public Scientologists. That’s $533 per person.
And odds are good there wasn’t $240,000 collected in the form of “donations” to even cover holding the event.