Re: Pack Financing

> At 08:14 AM 1/24/97 UT, Pam Hughes wrote:
> > Some parents
> >are becoming disgruntled because it is the same boys that participate in
each
> >fundraiser and thus are funding the pack for the rest of the boys.
> >What can we do to make it fair for all the boys?
>
Here's how we do it in the Troop. If we were to charge every Scout
$150, we would meet our budget. Through what we call Group Fundraisers
we can raise (usually) over half our troop budget. We figure the
workforce needed, assume some will choose not to work, divide by the
number of Scouts and we came up with 3 events per Scout. We asked that
each Scout (or parent) work 3 events and reduce their dues to $75. If
you fail to work 3, you were charged $25 for each missed event (we have
7 events all together) or you could choose ahead of time to just pay the
$150. Any money earned by the Group Fundraisers that was over and above
50% of the troop budget went to each person who worked extra events
(over 3). You can also paricipate in popcorn sales, etc, to earn the
remainder of your dues and have some left over for High Adventure trips
and the like.

Basically, each Scout is responsible for $150, you can pay with your
time, or your checkbook. We will take either.

I hope this makes sense, we spent a long time trying to put it in our
guidebook in a manner that everyone would read it the same way.

--
Chris Marsh                         Scoutmaster, Troop 115
Mailto:camarsh@ibm.net                Tallahassee, Florida
Troop 115:  http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/1150/
My Home Page:      http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/7320/
Semialachee Lodge #239: http://www.vistech.net/users/clay/

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