Re: Advancement Guidelines
Mike Walton ("settummanque,)
Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:59:21 -0500
Mike Golrick wrote:
>MR JOHN A SEVERINO said:
>>Check out the new 1997 edition of "Advancement Policies..."
John is speaking of the BSA Advancement Policies and Procedures booklet;
this is a 8x11 three-holed booklet designed for the Council Advancement
Chair, his or her District Chairs, and those Scouters serving as Advancement
Chairs within their units or as members of the Advancement Committee at the
District or Council level.
(Wanna know a closely-held secret?? Here goes....if you serve in *your
unit* as:
Treasurer
Advancement Committeemember
Outdoor Committemember
Activities Committeemember
Equipment/Facilities Committeemember
(there's a couple more, but you get the idea...)
....You are BY DEFAULT members of your District's Committee of the same
scope. For instance, Advancement Committeemembers at the unit level are BY
DEFAULT members of the District's Advancement Committee. Lots of
DEs/DDs and even some of your fellow Scouters WON'T TELL YOU THIS because
they are under some "idea" (I started to insert "stupid" before "idea", but
I held off....they may not be stupid, just unaware) that all
District Scouters must be "nominated" or "appointed".
The District is composed of its units, and the District's Committee is
composed of those unit-level committeemembers AND officers elected and or
appointed by the District's leadership (or, in the case of the District
Committee Chair and Commissioner, elected by members-at-large and Chartered
Organizational Representatives). By your registration as a unit
committeemember, you are in essence, a part of the District in which your
unit belongs (which is a subset of the local Council's operating committeee).
"BY DEFAULT" means just that....unless your District DOES appoint each and
every member of each and every subcommittee, your unit's "reps" should be
going to the District Committee meetings each month.
>Neither my Council's Scout Shop nor the one up the street from work
>(another council) have the 97 book, if you mean the yellow covered one
>with all the requirments in it.
As you stated, the current one "expired" at the end of August, 1997. The
book you speak of has all of the _Boy_Scout_ requirements in it. Maybe
I'll make a book that has ALL of the requirements of ALL of the BSA's awards
and items in it! It's a good idea....
The "yellow booklet" is called "Boy Scout Advancement", Mike. It was due to
hit your Council Service Center or Scout Shop{tm} yesterday or today. I
would give it until Monday. The cover will state "1997-99" on it. We don't
have any here, but there's a sign that says that they will be at our Council
Service Center starting on Monday. I drove out to one of our Council's
uniform distributors this morning (before getting too sick to do anything
else; ear infection!) and they didn't have the new copies either.
The BSA is WAY BEHIND with most of their publications, and most of them
won't be available until later on this month or toward the middle of November.
>The last time my wife asked at our Council, the store manager said that
>there was not even a stock number she could check.
The stock number for the Boy Scout Advancement Booklet (the yellow one with
the rank patches on the cover) is # 33218
The stock number for the Advancement Guidelines and Committee Guide booklet
is #33088. As far as I'm aware, the 1998 version of this booklet hasn't
made it to the local Council yet. I'm still using the 1996 version and nah,
I haven't thrown the older versions away as the inside cover told me to do.
Something about "keeping everything" keeps me from doing it!
*grinning*
Hope this helps you out in getting the most current copy of the guides you
need!
Settummanque!
(c) 1997 Mike Walton ("no such thing as strong coffee,...") (502) 827-9201
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