From: Alan Houser (troop24@EMF.NET)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 11:05:25 CST
Joe Wallace <mcwallis@PULLMAN.COM> wrote (in part):
>I need some advice quick. One of the scouts in our troop started an
>eagle project, which among other things involved spreading gravel over
>"most" of a trail
>on a campus. The scouts, leaders and friends put in over 100 hrs on the
>project which included, I believe trail signs, etc.
>When the scout asked for his letter from the sponsor. He received a two
>page letter listing the deficiencies of the work done. His major
>concern is that a part of the trail has not been done, even though the
>project was not intended to do the entire trail.
I would go back to the original plan submitted by the Scout to the
sponsor and the Advancement Committee. The plan should have defined
the scope of the work that the Scout intended to accomplish. The
sponsor signed off on it before he started. If the plan said to do
the entire trail, then the Scout owes some additional work. If the
plan says this proportion of the trail would be done, and that's what
was done, then the sponsor should sign off that the plan was completed.
If the plan is ambiguous, then there is a lesson for all there: the
plan should define every step of the project including the expected
final completion. As our District Advancement Chair likes to say,
"Write it in sufficient detail that I can give it to someone else who
has never seen it, and he can complete it by following your plan."
YiS,
Alan R. Houser ** troop24@emf.net
** Scoutmaster, Troop 24, Berkeley, California **
** Committee Member, Crew 24, Berkeley, California **
** Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner, Herms District **
** WWW page ** http://www.emf.net/~troop24/t24.html **
