FASB
William H. Sills (whs@idcnet.com)
Tue Mar 31 23:40:24 1998
Ooops! Financial types similar to the author often forget that normal human beings
are not alway familiar with our jargon. FASB stands for Financial Accounting
Standards Board. That is the body that ensures that all of a groups financial reports
are similar so that they can be analyzed. Unfortunately, that group did a real number
on Not-For-Profit organizations. That is one reason why events are supposed to be run
as Local Council Invitationals in the future.
YISS;
Bill Sills
Alex Chacko John Neroth wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 98 14:49:10 CST6CDT, William H. Sills wrote:
>
> >
> > Sadly, because of the new FASB standards and National Council, BSA
> >policies, National, Regional and Area events are being discontinued. That leaves
> >Sea Scout events as the only multi-council events in most locations. Since many
> >of them are not exclusively nautically oriented, Explorers and Senior Girl
> >Scouts are welcome. A good example of such an event is "Operation Rising Tide"
> >during the weekend of 26 to 28 June 1998 at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in
> >the North Shore suburban area between Chicago and Milwaukee. This would have
> >been a Central Region or at least an Area 3 event in the past. Now, it isstill
> >considered a FLOTILLA activity but it is officially a Northeast Illinois Council
> >invitational event. The books are handled by Program Director Tim Dosemagen
> >(847)+433-1969 x613 and it is headed by their commodore Jim Harper. Because this
> >event, Milwaukee Council's Commodore Tole Rendezvous, our Nautorama, SEAL,
> >SeaBadge, Advanced training, US Sailing Basic classes, Safe Swim Defense, etc.
> >events are only in the Sea Scout Calendar, Explorer Posts don't get to know
> >about them unless we tell them.
>
> Sorry for asking, but what does "FASB" stand for? Are all National,
> Regional and Area Exploring/Venturing events being discontinued? Why? It
> seems silly to end such events. Also, I think it would be great if we
> could have a national Jamboree-like event (something like a Moot, which is
> for Rovers), which would be open to Venturers of all types (Explorer
> Scouts, Sea Scouts, etc.)
>
> >
> > This situation will get much worse, in my opinion, after 1 August.
> >There will be only about 200,000 youth in the Venturing Division. BSA will
> >necessarily concentrate on LFL Exploring. That is where the numbers and the
> >business money will be found. Sea Scouting is relatively well organized but is
> >quite small. High Adventure is larger but is not even close to being cohesive.
> >Plus, it lost its organizational structure during its absorption into the
> >Exploring Division. Therefore, I believe that until these traditional posts
> >develop the equivalent of Sea Scouting's squadron, task force, flotilla, fleet
> >structure, Sea Scouting will need to help them, especially in local councils. In
> >my own council, our squadron structure is the only one that always meets, always
> >performs and has something to do. Our EOA is quite erratic and, without help
> >from Sea Scouting, would whither away. Now, it will be worse since many posts
> >will be LFL.
> >
> > Finally, Sea Scouting is highly organized and enjoys great training,
> >publication, and other resources but we are tiny. Therefore, we need the
> >numbers, albeit small, of High Adventure post members to survive. So, the
> >web-footed Scouts and the "Green Weanies" <VBG> desperately need to work
> >together or our traditional programs will be the recipient of the "benign
> >neglect" that Sea Scouting has suffered for the past fifty years.
> >
> > The green and the blue are stuck with each other!!! <VBG>
>
> >From my perspective, we'd love to have all the help and experience that Sea
> Scouting could offer to Explorer Scouting.
>
> >
> >YISS;
> >Bill Sills
> >
> >PS. Now that the Ranger and Silver Awards appear to be returning (about
> >time!!!), perhaps High Adventure Posts could get their CREWS and Crew Leaders
> >back. I firmly believe that they would work as well in traditional posts as boat
> >crews and coxswains (crew leaders) do in Sea Scouting. My ships use them to
> >transition Scouts into the ship, for intra ship competition and for identy
> >within the ship's company. What do you all think???
> >
>
> I'd love to see all of Venturing (Explorer Scouting as well as Sea
> Scouting) have a traditional structure with Posts/Ships being comprised of
> Patrol-like sub-units. I think that "Crews" would greatly aid with
> organization and with providing leadership opportunities.
>
> Yours in Scouting,
>
> Alex C. J. Neroth
> E-mail: aneroth@stanford.edu
> URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~aneroth
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