Roundtable help & Troop Bus
Cliff Keese (CKEESE@MAIL.MCG.EDU)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:24:49 -0400
I've got two very different topics that I need a little help on:
1. roundtable - I've been asked to give a short (20min) presentation on
ways to keep New Scouts on track for their First Class rank. Our troop
has a very good record at keeping boys interested and moving through
the program (we had 4 boys earn their Eagle this summer) but I don't
want to turn this talk into - " well, we do it this way and we do it that".
Not that I don't think our methods won't be received well but we're the
largest troop in the council and one of the more successful ones and both
district and council staff have a disconcerting habit of saying, " Well, 615
does it like...". I would like to be able to give them a fairly broad range of
ideas to choose from.
2. troop bus - Our troop has been offered the title to a 66-passenger
school bus that had been previously used by another church's urban
ministry program ( they just recently obtained a couple of 14 - passenger
vans and don't need the big bus). The bus won't cost the troop anything,
it's being offered to us free of charge. We could use the room,
transportation for any troop activity involves Desert Storm like preplanning
( as I said above we're a large troop, we rechartered with 60 boys and
had 36 Webelos scouts bridge over into the New Scout patrols in the
spring and expect a few more from this falls School Night for Scouting.)
My question(s) are these: Has anyone had any experience with having a
troop bus, what are the insurance problems, what is the annual cost of
maintaining a vehicle of this type, what do you do for drivers, etc. Our
chartering organization is a church and the troop is an official ministry of
the church, which means that if we get the bus the actual owner ( I
suppose ) would be the church and the Board of Trustees has some
concerns about the whole project.
I would appreciate any response on either of the above areas. I know
there is a wealth of knowledge out there on the list and I hope that
someone has, at one time, had the same problems.
YIS
Cliff Keesee
Troop 615
Georgia-Carolina Council
Evans, GA
Eagle Class of 1971
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