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Re: New Eagle
Michael Bowman (mfbowman@USSCOUTS.ORG)
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:59:52 -0400
Stan,
"Routine Labor" is not defined because BSA expects that its volunteers will
exercise reasonable discretion in interpreting what it means. Of course
these means that there is some room for debate. But if you take that term
in conjunction with the purpose behind the service project, I think that
discretion should be applied in such a way that the benefit of the doubt is
given to the Scout whose project allows him to learn and demonstrate
leadership skills.
If repainting and cleaning a duckpin bowling alley at the church allowed the
youth to learn and demonstrate leadership skills and if the task was one
where the Scouts restored a bowling alley that had been disused or had been
suffering from lack of maintenance over time, I'd have to say that the labor
wasn't routine.
I think the idea here is to avoid a task which is routinely performed by
others and just stepping in to do it one time. For example, if the Church
has a lawn crew and that crew meets every week to trim shrubs and mow the
lawn, it would not be a good candidate for an Eagle project for the Scouts
to step in and do the same tasks one weekend. On the otherhand, if there
was a public building that had been deteriorating and the Scouts were
organized to come in and paint, clean the property, mow, and so forth, then
that probably would be a good candidate for a project.
Mike
Mike Bowman, Vice President
U.S. Scouting Service Project, Inc.
Website: http://usscouts.org
E-Mail: mfbowman@usscouts.org
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