Re: Summer Camp Trends
Cheryl Singhal (csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 17:04:30 -0400
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Anthony Mako wrote:
> One of the causes of this trend around here is that many troops from
> neighboring councils aren't happy with the program at their local camps.
> Manatoc sees a lot of campers from outside the local council, and many local
> troops have a hard time getting reservations for camp at Manatoc. Seven
> Ranges sees a lot of out-of-council troops as well. As the Great Trail
> Council camping committee has already discovered, solutions to this
> particular trend are expensive. In our case, it means building a new, bigger
> dining hall for Camp Manatoc and not only upgrading the facilities at Camp
> Butler, but also building a dining hall and hiring a staff (Camp Butler
Ummmm -- wouldn't it have been (A) Cheaper and (B) more user-friendly to
have simply CLOSED reservations to out-of-Council troops?
As I understand it, Councils prefer their Scouts to go to their camps.
That being so, it sure seems simpler to get all the in-Council Troops in
and then allow out-of-Council Troops to register. If In-Council fills
all available slots, c'est la guerre. If they do not, they at least had
first shot.
It wouldn't even take much extra effort from the staff. Application
comes in; is it from IN Council? Y = red box N= blue box. When comes
time to assign slots, open everything in the red box first. If you end
up with Camp Yahoo only half-full for a week, you open envelopes from the
blue box until you fill it up. If you end up with 6 slots at Camp Itchy
the last week, yougo through the blue box looking for a 6-man Troop.
Yes, I know, everything is simple to the man who doesn't have to do it. (g)
Cheryl
