Re: Friends of Scouting goals -Reply
Rodger Morris (rodger@FISHNET.NET)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 05:01:30 -0800
Chris Marsh wrote:
...
>I hear rumors that this board also has a member from each unit. The
>council doesn't want anyone to know this because they can't control that
>many people, but if they can't run a business than maybe it's time to
>contact those people and get this place strait before it gets back in
>the whole.
>
...
The Chartered Organization Representative (COR) is a voting member of both
the District Committee and the Council Committee, but is not a member of
the executive board. The CORs as a group can wield quite alot of power.
There are enough of them that they grossly outnumber the council executive
board and the council committee members-at-large.
Example: In the Ventura County Council, a petition signed by 25% of the
CORs would be enough to force an emergency meeting of the full council
committee. At said meeting, a majority vote of the committee of the
whole could conceivably do the following things:
1) Depose the council officers and council executive board.
2) Elect new officers and executive board members.
3) Fire the entire local council professional staff, or any portion
thereof.
The foregoing is, of course, not an exhaustive list. This safety valve is
known by few of the CORs. One may speculate as to the reasons why this is
so.
Thus, the mechanism exists within Scouting to effect significant change
from within, provided there is broad-based support for that change.
Yours in Scouting,
Rodger
Rodger Morris <rodger@fishnet.net>
Scoutmaster, Troop 852 Wood Badge 416-18
Ventura County Council at Philmont, 1973
Camarillo, California, USA "I used to be a Beaver..."
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