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Can you say ""Owassipe " ? We have had this conversation many times. Had the same conversation in the Potomac Area Council of the American Youth Hostels, once upon a time. Seems we had a "volunteer" who found out that real estate was a profitable pursuit, and the AYH dealt in old properties as a "non-profit" (!) so he "volunteered" to help acquire an old hotel.... The local AYH council had to join forces and the volunteer was officially dropped from membership. Here in Scouter dot com land , we had a wonderful time learning about the great Scout Reservation of Owasippe. Seems the local Scout Council had plans to sell the camp and (among other things) reallocate funds/property.... The various Scouters got the CORs together and held the people involved to task... You can look it up. The camp still exists. Perhaps (perhaps? ) there is real estate involved . -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
Yes, potential. And you have hit on the great failing of the professional side of the organization. Integrity, service, and excellence should be the mantra for BSA. It isn't. Would that it were so. When I served, there was a strong push on core values: CORE VALUES The common bond that unifies us all. We live and serve with a commitment to three core values. INTEGRITY FIRST An Airman is a person of integrity, courage and conviction. They must be willing to control their impulses and exercise courage, honesty and accountability in order to do what is right even when no one is looking. SERVICE BEFORE SELF An Airman’s professional duties take precedence over personal desires. Every Airman is expected to have the discipline to follow rules, exhibit self-control and possess respect for the beliefs, authority and worth of others. EXCELLENCE IN ALL WE DO An Airman strives for continual improvement in self and service in order to propel the Air Force further and to achieve greater accomplishment and performance for themselves and their community. -
The transparency is definitely lacking in how things are handled. If things are done openly and fairly, generally speaking there is very little reason to conceal that type of information. It makes people wonder what else is going on that it needs to be hidden from everyone else. I am a member of a labor union. Unfortunately, our International has had its ethical challenges in the past and we are working to overcome those. It was a situation not completely unlike the Scouting organization here but the program is still worthwhile for people so its worth fighting for. Personally speaking, the concept of open meetings and transparent records is wonderful. We can attend any meeting (except personal and disciplinary type), review the minutes of meetings, view financial records, you name it. The potential for integrity and participation of everyone in open and fair dialog is a great thing. It does breed high quality leaders, which is one of the goals of our program overall. -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
Agreed. But, realistically, you cannot expect council to give out contact info for the Board members. You'll have to do the leg work of getting their contact info, if that is what you want. I agree the ambiguity of today's contact-info-hiding world provides more cover to the SE... -
Already checked the Council's 990 form. Bad thing is it doesn't have contact information which in the era of cell phones and all of that is getting difficult to acquire for people. Lots of little towns in the Council makes it difficult to look up things too. Makes me almost miss the good old days of landline phones and phone books. I don't think many of the CORs even attend those meetings or know much about what abilities they truly have. The heads of the Charter groups have a lot of power too and can put the brakes on a lot of things going on if they choose to as well.
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