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So sounds like Scouting America is trying to determine if their core/base membership has changed. I wonder if this is going to be aggregated to council level or something else. I would love to see this data and compare it to my geographic area. -
The big change happened in 2020/2021 ish with the charter language being updated due to CO's liquidating units to take the resources for themselves. My opinion is increasingly becoming that council boards and district executives prefer it this way and are avoiding engaging the CORs. In my council I find this to be the case but it is the OA's fault as they have an inner circle of <insert non-scout language here> that block everything from happening that they can't take credit for or can't control that has anything to do with the council growing or modernizing.
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This is so crazy. The last BOR I sat on was literally done like this "Little Billy needs a BOR, he doesn't care that he's going to miss part of the troop meeting; Mr. Tron are you available to sit on his BOR?" me "Absolutely. I'll be right there."
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My troop growing up held BoRs after committee meetings which were concurrent with a troop meeting upstairs from where the troop met. Scouts stayed after the meeting for their BoR, waiting for the SM to finish his report to the committee. We literally were “up for review.” Every troop manages business differently, but reviewing youth progress and personal growth should be priority business. -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
Give them that advice. Your experience and intuition matter. 😜
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