I have heard of units (the scouts) voting to have the SPL request a leader stay on when their scouts age out. It seems more ceremonial than anything, like a vote of confidence to try and get a beloved leader to stick around.
In my neck of the woods very few of the councils seem to have all of the mandatory committees. As far as I know, at best my council's safety committee(s) [there are technically two required now] are on paper only, I have never heard of them meeting or putting out anything to the various district committees.
I see what you guys are saying, and it makes sense from a point of view that a scout might not care and wants to just chill; however, the parent told me the scout wants to go to NYLT (has wanted to go for a couple of years). I don't know of any variance that allows a scout to attend NYLT without being at least 1st Class rank. So the NYLT thing really indicates that the scout wants to get to 1st Class but isn't getting there for some reason.