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I ran into the same frustration. My logical engineering mind couldn’t understand how to explain the budget of a youth program dynamic of activities we couldn’t predict would occur. I took it personally. But it wasn’t personal at all. My CPA wife explained that the church has to account for all their assets and activities. The budget is a baseline to keep track of their performance. As far as they are concerned, your troop is just asset “D” on the budget list. They can’t even guess asset D’s cost to the church, so they are asking the operators of asset D. Your basic answer is Ds operation will

Welcome to the forum. I'm Catholic. We don't have an annual Congregational Meeting. So please forgive me if I don't completely understand how you do things. My feeling is that your Boy Scout troop should follow the same procedures that are customarily followed for all of the other programs and activities at your Church. If all of the other programs submit a budget for approval at the Congregational Meeting, then your troop should do so too. I am reluctant to comment on whether or not your Church treats people like children, since we customarily refer to our clergy as "father".

Your experience parallels ours. I still find voice to voice communication to be the most reliable. second most is a bulletin board. thirdly, web sign-ups (our webmaster uses Google forms are working, but roughly. No worse than paper, but no better either. Scoutbook is showing a lot of promise, but has a ways to go. At least our CO gave us the wifi password, so we can work on resolving issues at meetings.

I share many of your opinions in your email. I fully believe emails are for adults / parents. In this day and age, parents expect good communication. Period. Though scouts are responsible, it is expected in any organization to have good parental communication. Mailing lists ... We use SOAR to manage mailing lists. It does a great job and is one of SOAR's best features. Automatically manages mailing lists. Secures who can send and who gets replies. Well formatted. Automatic weekly well formatted news letters. Scout communication ... My experience is we can't control how

Fellow Scouters: As it's been ~ 3-1/2 years since the last reply to this excellent question and thread, I thought I'd resurrect it in case some blessed Scouter has found the right recipe for intra-patrol, SPL, & intra-PLC, and intra-troop communications. INTRA-TROOP: For me, intra-troop communications is synonymous with "parental" communications, and eMail is satisfactory. We have five patrols; accordingly I've established five patrol aliases with as many parent & scout eMail accounts as possible. Proven advantages & disadvantages include: Advantages: Patrol-spe

Because in real life, a good job speaks for itself, and no amount of beureaucratic window-dressing will improve a bad job. If it's legible, and you still want it on a computer, take pictures of it.

Thank you all for you thoughtful responses. I wanted to put this out there to temper my initial emotional response and hear varying perspectives. I have listened and considered each of your points. I do agree that a stronger policy on meds and phones would have spared the troop this misfortune. Thank you to those who pointed that out. A few answers to queries: I am a trained leader. I have also completed the committee chair training as well as the merit badge counselor training. There was another Scout leader present. It should be noted both he and the scoutmaster are good friends. This

Nah, chances are they're still clean. Everyone knows Scouts don't change underwear at camp.