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So what was the "bad" choice?

Interesting chart, would be helpful to have the copyright dates of each of the editions, since I don't know how much time has passed between the 3rd and 13th.

Ok, I don't have a Troop Committee Handbook.  Does the SPL attend Troop Committee Meetings?  Should they?

I know exactly what I'd tell my District if they tried to pull some "Unit Assessment" crap on me.

Deal with what you have, smile and nod.  Keep the Tiger Den parents informed of Pack events separately from the Den Mother (don't let her be the only conduit of information to these families).  If she wants to award the Tiger Badge, ask her if she's aware that the Bobcat needs to be done first, and offer to help and award both.

And keep an eye on Dad's future plans.  Is he planning on staying with older son in the Troop as an ASM, or maybe he'd like to stay in the Pack and be the younger son's DL once he's done with the WDL thing.  You haven't mentioned him much, so I assume he's working out fine.

I find it hilarious that the people musing about paranoid behavior in parents won't bring their scouts to the mall without being fully armed.

Our Pack is in a corner of Minneapolis, several blocks from the next pack over, and 1/4 mile from two more.  The school district locks things down, so our district (basically Minneapolis and two small suburbs) handles recruiting flyers through the school, the flyer has kick-off dates/contacts for every Pack.  Our Pack is medium-size (40), the neighbor is mega (100), and other Packs in the city run the gamut from 10-100. 

The mega Pack meets on Mondays, our Pack distinguishes itself by meeting on Thursdays.  The other Pack has a closer Pack/Troop connection (both groups meet the same night at the same place), so the Pack has more campouts with help from the Troop.  Our Pack is camping more regularly, with less help from the Troop, but I'm hoping to get that improved now that my foot is firmly being planted in the Troop dirt.

All Packs draw from all schools because of the recruiting flyer.  While I have a sizable group from one school (25%), and from our Chartered Catholic School (10%), I have 1-2 families at each of 11 different area elementary, charter, magnet, private, and suburban schools.

If you want a typical American Memorial Day or Veterans Day tribute, have a used car sale.

Yes, you can build a program from the Den up.  I built a Pack of 40 out of a Den of 7 (the Pack Meeting after the Blue/Gold/Webelos Crossover, the only 7 boys there were my den).  Do good, get trained,

Do the "old leaders" have older kids, and are on their way out?  Or are they hanging on for reasons?  If they'll be gone in a year or two, ignore them.  If they're the old coot who's been Cubmaster for 20 years, run away.  Never going to move that mountain.

Unit Commissioners don't exist.  Ignore unregistered committee members, so long as the Committee Chair has three members registered, they're good.

Does this Pack camp?  If not, do it. 

Once you start getting a good reputation for your group, help will come.  The other parents in your Den will be the first people you recruit, to be Den Leaders for little brothers, to take over fundraising, to get trained.  Then next year you expand to the younger parents, and so on.  When your Pack has a good reputation in the community, you'll get a few A#1-level parents/leaders attention, and that's all you need to get the ball rolling on its own for another 10 years.

BALOO is for Pack campouts.  If the Webelos Den Leader has OWLS (Outdoor Webelos Leader Skils training, although here its the same thing as the Boy Scout IOLS), she doesn't need BALOO for a Webelos Den campout.

If the husband of the DL is the COR, is he also the COR for the/a troop?  You may have a problem in years to come.

Little Billy can get a job outside of a Scouting Fundraiser and earn/save money for his own trip to Philmont.  Scouting Fundraisers should benefit the entire Troop.

Schools in my area do electronics recycling pickup as a fundraiser.  I'm not sure what/how that works out, but its really just a truck parked in the lot for a weekend morning, and its done. 

We're in the city, so we have no-sort recycling of cans, paper, plastics, etc.  One big blue bin.  I doubt can/paper drives can beat that convenience.

This is an annoying issue, to be sure.  I've never heard it specific to casinos, but in Minneapolis we have to deal with Megabus.  Dirt cheap bus fare to regional destinations ($1 Minneapolis to Chicago advertised), but they make up for it by not having terminals, shelters, or any permission to use a local area as a stop.  Businesses around the "stops" are annoyed by crowds sitting waiting for buses, using their stores/public areas.

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1019213/14/Megabus-stop-stirring-up-controversy-in-Mpls

Of course, local ordinance governs bus services, and parking fees/permits/tickets can cut down on abuse.

He won't need to earn Webelos first under the new program.  And several of the new program pins are cribbed from the old program (Natrualist=Into the Wild, etc), so getting his electives done should be a shoe-in depending on what the rest of the Den is doing.  Camper and Scouting Adventurer should be shoe-ins if your Den is working on Arrow of Light core requirements and camping with a troop.  The other boys can earn the Cyber Chip, too.  If he gets the new program book, let the other boys look at it, maybe they'll want to earn some of those new elective pins, too (so long as they're not just copying from earlier earned pins).

Or, you could ask the family if they want to push to earn the AOL award with the other boys.  Its Cub Scouts, so "Do Your Best".  If not, just have fun, and he still gets to cross over.

What were you planning to do between now and March, anyways?

So, the Chartered Org has a big, annual fundraising festival.  They have children's games, and the Pack (and the Catholic School) often signs up in shifts to staff the booths (and in uniform, to help with visibility/recruiting).  The booths are in the same area (under a large tent) that beer is served.  Someone asked if it is appropriate for Cub Scouts to be helping around alcohol.  I never thought about it before, and the tradition was started before I got here (the previous Committee Chair is now one of the festival chairs).

Thoughts?

Hello from down south!  https://www.cpcbsa.org/ We just re-did our page.  I so surf your page and it is very nice.  I too look at other Council's websites for info and ideas.

Best 404 page ever.

Just like people forgetting that "Under God" wasn't added to the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954 (with some groups using the term as early as 1948).

Yes!  No pull-up for Tenderfoot, so no argument about what is considered "improvement"!

In 1987, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in favor of the BSA (Quinnipac Council), that the BSA had a right to reject applications for Scoutmaster from women.  In 1988, the BSA abolished the gender requirement.

Can anyone, please, refer me to any case since then where a troop/chartered organization has been "forced" via lawsuit or civil authority to accept an application from a woman troop leader?

Speaking about sales, our Pack's Top Popcorn Sellers get a special call-out, everyone gets their prizes announced, very soon after the sale ended, and thanked for their participation.  For my daughters' GS Troops Cookies, the prizes came in at the end of the year (probably same amount of time in months), and were handed out in discrete paper bags so they wouldn't compare/know who sold the most.

And exactly how big is the LCMS, as compared to the ELCA, in the number of chartered units?  The BSA groups them (and the Wisconsin Synod) all under "Lutheran". 

I find the LCMS to be an odd duck to start with.  They are the group that reprimanded a pastor for participating in an interfaith vigil after the Sandy Hook Massacre.

From http://www.traillifeusa.com/generalfaqs

I also think its a stretch to believe that 100% of current LDS members/units will cease to exist if the LDS pulls out.  A sizable portion will convert to standard Packs/Troops with a different chartering organization.

I was annoyed at my son for taking Chess and Game Design both at camp, but he was following what most of his troop was already doing.  At least he got them out of the way and won't take them next year.  He also did Fish and Wildlife Management/Mammal Studies, and Beginners Swimming Lessons. 

But he also got in plenty of aquatics, boating, fishing, service project, rifle and shotgun, archery, climbing, team building, handicrafts, and more through out troop and free time.  It was a good experience.