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I would say that it totally has to depend on the leadership positions. Scouts can hold a combination of the following; Historian, Scribe, and Librarian. Scouts can usually hold a troop position and be a Den Chief at the same time...and it will be up to him to decide which one comes first in the time of conflict. He just needs to remember to communicate with the Den Leader and Scoutmaster. Scouts should probably not hold another position while serving as Quartermaster. At least in our troop this a time consuming position. Your Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Senior Patro

I would hope that in a pack the Committee Chairman could work on long-range goals and planning while the Cubmaster and Assistant Cubmaster worry about program details. In older pack there are often going to be Pack Trainers and Den Leader Coaches who have been there and done that who are able to provide great resources for pack leadership. Both units should have someone in charge of their Membership Recruitment. In our district there are usually 2 or 3 annual recruitment events for Cub Scouts where the district works with the unit's membership coordinator in recruiting new scouts.

The Boy Scout Troop Committee would not oversee the new Cub Scout Pack. These are two seperate units with two seperate leadership teams. If some of the adults wanted to register with both units, and the Chartered Organization allowed this, that would be fine. The only similarity might be the Chartered Organization. Remember that each has its own unique needs which will require dedicated volunteers. If you wanted to start a pack in August then you should be talking to your District Executives for help on starting a new unit. They will help your Chartered Organization understand the

I haven't taken Wood Badge... but the one thing that pops into my head when talking about adults wearing patrol patches would be that they took Wood Badge. That they are wearing the patrol patch for the patrol they were in during Wood Badge. I don't know what the adults are told when taking Wood Badge regarding the wearing of these patches but that's just what I'm thinking

I have been in the same troop for 10 years (as a scout and now as an adult leader). Two weekends ago we took the troop to Springfield, IL to visit our state capital and look at all the museums. It was a great trip! The scouts had fun. The adults had fun. Everyone learned something. The only other time we visit a museum is during the US Grant Pilgrimage held in Galena, IL.

In our troop we call it the Life to Eagle Coordinator. This position is held by an Eagle Scout who is a Committee Member. The current perso has also been the District Life to Eagle Coordinator. In the troop he sits down with the scout once he reaches the rank of Life and goes through the remaining steps to get his Eagle. He makes sure they understand the necessary paperwork, signuatures, and gives him ideas for projects. He coordinates the Eagle Board of Review. He sends the paperwork to the council and gets it back from national. He orders the Eagle Award package. In our troop

I would be extremely surprised if you had to call a scout or his parents to determine the reason they dropped out. As an active Assistant Scoutmaster I know the reasons that most of our scouts dropped out. If I don't personally know the reason I know other parents in the troop who will be friends with the scout's family and will know why they left scouting. To me it's something that is very important to know. If a boy dropped out because of sports then at least you know you can follow up. If he dropped out because he was bored you know that something needs to be changed in your pr

I have started working with our Boy Scouts on this award. You probably won't find anything in any of the Scout Handbooks because it is a BSA program. The service that I am going to count for our scouts is Scouting for Food. To me collecting food is a service the benefits the community at large. Just one idea though.

The Boy Scout Handbook lists the requirements for the National Honor Patrol Award (which I assume is the same as the BP Patrol Award?) somewhere within the first 50? pages. It's before the section about the rank of Tenderfoot. The page is yellow.

Yes units can get more out of other fundraisers. HOWEVER, no unit is forced to sell popcorn. If you don't want to then don't. Let's leave this fundraiser available and running for those units that want to do it. For those that like the organization (incentive program, incentives for selling over $1200 as a scout, etc), the help provided by the district staff, and much more. Nothing stops you from doing this fundraiser and others. Nothing stops you from not doing this fundraiser, but doing others. If you want to provide popcorn sales then simply thanks for supporting your local cou

So stop FOS and popcorn and charge each family $100? NOT ENOUGH! The current amount, per scout, mentioned by FOS is something like $109. That is per scout. If you stop doing FOS then each family needs to contribute at least that amount. Then you take away popcorn. Our troop alone makes roughly a $1,000 contribution to the council for this. If we divide that by the number of registered scouts in our unit that gives them roughly another $33 contribution. So the total that our scouts would have to donate just to the council/national to make up for this is $142. When I

In our troop we credit hours worked at a car wash, meal fundraiser, etc. by the number of hours worked multipled by the "hourly pay rate". We take the precentage that was airmarked for the scouts and divide it by the number of total hours worked by all scouts. This gives you the "hourly pay rate". You multiply that "hourly pay rate" by the number of hours worked by each individual scout. This gives you their amount for that event. When we do ticket sales scouts earn a bonus of $5 per each $50 sold in tickets. This amount is deducted from the revenue of the event that the ticket was so

We haven't had these problems in our troop. All of our equipment is maintained exactly the same. The tents are all of the same age (a year or two apart). As we get new tents they are assigned to a patrol. It doesn't matter who the QM is and what they patrol they are in the tents are all the same. The patrol boxes are all of the same quality also. The Patrol Leader is responsible for making sure that all items are there and that any items that need to be replaced are reported to the Troop Quartermaster. In our troop we unload all the equipment at the same time. The patrol gear

1) It seems to me that if you have two or three patrols that are going to be drawn together to solve a problem that one of the Patrol Leaders are going to become the "leader" of the Patrol Leaders to help pull them together and lead the discussion. At this point you already have a ad hoc Senior Patrol Leader. In our troop we have monthly Patrol Leader's Council Meetings. Here the boy leadership of the troop will decide on program for the meetings and outings for the month, discuss any discipline problems, do some future planning, and do some leadership training. Whose responsible for e

We have two experienced patrols, a new scout patrol, and a Older Scout Patrol. The average patrol size is 7 scouts. Each of these patrols as a Patrol Leader. On the troop level we have: 1) Senior Patrol Leader: Chairs the monthly Patrol Leader's Council meeting, chairs each troop meeting (conducts openings, ensures that skills are ready to be taught, works with other troop leaders in completing their job assignments, etc.), serves as emcee for our quarterly Court of Honor, serves as a liasion between the adult leaders and scouts, and takes the lead in planning and coordinating the

Bob I have already mentioned that I do not support realigning patrols unless absolutly necessary. I did this when I said that our troop's Scoutmaster, Senior Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Jr. Assistant Scoutmaster, Patrol Leader's Council, and I discussed ways to prevent doing this. Our solution was decreasing the number of patrols, matching scouts with similar interests, creating an older scout patrol, and to continue filtering new scouts (after they reach First Class or the first year in the troop) into existing patrols. I will agree that each individual task is not a

1. At the end of a year or when First Class is reached our new scouts are placed into regular patrols. We look at these scout's interest and match them into one of our existing patrols. We have never had a complaint because of this. 2. Bob White in an ideal world scouts would feel obligated to go to campouts if they knew that it would effect their patrol. HOWEVER, many scouts are involved in multiple school activities, church youth group, Boy Scouts, Venture Crews, driving, working, 4H, etc. A lot of times it is a combination of these things. This prevents a lot of scouts from going

Up until the beginning of this year we made a problem with every campout we had to temporarily realign patrols for each campout we attended. We never had enough scouts from each patrol to have the actual patrols. A lot of times we were stuck with having 2 patrols forged together. At the beginning of this year the Scoutmaster and myself (an Assistant Scoutmaster) looked at the patrols and looked for a solution. We included the Senior Patrol Leader and Jr. Assistant Scoutmaster in our discussions. We knew that we had 20-25 active scouts (with 33 registered). The next thing we looked at

Our district does have some guidelines in place that can earn the unit website a certifed status from the district. The link to their site is: http://www.sycamorebsa.com/Guidelines.htm Our unit website, which I first created and turned over a year and a half ago, is www.orgsites.com/il/troop159. Orgsites is a location that allows for tons of help and simpilfication of methods.

Our troop has the Eagle's family plan the Court of Honor. We will help with anything they want us to. We will do anything from sitting down with the family and organizing it to simply being there at the Court of Honor. The reason we do this is not because we don't care about the new Eagle Scout, but that we want the family to have their say in their special day. We want them to invite those that made a difference in their son's life. We want past teachers, extended family members, former Cub Scout Leaders, employers, etc there. We also want the family to feel comfortable planning a c

I'm reading this I think it's a great cause. The Council is looking for scouts and scouters to stand up for something that they believe in, the program. They are looking for scouts and scouters to be present to show that this issue impacts normal people. Plus the scouts and scouters will get a free tour of the capital.

At our district's last Roundtable we had our annual Fireside Chat. This is where members of the Council (professionals, Commish, President, etc.) come to discuss important issues with unit volunteers in the district. During the chat the issue of membership popped up. Our Council's Membership Chairman mentioned that the county's population is increasing. This is true. However, most of the increase is due to an increase in the hispanic population. It was noted during the chat that the district is not keeping up with the population growth. So...how do your units recruit from the

Today at 3pm there was a school shooting at Northern IL University. There is very little information, but the student news group has informed media outlets that there were 15 people shot and two killed, including the shooter. The incident was, as the officials are putting it, confined to a single lecture hall, Cole Hall. The motive is still unclear. The school is still under lockdown and all events are canceled for tonight and tommorow. The gunman was not an NIU student. I live about 45 minutes from the school campus. I am a sophomore at our local community college. The only reason that

I graduated high school in 2006 so I'm still a full time student. My goal is to become a High School History teacher. Currently I work about 20 hours a week for the local school district as a substitute custodian. I also have a small lawn mowing "hobby" on the side that brings in some money. In the past I have been employed as a Head Cashier at Menards, Office Assistant for an Insurance Agent, and an Day Care Assistant for the local school district.

In my troop I was always one of the top salespeople. At the beginning of my scout experience the brunt of the sales were on me. As I got older I stopped trying to sale as much (I simply didn't care) and my dad started selling more (my dad also became the Scoutmaster toward the end of my scouting experience as a scout). My order form almost always had what I called the person by (ie: Grandma and Grandpa). I have lived in IL and used to sale a bunch of popcorn to my family in Michigan. For these people the only address I only ever put was Michigan.