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  1. I know what you mean about the negative balances and borrowing from them as well, I totally can see the same thing. I think everyone just figured it was them who should pay since they chose that fundraiser over a cheaper one we could have done. Good to know that's wrong I was told last night my son is the one with the negative account of 58.00. I was upset I had no idea he was negative this was the first I was hearing about it. She told me 10.00 of it was for advancement from crossover in March however my son had 60.00 in his account a few weeks before summer camp in May or Jun
  2. It does sound crazy doesn't it I was talking to people and getting confused myself, I thought our account was negative the general fund that is, this is what I was being told, then I was hearing this weekend there was only 60.00 available, then my husband looked into the bank account at the bank and there is a balance of 580.00 with nothing pending, then we looked at the escrow and there is about 600.00 in there but our flag is pending so there is an actual balance of 400.00 there I think, there may be one other pending on that one but it would be only 200 leaving at least 200.00 there.
  3. yes so we can sell popcorn, they have to say our budget is ok or we can't sell. Now they help you do a better one if your interested though. thier goal is to help us.
  4. I am actually not involved in any of this, all of it is from outside observations between the cc and the treasurer. All I did as I stated here quite a few times was simply come and ask one question, it was my own personal question no one else in the troop asked it. I merely wanted to know had anyone heard of just having scout accounts and no gerneral fund or vice versa a general and no scouts accounts. I was just curious I was somewhere with some members of our troop when this came up from someone else I simply wanted to be informed is all. I do not have conflicts with the cc we
  5. We are doing really well at being boy led, our male leaders are very on top of things when it comes to teaching the boys how to run the troop. We currently have 2 patrols with 3 in one patrol and 4 in another, plus a senior patrol leader as well. We had 4 and 4 but one of our scouts is a paranoid schizophrenic (not sure if that's spelled right) he dropped out for awhile without telling anyone and wouldn't talk to anyone when we called. Finally he told his mother he just "knew" the other kids were making fun of him and talking about him and everyone hated him. It's not true it's a side effect o
  6. boomerscout: That is an awesome list of gear thanks so much I copied that into word and printed off a few copies for leaders to look over as well. You know there are small lists in the boy scout handbooks I think on what kind of stuff scouts need but nothing as thourough as that, or broken up into troop provided scout provided. The items for scouts to purchase was in reference to us depositing money into escrow to pay in the shop with no tax for non troop items. Someone said it was illegal or they thought it moght be I was replying saying these were not frivilous pruchases these wer
  7. Wow this hs gotten way off I think it's all my fault though sorry. it's not illegal as far as I know troops and packs have been doing it in our council for at least the 6 years I have been here and probably before I came. We are purchasing things for someone in the troop a boy or a game for the boys perhaps, not going in and buying uniforms and t-shirts and stupid things. All we ever buy is Merit Badge books that I am currently building a library out of for the troop as well as the game we bought and some things for boys in the troop itself. An escrow is not just for advancement. It'
  8. nolesrule: We have a great set of parents in our troop who started it together and have never grumbled or complained about sharing expenses for big items, however it also has never been a mandatory thing it's always if you can afford it or if you want to no explanation needed if you can't help or just plain don't want to. Our boys fourtunately do not know of any this money stuff right now, thank goodness becasue your right it would be a bad example. It's not the treasurer complaining of the money it's the comitte chair, she has issues with so much we do and say and is very contr
  9. I wasn't implying that we would do 30 MB in one session I was just saying we are qualified to teach about that many if we wanted or needed to. I am all for the hands on of teaching I agree retention is bet that way. We even go so far as to have scouts who already have it help teach it the skill that is because you truely learn and retain something when you teach it. Tana Keeta was bad, I give them the benefit though it was the first week of a year with a new camp director and about 85% new boy staff, but there was just a lack of training for them, it wasn't thier fault it just wasn't prov
  10. Gulf Stream is our council, we don't live there though we live north of there. Our other fundraiser is Mega Scout Show tickets. I know what you mean about the finances being confusing, it is for me as well, this was why we were questioning this person saying we needed so much money all the time. When we really don't. The pizza cards are national cards not local pizza shops, big mistake I know. We do a lot of community service projects, we cleaned the fairgrounds, they planted trees at TK, they do about 4 hours a month at least doing TK service at the camp things like the trees,
  11. nolesrule: the 25.00 a month fee is optional in a way, we made it basically a rule that they need to have a minimum balance of at least that to participate in the activity, other wise mom and/or dad needs to pay for the cost of it. We have things like for instance the Indian Lore Merit badge workshop (a ripoff for the cost if you ask me) it was 30.00 a person to attend including SM and ASM it did not give an option to not eat dinner and the SM did not do anything while there but walk with the troop to each station. We were not happy but this is the way our district and council rus th
  12. Well first of all, we bought the monopoly game for the boys to have for rainy days at campouts, we never in a million years would expect to be paid for it never! We are not hurting for equipment we have enough tents for all our boys to double up and for 4 SM's to go as well, we have a trailer that my husband and I donated to the troop, and we filled it with stuff, there is a fire cooking grate, giant pots and cooking gear, pretty much everything they need at the size we are right now. I don't personally think we "need" anything. I have to say once again it is other people who are say
  13. scoutldr: Yes I am Woodbadge trained however I feel I walked away still needing to learn more, I mean don't get me wrong it was an awesome training and I love what we did and I worked my tickets but our council is so leanent on what your tickets can be an example would be sign up to be a merit badge counsler, or join the district committee. Now don't get me wrong those are great things we totally need them but I don't feel they as tickets would teach us anything really. No I was not going to be outside alone just me and him, sorry that sounded wrong there were about 10 people outsi
  14. First off I want to say thank you to all of you for such great info I really have learned alot. I can say it was the scoutmaster, the treasurer and myself who were thinking of changing things. Now I think I have learned that things need to change but in a different way. I am going to meet with them and propose we keep the accounts the way they are with individual scout accounts and the seperate troop fund account. I am planning on proposing that we change our strategy though, I think someone on here had a great idea to make certain fundraisers troop fund only fundrasiers. I thi
  15. Well I guess I should have given more info. I am not questioning individual scout accounts we are all for that, we are questioning a troop seperate account, I and some others don't think we need a troop account right now. Ok we started our troop again with seed money for the boys acounts from a council fundraiser, the troop account was started with individual deposits made by parents. These were and are seperate accounts today. However our troop account is in the negative (virtually that is) and we currently owe money to the boys if we were to continue in this fashion. We had a spage
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