Nelson

Guys I have a couple of questions: 1. Should our troop have committee members meeting? Is there a specific amount per year that is suggested. Our Chairman dislikes them and tries to stay away from having them. But I know the committe challenge taught us we should have them. 2. Our troop has not been very active in helping the scouts who have held some support positions such as librarian, Scrib, quartermaster, historian, etc. I suggested that we have parents choose a perticular position and act as a mentor to that scout at least to start off this next election in April. Then after the sc

I'm a committee member of a long established troop who has a chairman who might not be as productive as the committee would like. This chairman started the troop 15 years ago and no longer has a child or vested interest in the troop except he enjoys the position. He is the treasurer and chair. He usually is resistant to new ideas and is hard to approach. Any time we want a committe meeting, which he is suppose to schedule he puts it off. It has been 10 months since the last one and I had to force that one.I think I have forced another one for next week with the request we get a set date for th