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technically no, but today is the 21st of July, that means you have 10 days to make an alternative plan. how bout meeting at the park for a water balloon fight, and then a clean up project to clean up your water balloons and eat watermelon. or meet at the city pool for swimming or go to someone's house with a big backyard and run thru the sprinklers. lots of ideas, just do something fun together to reconnect with all the scouts.

Who is your chartered org? Maybe they are the ones with the 501c3 since they own the unit.

In our troop the existing leadership goes over the requirements for positions the week before elections, usually with a review before election day. The troop has a bunch of rules for who can run for what position, they want SPL to have NYLT, and obviously 1st class. they have attendance % listed, but they are not enforced or tracked in any way. and of course the list of rules is in the 58 page bylaws, so it's likely to be adult created list, not scout created. but anywhooooo. the boys seem to talk amongst themselves ahead of time, recomending each other,and pushing each other to see w

I can answer your questions, but our Council day camp is all I have info on, we don't have district day camps that I know of. It runs every 3 days thru june into first week of july,not on sundays. We have about 300 scouts at each of the sessions, with 9 sessions and some sessions going into overflow we get almost 3000 cubs thru the doors. It's a twilight camp from 3-9pm. There is a theme each year. um, cost is $65 includes hat and tshirt, plus patches and archery and bbgun belt loops/pins if earned. Uses council property, and with the snack bar they make enough money to pay the r

I don't know how long the council has not been entering advancements, it may only be a year, but with a large council that ends up being a LOT of advancment sheets. and once you get behind it's a booger bear to get caught up. I know the name has to match exactly and the Date Of Birth. some scouts their applications spelled out their whole middle name, but whoever entered them at council only put the middle initial, so all of their records wouldn't upload from troopmaster. but there are some records where it took some of the merit badges uploaded from troopmaster and some of them didn't

Sounds like time for a scoutmaster conference with the boy to privately find out what is going on in his life, what the rumors are that are going around, behavior at troop outings and expectations for improvement in behavior. Or maybe that's been done and it needs to go up a notch to a scoutmaster, CC, committee person(COR or other) "board of review" to determine if this is a discipline issue that can be solved within the troop and create a plan of action to help the boy out, or if the boy is more than the adults know how to deal with. Either way a meeting to explain the no drugs, no violenc

Well the way I understand it is that the US part of the company has already gone thru bankruptcy, and it's settled or almost. The international part is going thru a restructuring about like bankruptcy but not exactly like in the US. so far there has been no mention of touching the troop funds in any way, but we'll have to ask outright by declaring the balance in the checking account to get them to sign off to council so we can get a new co. so who knows what they will do. It's gonna be interesting, but we have a couple of lawyers and accountants looking into it. Of course some people said t

You know the more money they have, the less likely the committee is to vote to approve spending the money. The scoutmaster suggested fillin the troop library with one new edition of the full color merit badge books, and having the troop librarian go thru and use them to help him determine which of the other merit badge books are too out of date. There is a whole footlocker full of books going back well not the full 80 years, anyone want collector's editions of these things? But the committee said that was too much money to spend and the boys would just take them home and lose them.

Well, um, I probably shouldn't air ALLLLLL the troop dirty laundry on the internet, but hey, that's what you guys are here for, right? This troop has been in existence in a fairly well off part of town for almost 85 years. The CO used to be a very expensive resort, so yeah, there was always extra cash floating around. The CO actually is going thru bankruptcy internationally, and we are looking for a new CO before the end of the year. Of course, existing CO does own the money in the troop coffers, so we may not have this problem of too much money if the CO decides to keep their

So how much money do you regularly have in your troop checking account? What is a good amount for an emergency fund? or a slush fund (for slushies on a hot summer's day or other silly fun)? after taking out scout account balances I think we are at $26k and that amount wanders slightly upward every year, it never seems to go down, even when they decide to donate a ramada to scout camp and buy an AED, or other pet projects of particular scout families. Where is the falling over smilie, or the hitting your head against a brick wall smilie? The committee thinks we are a "n

1 someone said that if an adult goes to summer camp they are automatically made a member of the troop committee. How does that work out if they have to fill out an application & do Youth Protection Training? That doesn't seem very automatic. 2 Scout received his Tenderfoot rank badge tonight, and is all excited and happy. Helped an older scout with some of his stuff in Tenderfoot, so he didn't just get the book signed, he knows the stuff well enough to teach it. Yeah! 3 Yes our troop has a bit of a stockpile of badges. BUT advancement forms are turned in to council regular

Well I've seen the file at council where the advancement reports get put after you turn them in at the scout shop to buy your badges. Nobody looks at them further than to see ok it's troop 123 and there are signatures as needed. There is no place for names, only signatures, so unless council persons can identify which chicken scratched signature belongs to which troop committee person, there is no real way to check this except at the troop level. In this instance, it was actually 1 registered troop committee person, 1 troop parent who used to be a registered scouter but isn't curr

So you want to charge the boys $25 for troop gear. so that everyone pays for the gear they use. what about the boys who only go on a couple of campouts a year because they have sports, or school committments? They have to pay the whole $25 even though other boys use the tents more often? In our troop they charge an extra fee to cover the cost of basically "rental/replacement" of the troop equipment. usually it's like $5 a campout. so if a boy goes on 5 campouts, he's paid the $25 fee for troop equipment but it didn't hurt, nobody noticed it. Then have a fundraiser, and tho

That doesn't sound like a veto. That sounds like a CC who went home and thought about it, and perhaps was contacted by several parents who cannot afford yet another scouting fee. Depending on your troop finances, this may be something necessary, or something that just seems like what you should do. For instance, our troop has a LOT of money, but committee often will vote to pass costs on to the scouts, when the troop could and should pay for the items out of the troop funds. The CC or COR occassionally has "put his foot down" that the troop has the funds, the parents don't have

Richard B writes "The site counter informs me that there are 1253 active users. About .1% of the regsitered adults. Can you imagine what the 99.9% also come up with as what is a "water gun" and how can I use it. " While the site counter shows you how many active users, this site is used by a bunch more scouters as their source of clarifying information about confusing BSA policies, when BSA policy writers refuse to clarify the information themselves. Like in this instance. I read at this site for almost 5 years before ever registering, and have learned a LOT from the experience

I prefer cozy, friends getting together to make the program work for my cub scout pack. not too worried about who does what or if it's in their job title or not, I never moved and seconded and voted for anything except when the committee wanted to require every parent fill out a leader application and for my replacement as CC. Everything else was we came to a consensus, we asked for input, we paid for the stuff we needed to pay for, and we didn't buy stuff we didn't need, and it was cozy and friendly. We had a small one page guideline on some of our standing policies--how much we charge per

ACP&P says "After a Scout has completed all requirements for Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, and Life ranks, or an Eagle Palm, he appears before a board of review. This board of review is made up of at least three and not more than six members of the troop committee" That's what the troop committee is complaining about regarding the Tenderfoot BOR. under Eagle it says "The board of review for an Eagle candidate is composed of a minimum of three members and a maximum of six members, 21 years of age or older. The Scout may have no input into the

sorry to be confusing, I'll edit the OP to clarify. No ASM sat on the board of review. most of the adults at camp were ASM's, there weren't enough troop committee members to have 3 adults not related to the scout for the BOR. so a parent sat on the BOR that was not a registered troop committee person to make the 3 necessary adults. some troop committee members have issue with this and are worried about my son's BOR being official. I'm not worried but would like clarification on the issue. He did fine on the board of review, his older brother is ASPL so he's used to

Our troop just had a change of scoutmaster, we ended up kinda heavy on assistant scoutmasters, they are working to shuffle people around. so at summer camp last week, my young scout completed everything for Tenderfoot and got his Scoutmaster Conference. For Board of Review, there were too many ASM's there, and only 2 committee members plus my husband who is committee member but couldn't sit on his own son's BOR. So they pulled in a "regular old parent" (not currently registered as troop committee, used to be a Cubmaster)as a 3rd person for the Board of Review. Now there is a

depends on what the issue is and why. If it's the committee got carried away and voted for something against the law, against the BSA rules (like adding to requirements or ignoring tour permits requirements or stuff like that) or against common sense, I could see the CC "putting their foot down" about an issue. I would hope the CC would be contacting the COR and the SM or CM and trying to figure out what went wrong right there, consider more training for committee or something. If it's a petty thing, I could see committee either leaving or contacting the COR themselves. so what's

Firearm n. A gun, pistol, or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder. water pistol n a toy pistol that squirts a stream of water or other liquid Also called water gun or squirt gun. I think it is absurd to equate something that squirts water to something that shoots projectiles at high velocity.

I've been complaining about the error in the 2010 program book for counting electives since before it was the 2010 program book and was just a fast tracks program in experimental phase. the person who wrote the 2010 program for Bear did not understand what the book said, and did not pay close attention to following it to the letter. they made up their own rules and BSA rubber stamped it. And it's wrong. It's similar to the Webelos craftsman 2010 program starting 2 woodworking projects in den meetings, and then telling the boys they completed craftsman when they need to do 4 pro

I know women who have had to remove tampons and pads in order to get thru security, because the nakey scanners see them as something scary. Yeah, I'm not sure that kind of thing increases our security one iota. If you believe that the pat downs make us any safer, then why not full strip searches or body cavity searches? I do not care if the TSA agent does or does not get pleasure from feeling inside of someone's underwear, it sure gives them a lot of power over us. I dislike the illusion that we are telling our children that it is ok for complete strangers to feel of your body parts w

Check out http://www.hospicenet.org/html/child.html Hospice websites like the above usually have a LOT of info on how to help children and teenagers deal with grief and the loss of a parent. They also break things down by age, as a young child will need and understand death differently than an adolescent, and different still than a teenager. Teenagers seem to want to talk about their grief with their peers, where younger kids gravitate towards their parent to help them deal with it. Realize that he may get very very angry at you. sometimes the anger is directed at any surviving paren

Our Boy Scout Camp commissioners help people get settled, check in with the unit if there are issues, do campsite inspections, and they usher boys thru to wash their hands for the dining hall, and count heads at various times. Not hard work at all, just extra bodies to help camp run smoothly.