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Starting salary range for DE is not much higher in metro areas. Southern New England, it's set at about $42,000/year. To put that into perspective, my local Dunkin Donuts is hiring at $17/hour to start. The Taco Bell a town over has a big help wanted sign out, starting wage up to $19/hour. Turnover is and has been high in my council and neighboring councils for as long as I've been involved as an adult, and I would say that the majority who have come and gone that I have interacted with have been good individuals, they just have come to realize they can make more money and work a less stressfu

Or stand to gain financially either way. Which in this case he has a) no need for, or b) there isn't anything in the till to gain. I hope he does have an abundance of energy, because what the org needs now more than ever is for his face to be in every press venue possible to sell the org. I'm personally perfectly fine if I never hear from the CSA as a volunteer, so long as I can at least see he (or she) are handling the PR role to help keep youth engaged.

National Supply never orders a handful of anything from their manufacturers. If they are re-stocking olive green shorts, size Youth - Medium, they are ordering in the thousands and warehousing them (on the basis that buying in larger bulk = lower price per item to them). If they spent $3,000,000 in January on various sizes of green shorts, then they should have on their balance sheet a continuing liability each month until they indeed are able to shift those as stock to sales (corporate bookkeeping would want you to know how much that stock is a rolling asset). For Venturing, you have Ven

I would never presume that BSA keeps such a list of significant detail on the position that a registered adult served in going back in time, just that an individual was registered. There would be a pretty slim chance that anything from the 60's has ever been digitized to easily scan, and most likely those records are archived. My particular council has only existed for slightly longer than five years, and the legacy councils that merged were also resulting from mergers over the previous four decades, so something that old I can guarantee for our council is kept in a Banker's Box in a storage l

Something is going to have to give on the Venturing/Sea Scout programs. The amount of money BSA is spending in stock of items specific to those programs alone has to be a drain. In corporate world, even having to hold items in inventory translates to ongoing expense (warehousing storage). Like the programs, would hate to think of a time we don't have them, but the amount of money BSA has to have poured into merchandise expense at a time when they are raising fees overall every year makes me sick to my stomach.

I hear from Scouters from NYC that GC has had a huge endowment and probably has been tapping into it for a few years. They don't have a big professional staff, but realistically every one of those staff are effectively unit-centric, there are no (real and/or metaphorical) "layers" to go through before you can get to the SE or even Council President. It is a lot like much of the country 40-50 years ago. Cape Cod & Islands Council, though bigger territory, is very small total number of Scouts (and declining year-over-year) with only like three professional staff. The SE is also the

Greenwich Council BSA (greenwichscouting.org)

@fred8033said a lot that crossed my mind, and said it well. CC, let alone the COR, should only be a support system to those who should be delivering program to the Scouts (SM/ASMs). Having been CC for two units, my role was really only to get the parents to assist for the roles that either the Scouts don't have anything to do with or are minimal ambassadors for (recruiting, completing paperwork, making sure fundraisers are planned and executed well). If your son has had his Eagle BoR, then congratulations, he is an Eagle Scout. The CoH does not an Eagle make, it is just a recognitio

The original post asked YP questions and mentions troops. If now we are just saying "it's just families getting together", then so be it. Absolutely nothing from that weekend then would apply to program- no rank requirements get signed off, nights do not count as Scout camping, etc.

Unfortunately, I think you are missing the point that @Eagle94-A1is getting at- in some units, only Scouts sign-off when it comes to rank advancement requirements. In our troop, we do not want adult leaders signing requirements for Scout-First Class, we only want any other Scout that is Star/Life/Eagle doing it. SM can get their QA check at SM conference, which is more a learning experience for the SM to have with the Scout who did the signing if there is an issue. SB bypasses that stuff. We have really only had one Scout who ever took to trying to mark things in SB anyway, so not a real issue

NOAC 2024 | Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America (oa-bsa.org) Lodges are supposed to get the info packets at some point in August with more details.

Congress commissioned it- it was installed in 1964

Being that Carpenter is only 3 miles away, and has some fairly excellent meeting facilities, this feels like a no brainer to just put the HQ there (as mentioned, the Scout Shop has been there for some time, and there is an excellent museum there as well).

This. The ASPL is chosen by the SPL to be their stand-in when they are not available. Assistant Senior Patrol Leader (ASPL) Job Description: The Assistant Senior Patrol Leader is the second highest-ranking junior leader in the Troop. He/She is appointed by the Senior Patrol Leader with the approval of the Scoutmaster. The Assistant Senior Patrol Leader acts as the Senior Patrol Leader in the absence of the Senior Patrol Leader or when called upon. He/She also provides leadership to other junior leaders in the Troop. Reports to: Senior Patrol Leader

2nd grade would have been Wolf 3rd grade would have been Bear There was no Tiger program (1st grade) back at that point. Yes, it would have been blue uniform throughout your time in the Cub Scout program. You can find the slide at a Scout Shop today, and there are plenty of the vintage ones still around for sale. Most of us went through a few of them during our time in Cubs, as they flew off fairly easy as we chased each other around.

I was a Cub Scout a few years after you, but my brother is a few years older than I. I don't recall ever having different slides per rank like they do now- everyone wore the gold necker with the same slide until Webelos (and that is a wolf image on the necker slide, just as it is on the the gold necker and hat). Third grade would have been Bear then as it is now. At age 11, you may have been a Webelos (Webelos is both the singular and the plural BTW) if you had not yet finished 5th grade . In that time period, Webelos still wore the blue Cub Scout uniform and not the Boy Scout uniform as is t

At the end of the day, BSA is not entirely the whole of "scouting"- scouting does and can exist without the BSA. BSA is just a corporation really. What BSA has had going for it is really the assets they have ownership over. Folks have wanted the Eagle Scout, and the Wood Badge, etc. and the iconic nostalgic "Scouts" that they saw in media of yesteryear that their parents and grandparents were a part of. If that were gone, seems safe to say IMO that numbers would precipitously drop, not rise. In the last ten years I've seen three interest groups form in my neck of the woods for Outdoor Service

Aside from how they can practically get out of the mortgage liability of Philmont, retiree payouts, debt on Summit, debt on National Supply, etc. that would be necessary to change the organization to nothing more than a certifying body, there is a real problem to this: They should not be certifying safety or membership or liable for each and every camp out. Who, then, has the liability? This is exactly why COs have run for the hills.

This is where my head went last night as well. National thinks on a calendar year basis for everything. Those of us delivering the program generally think on a school-year basis. Generalizing here, but most units strive for "back-to-school" recruitment, so new scouts you bring in (whether Cub or Scouts BSA) are then starting in August/September. So, those of us in the program now are theoretically "grandfathered" to the annual (1/1) fee structure, so easy enough for those you have around now both youth and adult. but, going forward, you start to add in "off-cycle" membership as of this fall.

Would love to be privy to whatever that master plan suggested is. Can't imagine that someone you are paying to come up with that plan is only going to suggest things that are little/no cost or that can be done only with volunteer labor.

I've heard from multiple folks that the intention post-bankruptcy was to have adult fees equal the youth fees by 2025. Starting to believe hat is going to be the case. National finally released the metrics for the Order of the Arrow PMP for 2023 (after months of the year are over). Loved this little nugget and the logic given (this $25 equates to FoS donation, so that is pure and clear "profit" off each OA member they want): High Performing lodges should aim to increase contributions to councils from $23.00 per lodge member to $25.00 per lodge member. Over the past five years, every

No, MBCs are already listed as excluded effective 9/1/23: All adults staying overnight in connection with a Scouting activity must be currently registered in an adult fee required position as listed or as an adult program participant. Limited exception below for Cub Scout overnight Programs.] See FAQ for list of adult fee required positions. Registration as a Merit Badge Counselor does not meet this requirement.

If your Council is like mine, for the past year + that the coed den pilot has been in place, every family pack has been encouraged to do this. It was a foregone conclusion this was going to become permanent.

At the end of the day, the only ones to contact is the Chartered Org Representative/Institution Head. Thy approve all leaders, so Council is not the place to go.

For me, the biggest mistake from the get go was BSA felt that there was a market to tap of X million girls, but never had a real grasp on just how many would actually choose to register with BSA. They very much overestimated how much the real demand was, and IMO felt it would become much like how we handled male Troops, that each town/CO would just be chartering a girls Troop. In our council, we only have had maybe 3 girl Troops start up that had more than double digit participants, and now just a few years on one of those is already struggling to keep 5 participants after the wunderkind older