Eagle1993

Hearing started ... 1) Meditation went into midnight last night. 2) Total votes to date (Wednesday before Thanksgiving) - 4,300 votes complete.

@MattR is correct, if this is to the point you believe you may need a weapon, you should be talking with the police. In terms of BSA, the first person I would go to is your charter organization rep. They are ultimately responsible for your unit and should be aware of any concerns. They decide who the adult leaders are in all cases ... so they decide the Committee Chair. If their is a parent/family causing trouble, there is no reason they must remain in your pack. @David CO is a COR and has mentioned multiple times that their unit does not approve applications for every youth ... they

October report released. https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/815753dc-61e4-41a7-b808-4cb4a6794e7b_7517.pdf Total Ending Unrestricted Liquidity - BSA $140,975,000 Total Ending Unrestricted Cash Balance - BSA $74,518,000 So, BSA lost $3,977,000 in cash in October. There is a bit less income from supply, registrations were nearly equal to Sept. The big charge? Bankruptcy. October = $13.142M Sept = $6.379M Remember, October is when they mailed out all of those Size 4 font packages plus probably paid a ton of extra lawyer fees.

https://www.sumptionandwyland.com/resources/sumption-wyland-articles/what-is-the-right-size-for-your-nonprofits-board I am an employee of a formally large organization that nearly went bankruptcy. Nearly every article written blamed our board as one of the key factors. Our board size was too large ... we had 18 members.

This board is far too large to be effective. It is an audience not a board. BSA has been dying for 30 years…. I think I see one major reason here.

Per the mediator this is true. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be legal. Judge didn’t seem to object. I think the BSA can work with any party they see fit as it is their plan. The way I see this. The bankruptcy court is there to call balls/strikes and ensure everyone follows the law. The mediation is there to help parties to work to a plan… it isn’t required. The FCR and TCC are official parties representing groups of claimants. It’s BSA’s job to come up with a plan that will get all classes approval. They can use whatever tools they want to get to that plan. One can questio

This isn’t the judge’s first rodeo. Some of the coalition law firms are looking to be similar to some Talc law firms who didn’t do proper claims assessments. She ended up throwing out votes from these claims as they couldn’t be validated claimants. So, if these law firms cannot show how they vetted the claims within the next few weeks, I expect many of those votes could be tossed. This will likely help the anti plan side as the concentration of questionable claims seems to be owned primarily by coalition law firms. https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ex-jj

I think final plans come through mutual trust. The BSA and TCC have 0 trust left. That means nearly every decision will be fought over in court. I’d rather see BSA say… this is our plan, we believe in it, but we will keep working with the TCC building that trust. So, even if not stated, if the plan fails they can quickly come to an agreed upon proposal. I hope I’m wrong, I just think we would be better off if the bankruptcy firms were actually working together in mediation vs fighting every aspect of this case in front of a judge.

There was a hearing today and while I didn't attend, there is a great series of Tweets from @melissabjacoby Richard Pachulski from TCC is stating that the AIS firms are essentially messing up this entire process. The judge must demand they send a joint letter to their claimants or the entire voting process may end up in being subject to debate. The judge basically said it may be too late, but she doesn't know what authority she would have to demand this of AIS. TCC said they would amend their motion. Expect some fast action over the next week or so over: 1) Demand on AIS to send

And a bit more interesting tidbits The BSA has hired a lobbying firm to go to Washington in an attempt to prevent the passage of the bankruptcy reform bill. If the bill passes, it could completely stop the ability of BSA to include COs or LCs in their bankruptcy plan. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2021/11/24/boy-scouts-will-lobby-on-bill-to-curb-tactics-used-in-bankruptcy-proceedings-799099

Some pretty major filings on the court docket. The TCC is asking for an independent Ombudsman to be appointed to lead the voting. They are asking for two additional weeks. There are other documents filed under seal that are used to support this. US Trustee is objecting as are others. Another law firm has filed support. What lead to this. Signs are pointing to Kosnoff’s deposition and apparently evidence of some questionable eballots. (Not court approved). There is now official claims of eballots not accurately recording votes. If this is not granted, there is a cha

Yeah, that is a bit odd. Though there are no gaga pits at the schools in my area (at least town) and the one at the scout camp we went to was removed. However, they appear to be more common than schools playing dodgeball. I'm not sure why gaga is considered safer than dodgeball.

For Lions & Tigers, I do question the need for two leaders when every scout has a parent present.

First, I do thank @RichardB for commenting on this forum. Most from National wouldn’t and it’s great that he participates. Also, I do think the last version of G2SS made some updates that helped, specifically regarding use of tools. Perhaps there are some specific areas that we think could be relooked at. I get the complaints about patrol only activities with no adults. Perhaps there could be flexibility there. I’m not sure it is possible in today’s world of liability but perhaps. I cannot think of many clubs in high school that meet without adults present … I know dodge

Well, we may now see if KR’s and some of the aggregators actions are legal. I expect some of what is being provided was what Kosnoff has been alluding to on Twitter. Kosnoff on Twitter Dear friends, thanks for your thoughts and prayers, well-wishes and support. I want you to know that my deposition was probably the most gratifying day of my 41 year career. They will try to suppress my testimony and evidence from public view. They will fail. A hammer blow 4 U.…. You gotta wait til herroner rules on the motions to seal from public view. This may take a while. Hopefully not

The email went out and probably caused some confusion. The best way to handle that was for attorneys to simply contact their clients and reinforce their recommendations. By making a fuss, the Coalition brought far more attention to the email. That probably got even more claimants to view it and or forward it. Claimants who are suspicious of this whole thing may now be further suspicious of the big push to not read the email. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reaction of BSA and coalition to the email results in more no votes than the initial email. How do you guarantee someone will re

I think this is the “big” news. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/coalition-of-abused-scouts-for-justice-secures-support-from-ad-hoc-committee-to-appoint-survivors-to-local-council-boards-301429165.html

One thing I do question is BSA’s drive to start new units. If you have a group of scouts and some willing parent volunteers and Troops really close, it could be better to just join that Troop.

Camp Indian Trails just sold. $3.4M vs estimated value of $1.6M. Purchased by a county to be turned into a park via the American Rescue Act. https://www.hngnews.com/milton_courier/news/local/article_ebdc021b-1f1c-5974-b28d-7c8bd9e52a70.html

Another hearing tomorrow. https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/58ffd639-8ef1-47e7-841e-36ea38c1e32c_7327.pdf Insurance companies are demanding BSA provide details on the claims tables. The judge agreed back in October and the BSA produced about a million pages of documents. However, many of the details are listed as withheld due to privilege. Various insurance companies are pushing back on discovery. Insurance companies pushing to get groups to comply with discovery about proof of claims (several different insurance companies and a variety (p

No. The Tweets and all reference to those tweets were removed. Your comment was fine; however, since it included the tweet it was removed. As you asked. It sounds like something was mentioned about an announcement tomorrow. I'm not sure where this came from (perhaps the Coalition townhall). Perhaps someone knows.

One of the concerns we have brought up early about the bankruptcy is that BSA seems only focused on CSA. One can argue if the payments are sufficient or not, but BSA seems to have completely ignored the other financial perils it faces. In particular, the massive debt it entered into bankruptcy with (when you include Summit) and the fact they are adding $100M to that debt, if not more. Well, I think the first shoe is dropping on how we are going to pay that debt down. Here are the Philmont trek rates: 2022 12 Day - $1,295 9 Day - $1,200 7 Day - $1,000 2023

My experience that I am seeing are assets that are listed as restricted by the BSA and LC and TCC but are going for possible sale anyway. TCC did consider restrictions. That said, I’m sure LCs don’t agree with what the TCC is saying. I think the main point of the article is that LCs or COs shouldn’t be part of the National BSA bankruptcy. If there are CSA claims, they should proceed in state court. If they lose cases or believe they don’t have enough money, then they should enter their own bankruptcy.

Looking at this further, they don't seem to have a CSA expert in the mediation team left. They have a former bankruptcy judge and Timothy Gallagher who's focus seems insurance (and 1/2 his pay is from insurance companies). https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/823873_812.pdf Finn gave up $1,500/hr walking away from this.

Paul Finn didn't sign the last mediator report. Looks like he had a lot of experience in CSA mediation: https://www.nadn.org/paul-finn I expect everything he did was protected so he can't talk. I wonder why he quit.