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Just remove all requirements and call it a day.

Have you seen the commercial where things are going haywire and the female says we need someone who knows COBOL and the guy says what's COBOL.?

Scouting HQ IT uses this program.

Is the new YPT have to be done by every adult by May 31st ?  What if a scouters doesn't expire until september?

My friend sent me the end of March numbers 

     2026.  767394

      2025    949373

i don’t know if those numbers include LFL

I remember there were codes you put on scouts that you weren’t rechartering.  E.g. aging out, moved, didn’t want to recharter etc.   where did that data go and why doesn’t bsa collect it?

There is an indeed.com commercial about a manufacturing line gone amok.   The women says does anyone know COBOL?  The guy says Whats COBOL?

that all you need to know about BSA IT.  😜

There used to be a chart showing number of scouts by sponsoring organizations.  Anyone seen that recently?

Does anyone have any idea how many trans and gay youth we are even talking about?

I heard there are a large number of councils under conditional charters for 2026.   If they don't meet certain benchmarks )  I assume membership growth and raising $$ they can subject to be merged.

Free membership for military scouts is an interesting idea.   My friends troop is made up of Colonels and Lt Cols who certainly can afford the registration.   Junior soldiers most likely do not have children who are of scouting age.

Scoutldr

cmon….how else can scouts “get” all the MBs by 14?

Can we split this topic into the two things people are posting about?

my friend sent me numbers for December.  Total membership around 877k.

Did anyone see this from Mr. Krone?

Membership: Recruitment and Retention

In 2025, we focused on growth by hiring an executive vice president of membership and leveraging Lilly Endowment funds to hire unit growth executives for councils. We also expanded our marketing efforts, driving a record number of visitors to BeAScout.org. I am pleased to report that by the close of 2025, we will have recruited almost 260,000 new members. But membership is more than recruiting — it is also retention. In the coming year, we will intensify our focus on retention and on delivering a more meaningful experience for all members.

If we recruited 260,00 new members but the overall membership through November is around 900,000 where did 260,000 that were on the rolls the end of 2024 go?

@Jameson76 said

Bottom line, 815,000 youth in 230 (or so) councils means 3,500 youth per council.  If a Council Executive (average) pay is $200K (all in) that means just for the local CE there is a burden of $57 per member.  Data suggest 3,100 or so SA employees, so that may indicate (with benefits) just labor overhead burden of +/- $190,000,000 or $233 PER YOUTH member.  That is before any other overhead costs such as IT, liability insurance.  SA (formerly BSA) needs to reduce the costs, focus on growth, and get rid of what doesn't add value.

My friend sent these.  235 councils.  Only 11 with more than 10K youth.  Less than 4% with more than 3K.  20% with less than 1K.

Yes I'm sure. Just trying to find the scouter who put together a list.    Likely some of the camps don't exist and the number of MBs is different.

Hi...is the scouter from the KC area who put together a list of all camps with what MBs they offer still out there or if someone has his work, please message me.  Thanks

There are careers that may require one-on-one contact with youth, however aside from those roles, 

This is the line that I'm not sure what they meant by adding it.   Employer/Employee?  Doctor/patient?

How do units interpret this?

Registered leaders must follow these guidelines with all Scouting youth outside of Scouting activities. There are careers that may require one-on-one contact with youth, however aside from those roles, volunteers must abide by the youth protection policies of Scouting America even outside of Scouting activities.

Scout leader hires a scout in his business as a trainee to install air conditioners.    Scout leader has to travel to job sites in his two seat work truck and takes the youth with him. 

Opinion ?

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Friend sent this to me

End of April 2025   782276

On 4/23/2025 at 8:45 PM, jcousino said:

the most interesting part is the council picks the number and who is in leadership

not sure what causing long term injury or death to a cub is worth in todays dollar but 7.5 million looks big but to me is really small when faced with a wrongful injury suit.  

The Council always has the responsibility for Adult Leadership.  They do final approval after the background checks and all other required clearances are submitted.  Each unit must have the key 3 and a number of committee members or the council won't/can't process the charter.  They don't pick the actual names, that's the COR or IH purview.

My guess is other organizations like little league each team registers together and there are not multiple end dates for the kids.

Yes the scout interface is crappy which is more reason to do multiple testing before launching this on the masses so you get what you pay for which is "Nightmare in each council"  Film at 11.

Dropping that many in Tron's council is likely to happen in others since IMHO letting parents anywhere near re-registering their scout by themselves instead of doing it all by unit and having members in the same unit re-registering at completely different times is fraught with the disaster they have created.  Parents doing answer emails so one from BSA HQ is not going to get any more rapid response that one from the school system.

I'm going to assume that once again a business has implemented a new procedure without thinking it completely through and doing multiple tests.  There are 40K units that need to register and some mess it up so why let hundreds of thousand potentially individuals register.   Good grief!

Autopen needed a new ink cartridge. 😜

My guess that if National funded councils 100% there would be a lot of DOGEing happening to reduce the number of councils.  😉

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