DGS

The feedback I got from all of you here helped me a great deal in having a frank discussion with our committee chair. After a little back and forth, we seem to be in general agreement about who does and does not need to be registered, encouraging merit badge councelors to register themselves with council, and that this absolutely has to be dealt with before recharter. Perhaps most importantly, I stressed that I understood that this was really his domain, but that I felt it absolutely needed to have a resolution and that I was there to support these changes. He is now actively engaged

You're still doing better than us, were at 80 without Boys Life!

First and foremost, thank you for all the welcomes! I'm pretty happy to have found this board and really appreciate all of the great replies, and will head over to the new to the forum board soon. I agree that this isn't really a SM issue, but with re-charter fast approaching I'm hoping I can add something to the conversation that might get us to a resolution. And I'd like to free up my budget a little for things that will benefit the boys. Yes, our council charges $80. I would love to tell you what they do with that 50ish dollars, but I doubt that information exists. I'm gene

I'm a new Scoutmaster in a well established Troop. We are fortunate to have many adult volunteers who have stayed with the troop long after their sons have moved on. Past practice has been to include all of these volunteers on our charter, as well as any boys who have aged out and have any involvement with the troop. We've come to a point where we are chartering almost as many adult volunteers as we are scouts (about 30). At $80 per person, this is having a dramatic impact on our budget. Some of the volunteers are very active, and come to most meetings and many campouts. Others come to a