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Yes, everyone has to recharter/renew every year. It would be nice if there were a better way to do that. The new troop should have the list of current merit badge counselors. I would think that most MBC would accept previous work, especially in being understanding of the turmoil you're experience because of the shakeup. Your son should talk with the scoutmaster about fixing this.

At least for my district/council, the paperwork is really due on feb 29th, so we don't have real numbers until then

I would mostly agree with that. I'm less concerned with if those actions wrong way back when than I am with if we should reconsider what we do today or tomorrow. I also think theres a reasonable question to ask of if our current traditions are accomplishing their goal.

My scout shop has had them in stock. But that might just be a local thing.

Yeah, I’d offer to buy my DE an unscout-like beverage for getting through today, but she’s expecting, so it’s probably maximally inappropriate.

It’s makes it less likely for the court to do so, but not impossible. I’m not a lawyer but my understanding is that the court is able to make pretty big changes if it feels it is justified. But even there, as I said, I would imagine the court might say to sell off one of the bases, but even then philmont would be the last. think of the current loan like this: it’s a way for one creditor to say dibs on a particular asset. Yes the court can say no but then has to also deal with that creditor arguing that they really should have dibs.

I would assume that philmont would be the last of the 4 to be sold off though.

Just one comment on this, because I've seen it go wrong a lot. You need to be really careful when immediate family members are two of the three in the key 3. (especially if you are also functioning as treasurer as well). A big part of have 3 different people in the key 3 is so that there is different perspectives and accountability. Thats not to say you are doing a bad job, but it can be hard to take criticism of your choices as CM/CC (and there will be criticisms of you choices, and some will even be valid) as separate from criticisms of your family. Its something to be aware of and anot

I suspect also that UC end up spending time on troubled units, but troubled units are kinda by definition the units that are going to be hardest to help.

I made friends with my registrar and de so paper works better for us. I’ve also learned that my council is less disfunctional than most.

Points at uniform inspection sheet thread

As I recall, you can process transfer applications online, but you have to know the scout’s bsa member id. Most people don’t.

I’m coming in after some bad day camp years. It’s taking several year to rebuild and Cub Scout units are gonna have shorter memories than troops.

I am curious about the answer to this. My unit doesn’t have one, so I have no idea what we are missing.

I mean, not every council offers stem scouts as I understand it.

Probably national should be able to dictate that its offered, though I could see leaving the option to not offer it as part of a unit decision. I would kind of envision something like a structure wherein a pack has two elements in it (the younger and old elementary), in the same way that it seems like a lot of troops kinda have a venture crew around, though more formally. I'd be open to refinement though, as I suspect that it would take specific experimentation to find the right answer.

My scout shop still doesn't have the Scouts BSA Handbook for boys yet, (still just the old edition of the Boy Scout Handbook) so I guess no one can go buy a full uniform now

So I can mainly speak to the cub half of the program as we haven't hit the troop yet. (1 year to go for the first) I would like cub scouts broken into two halves. I've mentioned this here before, so it should be familiar. Regardless, my idea would be that you have two different levels of K-2 grade youth and 3-5 grade youth. Make the K-2 level program more like the old tiger cub program, where you meet less frequently, have a few more guidelines on what you can do, etc. Then you move to a 3-5 grade program where you get a bit more freedom because you don't have to accommodate the K-2 aged

One recommendation on this is to be clear with parents in advance that if a scout becomes a distraction or problem the parents will be called regardless of time or distance, so do they really want him on a medication holiday?

Thats, obviously, AHDH type behavior, though of course it could be something else that just looks like adhd. Do you know if either of them have a DX, and as importantly are they normally taking medication to help manage such behaviors? There are ways to encourage parents to give a booster dose before scouts if needed.

Looking at other countries, it seems like they do lots of stuff in 3ish year blocks. I could easily see cub scouts broken into 2 age groups of k-2 and 3-5. The k-2 grade group could meet regularly, but do less camping (because camping is more difficult with that age), have a less intense program because it requires more volunteers and adults, then move to the 3-5 grade program which would look more like a webelos program now, with a bit more camping, loosening of those tight safety rules, etc. But because that age group is more independent, it would take a bit less adult/volunteer effort.

I've been hearing rumors that the official bankruptcy announcement will hit next week. This seems to be in line with getting things ready. (ie here's how we want to fund compensation, here is what we are doing as counseling, and here are the assets we want to protect) That said, moving the counseling to an outside group is good,

As a Day Camp Program Director I get to set whatever I want as the uniform for day camp, which means that I can declare whatever I'm wearing as uniform as part of promoting day camp. I love minor loopholes.

I guess my question is how do we get that. It’s hard to get scouters to look beyond their own unit to the larger district, especially if a district is in a volunteer death spiral. (Ie not enough volunteers means the ones who are there are extra busy, which leads more to quit or not start, which means few volunteers.) that’s the largest issue my district has is getting people to look beyond their own units.

I count 34 employees on role at my council. 11 DEs, 3 camp staff with 3 camps(ie 1 per camp). That's for a council touching 5 states and including ~15,000 youth involved.