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@jcousino I was going to say the same, but it is so neat.

Well, not always. They do have full veto, but on some volunteers, that have had lets say a DUI, it is up to the COR to approve after council does the background check and says "well, it is up to the COR". Not common, but it does happen.

This is a good point. It is treated like a mini day of summer camp.

Our district has the option to earn 1 or 2. I’m involved as an archery MCA ONLY so scouts can complete partials from camp. I think that is a good service for the Scouts where the others MBs are not good scouting. In my youth, there were no MBs at camporees nor were there merit badge universities.

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Nice look! They forgot to mention I’ll be 50 as well.

Thanks for sharing. It is sad. I can’t help with STEM days or other merit badge days for the same reason. I can’t be a part of going through the motions, but not earning the badge.

Good observation.

From discord; Freezing temps overnight, 6+ inches of heavy slush, another inch of freezing rain, 100ish collapsed tents (with people stuck inside), 50+ sent to hospitals, an official designation as a mass casualty event, and responses from local, county and state emergency services

It is my understanding that the summit was the site of a mountain top mining where the tailings were used to fill the valleys and create the open untreed areas. So, the Korean Jamboree was the second?

This is a national rule. There isn’t a national term limit, but each term is only 1 year. Each year, all district and council positions must be renominated and approved. Often a rubber stamp, but not always. https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/regions/central/PDF/District Nominating Committee Worksheet.pdf Here is the council one. https://www.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Highlights-of-Council-Governance.pdf

Agreed. This is a change that happened a few years back. It used to say guardian; which is more ambiguous. Legal Guardian is unambiguous.

Thanks for the low point to low point comparison. This seems to be the real change, a loss of ~4-5% overall. Your other point is valid, though, like you said a different analysis. Your point brings about some misleading headlines that National seems to want to publicize by using low point to high point comparison.

How about vs 4/1 of 2024? That would be a more apples to apples, no?

In the IRS guides, at irs.gov, these give these clear “donation from family a, family a’s son benefits” as examples. Again, not a grey area of being over the line. Clearly over the line.

Any value in going to the NAM if a) you are receiving an award and b) aren’t on any national committees, sub committees or teams? I assume as a regular Joe, it could be pretty much just a few welcomes and rah rahs?

No. He mentioned that the current YPT training “is a master class in grooming” or something to that effect. Maybe by coupling it with getting the new training content complete, they delayed the annual requirement. I could see that as the reason.

It is simpler than term limits. All adult volunteers, (including at the unit level) only have 1 year terms. So, each year, district chairs must be reapproved.

At the CST 6 commissioner college last weekend, the national commissioner did a zoom call. He said YPT training refreshed content and 1 year renewal required over the next few months.

I am all for Scout accounts and even fund raising proceeds going into a scout account based on what they sold. What this family is saying? No, not ok. It is "over the line" for me.

One wonders with the membership loss trends, could you see the value of patches follow it. I don't mean recent trends, but the multi-decade trends. There used to be a patch dealer who had a page that did "industry year in review" over many years. I haven't seen it in a few, but that would be the way to see some real trends. Also, like baseball cards, once you get into the mid '80's, patches started to be made for the collector in mind vs. just being made and it becoming collectable.

They deliver on the promise.

They made that move starting in 2007 and went from ~312 to ~111. There were a couple of lawsuits that ended up allowing a couple of councils (at least 1) to not merge. It was an interesting take.

Yep. That is basically what happened. It is my understanding they were cost neutral to the council. Not a drain. My guess was that someone was trying to simply Bay-Lakes to do another merger on the south side, but that doesn’t seem to be happening.

I don’t think merging councils reduces the work of the registrar. From a unit “customer service” standpoint, the registrar is the last place I’d look to save money. Now camping director, director of funding, etc, sure. Rangers, DEs, and registrars make my unit go round. The rest, I hope they are proving their value. I can’t tell as directly.