mrjohns2

The numbers suck and need to be fixed. If I was a BSA IT manager, I’d see it as key. They don’t carry over between councils. That sucks. I was able to look myself up under Eagle Scouts and found my old number from my old council. It hadn’t been used since about 1996. It has both my eagle and my more recent life time NESA tied to it.

Our commissioner just posted that "Membership renewals will be completed either by credit card with a 12-month renewal payment from the individual, by a Scout unit that has elected “Unit will pay all our members renewals” option, or by a manual payment at a Council Service Center." So, a tiny bit more info on the options. Nothing new other than this line.

Hummmm…. all scouting is local. Not all all around here. Our troops and cub units are growing.

Mike Walton covers this on his page. It can be worn due to the permission granted not being revoked. Also, it is a program of many councils. http://www.scoutinsignia.com/medals.htm

Not giving an excuse, but it seemed like on the district level they seemed cautious, even for a guy with 3 kids, to make sure you weren’t a flash in the pan. I think sometimes they have people come in guns a blazin and then they take on stuff and fall through.

Tell that to the people who were kicked out for being “outed” outside of scouting.

Unless you were a gay leader. Then you were considered not morally straight and kicked out. Or if you were a gay parent, then you were very much made to not feel welcomed to volunteer. The good old days? I think not.

It is so sad. They renamed the big zip to something like “<someone’s name> Eagle Taking Flight” or something like that. Ugh. Scouts notice the over focus too.

Actually as @MikeS72 said, this is due to past problems. I too have read many of the case files that were released a few years back by a law firm. Many involved the abused Scout going over to an adults house outside of a Scout activity.

Our council must have enough cookie revenue as our troops don’t have to even pay that. I was a troop leader for about a year. I got to do their “recharter” which took <5 mins online. Also! Our council camps use campdoc and allow fully electronic med forms.

My wife just re-uped my middle daughter’s troop. Scout: $25/scout national dues, $5 local. Adult: $25 only

Anything above 0?

Did you read the post right before yours?

When you say "simple pin back", what do you mean?

My bet is that they are restocking with a new medal of equal janky’ness from a different supplier.

Harry did some real soldiering.

This is no longer an acceptable Venturing uniform (tan with venturing green loops). You’d all have to wear the green venturing shirts.

Nice program!

I agree 100%. Such a true and accomplished Scout would / would have earned this medal.

It would best to ask your camp what they want from a uniform uniform policy. Some councils want to emphasize that their staff is made up of unit scouts / scouters, so then no. I’d say sure, but you would need to remove your unit numbers and position patch. I’d then get a camp staff position patch.

One would have thought they would have been working on the plan when not in court and would have unleashed this at the meeting. Instead, they unleashed the fee increases. 😞

My guess is the important part is non-prorated. They are getting 2x the fees from all new Cubs in one year. So, instead of $50 in Sept, they are getting $105. The adult fee was low hanging fruit. They need operating cash and this is it. Not good. Just needed.

This seems to be more transparent therm the report to congress? It also includes the membership of the national committee. https://oa-bsa.org/uploads/publications/impact-reports/2022-OA-National-Impact-Report-Digital.pdf

Agreed. He also passed the SM conference. I think the OP was right in doing an appeal. It isn’t like a suspension 2 years prior labels him a felon for life. Sounds like he turned things around and should end awarded eagle for having completed the requirements. Unless there is a huge detail the OP chose not to include, it seems pretty open and close.

Our council, so far, has no fee. They have been very conservative with their money. So, I support the FOS and we usually meet our stretch goal. The council gets funds and no council fee. Zero. I know we are lucky and in the minority.