In an effort to try to be prepared, my unit is hoping to have a plan B should our CO, a Masonic Lodge, decide to pull out as well. I was assured if worse came to worse, the LC would charter and hey, maybe we just go ahead and do that now since there are issues with your CO anyway. Ok we said, it will buy us time anyway. THEN the SE apparently decided that being chartered by the council would not be in our unit's best interest. Said it would be better to form a citizen group. Well, I get that being chartered by LC may come with it's own headaches, but I sure don't want the liability or issues by going the citizen group route.
and just fyi, staffer from our territory spoke to volunteers that had units with UMC (our UMC conference send the "don't charter, do facility use" letter last week). he told them that the COs weren't being ignored, only that they weren't at that phase of the "discussion." told the volunteers to go to their Church officials and let them know that "BSA is working on it, please don't make a decision now, give us about 6 weeks and you should see more information."
Life Without the CO's?
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In an effort to try to be prepared, my unit is hoping to have a plan B should our CO, a Masonic Lodge, decide to pull out as well. I was assured if worse came to worse, the LC would charter and hey, maybe we just go ahead and do that now since there are issues with your CO anyway. Ok we said, it will buy us time anyway. THEN the SE apparently decided that being chartered by the council would not be in our unit's best interest. Said it would be better to form a citizen group. Well, I get that being chartered by LC may come with it's own headaches, but I sure don't want the liability or issues by going the citizen group route.
and just fyi, staffer from our territory spoke to volunteers that had units with UMC (our UMC conference send the "don't charter, do facility use" letter last week). he told them that the COs weren't being ignored, only that they weren't at that phase of the "discussion." told the volunteers to go to their Church officials and let them know that "BSA is working on it, please don't make a decision now, give us about 6 weeks and you should see more information."