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So October is another change right? In that NAM video don't they say December is the new decision point?

This is a good example of how councils need to craft their annual plan and market their annual plan to the units in their area right? If they have a lot of large independent troops they don't need a council even every other month; on the other hand if the council is mostly troops of 1 patrol then they need a council event every other month. It's clear that we have the infrastructure (councils and properties) for a much larger organization; however, I wonder, what was really in place in those first 10-20 years of scouting in America? Were troops just camping on their own every month? Without resident camps were long term camps the product of strong well run troops and more wilderness and self reliance based?

Support from the council is one of those weird things. The council is the volunteers; there is no one to help if no one is staffing those district and council committees. If your time at the troop is sunsetting, and if the troop is folding, it might be time to consider a district role.

The other way around is much easier (doesn't have the MBC clause about being able to not accept prior completed work). The rank advancements just say do/say/particpate/etc ... and do not say in front of or with the SM.

If their endowment is draining/drained they might not have a choice. If their camp is their only remaining asset and they don't have the funds to maintain they really don't have much of a choice but to bow before the kings down in Texas. How does the old saying on wealth go? Fortunes rarely see the 4th generation.

But getting that form signed and transferring ownership formally will protect the unit from legal action. I don't know about this unit, but some units have thousands of dollars worth of equipment and cash on hand.

Participate is participate. Conduct is conduct. Being at and actually participating (vs in back of the crowd playing around) is all a scout needs to do to complete the participation requirements. For the merit badge it depends on the MBC. As the unit leader you can accept the MBC's approval at any time, the MBC has the discretion to ask the scout to reperform the act before signing off for the merit badge.

Yeah I have nearby scoop on Greenwich, they use to have a lot of money but their endowment is almost drained now. I get how when they were getting pounded with donations in the millions of dollars how national just turned a blind eye to a council with like 1 troop and 1 pack. But now? They might be on the horizon for being absorbed; they're running without a CE.

If you go this route, full merger, there is a form you need to get your charter org to sign to allow you to give your items to the other pack/charter org.

Word on the internet is that Bucktail just had their charter revoked and they are being absorbed by Laurel Highlands. When I looked this one up I was confused as to how a council the size of a district (in my council) even existed in the first place.

You're going to need a handful of things. First you will need council permission to hold joint unit events (joint den meetings count as joint event). Both units will need to provide 2 registered leaders per event. So assuming you are holding joint den meetings you will need 4 leaders, 2 from each unit.

That's not what that article you posted says at all. You're just making stuff up at this point. The non-settling insurers are not an asset of the BSA, not an asset of the trust, and they are not a party to the trust. They are literally a completely different legal entity that has opening and legally refused to settle or contribute to the trust. Nothing you have linked out to or provided citation for states anything otherwise. You're just making stuff up.

The skinny guys unable to carry the weight is an indicator of not enough conditioning. Bigger guys can fake the funk as treks can cause them to shed fat weight and over the course of a week or two they get through on stored calories compensating for lack of conditioning. Really skinny people get butchered on treks if they are not conditioned; there's isn't much extra on their frames for their bodies to consume to make up for the exertion, at the same time their are stimulating muscle growth through the exertion. It becomes a downward spiral of worsening performance and lesser and lesser recovery from overnight rest.

We all knew this was coming right? The Church, then BSA, now the next biggest target? These vulture lawyers have a business model, they will continue to hop from target to target like locusts consuming as much as possible.

So that's not a lawsuit, that's not BSA, and that's not how the insurance industry works at all. An insurance company can be billed any amount for any reason, and it can be denied, approved, sent for review, sent for arbitration, etc ... The article you posted does not say what you said before and it doesn't mean anything.