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The rumor about renewals was confirmed and briefed at the NAM today. All renewals are moving to February.

As a stand alone program I dont see this taking off. Cant wait to hear my DE talk about the new great opportunity to start new units.

I would guess that a council has or would do this because the key 3 are not communucating with national and failed to know about this stage of the transition from ypt to syt.

You say sadly; however, a multi patrol troop can easily put on a resident/long term camp on its own for a fifth of the cost and get all.of the non MB experience in without the annoyance of being on a campnwide schedule. If OA took the long term camp requirement out the resident camps.in my state would easily lose 25 to 50% of their campers.

I totally get this, I'm even a parent who expects MB at summer camp, though the pressure is on my kids to actually perform. God help them if they come back from camp with a partial; partials trigger the old "What were you doing instead of completing this?!" and subsequent chastising about how much they are applying themselves and how much they would apply themselves if it was their own money.

National knows that there is a problem. National has some effort going into recruiting subject matter experts and having national level people train them correctly on the MB process. The issue is at the council and district level, and I believe that is because the MBC training is too brief, has no test, never expires, and far too many people are teaching MB and not even registered as an MBC. National could fix this, I would propose a 3 step solution. S1) Update MBC training, apply a test, training expires every 2 years. S2) Tell councils that they cannot restrict the number of MB an MBC can teach, instead tell councils they can only restrict what is considered qualified to be an MBC. S3) Force every district and council committee to have sitting and meeting MB committees.

Council and district advancement committees?! Send me to the promised land where these exist, meet, and care about more than eagle packets.

A lot of these issues are caused by councils not planning MB events far enough out in advance.

Just brace for it. Next week is the NAM; if it's the same as the past we will see IT deploy a load of changes/new content/random stuff to support the presentations and we wont have context until those presentations become public.

Search on the scouting.org/health-and-safety/gss/gss01/ for "accommodation". Its all in there, worded weirdly, and I swear different than the last time I read it.

It seems to me that you cant be against a focus on advancement when everyone is constantly talking about "famous eagle.scouts" or "being an eagle is an accomplishment" or "making eagle will help you in life". The moment star, life and eagle went from an award that 1st class scouts could earn to ranks it became a goal. BPs original goal of every scout should want to be a 1st class scout turned into every scout should want to be an eagle.

To be clear the wording of the accomodations has changed over time so stay up on it as we never know when or how they may change; especially with NAM around the horn here.

Siblings and parents have carveouts under the new program. Siblings of the same sex can tent and buddy system regardless of age now (since last summer). There is also an "accommodation" for parents to tent with scouts as well (since last fall). We're in a whole new world scouters.

It's only required by those who are going to expire. The big issue is that as the new safeguarding rolled out as a 12 month requirement the individuals with more than 12 months to expire had their default expiration date changed to 31 May. The big concern is that moat leaders are in capable of reading email.

Golden Spread and South Plains councils just announced a merger, a fast one, they said the merger will be complete June 1st.

Specifically what adjustments would you make?

Brad Tilden made several speeches last year about this. National knows this. I remember Brad saying basically "No airline flies a plane with 1 or 2 passengers and only once in a while." A lot of camps sit empty 40 weeks out the year without program, nay, it might be MOST camps sit empty 40 weeks out of the year without program. Additionally, every council I am aware of does a horrible job of getting units to camp the 40 or so unused weekends year. As a business the camp is a sunk cost that councils have to pay to maintain and monitor 365.

Not sure, I am curious to see how the NAM washes things out.

5 council service territory maps were recently updated. I think the safe assumption is that 5 councils just merged out.

Cash is king is absolutely true. My district has one of the most useless human beings in existance as one lf the vice chairs but he's always going to be a vice chair because of his matching cash donation.

Some vacancies are purely the result of professionals not building out the team.

In my area that old guard is still staunchly in place. More to your point I see many units with new parents willing to step up but they then recede when the old guard wants to use them as worker bees in a dictatorship instead of a collaborative environment.

This is good on you, but really bad on the organization. I do know that national is aware of this/these problems; last year Glen Pounder made mention of digital ID that would be the landing point for all leaders to prove who they are, current registration, position, units, and training. I wonder how long it will take the organization to get there though.

Patently wrong approach. Like you said this sends a message. Is the unit going to fold or is the DE allowing the scout to eagle (we dont punish scouts for adult mistakes) and then revoking the charter? From a liability standpoint hazardous weather is related to outdoor activities and not just camping. Without hazardous weather the unit is technically not allowed to go for a walk around the block.

Where are you seeing your numbers? Like I said I would like to see their real numbers.