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  1. What? What SM handbook? SM handbook hasn't been in print for over a decade :P
  2. UK is doing a lot of stuff that is great; but they have high quality control. We can't do what they do because we do not have even half of the quality control that they have.
  3. As a one off read it does not scream great; however, when you go back and look at 2023 after national incurred their debt obligation to the settlement trust it screams right direction. 10% reduction in overall debt. Jan 1 to Dec 31 operations ran a 36 million revenue. National definitely is heading the correct direction. I believe their goal is to be under 200 million in debt before end of 2025; if they can hit that goal we're going to see a roaring good next decade in support and program growth.
  4. When you look for training check your council website; but also remember that you can go anywhere for training (just bring back proof to your local council to have it added to your training record), https://global.scoutingevent.com/ will help you find training at all participating councils.
  5. The standdown shouldn't be a big deal. This shouldn't affect the summer camps. National needs to put resources into investigating the risks, conduct an analysis, and put out any recommendations (if needed, S happens right?). 3 weeks until camp should be a headache but not a show stopper.
  6. Well the Lion program might get removed ... and replaced with a program similar to the UK Squirrels program (ages 4-6); or, Lions might stay the same but allow younger scouts. Things that were briefed at the national meeting; can't wait until more information becomes available.
  7. This is not quite accurate any longer. It's their (DE and commissioner corps) job to advise, but it's no longer their role to be held accountable for a units success or failure. He can reach out to them for help but it will only be worth while if the troop is ready and willing to listen.
  8. The number 1 thing you can do to save your troop is to engage the pack and help them grow. Does the pack need more adults? Join the pack as an adult leader, bring a den chief from your troop. Help the pack recruit, get that pack up to 45-60 scouts, and then watch as the AOLs cross. You're getting maybe 1 of 2 AOLs? Imagine if the pack was crossing 10! if you got 5 of 10 for the next 4 years you'd be a regularly sized troop with a healthy number of scouts.
  9. I am sussing out that you're trying to figure out when to bring your knowledge to the table without burning a bridge. That's really tough to figure out; unfortunately we have a lot of bad leaders in scouting. I would recommend assessing the key 3 a bit, attend some leader meetings to see if they are just dictating or actually running the meetings properly. A key indicator to hold off and wait on making any recommendations is if the committee chair is not seeking input from all attendees at the committee meetings.
  10. I don't know about this; there is some truth here but some issues. Taking years to fix troop culture isn't really a thing; either a troop is open to improving or a troop is not. If you're traveling true you sometimes get knocked off course; however, the intent to be on course is there, and you have to want to be on course and stay on course. If troop leadership has no intent on staying on course (running the program), it's intervention time or find a new troop time. I think we all see this in our own little areas of the country, lots of packs and troops are failing and shutting down; the reason in my area is clear, when a post mortem is performed it always points to the unit was not running the program and eventually killed itself.
  11. I might wear those just for the heck of it. Uniforms and uniformity are important, "they" say all methods are equal but I personally think the uniform should be more equal than others because of the financial diversity in my area. That being said, because of the financial diversity in my area I am on the N+1 improvement road for uniforms at my unit; I'll worry about the socks after I get every scout into a properly fitting uniform shirt and then if I can ever get more than a handful of scouts into any type of green pants. Didn't the bolos come out of Philmont? I once had an old timer tell me that the rule "back in the day" was that you could only wear a bolo if it was purchased at Philmont. Where I live, if I see someone with a bolo, with my personality, I typically ask them if they have ever even been West of the Mississippi, and then when they so no and don't get the whole out West vibe bolos give off I mock them to some degree and ask them something about when they are picking up their spurs.
  12. Forget everything else and deal with this right here before making any plans. Part of the patrol method is everyone puts in work. EG: Post grubbing up everyone pitches in to clean up and put the patrol box away. The PL might be drying while the 11yr old crossover is scrubbing, but everyone is putting in work. If the troop has enough scouts to allow anyone to hold down the earth with their posterior then they should have another patrol.
  13. Anyone know what's going on with Bluegrass council?
  14. This is great, this is what we need from national to make the program more accessible!
  15. Backstory: Last year at the national meeting there was a few references to Quality Assurance coming back to replace JTE. That did not happen (or has not happened yet). Today I spoke with a couple people from different territories and it would appear that at the CST 5 and the CST 6 annual meetings it was briefed that there is a new council evaluation tool coming out this year. It does not sound like a JTE replacement, it sounds more like a council being audited by national tool. Has anyone else from the other CST' heard of this? Was it briefed there or at any other territory or national meetings? Has anyone that is going to the national meeting in a couple weeks heard if this is getting briefed there?
  16. I did not want to start a new thread so I figured I would tack this onto here. It would appear that Voyageurs Council no longer exists and was carved up to the other councils adjacent in Northern MN.
  17. This is your chance to make a positive impact. Find a way to be happy that you have an opportunity to make this scouts journey better. We all know that there are dirtbag units out there. The rest of us have to be the beacon for the scouts that want to actually grow.
  18. Yet another discussion that is proof that we should scrap the eagle project.
  19. Is there any follow up on Central Georgia? If they sold their HQ does that mean they are dissolving the council?
  20. Unless the lawsuits come out of people who traveled in for the event on a special invitation (West Point Cadets can steer invitations to their hometown troops throughout the nation) I don't see anything going anywhere. This is really common weather for this time of year; maybe they might get some sympathy if they just moved there a month ago from Florida, but I doubt it. With the academy involved there are all kinds of crazy wavers that have to be signed in addition to just the reality of the time of year and expectation that something like this is likely to happen. Just to clarify further, crap weather like what was experienced has happened historically more on this camporee than not.
  21. This is pretty normal weather for that area; I lived out there for a long time. It's crazy that there wasn't a contingency plan on standby.
  22. What I am seeing is that there is no goldilocks zone for todays scouts. It's either the troop is a meatgrinder and only scouts with professional proficiency are getting things signed off or the opposite where anything can get signed off. I think the answer is unit leaders (all of us) and national need to push WAY WAY more outdoors programming. Some of the program needs to shift back towards scout skills emphasis; I would personally yank some of the non scout skill eagle MB and replace them with orienteering, wilderness survival, and backpacking.
  23. You're running ILST, basically lightyears ahead of most of this organization.
  24. If you're going to point a finger point a finger at everybody that has and still is doing it. I live in a major metropolitan location here in America and right now, right here, on your watch, this city and many others are landfilling estuary. Captain conservation, make a list of all the bad actors.
  25. If we're going to go down this road of complaint I feel the need to point out that every major city in the world is built at the intersection of water and those cities all contain significant acreage of landfilled estuary and wetlands that were turned into developable land.
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