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The number are something like 70% of scouts came out of the cubbing program. There is very little (30%) organic recruitment for troops. The focus should be on the packs, and rising tides will lift the troops.

Your council has it. The question is does your registrar know where it is and does your registrar have the intestinal fortitude to work with you to find it.

In my experience I think the #1 thing that a professional scouter can do to help the council/district/units is to constantly recruit new volunteers and encourage every unit to participate at the district level either through the COR or a COR delegate volunteering on a district committee.

30% is probably due to the IRS rules. The fact that your current pack puts all into the scout account is probably violating the IRS rules on dollar-for-dollar non-profit fundraising and the personal benefit rules.

So you're pack is small which limits your access to adults. Think about the pool of volunteers something like this: There are only so many adults that are at the same time capable of volunteering and able to volunteer. So what you have to do is grow your pack to a level of scouts that gives you access to enough capable and able adults. Typically that number is 30-45 scouts.

We're seeing good growth in our area. We're a mixed financial class area and still picking up scouts in packs and troops. Our problems stem from lack of adult engagement hurting district and council event planning. What I do notice from speaking with surrounding areas is that the hot packs and troops are waning while other packs and troops are getting stronger(which might be what is happening in my area as well). Overall though we're seeing year-over-year growth.

You can't carry the pack on your own. Have you voiced these same concerns to the other parents and leaders?

Your council will have a paper archive of all those old documents that pre-date the electronic filing of recharter, etc ... You will need to contact your council registrar and ask for access to review old documents.

It's not essentially that way; hence the realignment and updates. True it can be tough to keep any repeat issues from becoming a boring situation; however, mastery through repetition is a thing, and changing up teaching style can alleviate these issues. As for the troops recruiting issue: the answer seems to be, that AOL is no longer meant to be a prep year to join a troop. The 6 month time frame has always been an issue; I have had many discussions with other den leaders and asked them how they fit the current AOL program into 6 months and no one can quite explain it.

Wrong, you must be registered to overnight with a troop. Parents can still attend to observe as long as they do not overnight.

The main point of these changes which most people seem to have missed is that each rank is vertically aligned now. This helps a pack in 2 ways. First of all a pack suffering from lack of leadership can more easily combine grade levels into a "mixed" den and keep the whole program running. Secondly the pack leadership can align when they do the related adventures month-to-month so that the monthly pack meeting/outing aligns with what the cubs were learning all month. This brings the cub program into alignment with how a troop should function (practice in meetings, execute in outings). These

So the SM is off the mark. First of all, all aspects of the program are open to parent observation. Secondly part of the purpose of the committee is to monitor and potentially correct problems in the SM corps. My gut tells me that the SM is doing something wrong and was possibly challenged on it and is now trying to get rid of observation.

Small world, I know a SM who's troop travels to camp at Camp Seton in that council due to it's expensive but high quality program. Looking at the website I notice some staggering differences in the amount of information provided straight up vs my local councils website which is as lean as it can get with pre-covid out of date information and broken links. I also know that the Greenwich Council is one of the most financially stable councils in New England. Wondering if this is such a jump but; are some small councils prospering because of good information flow, above average economic area,

Good points about making it difficult to get to the in person council events. Before your merger were CORs/COR delegates going to those things?

Yeah I see what you see. Looks like national is not forcing small councils to merge but is reducing their voting ability unless they grow to at least 5000 scouts. I sort of like this 1 rep/vote per 5000 scouts, it gives a huge voice to well performing councils that are recruiting like mad.

A good troop will have a calendar and be able to point a WDL to the most fun meetings but at the same time will allow potential crossovers to visit as often and to any meeting including the PLC.

Absolutely true. and?

It really depends on the scout and on the troop. A mature 10 year old that powers through their AOL can in my experience crossover the 1st day of summer break between 4th and 5th grade and have absolutely no problems. What do you think about parent meeting and explain the options for the scouts and explain the risk/reward? When a go getter Webelos crosses over a year earlier than expected with their AOL they basically gain an extra year to get their Eagle.

Is there some formula for condensing or dividing councils? The local council here and most of the surrounding councils are in the 4-5000 scout range; does that put them at risk of merger? That is interesting, do you have an example (I would like to check out a council website of such a small council to see what a council that small is up to).

Was the contribution to the fund listed only as cash because over 2 years passed between the sale of the camp back in 2021 and the actual post deposit of funds to the settlement fund? Meaning, since the cash had been possibly co-mingled for 2 years the amount tied to the sale of the property was no longer considered a property disbursement.

Didn't 86% of the plaintiffs, the BSA, and almost all of the insurance companies (the insurance companies that voted against the settlement are the ones trying to get out of paying anything IMHO) vote to approve the settlement? Over 250 million has been spent on legal bills so far; that's money that the plaintiffs are not getting; I think part of the equitable mootness are the judges trying to keep the lawyers from bleeding funds away from the victims.

Holy cow that is now a geographically huge council with a lot of population.

After reading the information at the 2 links I wonder if the cash contribution only issue is because the camp was sold a few years ago and not more recently?

The abused in scouting ads are going to slowly go away now that the settlement is winding down to the disbursement stage. The sad part is those ads are going to switch to something else now that the lawyers are getting paid out and wont have new money coming from scouting. Any bets that youth football is going to have a class action suit due to concussions and tbi?

There is a missing aspect here. Equitable Mootness also involves influence of simply ending/moving the bankruptcy forward or toward completion. In relation to this case Equitable Mootness is certainly in use to end the whole process and allow everyone to move forward from a common point in time and from a common standing.