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  1. @Eagle94-A1 My council went thru this with a merger a few years ago. It got real messy. The council being merged with ours had a very large endowment fund. one of the main reasons that caused the merger was that the council being merged only had 600 youth listed; after after a membership audit it was found that they were only 300 youth in the entire council. Long time volunteers changed the locks on the council offices/store and moved the endowment funds into a hidden account and refused to turn everything over. This ended up in a court battle and in the end everything had to be turned over. a
  2. Our council (Longhouse) stills calls it's yearly corporate fundraiser the Boypower Dinner The first "official" Boypower Dinner was in 1971 Here's a link to the history of the dinner in our council http://www.cnyscouts.org/boypower/history/
  3. I know at least a few years ago a council SE could wave the 5 Scout minimum to recharter. If I remember right you had to have at least 3. This was done on a case by case basis and is up to each individual SE to allow it or not.
  4. @Jameson76 Was the camporee theme Alice's Restaurant?
  5. There was an article in Scouting Magazine about doing a fundraiser asking for donations only. https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/01/30/upon-further-review-troops-grocery-bagging-fundraiser-isnt-permitted/
  6. A few years ago the Pack I help with had an event that was really successful. The Monday after the event one of the DE's called me and told me I had to turn over all the money we made to the council.
  7. I can only recall a couple of times where the BOR was suspended and advancement was held up. The first time was when I first joined Boy Scouts in 1970. There was a Scout who was out to be the youngest Scout to make Eagle at the time. At his Eagle BOR he was deemed to not be mature enough for Eagle and told to come back in 6 months. His parents were mad because of this delay it would not make him the youngest Eagle. I can only remember him being there a couple time in the following 6 months. When he went back to the BOR he was awarded Eagle. We never saw him again. The s
  8. There is also a Sabbatis Scout Reservation owned by the Longhouse Council in Syracuse, NY. Sabbatis Adventure Camp is run by Patriots’ Path Council in NJ They are on the same road but Longhouse Council's camp is 9 miles past Sabbatis Scout Reservation has been patrol cooking as long as I can remember (went there in the 70's when I was a youth)
  9. I am in the Longhouse Council in Syracuse, NY. We have had a Commissioner College for as long as I can remember. Over the last few years this has evolved to an area event covering NE region area 3 and the councils take turns as the chancellor and finding staff. It has been held at a school hear is Syracuse for a number of years. We must be doing things right as they have had attendees in the past as far away as Cleveland, OH I only got as far as a bachelors degree but taught classes at this in the past. I have plans to attend his year as they are offering the Powd
  10. Camp Yawgoog in Rockville, Rhode Island has an excellent WEBELOS summer camp program. Some things I liked about the program was the time given to the Scouts. Most days they ate lunch early at the camp site and not in the dinning hall. While everyone else was eating lunch they had archery and Shooting range (BB guns) to themselves I also liked that they put them WEBELOS first. They were put up front marching into any campfires/nighttime shows....and sat in the front row at these They had their own cheer. Staffers had to cheer with them when they did it at meal time. The
  11. A Troop/District/Council can not really deny an ECOH. They can choose not to participate but can not stop you from holding a ECOH for your son. I fins it strange that both the SM and Troop Committee had no problem signing off the paperwork for Eagle and know have an issue with holding a COH After being at the District level I can say that Council/National will stay out of this as it is a dispute at the unit level. I think your son should contact your Troop Committee Chair and Charter Organizational Rep and the Head of your Charting Organization asking for the reason they are den
  12. Longhouse Council (Syracuse, NY) runs a Boy Scout Day Camp at Camp Woodland (Constantia, N.Y). It is $175 for the week Aug. 20-24 This is the second year it has been offered and was pretty popular last year with most of the sessions full Badges Offered: Canoeing Swimming Archery Kayaking Lifesaving Shotgun Rifle Emergency Preparedness Welding Woodworking Automotive Maintenance Metal Working First Aid Environmental Science Communications I think the Seneca Waterways Council, just to the west of us in Roch
  13. From my personal experience staying with their friends has too much emphasis put on it. Both of my son's dens' all crossed over into the same troop (different Troops for each). With my older son after 2 years in the troop he was the only one of his den left. He was also the only one left from the all the boys (9 or 10 total) that came into the Troop at the same time. My younger son is turning just 16 and there is only one other boy left from his den that crossed over. I found that if you want to know about a Troop (or any unit) ask to attend a committee meeting. I found that
  14. OK. We have them in the USA but we call them "Trivia" Night. They are pretty popular where I live (Upstate NY) I never thought about doing this for a fundraiser but it sounds like a great idea.
  15. In my District we have 4 Venturing Crews and 1 Sea Scout Ship One of the crews was an Explorer Post (EMT training) that switched to a Venturing Crew a few years ago and pretty much does its own thing. The Sea Scout Ship is pretty healthy and active The two other crews will combining into one crew and are wondering if my son’s crew might what to also combine with them into one crew. The 2 crews combining have only 3 or 4 youth each and neither have enough adults to recharter as a separate crew. My son’s crew has 5 or 6 youth on paper but only 2 or 3 active. We have enou
  16. My family has 3 generations of Eagles - My Dad, myself and twin brother and one of my sons. I don't have any grandkids yet but my brother has a granddaughter so maybe she will the 4th generation.
  17. Thanks for confirming my understanding that there is only one COR for each CO. Without going into details it seems that the Pack and crew had issues with the COR and asked for the COR to be replaced. The troop didnt want to switch CORs. Our councils compromise was to have each ubit have thier own COR. They asked that the key 3 from each unit take COR training and this us where they were told it was ok to have multiple CORs.
  18. I am at a scout youth training training event. I was discussing COR's with an adult leader from another unit who said that their Pack, Troop and Crew had the same CO but each had a different COR. When I said that each CO should have only one COR the person responded that they had just gone through an issue with having to replace the COR and the BSA has changed the rules and allows a CO to have multiple COR's. A few years ago I ran COR training and it wasn't like this. Did this change? If so when?
  19. My experience has seen the opposite. The adults who weren’t involved in Scouts as a youth have most issues with following the BSA program (and the boy-lead concept). Most have the attitude that they know how Scouting works and don’t need training. I lost count with how many adults I have run into with this type of attitude. In response to the OP “Why Can't Adults Trust the Scouts?” Here is some insight on what I have experienced. It took me almost 10 years before I found a troop that even came close to being boy-led and used the patrol method. This is the Troop my youngest son joined.
  20. I actually 3D printed a car. One of our local libraries has 6 or 7 3D printers to use (you pay by weight of what you make). I ran it in the Packs "open class". I preferred using the wood block. The car looked cool but trying to keep the wheels on and straight were way easier with wood than the plastic the 3D printer uses.
  21. The Venturing Crew I work with needs to fundraise as it's account is low in funds. At last weeks meeting they were discussing fundraising ideas but most required startup funds that the crew just doesn't have. The youth really like to sell Gertrude Hawk chocolate bars but they don't have enough funds to cover what is needed to do this. The only low cost idea they came up with is a Can and Bottle Drive. They have enough funds to get flyers to go door to door to pass out but are looking to do something else. Anyone have any other little or no start up cost fundraising ideas I can suggest to t
  22. Last year my Council added a "resource" fee to all registrations, both youth and adult, of $26 per person. With the national Increase to $33 for registration in December and another $10 insurance fee it will bring the registration fee to almost $70 per. Add Boys Life to a youth registration and it's over $80 to register.
  23. A few years back when I was the District Commish I had a pack that was ready to fold. it was down to 4 second year Webelos and was ready to fold. The SM of the Troop that was chartered by the same CO (and ex Cubmaster of the Pack) came to me about what to do. He knew that the future of the Troop was tied directly to the pack as many of the Cubs in this pack crossed over into the troop. Mu suggestion was for the Troop to take over the pack until it got restarted. Do a shared committee and see if one of the Troop adults would be willing to take over as Cubmaster They found an ASM willing t
  24. Around here I never seen dining-hall style meals for participants at a Boy Scout camp-o-ree. Cooking is done by each Troop (we hope they would be doing the Patrol Method for this but have seen many Troop method cookng units) I have seen this at Cub Scout and most Venturing events. Food for the Camp-o-ree staff is always done as a group with someone at the district level taking the lead and putting together a cooking staff. Staff also can eat with a Troop if they wish I like the way Back Pack's district does things. The family style where staff can grab something and go is a grea
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