Thank you to everyone who replied.
The problem has been with the SM. He is new and we are allowing for that.
We had two boys wanting to do the same eagle project (Painting fire hydrants - about 40 each) on the same day. Seperate projects - seperate plans, seperate work crews - totally seperate. He forbid it saying it wouldn''t count, its the same etc. The council rep said as long as there is a letter from the city or fire chief stating that 40 each boy is a scopeable project (IE there are 1500 in the city - one boy taking care of 40 or so is reasonable) then he had no problem and s