Cubmaster Randy

Excellent advice from John We formed a new troop last March. Originally we had 5, now we are at 7 ....all weblelosII crossovers I would add *Start Early...Around here, most webelosII know which troop they are going to by the end of December. We had our open house in January. Several scouts and parents I spoke with would have been interested, but had already committed to other troops *Equipment and Finances- Can you borrow equipment or will you need to purchase. How are you going to do this? *Have a vision about the troop- share it with the other adults on the committee and with t

What I heard you say was that the CM should be the pack trainer. What I was trying to say was that the Cubmaster should not be the Pack Trainer because it is an administrative/support position.The Pack trainer does has a specific spot on the organization chart. I am not a fan of a CM or CC having multiple jobs within a unit In reality, most packs currently don't have pack trainers and the repsonsibility falls on the CM or CC, but that could be a seperate thread. pack org chart http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=ca I took the job descrition from the website. I do agree that

I disagree that the Cubmaster should be the Pack Trainer. That is a separate position. However, (from the job description of CM) he should Guide and support den leaders and see that they receive the required training for their positions The role of the Pack Trainer The pack trainer is responsible for: Conducting orientation of new families and pack leaders. (See Chapter 10 of the Cub Scout Leader Book, "Den and Pack Management.") Training each new leader and pack committee member for his or her specific position, using material provided by the BSA. Helping with Unit Le

Who makes up the event budget- camp director,activities chair,and/or budget director with input from the people running the program areas. Submitted to DE for aprroval from council. Don't forget the 20% contigency. The actvities chair should have gone to committee training, that is covered in committee training how do they even know how to formulate one? Honestly, Its not to hard to come up with a budget. We all do budgets of some sort for work,and home.Just ask the person who did it last year to offer any gudiance and lessons learned). Who deals with council in getting advance c

We used to do it that way, but in the past 3 years, We have modified that approach With 14++ troops, not every scout troop would not get an opportunity to host within a scouts tenure. (not all want to), but doing it this way, we can involve all the troops, thus giving them the opportunity for ownership and particiaption. The smaller troops can now volunteer to help and we don't have use the usual suspects. The district committee sets the date. The camporee committee sets the location and theme. The DE works with the camporee commitee members on items such as finance and if we are using

We keep the same dates year to year for district events. It makes it simpler for the units to plan their calendars. Occasionally their is an issue with a date. (This year we had to move our Webelos Woods due to Palm Sunday), but for the most part the units know the schedule well ahead of time as We have our calendar posted 18 months ahead. Does council have their dates set that early? The scout calendars are filled up between, unit, district and council events. You could theoretically do a scouting event every weekend.(sometimes 2) When that happens, you see what you want to do and make a c

off topic from the main topic, but replying to the comment about the brownie program My daughter is in brownies. I am not sure what you mean that brownies don't have a pinewood derby. Her service unit has an annual "powder Puff Derby (pinewood derby) They have a resident camp where they can do archery. They don't shoot BB's,, but they even got the chance to go canoeing at day camp this year. The implimentation of the program at the unit, district (service unit) or council level will determine if the program is "lame". Not the program itself

Are you 100% sure she was a girl? Sometimes Cubs will let their hair grow out and at that age it is sometimes hard to distinguish

Check with both Scoutmasters if they have any boys that would like to be den Chiefs. See which have been trained as Den Chiefs. See which are available to meet durning the times the den meets. Have the den leaders meet and Interview them. A good Den Chief will most likely be a good recruiter for his troop Typically a Den Chief will work with one den, although I have seen instances of the him taking on a Pack focus

Interesting, On our course , We are told to wear the uniform that shows what program we are primarily registered in. The insignia and loops are approriate to the program we are registrered as. The Cub Leaders wear blue loops, Boy scout leaders wear red loops, etc. We do wear den chief cords the first morning and We have name tags with the patch of the position we are modeling that is updated during the course Wearing green loops on a khaki or yellow shirt? That would be against uniforming guidelines and we would not be allowed to do that

We have the minister at their church/religious organziation present the medal at the church and we present the purple square knot at the pack meeting. I usally say something like this. Occasionally i might involve a purple candle. Fire is good We are very proud of ___________. He has worked with both his family and his religious advisor to learn more about his religious faith and his "Duty to God." After much hard work and personal growth, he has received the right to wear the religious emblem of his faith on his Scout uniform and was presented with a medal by his religious advis

A suggestion When nominating someone for the district award of merit,I would not worry so much about what awards and when they were earned. That information can be found out later. If they truly are deserving, someone on the committee will know them and can help fill in the blanks or you could enlist the help of a spouse or someone in their unit. Sometimes you have to be creative in how you gather information

I think this thread is going sideways, but to go back to Brians original question At the end of the day, the district Award of merit committee needs to look at all of the nominees and determine who in their best judgement to see if someone deserves the award. *Has he/she rendered service of an outstanding nature at the district level.. Yes, but what constitutes district level service can be debated, as districts are the operating arm of the council and the units are the district, but I think they should look at their involvement. Are they a UC, are they on the district committee in som

In our district, in addition to the general call for nominations, we ask each of the units turn in a nomination form at recharter for someone that they feel should recieve the award. These then go to the selection committee where they are reviewed. They look at what they have done, how long they have been involved and other criteria. Normally, you have to have served at least 5 years, but that is not a written requirment It says on the nomination form, not to let the person know you are nominating them. This year we had at least 17 different names on the nominations. We only can award 3.

When we have a pack event, a subcommittee plans it. We try and involve a parent from each den level, so when a group crosses over, it does not take the entire planning hsitory with it. They report what they are doing/done to the Pack Committee. They get the necessary information from the Pack Committee and other sources. For example, the person running the campout will have gone to BALOO where they would have been instructed on how to take the pack camping. Our district roundtable offers a breakout once a year on a particular event such as B&G or pinewood. I've seen dens in other packs do

When we have a pack event, a subcommittee plans it. We try and involve a parent from each den level, so when a group crosses over, it does not take the entire planning hsitory with it. They report what they are doing/done to the Pack Committee. They get the necessary information from the Pack Committee and other sources. For example, the person running the campout will have gone to BALOO where they would have been instructed on how to take the pack camping. Our district roundtable offers a breakout once a year on a particular event such as B&G or pinewood. I've seen dens in other packs do

Long haul did you recieve the manual?

With a smaller troop you can offer a more personalized expreience. You won't become a number. Too me that could be used as a selling point

Long Haul and cb2boys I've tried pm'ing both of you and I have checked my bulk folder looking for indirectly sent emails. nothing found. I have been having problems with other features of scouter.com, but I am not complaining I would post my email address here, but I get a lot of spam from spambots already looking at our district website. So if you want to look at our district website www.miltonbsa.org and look under the yellow pages for either P2143 or T2143, my contact information is there. YIS Randy

Some 30+ years ago, I was a Cub scout. I did well the first year, bobcat wolf and about 10 arrow points. After that, i can't say I enjoyed it as much. and no we did not do a lot of cutting and pasting. We prepared our activites for the upcoming pack meetings, worked on our badges and went on field trips. Although I did not earn bear or AOL, but I stuck with it(my mom was one of the den mothers and most of my friends were in it. My dad is an Eagle, so I sorta thought that was what were supposed to do. They never asked if I wanted not to be in it..lol We did not camp as a pack,we had pinewood

Long Haul No pm's recieved. I'll try you

Yes, talk with your DC. Get someone else assigned to your unit. Maybe they can reassign her to one of the other units. UC's should be able to work with the units that they serve. From what you have written, this does not seem possible at this time.

cb2boys PM me your email address and I will be happy to send it to you

Where did an age requirment come up? I thought the requirments were 1st class, the nights of camping, inluding a week of long term and a SM rec. i took my ordeal at summer camp between the 7th and 8th grades. I got involved in my chapter and when I went to High School, I knew a lot more kids from other troops.

I only have the numbers from last crossover(2006), but I do know that the number of Webelos class this year is larger than last year. Last years numbers from our district was over 90% retention from Webelos to Boy Scouts. We had 200 Webelos who crossed over from 24 different packs into 13 different troops. 6 of those troops are within a 5 mile radius of my house. We are forming a 7th troop because the those troops are between 40 and 100+ scouts. The 40 scout troop does not have the facilities to get much bigger. Most are in 60-70 scout range We have a district volunteer with the positio