Can you be on two committees?

[OldGreyEagle 5]

Since this is a parish rule and the reason for the rule was in the past and now is not working, could you go to the parish council and ask the subject be revisited? Has another pastor come on board since the rules inception? If not, do you know the current pastor well enough now to present the information posted here to him? If not, is there someone else in the troop who could?

 

Seems your hamstrung by a rule made for a completely different time/era and situation than you presently find yourself in, time to change the rule. or is that possible?

 

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[featherswillfly 10]

Hello OGE,

The answer to that is NO we can't go back. It is the same priest and the church has put one of these discontent parents as Charter Rep. Only 2 years have past and everyone in the area still has it fresh in their minds. I do have to say that at one point finally after damage had been done the Charter Heads from both organizations and the head of the church parish council did get together and finally talk. But there was no going back.

Just fyi we also have two other families who are in the same postion and they feel their hands are tied. It really is crippling the groups.

I do also have to say this little rule of the churches has come back to bite them because they too cannot have a person double for their own troop.

[nldscout 18]

Why not just have one parent register in one group and the other parent in the other group. Wouldn't that solve your problem?

[featherswillfly 10]

No not really. The father doesn't want to be an advancements committee member with either pack or troop. You can't expect that much from one family. He gives what he can. The mother is the one who wants the positions and can do the work. We can have her with out her being registered but we could not recognize her as such.

[Bob White 20]

Sure you can recognize her. You can give her thank you stuff, pins, certificates, gratitude, fellowship. She can still get the trained strip, it doesn't matter what unit she is in when she gets it, she's still trained. She could spend her tenure for her cubscout knot registered with the pack, then register to the troop and get her Training Award knot as a troop committee member.

She can still attend woodbadge, She still gets her service stars. There is not a single recognition that she couldn't recieve.

Bob