Not sure what to name this thread

[Eamonn 61]

We have one troop in the district that recharters with a list of adults that is as long as your arm.

Which is good news for the guys in Texas.

Sad to say they don't even bother to ask those people that they are rechartering.

They have all sorts of people on the charter. People that are located all over the country. People who have not done anything for years and more then lightly never will.

Last year they even had one chap on the list who was no longer with us - He was dead!!

All the people on the district committee are expected to pay their own membership fee.

The Scout Exec. has a expectation of a minimum donation for all Board Members and we have a District FOS goal.

The expected donation was at $500.00 a year, however at the last meeting the FOS cards were passed out and a sugguested $100.00 a month was brought up.

While some of us can afford this. I think that we have to be careful that we don't push too hard.

While $25.00 a week is ok. Add in a few of the other events that are expected and we are in danger of out pricing ourselves.

Eamonn.

[hotdesk 10]

Okay,

 

these Committee Members DON'T DO ANYTHING, NOTHING, NADA, EVER.

 

One used to be our former Committee Chairmen when the Committee Meeting, in OUR TROOP, was composed of the Scoutmasters and Patrol Leader's Council. He NEVER EVEN attended a meeting or outing then. The ONLY REASON he was put on as our Committee Chairmen was because we used is parking lot for our fundraiser. For the last 5 years we haven't been doing the fundraiser and no one knows what he looks like because he isn't there.

 

The other guy used to STORE our EQUIPMENT. Which he no longer does because it is not needed.

 

The other person used to be a Scout in the troop who was not able to reach Eagle. He left the troop at 17 and came to one meeting during the next two years. Since then he too HASN'T BEEN AT ANYTHING EVER.

 

So I don't think that the troop should pay for them, I just wanted to know what you guys thought.

 

As far as dead leaders, he had one better. For about a year we had a Scoutmaster that never existed. The ASMS all pitched in and ran the troop. It wasn't until the COR found out that there wasn't such a person that he had to actually find a SM.

[andrewcanoe 10]

In the troop I serve the adults pay their own dues. The troop will repay half of all training fees upon completion and pays for 2 leaders at summer camp. Other adults go as SOS(scouter on staff) and work for their stay or pay out of their pockets.