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I just notified(voicemail) our UC, which just happens to be the previous SM I told him that ASM was destroying OUR troop and he needed to show up with his UC hat on. Just so happens our next troop and committee meeting is this Thur.

So I guess we should "fire" both?

I was the CC till 4 days ago. I found myself yelling at the wife and son after every meeting because of this ASM, and also wanting a drink and I don't drink.....TIME TO GO The campership is offered by our Troop to go to summercamp, which this year we are going to one almost 500 miles away, which is why we need so many leader/drivers,which have gone thru all the training needed to be SM/ASM. The budget allowed for 2 scouts and 4 adults to attend this years summercamp so cost is not an issue. The COR has had faith in our ability to pick our leaders and CCs, and would sign anything that needed his signature.....that is untill now. From what he said, some very difficult questions will need to be addressed soon. This ASM is a great asset to our Troop(researching camps, tour plans and logistics) if she would just stay on the "scouting" side of things, but she is a control freak(her hubby also) and wants her hand in every cookie jar,even more so now that her hubby is no longer in the Troop. The hubby was in heaven when he had controll of the troop and the money. Me and my son have made some very dear friends and I can not ask my son to leave this troop just because I have trouble with Mrs. So-n-So. We (the committe) understand that she has no say so in the buisness side of the Troop, but the SM gives her free rein, and we haven't found another SM incase he decides to leave. There are other ASMs that would step up to being the SM, but that might be more of a problem

There is a lot more to the story. One of the CC's that had been in that position for 8+years had everything running fine. Sure there were some last minute suffling at times, but everything got done.The ASM's husband who was also the treasurer decided that there should be "term limits" for this position, and with constant hounding, the CC gave up and resigned. The next CC, who had been groomed and lied to by the husband lasted about 3 months and resigned because of the bickering, and the fact that she had been lied to about the previous CC wanting out. The position went unfilled for 3 months, and at a committee meeting I stepped up to be the CC. Everyone one was ready to vote but the husband who was "Acting CC" said that we would have to wait till the next meeting because an annoucememt was needed about a vote, even though all the committee members were present at that time. I kept my mouth shut because a Scout was present at the meeting to discuss his Eagle project. When I got home, I sent out an email to all concerned asking why we had to wait on a vote, stating that no one had stepped up in the previous months. The husband took offense to that and resigned, and now the ASM is doing eberything she can to make life miserable. As far as th SM, he makes me resolve all the problems that the ASM makes because he likes to avoid conflicts at all costs. Of all the people involved, I'm the new kid, and am afraid of making to many waves

This ASM is performing some of the jobs that belong to the committee, such as determining which scouts gets a campership, or which adults can go to summercamp. One instance, when a parent asked if her son could get a campership, the mother walked away belittled and humilated. When this matter was discused with the SM, his response was "they'll be gone in a year or so, when the son makes Eagle". So far we have lost 3 CC's (me being the last one)in less than a year. Do "we" need to get the COR and unit commisioner involved?