mkahler

Barry (and everyone), Thanks for all of the sound advise. Over the next few months we hope to have things ironed out and I will let everyone know what the outcome is. I love the Cub/Boy Scouts! There is so much enthusiasm and advise out there. Once again, Thanks everyone!

I''ve tried to answser the questions. I appreciate the comments and suggestions. Questions: How many scouts in each pack? 35 and 28 = Total 63 Do both packs function OK or is one a lot better then the other? I would say that our pack is more organized. Not that the other pack isn''t funtioning well. Have you polled the adults in both Packs and how they feel about it? I talked with the other CM and we our both in agreement that the packs should merge. Have you considered two packs under one charter and meet on different nights? If we did this, then why even merge. Also, this would separate the boys, even though the schools are one. (Them vs. us) I will add that recruiting is a pain if you considered that. Is one pack older then the other, more tradition? They are both about the same in age. We are both the oldest schools in the district. We are both over 25+ years chartered. Would the families of one pack have to drive a long ways to the other school? The schools are approximately 1 mile apart, so we were thinking that we would hold the pack meetings at both schools, alternating them monthly. We were also thinking that we should merge during our re-charting. My pack''s recharter is March and there''s is in February. If we do it at this time, then this is one less thing the boys need to worry about when school starts up.

I know this is an old thread, but this is new to us. In our school district, they are taking two schools (K-6) and merging them. Basically one school will be k-3 and the other school will be 4-6. It looks like the PTA''s will merge to form one. These two PTA''s are the chartering organizations for both of the packs. Our DE''s do not want them to merge because of pack #''s, but it would be a paper nightmare, IMO, if we merged everything except on paper. How would you merge? Do we need to re-charter or do we have the boys of one pack transfer over to the other? If you don''t merge, how do you handle pack $''s? Any thoughts would be appreciated.