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I had always read it as “all events require 2 registered adults, 21 years or older, if any females less than 21 present, one of the 2 must be female”. I guess since we are a troop and pack, we never had a 18-21 year old participant to worry about.

I’d word it differently. This will make it so that people who were using the “free” MBC as a loophole will now have to pay.

Our troop, following in the footsteps of my youth troop, have a family campout each year. This is useful in many ways. It allows parents in new families to spend quality time with the troop adults. It also is a great answer for people who want to bring a sibling on other campouts - “sorry, but they can come on the annual family campout”. I guess we can’t do that any longer?

A big thing for me is that I am the policy holder and not the BSA. 🙂

At first I was ready to type "but, but, but that family has so much money..." The counter to that is the councils have so much money in assets.

It is already hard for me to recruit in September when it is ~$50 for 3 months and then $175 (national fee and unit dues) by 12/1. This giant fee increase assumes nothing for the unit. Crazy.

This seems, without looking at the details, to be the issue. Staff, staff pay, facilities, and services sized for 2x the current org would drive 2x the old costs.

Did you read the whole sentence? It is like a Franken sentence. It is an option for the required uniform. What does they mean?

Thank you for the play by play. It is very interesting. Can’t wait until this phase is over.

Looks nice. Any other new uniform items? How about updated torso adult shirts?

I went gangbusters last year and attended 1 in person and 2 or 3 virtually. I have all of my coursework done. Now I have to staff, write my thesis, and wait 3.5 years. I decided to hold off staffing the requirements may change in 3.5 years. 🙂

I’d agree. They are not a member in good standing with their lodge and this the OA.

I wonder if the Jamboree with help or hurt cash flow even if net zero? I guess hurt as they aren’t likely to be extended credit?

They can still wear the know for the award they earned. You say “switch the pin”. What do you mean? They could work on the new award, if they wished, or not, if they wished.

I did as a kid. We have had it on our calendar the last 5 years. Last year, our SM tried to encourage our Sxouts to attend a church that has been our “summer CO” when the schools are closed. Most of the D ours were like “what? why?” I don’t know if any attend church services on a regular basis, in fact, I don’t think any do.

It would help a lot when explaining it to families. I just registered with USA Archery to eventually become a Level 2 Instructor. $35 for a background check (this $17.50 every 2 years). Their Youth Protection is every year and was more clicking and longer (90 mins?). Registration was $135/3 years, so $55/year. So. 72.50/year. Their training site seemed more polished.

This is key. Keep this correct as you go along, and recharter should almost be a non-event.

I left out that until these activity logs improve, we have our advancement coordinator make it for the troop. The Scribe, SPL, or ASPL does take attendance in Scoutbook. The advancement coordinator uses that to log nights camped.

For us, it was overnight once processed. We did have 2 adults “duplicate”. Asked in the forums for this to be resolved. It was. One needed the local registrar to consolidate. Very clean and straightforward, for 2 of our 3 units processed so far. The 3rd unit has a Scout who is multipled in another council. Her troop folded and she didn’t recharter with them. This has held us up by about a week. She found a troop and is registering with them as we speak. Then, the 3rd unit can be processed.

Make sure the Scout has access. This must be granted by the parent. Ask on a regular basis for Scouts to “sync the books” with Scoutbook. They can enter the requirements as done. An adult can then concur if they agree. The same can be done with activity logs.

Our troop had a hard time with planning September campouts due to school just starting. We started having that as a family campout that we invited the troop families and webelos families to. This gives the moms of the Webelos to spend a weekend with the adults in the troop. Nothing builds bonds like some campfire time. Having a family campout each year also helps those families who want all campouts to be family campouts. We can easily say "well, no, younger siblings can't attend a normal troop campout, but they are always welcome at the annual family campout in September."

Girls have doubled the number of children that can be recruited. The number of teens in the US vs. the 1970s is flat to less. Yes, I was surprised too. Changing demographics of number of children and adults of child bearing age. So, I looked at 2019 12-17 year olds being 25 million. 1972 25 million. No change. POP1 Child population: Number of children (in millions) ages 0–17 in the United States by age, 1950–2021 and projected 2022–2050 (childstats.gov)

That is a quality unit. Quality units deliver a quality program. A unit that does not deliver a quality program is not a quality unit.

Just like troops, councils and lodges are chartered by national. So, just, owned in some respects.

We had the shrink from ‘21 to ‘22. From ‘22 to ‘23 we had growth in our pack and are the biggest we have seen since we became involved in 2018. We believe it is the biggest it has been in anyone’s memory (15-20 years). Our pack went from 28 to 70. We rechartered 48. Our boy troop is flat at about 25. They will cross over 4 Webelos. Our girl troop went from 18, rechartered 16, and will cross over 4-5 for about 20. That will be a high for us.