mrjohns2

It totally seems like an awesome program. I am surprised that it hasn’t taken off.

Sounds awesome. Your ship is 1-2% of all Sea Scouts in the country!

Why make plans if one has no money and will likely sell the camp anyway?

While important, maintenance can deferred. Paying the power bill cannot, insurance bill, payroll cannot.

I guess so? All adults in the council could be on the board of the council wanted.

Do you charge them the same dues (assuming your pack has dues)?

It may sound that way, but is definitely not. A voting member of the council is one who votes for the board member slate of candidates, not a member of the board. Time to time the council voting members have to vote to sell a camp or something that the board wants to put “to the people”.

I have never seen that as a standard. District committee? Yes.

Yep. Tenderfoot to Eagle 1987-1990.

Ooh ooh! What is in your game box. I keep wanting to put one together, but fall short.

If it isn't happening, then your approach is a good one to get troops going again. The concept, though, is that it is done within the troop. Our troop has made it part of our planning weekend. Mainly the PLC, but it is open to the whole troop, does an "end of winter" cabin campout that is a combo ILST / annual planning. It works well enough.

Agreed. If parents don't let a Scout shoot a rifle, they can't earn rifle MB. If they aren't allowed to have a pet, they can't earn pet MB. "But, but, this one is required for Eagle!" Not everyone earns eagle.

Same here. Our council is pretty good, but was surprised to see my BIL’s council list. Number 1, they had one, and 2, it was a long and great list.

My daughters were sad there wasn’t a Minecraft one. They would have watched.

Even that is hard with some charters processed in March. April?

We hired a magician to one school round up and balloon artist for the other. We had about 20 and 20 sign ups.

I don't think they said. It would be interesting to know the number at the lowest point. Is the lowest point normally January? Cubs that came in Sept and didn't recharter? I bet it is. Or is it in March since charters don't get done until March? 🙂

Our pack went from 33 last year to 67. All new cubs. It has been a crazy few weeks.

I assume all programs. I just noticed today that our one Scout who is a “multiple” isn’t counted in the district or unit numbers. She does show up on the roster. It is decently sophisticated. So, I think the data is cleaner than the past. But, what do I know.

It’s a snapshot in time. my.scouting has this by unit for districts. The system seems pretty clear that it rolls all the way up to national. It is more or less live, so when we register a Scout, they show up that day or the next. It shows also the YA (year ago) number. Neat comparison. Would love to have access to the same report at council, NST, and national level.

The presentation was about recruiting and they were just recapping where they were at YTD.

From the webinar. I assume that is BSA all in? Not sure if it includes exploring.

I guess it is rare, but our council made night specific flyers, gave us yard signs, contacted 3 schools to arrange talks, and did the 3 talks. The district had one membership committee member attend our round up nights to help. They then drove our paper apps to the office and helped us fill out forms for those that need financial assistance. About 5 Cubs received financial assistance from the council. It is a good idea not to expect much, but some councils help a lot.

Tigers have been around for 40 years now. One would think we had enough data on it by now. Back in the day (70’s and before) was better without the Tigers?

Oh no. So so sad. So easily handled at the start. Scout gets badge, council/camp get follow-up. Now, the whole darn thing is garbage. I’m sorry you had to go through this.