mrjohns2

What did they expect? 17 isn’t that low for winter.

I love your philosophy. So many make it super serious and hard to achieve some crazy unarticulated vision of the course director.

I try to be super duper involved, but also try to think I may have to walk away if needed. I don’t want to be so invested that I feel like I CANT walkway. It may be the healthiest thing to do if push came to shove.

Yeah, that was the conclusion in the article (Nationals? APs?). I’m not so sure about that.

"According to court documents, the boat's propeller struck Keoni while he was swimming in the lake."

I’m confused about the downtick in boys. Too bad there are good exit interviews. I am very confused by the membership increase. The renewal system has been an utter failure. Are they just counting everyone who renewed, and could renew, as members?

Gotta read the whole post “At this point, I'm thinking maybe just wait until he has two more activities done, then mark the requirement as done?”

The internet is a tough place out there. If you are wondering, this is why I have a concern with your post. Because the previous troop used different software you will have the scout wait? Preposterous. The requirements are done.

Very clearly states after you go to a 6 year old document and follow a couple of other tortuous paths. Sure it is required. Yep.

😞 Scout involvement / satisfaction is inversely proportional to the program being like school. Scouts didn't sign up for night school! As a nerd, I loved it. So, if we want to only appeal to the 1 in 15 or 1 in 30, keep it up!

Where is it in the registration guidebook? Also, do you have a copy? The 2024 edition came out, but has been only posted internally for registrars. Would like to have a copy.

That was my search findings. It makes a little bit of sense - accept government money, you must be transparent to how the money is used.

Well, maybe? Not really? Have you been in the same council? Scouting IDs are not portable, so to see my eagle (and NESA life), I had to find my youth ID. Pretty neat they had it from 1990. Other registrations? No.

G. Michael Hopf

IF they are subject to FOIA, it would only be in relation to how the grants are used. Not "in general".

Then they moved it to 90 and then 120 days. Not sure what it is now. 90?

Maybe? Maybe not less tarnished, but less irrelevant. Irrelevance is likely a bigger threat.

Out of all of the changes, I am pretty sure National doesn't care much about the loss of camps. They would rather there be 1/2 the camps. Then those camps could be filled closer to capacity and have funds to at least staff and do routine maintenance.

All 4 parts within 60 (?) days? Sometimes people do one or 3 and don’t do the 4th for a few months and it won’t count them all by design.

It has been decently bad for us. -no way to remove a volunteer from the unit roster, so have to sign that the roster is approved even if someone is dropping -if you choose to opt-out a volunteer, no indication on the roster screen -cub leaders who are not returning, but their cubs are, started and abandoned their renewal. Now, we can't pay for any adults until those people log in and cancel their started, but not completed, renewal -people double charged (2 so far) -people charged something different than what the receipt says -7-8 days to indicate paid, even though the money was removed from the checking in 18-36 hours -early on, a DL marked their cub opt-out on accident and had to have registrar reset

Thanks for posting. I’m actually qualified. It is quite the assignment. I bet one could argue one of the hardest professional jobs as it makes almost no one happy. Only 7 years from retirement, so I “have to” stay where I am.

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You have a lot of good points. Who is your Comissioner? Very easy to see at my.scouting. Login, go to your unit, click on organization manager, then unit dashboard. The dashboard should really be the landing page and get rid of the menus.

Even though our system is healthy most of the time, it can break for a time when one commissioner drops out. With each having 2-4 units, if one leaves (or 2), there is a big gap.

Our district has a pretty good commissioner corps. We are always short 2-4 unit commissioners and 1-2 roundtable commissioners. But we do have groups of both and we do get the job done. We seem to do a good job recognizing those with plaques and knots as appropriate. Our district is one of the top in the council, though. With 7 or 8 districts, ours sold 45% of the popcorn in the council. 2 of the last 3 council commissioners came from our district and 2 of the last 3 council presidents came from our district.