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If you RFM, it says elect SPL and PL. PL appoints APL. SM chooses JASM if you have one. Most / all others are appointed by SPL. As long as they can work together, I assume it is no biggie if we vote on all positions? Thoughts?

Is the org char in the last filing? Transparency is one of the things I would change. Simplicity Self-Consistency Have all National staffers and volunteers camp in tents for summer camp and go on 4 campouts a year with troops. Reduce costs by not always being so fancy about certain things Eliminate all cufflinks (Results for cufflinks (scoutshop.org)) Move the headquarters to the Summit and Philmont. Shut down Texas.

I want it to be Jacko Willink. He has an awesome background and consults in leadership. He has written adult books on leadership and kids books. Great guy. Jocko Willink - Wikipedia

Yeah, poor choice of terminology. “Family Pack” is a co-ed Pack.

We used to play a game called "can't boogie with the bogeyman". On the very thin concrete on the church basement floor, we would put down this big rope ring. Then, we woud say go and try to throw everyone out. Like a wrestle mainia kind of thing. Many scouts got hurt over a span of weeks. Our leaders said enough and that they would plan the games for awhile and choose fun, but safe ones. The next week we played the game where everyone takes off their shoes and puts them in a big pile. Then you go 50 yards away and they say go. The first to get their shoes on and back to the starting line wins. Everyone ran at the shoes and made a big pile. Carlos Talbot was at the bottom and was squished. He came out with a broken arm. I don't recall what we played the next week.

People who say dodgeball isn't dangerous, never played with rubber kickballs, when in 5th grade, against Jerry Planack (the biggest kid in grade school and high school). He would have a ball, get up to the line when you were stooping down to get a ball, and whale that ball into your ear or nose. Man, it hurt.

Can you give any other hints? How do you have 2 different photos? Did you google it? What did you google?

I don’t find it very different than our site safe practices in an industrial manufacturing facility. This isn’t a document giving the reasons, background, or stats. It is a document of what you must do or not do. Normally safety rules are written in the blood of those who came before. The biggest difference is that some of the G2SS is that mix about 90% safety rules with 10% policy/philosophical rules. The squirt guns and animal targets are examples. I comply and move on.

Or 2 gallons of maple syrup. That is a lot for 3 people to go through in 2 weeks.

Does it really? Where?

I have heard that some councils have that rule, but that is not what the text says. It just says registered leaders. "All adults accompanying a Scouting unit who are present at the activity for 72 total hours or more must be registered as leaders. The 72 hours need not be consecutive."

No, the 72 hours is one activity. The "not continuous" part means you can't leave and come back to reset the clock. Units may be more strict, but that is the rule as national sees it.

The leader who left was with a troop? Meh, I don't feel like it is that big of a deal. As long as there were enough adults to still support having enough, no biggie. Your other points are good, though. I think the biggest thing is the great program you talk of. I guess for some it just isn't enough.

I was worried my WB was going to be full of silly stuff and too much rah-rah. It wasn't. I had a good time getting to know the members of my patrol and we are still connected. I thanked the staff for not making it too corny. They said they would make it as corny as the participants wanted. You don't sound like you want to try WB again. If you did, I would suggest doing it in another council. I am looking to be on staff this next year, if chosen. One reason is I want to influence the culture of it. The other is to be a good patrol guide and not focus too much on the staff.

I completely agree. There are the rules and the. Above that there is the right thing to do. In our troop, after one or 2 campouts we have them register as a member of the committee or an ASM. It depends on how much they like camping.

If I wasn’t an adult in a troop, or their unit commissioner, I wouldn’t do it at a COH. Do it where you normally do Scouting. Keep it to 5 mins.

Our district has done pretty well going up by 425 to a total of about 1525. If you compare the council to 2017 or 2018, it is horrible. From almost 14,000 down to just over 7000. Ugh.

This has been debated and clarified. It is not a multi activity odometer. It really means something like summer camp. You can leave at hour 71 and come back and have it reset. Yes, you could go on multiple 48 hour campouts.

We pass on all costs to the Cubs and pass on all proceeds to Cub accounts. So if you don’t do fundraising, you will owe all costs. If you work hard at fundraising, you will pay for all. If you go half way, you’ll be neither up or down. So you’ll owe about half.

Methodist or Catholic unit? Seems pretty sketchy to do this outside of normal recharter.

Scoutbook is very much governed by national. So, this is something they are at least tolerating. There are many many other items that national has chosen to enforce in Scoutbook (deep in the minutia of advancement etc.).

Very odd, but word on the street, no change to the sections yet (no areas in the OA). So the OA will maintain the old sections, but move to their own regions. How stupid.

I know we don't want the bankruptcy to last forever, but this seems to be one of those cases of where the autonomy of councils is called into question. If one was a well funded council and was forced to merge with another by national, it seems odd that they would have to accept the liability. Correct, it doesn't make it any less real, but it does call into question any of your recollection and the facts are totally in question. If one can't articulate what happened where, the whole system falls apart.

Like everything, Scouting is local. Our council requires ALL adults attending camp to be registered. Our troop does not, but we rarely have an adult on a campout who is not registered. I can't think of one in the last year. This is often debated, but it has been clarified. The national policy is that the event itself has to be >72 hours. The "consecutive" they mean the time the adult is at the event. They can't leave and comeback to reset the clock. It is not cumulative over time, though, so 48 hour campouts each month do not trigger this 72 hours. Those events, though, must have at least 2 registered adults over 21.

Aren’t NST leads volunteers? So, no costs. Regardless, reason to spend on this vs other areas is to recognize that the BSA must become more diverse. If the BSA remains mostly white, it will continue to become increasingly irrelevant.