Alec27

Sorry, I should have mentioned that in the post. Using Chrome on a standard PC laptop, Windows 10, no active extensions.

Hello All, I've been all over the instructional documents, all over the web, tech support, and even to my council office, and nobody can help me figure this one out. I'm the COR for my troop so I know that I have access to adding / moving / expiring Functional Roles in My.Scouting, but for some reason, every time I try and expire a position, I get a "Not Found" error message. Changing Registered Positions has been fine. I recently changed out our Committee Chair and SM, but in this recent election we had, several other Functional Role positions have changed like treasurer and UAC. My other issue is dragging / dropping a unit member that appears on the Registered Positions tab over to the Functional Roles tab as most of the members I need to put into those positions don't exist on the other tab. Photo attached. All help appreciated.

Hey All, I'm the COR for our troop and need some help with handling some Roster / Position Management issues. Our CC is retiring as is her husband an MC and our Treasurer is stepping down as well. I can't seem to find in My.Scouting where I can remove them from their positions. There is a "plus sign with arrows" type icon next to everyone's name on the left but it doesn't seem to do anything except move that person around on the screen. The "minus sign" to the right of their name looks like it "expires" their position but when I try that I get a "NOT FOUND" message. I know that I can "end memberships" in Scoutbook but I was always told that SB is only a reflection of My.Scouting and changes need to be made there. Don't know for sure if these 3 people are leaving the BSA entirely, but if not.... would "expiring" or "ending membership" take them out of the troop only ? I can't imagine a COR or CO can end a person's BSA membership, but I'm not sure on that either. Thanks for the help, as always.

Page 2 of the fundraising form. *This application is not necessary for contributions from the candidate, his parents or relatives, his unit or its chartered organization, parents or members in his unit, or the beneficiary. All proceeds left over from fundraising or donations, whether money, materials, supplies, etc., regardless of the source, go to the beneficiary. If the beneficiary is not allowed, for whatever reason, to retain any excess funds or materials, etc., the beneficiary should designate a suitable charity to receive them, or allow the unit to retain them. The unit must not influence this decision.

Mike, I think the issue is that per the "Fundraising" form you attached, that we already know about, that is in question is to "raise funds" meaning a donation is being solicited or asked for. So in essence, you are "raising funds" by asking for donations and that's what the "fundraising form" addresses. Here's the problem. No funds were solicited. Nobody was asked. Nothing was raised. My son's project donor came forward and volunteered funding of the project on his own initiative and directly to the beneficiary. So exactly what "fundraising" was done? Per the form "If people or companies will be asked for donations of money, materials, supplies, or tools, how will this be done and who will do it?* My son can fill out this form to appease but how exactly is he supposed to answer that? I guess in the end it comes down to how the BSA deciphers the difference between a solicited donation and an unsolicited donation. Thoughts ?

Hey all. I got a tough one here. and this one's personal. My son has his project proposal next week and I have a MC, ASM and myself as Dad and son getting conflicting information regarding private monetary donations for his eagle project. The kid is building a deck and the whole thing is being funded by a private donation from one of our unit members who is also a parent who is also a friend of the family. Total is just under $900. The problem is that I have an ASM that has sat on our district eagle board telling me that because it's over $500 my son needs to fill out a form. It's not a fundraiser and he's not fundraising, so what form is he referring to. The donor is not donating materials, supplies, etc. He's donating cash. My other ASM is telling us that donations only need to be documented on page F of the workbook. Please help ! He's taking on this grand project cause he goes big and as his ASM I'm incredibly proud and as his father I think he's out of his dang mind. LOL But it's his project. But this donor vs fundraiser vs form vs workbook nonsense is driving us all crazy and I don't want him to get rejected by the eagle board. Thank you as always !

SS Thank you so much ! Not just for the advice, but for the confirmation of the situation and you are 100% right.

Hello All, and Happy New Year ! I'm trying to find something specific that I'm hoping is out there somewhere. A BSA official something that speaks on the issue of teaching style or approach or guide to how to work with our scouts. I have a new ASM that transferred to us that is one of these authoritarian, hard-a$$, "didn't' make it in the military so now I'll treat scouting as such" type of dudes. He's rude to my boys, condescending and the preverbial straw was at last meeting when he was so A-hole to my SPL that the kid threw a wrench, said "F-this and left the meeting". Gentlemen that's a bridge too far. The problem is that I can't just tell him that he's wrong, I need to show him concrete proof that "THIS is how we do it", etc. "This is the BSA way", etc. I know that Wood Badge has a huge focus on this type of topic, but is Wood Badge teaching materials something that I'd even be able to get access to ? I appreciate your help, guys and I'm sorry to vent, but this type of ego power trip BS really bothers me. Especially when we're dealing with children. Hope all is well with everyone. Talk Soon. Alec

Our troop has been going back and forth about whether or not to make the Class A mandatory at all weekly meetings. But the question was raised...what is the official BSA position on uniform mandates, specifically as it pertains to meetings. Or maybe there is no such official position? Again, I'm only looking for BSA policy with regard to uniform requirements at meeting, or some type of blanket statement that would cover that topic. I've done about 2 hrs (on and off) worth of searching and reading and cannot find anything concrete. Thanks all, as always ! YIS

I have a parent of a recent AOL Crossover who is interested in taking up leadership in our troop. Silly Question: As a parent, he has a member ID? Does that make him a "registered member"? And if not...what's the difference between the member #'s that parents have, and the member #'s that leaders have? And how would this parent begin the process? From the beginning with a brand new application with the reg fee, etc, etc? Thanks All !!

Copy That ! Makes a lot of sense. Keeps accountability for the Scout and like you said, that element of "follow-through". Thank you again for the wisdom, my friend.

I've done quite a bit of searching and cant seem to find a setting for this, and maybe there is no such thing, but: Is there a setting in SB that will send an alert of some kind (through SB, or email, etc) to the UAC when a Scout / Parent / Leader marks items as "Completed" that then need to be "Approved" such as rank req's or activity log entries. I know the official way is to run a "Needs Approval" report but I'm kinda hoping there's a shortcut. Thanks All !!

Oh, ok...great ! I'll give it a try. Thanks again !

So far so good. SB is letting us enter the leadership roles and the day counter looks accurate. Fingers crossed when it comes time to populate into his eagle app, but so far so good. Thank you !!

One of my Scouts is working toward his Eagle while on a special needs extension. He is on our roster as a Unit Participant. Can Unit Participants hold leadership roles and if so, do I enter them in SB in the normal way ? His BOR date for Life was after he turned 18. Does that affect anything with regard to Leadership Roles? It hasn't affected his ability to advance...we can still add MB's, rank req's, etc. It's the Leadership Roles I'm worried about for the potential of date conflicts between he as ScoutsBSA and Unit Participant. Thanks All !!