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I need some advice. We are currently having a HUGE amount of personnel conflict within our pack, that is unfortunately affecting the whole program. I recently stepped down as cubmaster, and my asst will be steppping up to the position on his return. There is disagreement over this, as we are supposed to vote on the cmte volunteer postitions. One, we don't have people "chomping at the bit" to step up and volunteer, and the current asst has CM time in the past. We are lucky to get the people we need to run the pack and for several months had a cmte that consisted of the CC, treasurer, CM and pack recruiter. Needless to say things went great. We have a parent, who is also an asst ldr (registered as cmte member) and sits on the cmte and is cmte chair for the troop. She hates everyone, and is a WORLD class gossip. If issues arise, she is at the center of the conflict. If it isn't done her way, then all of us are wrong. She is stating that we now need to make elections for the cmte members, and is pushing the UC and the COR to remove our current CC who has voluntarily held the position for over the past 2 years. I was under the impression that we were running things well, providing a great program for the boys. I also considered this person a friend, that has now stabbed me in back more times than I can count. The majority census would be to have her leave. Is she correct in stating that we should be electing the cmte positions?? Even when we have a volunteer comfortable in the position and doing for the good of the boys? I am concerned that losing CC would damage the pack and it would fall apart. Also our current treasurer is VERY good and VERY conscientious with spending of the money (insures all bills are paid before money is used for the boys). If this person takes control of the pack as she has in the troop, she will become our dictator and foolishly spend the boy's money. Yes it is their money...especially those who participated faithfully in the popcorn to raise money so to carry those who did nothing. The current cmte members are planning on rechartering with the pack in their positions, unless someone really wants to step up. Yeah right all my parents think I get paid to do this.

Thanks all for the comments. I deferred the original issue to council, and they went with allowing him into the troop. However, a can of worms is now opened. I have one Webelo that is currently in the cubscout program and is 11, and another Webelo who is 10 1/2 turning 11 in 2 wks (and in 4th grade). Now that they have learned 11 is a boyscout, they want to pull these 2 boys out of the cubscouts and place them in the affilitated boyscout troop only. Not give boys and parents the option of visiting other troops. Any thoughts? Thanks.

I recently came across a situation, that when I tried to fix, the mother became extremely belligerent with me. I have a scout, that recently joined the boyscout troop that I am affiliated with. She sent me an e-mail that they were new to scouting, so I e-mailed her back (no phone number provided initially), giving her the information for both cubscouts and boyscouts, to determine where her son would go. She responded back, informing me that he was 13 yrs old, which would make him a boyscout in the troop, which is where we put him. We received the application back, and were inputting his information into scouttrack, when it was noted that he wasn't 13, but was in fact only 11. And, he JUST this past month turned 11 and is only starting 5th grade. This would make him a Webelo 2. Well I called mom to inform her of this, and she literally blew up stating that she was not putting him in babyscouts, and that he would continue in boyscouts because it would mentally detrimental to his health, and she will have someone's a.... for this harm being done to her son. What do I do?? I know that he needs to be with the cubscouts, as he hasn't completed 5th grade or earned his AOL. Can anyone advise. I have directed her to council DE to address this.

Hi everyone!! Just wanted to intro myself, as I was surfing the site. My name is Tina and I a current cubmaster for a pack in Colorado of about 80 boys. Love the site. Looks like a lot of great information to help me do a great job in scouting.