James West awards

[BadenP]

Abel

 

The BSA is just like any religious group or organization, there is the spiritual side and the institutional side. In the BSA the organization projects the image of providing youth with positive and fun experiences teaching them outdoor, leadership and citizenship skills. The institutional side, aka National and Council, are getting into trouble because most CSE's and SE's, like ministers, have got little to no business aptitude and wind up driving their organization into a financial hole. Look at all the downsizing National has done, closing down the regional offices and eliminating entire divisions, and how many councils have been closed after going into massive debt and selling off all their assets and still could not stay afloat.

 

Fiscal mismanagement by the BSA executives has been growing on a massive scale in recent years. The councils that have survived are not in any great fiscal shape either but by selling off some of their assets manage to hold on, barely. If the average volunteer really knew the financial bottom line of their own council FOS contributions would dry up overnight. Council SE's can blame the recession all they want but they still are taking home $150,000 to $300,000 salaries each year, not to mention what the CSE makes.

[Abel Magwitch]

A very sad reality BadenP. What a shame