Troop Plans For Fall

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We had an adult leader meeting last night to discuss this. We've got about 30 scouts and we're going with 4 patrols. We'll start by having 2 patrols at one house and 2 at another, meeting outside. 

Meetings might be shorter. To get our big group of new scouts up to Scout rank, over the summer, we met like this with some doing it over Zoom.

Next week, we're going to have the PLC plan the scout year through December. Normally we'd have the full year outlined, but there's just too much uncertainty to do that. We'll revisit the planning when it seems appropriate.

We plan to schedule some camping activities. We've had a place booked in Nov. for our annual Iron Chef campout. We will follow guidance for cooking including disposable plates, forks, etc. and no buffet style serving. Gloves will be worn and we are still looking at the safest way to do cooking. Scouts will tent solo or with siblings. Parents will have to drive their scouts to the activity or arrange their own carpools.

We don't meet during the summer. We've found attendance is sparse. We did have a VERY successful summer camp at Summit and a very successful Northern Tier trip this summer.

This is our plan as of today. Semper Gumby applies. Any part of this could change at any time. 

After safety, our primary goal is keeping these kids interested in scouting. If it means doing less, we will. If it means doing a movie outside as an activity, that's fine. If it's just a day hike, that's good.

These are the cards we're dealt. It won't be ideal, but if it's safe and the kids stay interested, I'll call it a success.