Minutes from Troop 9 Parent/Committee Meeting on Sept. 13, 2005
In Attendance:
Dave Scocca, Tom Hock, Dave Filpus, John Risk, Lisa Ripperton, Wendy Painter, Deb Miles, (George Painter)
Meeting called to order by Dave Filpus.
Item: Minutes from previous meeting were not read but mention was made of being able to do this in the future.
Item: A current roster of scouts and adults was handed out for corrections.
Item: Treasurer's report (Lisa Ripperton) Current balance is $4,262.78.
Item: Trip schedule. Handout was given to all and will soon
be on the web. Discussion about moving to new server in near
future. Current server has been unreliable in recent past.
More to come.
Item: Sept. trip will be a Webelos campout with fire safety and
knots activities, campfire skits, maybe a bridge activity. To
date there have been no firm committments from the Packs. This
led to a discussion about recruiting and the best paths to take.
Whether to try and recruit an entire den--since the troop has current
youth leadership to handle this--or to advertise on the web or to visit
the pack leadership and discuss in person. The committee will
continue to work on this.
Item: The October trip is a canoe trip to either the French Broad
or New Rivers. George Painter has experience on the French Broad
but the troop has been to the New River before. Gas prices and
site availability may make it necessary to fall back to using either
Jordan Lake and Robinson River or the Haw River near Graham. This
will be decided soon.
Item: The November and December trips to Wilson Creek and Uwharrie are repeat trips that everyone is comfortable with.
Item: January trip is caving/hiking. Younger scouts will
hike while those 14 and older will go caving. Tom Hock will
contact Bill Maddox to firm up this trip.
Item: February is patrol trip time. There was some
discussion about raising money to go skiing but there has been no
follow thru. This trip is still open.
Item: The trip to Crowder Mountain has been done before and is easy to setup.
Item: The May bike trip will be to the Virginia Creeper
Trail. There needs to be 5 or more adults going as well as 2
pickups and a van. Two of the adults need to be biking.
Itinerary will probably be 2 half-days of biking making it a 2 day
trip. Dave, Wendy and Lisa will be planning this one.
Item: The planning for the summer trip to Great Smokies/Fontana
Lake/Joyce Kilmer needs to begin now. This would be for the older
scouts and probably in August, 2006. If possible, we need to get
committments from the boys now.
Item: It was agreed to accept the trip schedule as is with the
changes of October trip to New River and addition of Great Smokies trip
in August '06.
Item: Uniforms. John Risk has 5-6 uniforms in stock.
Comment was made that scouts are now wearing uniforms to
meetings. Question was raised about possibility of a Class B
uniform for the troop. Discussion followed about type of shirt to
use, when to wear them, and when to issue the shirt. It was
decided to let the scouts decide for themselves at the next meeting
what they would like to do and to write these ideas down to submit to
the committee.
Item: Weekly programs. Most scout have finished the badges
they had started--those who haven't have been reminded. Camping
MB--several have this and others are working on. Salesmanship MB
could be worked on during meetings in conjunction with popcorn
sales. Discussion followed concerning ways to fairly distribute
proceeds from sales. Mention was made that this item was
discussed at summer camp and there has been no follow up. For now
decision was made to consider other merit badges--possible Emergency
Prep. Wendy will email more information.
Item: Katrina help. Suggestion was made to organize help
for Katrina victims. Wendy had list of agencies with specific
needs and suggested the scouts prepare kits with these items to send
down. Discussion moved on to possibly finding a troop in the area
that needed help getting back on their feet. It was decided to
put this before the scouts at the next meeting--they could then decide
what they wanted to do and present it to the committee. The
committee would be willing to provide some financial assistance.
One possibility was to purchase gift cards for WalMart, Lowes, Home
Depot, etc. then ask people from the community to sponsor a card.
Item: Eagle BOR. We currently have 2 scouts waiting for
Eagle BOR. Alfred Reed has been contacted about this and is
taking the responsibility for getting these completed in a timely
fashion.
The meeting was adjourned.
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