Minutes from Troop 9 Parent/Committee Meeting on March 14,
2006
In Attendance:
Dave Filpus, Tom Hock, Wayne Vandenberg, John Risk, Lisa Ripperton,
Wendy
Painter, Dave Scocca, Tricia Clemens
Meeting called to order by Dave Filpus.
Item: A letter from a former
Troop 9 member, J.R. Dennison of
Mendon, Utah had been discovered tacked to the bulletin board. The letter will be given
to Daniel
Ripperton to post to the web site and maintained in the troop archives.
Item: Minutes from previous meeting were accepted.
Item: Treasurer's report. Current balance is
$3,828.15. Charter
fees of approximately $360.00
are due to be paid. Also,
trip
fees for South Mountain and Shenandoah Park are to be reimbursed along
with
mileage.
Item:
Trips & Activities.
Day hike at Pinnacles of the Dan, VA is scheduled for April 8. Hike will be approximately
6-8 miles
and is “very vertical”.
Summer camp at Old North State Council’s Camp
Cherokee near
Yanceyville, NC is scheduled for July 16-22.
Camp fee is $217.
A deposit of $90 is due by April 25; balance due by June
27. High Adventure
opportunities are also
available at a higher cost.
Information about a provisional week will be made
available. This
option costs an additional $150 and
requires a separate application.
Item: Troop
Equipment. The
troop received a donation of various supplies
including solid fuel tablets, solid fuel stoves, propane lantern,
propane
canisters, etc, from Mr and Mrs Dalbey of Chapel Hill.
Item:
Uniforms. Four or
five uniforms are on hand in
the closet. An
option to turn these
over to Goodling Outfitters in exchange for store credit was discussed. The troop could then make
this credit
available to new scouts to obtain uniform items.
Item: Program. Scouts are working on the Pioneering
merit badge
tonight. Reminders
are being given
to Scouts to turn in paperwork for the Traffic Safety merit badge. A trip to the Educational
Forest to
work on the Forestry merit badge is being planned for April 29
(approximately
2.5 hour program). Wilderness
Survival program was offered this past weekend.
Currently looking for someone to handle Fingerprinting
merit
badge or possibly Chemistry merit badge.
Item: Church Reconstruction.
Plans for the church reconstruction have now been made
available. Current
meeting place will be razed for
new construction; need to determine alternate meeting place when this
occurs. Possibilities
include Holy Family
Church, Saint Benedict Anglican Church (Weaver Dairy Road), and Grace
Church
(Sage Road). May
want to consider
meeting with another small troop during that period.
Temporary storage space for troop equipment will be needed.
Item:
Recruiting. We received no return call
from Webelos leader. John
Risk
will follow up. Scouts
should be
reminded about the recruiting patch to encourage extending invitations
to
friends. Tricia
Clemens will look
into placing an announcement in the St. Thomas More bulletin.
Item: Troop
Elections. The
troop needs to hold elections for senior patrol leader within next two
weeks as well as needs to hold O/A
elections.
The meeting
was adjourned.
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