Committee Minutes March 12, 2003

Financial Report

• Balance may be less than last year at this time. Not much activity.
• Need dog show and popcorn money to be combined to get the sum of the boy's camper-ship accounts.

Fund Raising

• Popcorn sales start on March 22nd, and orders are due by April 21st.

Troop Policies

• Blaine offered to draft a fundraiser policy that rewards Scouts for their efforts to support the Troop through fundraising. A minimum sales amount for wreath sales should be $150 per Scout. If not achieved they will need to be charged $60 for the cost of registration at the time the troop is re-chartered. The cost to re-charter the Troop is $450.

Equipment Policy Update

• Blaine will develop the cooking equipment portion of the policy and Keith will address tents and tarps
  • Blaine's hard drive is out of commission and therfore no activity resulted
• License on the trailer was renewed
• Considering the purchase of:
  • Water purifier and stoves. (Mark has offered to look during the Cabela trip)
  • Tarps
  • Replace mantels, broken globes...
  • Dining fly
  • Tables sold by Checker Auto (TM) for a remote cooking station
  • 5 gallon cooler and water jugs
  • 3 Patrol Cook kits
  • Cooking utensils

Meetings

Troop Meetings

• Venturing patrol, had kick-off meeting.
• Need to have a meeting to decide who is in charge and make a list of ideas.
• Have it as a once-a-month meeting as part of the Troop and have activities outside the Troop.
• At the TLC/PLC meeting we need to make sure time is scheduled for these meeting

Outings

• Assign a patrol to each meal and they choose what it is (X patrol decides breakfast and Y patrol decides lunch). Then split the food up and each patrol cook their own meals.
• First weekend in May the boys going to Philmont will backpack at Afton State Park, and the two younger patrols will attend the Camporee
• Need a June activity for the younger patrols, while the older boys are at Philmont, to help develop leaders in the younger boys

Merit Badge & Advancement

• Need to get middle patrol so that they are First Class by Tomahawk
• Next three months need to get camping and cooking addressed

Miscellaneous

• Newsletter will be published after Committee meetings announcing what is coming up.

  • Activities that need a sponsor, and announcement of who the sponsor is.

Committee Meeting
Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 14, 2003
7:00 p.m.
Haywood Residence