ATTENDEES

PRELIMINARIES

1. Summer camp (Craig Cox)
• Planned attendance at summer camp currently is over 50 scouts. Mark Steger will be camp master.
• Mark Steger will hold a question and answer session for scouts and parents on May 30 at 7:00 PM at RBFC.
2. Financial Report (Pat Thompson)
• April financial summary was distributed.
• 8-month YTD income is $21,689. YTD expenses are $19,073. Variance from budget is a surplus of $1,670.
• Should we end the year with a surplus, Pat recommends the committee consider accelerating payment on our pledge to RBFC. Decision can be deferred until fall.
3. Eagle Scout Report (Lou Hocker) - no report
4. PLC
• Annual calendar planning meeting will be June 5, 7-9 PM, at RBFC
5. New Scouts - no report
6. Membership/Position changes (Craig Cox)
• The current adult roster was passed out. A version of it can also be found on the troop Web site. Craig asked committee members to notify him of any additions or changes to phone numbers, e-mails, troop position, etc.

OLD BUSINESS

1. Philmont (Pat Kelly) -
• Troop did not get a trek for 2001.
2. Seabase (Ellen Steger via Mark Steger)
• Troop is on the wait list for 2001.
3. Adult Guidelines for Campouts (Craig Cox)
• Craig passed out guidelines for adult participation on campouts. It will be added to the adult notebook that is passed out to new adults each year.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Troop Organizational Planning (Larry Herrin)
• A subcommittee chaired by Larry Herrin held several meetings to consider proposals for restructuring the troop. These involved integrating patrols with different age groups (discussed at the April troop committee meeting), restructuring patrol meetings to balance merit badge classes with other activities, and extending tenure of patrol leaders to one year.
• The committee discussed the proposal for changing the agenda of Monday night troop meetings. A copy of the proposal was distributed. Changes include:
• having different agendas for pre- and post-campout meetings to ensure adequate time for campout planning and wrap-up
• scheduling merit badge classes after the full troop meeting
• keeping the existing two-year track of required merit badges, but possibly including another track of non-required merit badges
• and scheduling games, patrol competitions, guest speakers, etc;
• Bill Scott volunteered to be the "fun master" in charge of coordinating the games and patrol competitions. The committee accepted.
• Craig Cox moved that the committee assign responsibility for implementing the proposal, including getting adequate input and support from the scouts, to a team consisting of three adults and two scouts (Bonnie Branch, Larry Herrin, Mark Steger, SPL and ASPL for troop meetings). The committee approved the motion unanimously.
2. Troop Strategic Planning (Craig Cox)
• Craig Cox distributed copies of a strategic planning worksheet. It identifies troop purposes, goals, critical success factors, performance metrics, and objective and subjective factors that determine the success of the troop. He called for inputs from the committee to identify strengths and needs of the current program along with possible improvement. Craig will collect and organize the feedback to guide further discussion. Send comments and suggestions by e-mail to Craig.

FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS

1. Next Troop Committee meeting will be June 28 at RBFC
2. Richard Carter has Scout software that is available for the troop to migrate its recordkeeping to.