ATTENDEES

PRELIMINARIES

1. October campout (Cliff Coble, Jason Brassfield)
• Date: Oct 27-29, 2000
• Location: Shepard Air Force Base Annex
• Theme: war games
• Cost: $21.50 (estimated) plus grub money
• Merit Badges: Camping, Wilderness Survival
• Bill Scott will buy one additional stove designed for cooking during fire bans and evaluate it and the need for more stoves during this campout.
2. PLC
• September campout was reviewed. Consensus was that it went well.
• October campout (war games) was planned.
• November campout (mountain bike) planning was begun.
• Court of Honor assignments were made.
• Troop will participate in popcorn sales in October on an individual basis.
3. Financial Report (Pat Thompson)
• August financial summary was distributed.
• 1-month income was $5,051. Expenses were $4,085. Variance from budget is a deficit of $965.
• A proposed budget for 2000-2001 was distributed. Budgeted income and expenses amount to $32,550. (1999-2000 expenses were $25,448; income was $25435.) Largest increase in budget is due to plans to attend Seabase in 2001 ($7,400). Budget was approved unanimously by the Troop Committee.
4. Eagle Scout Report (Lou Hocker)
• Travis Thompson completed his Eagle requirements.
• Aaron Whitaker completed his project on Sep 2 and is pressed by time to complete all his requirements.
• Jordan Benoit ran out of time for his project.
• Jason Kizzia's project is scheduled for this Saturday.
• 2nd draft of project plan was received from Chris Kelly.
• No change on Jeff Collins, Jirah Cox, Scott Steger, Tucker Livingston, Matt Scott.
• A subcommittee reviewed Jason Kizzia's and Aaron Whitaker's projects, instead of the full committee. This worked well, allowing more time and no distractions, but it did reduce the number of adults that the Scouts had the pleasure of presenting to. Dan Lassiter proposed that the committee name an Eagle subcommittee to review Eagle projects. Subcommittee will be made up of 12 adults, with at least 6 in attendance at Eagle project reviews, including the committee chair (or his designee), the Scoutmaster (or an Asst. Scoutmaster) and at least 4 other members of the subcommittee. All committee members are always welcome to attend Eagle project reviews. The committee approved this proposal.
5. Membership/Position changes (Craig Cox)
• George Kerr resigned as Quartermaster.
• Pat Thompson reiterated his desire to step down as Treasurer.
• More participation from all parents is urgently needed.

OLD BUSINESS

1. Philmont (Pat Kelly)
• No change in status. Next opportunity for a trek is 2002. Richard Carter recommended that the troop cooperate with other troops in the area to increase our chances of placing boys in a trek.
2. Seabase (Ellen Steger via Mark Steger)
• Troop has two boats for 2001. A third has 5 crew already, but will not make unless we find 3 more scouts very soon. Please contact Ellen Steger (972-669-9469) if anyone knows of Scouts interested in Seabase 2001.
• If necessary to fill a boat and not deprive qualified and interested boys of this adventure, the troop will invite other troops and, on an exception basis, will waive the troop's own requirements for up to half the crew (3 boys), for  boys 14 or older. Committee approved this exception policy.
3. Scoutmaster selection committee (Craig Cox - absent)
• Committee has met once and will meet again soon. No report is ready.
4. Strategic Goals and Organization Alignment (Craig Cox - absent)
• One comment sheet has been received.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Oak Leaf Training
• Scouts are encouraged to attend this training at Camp James Ray the weekend of Oct 14. Contact Pat Kelly, if interested.
2. Calendar
• Calendar for spring merit badge classes was distributed.
• Webelos visit in the fall will be changed to Oct 16 and Dec 4.
• Camporee date was corrected to Mar 23.
• Spring softball game (Apr 30) and Court of Honor (May 7) were moved up to avoid a conflict with an Apollo band concert.
• Spring calendar revisions will be distributed to parents at the October Court of Honor.

FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS

1. Next Troop Committee meeting will be October 18 in Yale Elementary Library