Minutes from the last Troop committee meeting (Nov 17th, 2005) Participants: Craig Christensen, Hunter Christensen, Charlie Rochuig, Jeanie Lawson, Dan Lassiter, Dennis McCarthy, Pat Kelly, and John Benavides 0. Winter Camp planning Planning is just beginning 1. PLC - Hunter Christensen Feedback from PLC is that scouts liked horsemanship activity. 29 scouts finished the merit badge. Didn't like the camping site (too close to highway). Wanted to ride the horses more - in the future a trail ride would be better. Wilderness survival campout - Three scouts finished the merit badge (Joseph Corcoran, Mark Liners, Zack Pitts). Crowley Service project Jack Benavides finished service for 50 miler Nick Montgomery finished service for 50 miler Nathan Chase lacks one hour for 50 miler 2. Treasurer - Jeanie Lawson Lexington money is due soon too. $1420 paid last week for 2nd payment to Lexington. Dan and Jeanine will see what it takes to get us a tax Exempt status for the State Park system. 3. Roundtable - Craig Christensen Had a pot luck dinner with the Cub Scout leaders. Was a good chance to describe the transition to scouting for the Webelos leaders. 4. Camping - Dennis McCarthy Lock in is setup for Saturday Dec 3rd. Sending out the forms and collecting money at next two meetings (Nov 21st and Nov 28th). Passing out the hand out again. Sending out again on Troop agenda meeting message this week again. Should be plenty of spots for new scouts to participate too. Month - Activity - Planning patrol ----- -------- ---------------- Dec 3rd - Lock in that night - Group Dynamics Mr. Charlie Rochuig and Robert McCarthy (ASPL of camping) are coordinating this event. Dec 26-31 - Winter Camp, Council - Baloo patrol (Craig) At camp Cherokee. Jan 13-16 - Lexington - Badger patrol Leave Friday night -- Returns Monday. Payments due. Feb 10-12 - Family campout, Fort Parker - Baloo bear patrol Usually have Court of Honor at campout. Presenting plan at Dec Committee meeting Hunter presents. Dave Knust will be cooking. Feb - Ranch 111 day activity for Webelos (Formerly known as Mitchell's campout.) Mar 17-19 - Camporee, Camp Cherokee - Baloo Action Randy Hood owns this [Present plan at Jan Committee meeting] Apr 21-23 - Marksmanship - Spartans Will be at Wisdom. May have to camp at Cedar Hill state park. May - Looking for a theme - Pyro owns [Present plan at March Committee meeting] June 12-18 - Sea Base - Mr. Moore is coordinating Still have openings for youth and adults (on our two boats) June 3-16 - Northern Tier - Mr. McCarthy is coordinating $75 is due. (Week after school is out.) 22 hour drive (500 miles a day) Adults so far: Dennis, Rick, John (need another adult) Need to pay $600 deposit for Northern Tier. July 9-15 - Camp Constantin Need an adult to be in charge of summer camp Suggestions included Mr. Moore, Mr. Weaver, or Mr. Marvin Need to get them to pay for summer camp. Philmont 2007 - Rick Montgomery is coordinating Web lottery is coming in Nov 5. Meetings - Bob Centola Announcement from Bob: 1-the on line calendar has been updated thru to April 2006. 2- we need to sure up the date for the Ranch 111 campout in March. We looked at March 4th as we were looking at the 4 weeks between the Feb 10-12 campout and the March 17-19 campout. This looks to work well as there are no Federal holidays/school holidays to cause a challenge to that weekend. 3-Round table and OA meeting on 12-13 4-Summer camp interviews commence 12-10 for job positions 5- New Leader essentials training Feb-8,15,22 then March 1 followed by weekend on March 10-12 6. Is the next COH going to be at Family campout (Need to invite Friends of Scouting guy). Things to add to the next meeting agenda: * Money due: December lock in money due. Lexington balance coming due * December 5th meeting may only be merit badges - parking will be an issue because Church will be having an X-mass celebration. * Northern Tier announcement - Deposit due December 15th * Philmont drawing coming up. * Need current merit badges added to agenda * Money due for pop corn sales soon. * Announce that Sea Base spots are going to be offered to other Troops. 6. Leadership - Rick Montgomery Need to have patrol elections soon. Rich to coordinate. OA elections are coming up soon too - Cameron Fuentes and Ed Nichols to coordinate. 7. New Scouts - Gale Marvin Had five Webelos join us from the old MST pack. We need more adults to help with first year program. See if Neal Tarlton can help. Dan will talk to Gale about getting helping with first years. Arrow of light team will be helping with an AOL ceremony on Saturday (Nov 19th) at 6PM. Craig is defining which patrol the new scouts will go into. 8. Recruiting - Brian Moore 9. Advancement - Bonnie Branch o Eagles - Pat Kelly Have three scouts working on reports (Evan Knust, Jimmy McCarthy, Casey Hodges) Scheduling a board of review for Nathan Goundary. Had initial meetings with Brandon Burlingame, Nathan Chase, and Eric Homan. 10. Misc * Webelos-wood - Troy Bathman & three scouts. * Pop corn - money due at end of month * Re-Charter coming (Dec) * Pay for Summer camp deposit * See if we can move to another week for summer camp. * District dinner - money due (Yes Nominations due.) * Patrol leaders need to make sure band kids are getting called about meetings, etc. Next Month's agenda (Dec 15th): * Family campout presentation - Hunter to present * Winter camp update - Craig to present * Adult job descriptions - John Benavides owns * May campout theme - Dennis McCarthy owns Regards, John Benavides john_benavides@yahoo.com Troop 81 Committee Chairperson ------ Troop 81 Web site: http://t81.freewebpage.org