Troop 287 Committee Meeting minutes
September 11, 2012
6:30-7:30PM
Welcome
Approval of Minutes
Kathy made motion Andrea 2nd
Scoutmaster Report
Waiting to get confirmation for shooting weekend: sign up will still go out tonight but we don’t have a cost yet
Need a point of contact for Dino walk in Oct 19-21
Boys want an over night ski trip this winter. Keith will look into Leadville and there may be a church that they can stay at for Jan. ski cooper
Boys want to do rafting in June instead of August.
Summer camp option in Montana in July will keep looking into summer camp options boys did like Camp A
Boys want sledding at Camp A this will be a webelos invite camping trip Feb 8-10
There will be a whole week of in Nov during thanksgiving might be a good week to look at. Possible camp out the weekend before Thanksgiving the weekend of 16-18 Nov
Yearly planning meeting with the scouts, date not set yet
Merit badges coming up:
Family life still in progress with Gina
personal management Dave K starting soon
Citizenship of the world not starting till the first of the year
Swimming possible Tuesday the 25 th Sept
3 patrols
Duck tape
MMA
predator
Need to have numbers for summer camp by Nov court of honor.
Equipment Update
Keith
Stove is the main thing left
Dining flies for the boys to set up for shelter
Flags Update
Gina- went very well- 250 flags 30 destroy homes
$440 we gave back to rotary for refunds of burned homes.
Sunday at 3pm meet at Jen Jirous house to go back out to PV to hit the remaining streets will open up to all scouts Jen will let Keith know so he can get a sign up tonight for scouts
The Swansons will do Veterans day flags organization
We will figure out PV flags routes when we see about the Subscriptions
Sean suggested
That we split the flags money to boys equally among the boys who showed in the morning and the ones who showed in the evening. Swansons will talk with Dave about past history but it was also agreed that the change if happens will start at the new year along with assigning the boys flags for the whole year. Will discuss at next meeting
Advancements Report
joyce not here to report
Treasurer’s Report
Jen made motion to accept budget and Kathy second it
Other items
Table till next meeting for a time to recharter
oct 2 chic file fundraiser
Andrea will check into posters and times for boys it was agreed that all funds raised will go equally to all boys who work the fundraiser and then we will look at a percentage for next time going back to the Troop
Next Meeting – Tuesday October 9 – 630p
