Minutes
Troop 10 Committee Meeting
November 05, 2006
Blue Hills Country Club
Members
Present
John Ahart, Tom Baker,
Doug Ball, Chip Buckner, Rich Caffrey, Quintin Cokingtin, David Corley,William Easley, Ted Feuhr,
Chuck Gibson, Bill Haner, Denise Holt, Rick Korvick, Charles Luchen, John McCabe,
Jeff Muchow, Alan Myers, Mark Parkins,
Kevin O’Farrell, Chris Ottinger, SR. MD, Mark Parkins, Ken Roberson, Dan Schorgl,
Greg Spies, Bob Tenny, Tracy Thomas, Jim Vano, Jim Wasko, Ron Wood
Jeff Muchow called the meeting to order at 6:00pm
Meeting Chair Jeff
Muchow
Eagle Court of Honor scheduled for November 19th
at BVNW. After these 8 scouts, we’ll
have 250 Eagle Scouts awarded in Troop 10.
We have 2 who are over 18 but they can be recognized in our ceremony. Tomorrow night is last night before
Scoutmaster Scott Weaver
Scott is
still recovering from surgery. He
conveyed that the color teams are scheduled to conduct their respective meeting
programs for the month of November.
Advancement Brent Reynolds
Deb Herman
is taking over attendance starting Monday.
Attendance records/sheets are now located on the main page of the Scout
secure pages. They are labeled by
meeting 01 or event number. Scouts are
now accountable for their own records and now they have direct access. Col. Weaver will reinforce this at Monday’s
meeting. Adult leaders are still only
tracked in Troop Master.
Clarence
Krantz
Clarence is meeting with
the candidates at upcoming meetings.
Eagle Court of Honor October 19th at
Treasurer Kevin O’Farrell
Troop
checking balance is $28,000. The troop
and Bartle accounts have been consolidated into one
bank account. We have collected $7,000 for Bartle to
date. We have not made Philmont payment yet.
Next big expenses will be Philmont and Eagle
Court of Honor. Truck expenses including
insurance will also be budgeted going forward.
Feast will cost more than charges, but that’s normal.
Outdoor Activities John McCabe and Tom Baker
Ready for Feast at
Dan
Schorgl has located some lodge pine poles – 25 ft long. They are used by the school system and being
discarded. We can pick them up at the
Heritage barn as a donation to Troop 10.
We will make arrangements to pick them up and find a location for
storage.
Dec. we’ve lined up on first weekend of December for our December Campout at
Jan.
skiing campout, no arrangements made yet.
Weekend of January12-13th.
Grub Master Rick Korvick, Denise Holt
We
have some volunteers to do poppers again for the feast campout. We will barbeque turkeys on Stu’s smoker for dinner with salmon as an appetizer. We have a number of chickens to
barbeque---left over from Camporee. John McCabe will confirm that we have power
in the building.
Fundraising Alan Myers
Greenery
ordered on Friday and to be delivered week after Thanksgiving. Total sales of $8,062. Buyouts will add to the projected profit of
over $3,785. We will have leftover
greenery items. We will offer these
items at cost +20% for sale to troop.
First come first served. We will
need some volunteers at Stu’s to help with greenery
distribution for two nights from 6-8 pm.
Barb Kusick is helping out and will be main
contact next year.
Equipment Chuck Gibson
Picked
up the new truck this week and traded in the old one. The new truck is a 2003 International
4300. Auto, air brakes, diesel, 10
bays, removable shelves, dome lighting inside bed, painted white with our Troop
10 logo. Awesome truck
and many thanks to Michael Kahn for this wonderful donation. Regarding ongoing maintenance, Bill Haner’s brother works at the International dealer by Worlds
of Fun and will be a possible contact.
We do need an operating manual.
Have a couple of more checks to come in before registration is
completed.
Tent
inventory is still weak. Only have 3 or
4 who have turned in their tents from last campout. Need to possibly buy another 10 tents. We are down to old tents in need of
repair. May also need some more in the
spring when Webelos come in.
Philmont Update Jeff Muchow
We
are still recruiting scouts. We are now
at approximately 75 of 84 slots filled. We mde a $50 deposit on 84 slots. There is a troop within the inner city with
some disadvantaged scouts, we may want to try to get the deposit put toward a
couple of the boys in the inner city to fill a couple of slots. We will work with the HOAC to determine the
right boys. There may be some gear
available from folks who went last year.
Some folks said they would sell or lease their equipment. No disagreements, so we will pursue that
idea.
Membership Greg Spies
Webelos Night will be held on November
27. We need volunteers and another slide
show for the event. Need to check
attendance carefully to be sure our scouts meet Mic-O-Say
requirements.
Webelo’s night on Nov.
27th. Need a presentation tape for Webelos adults.
Still have whistles to hand out at end of meeting. Bob Key updated powerpoint with last year’s pictures. Could show same slideshow to kids also that
we show to parents? Should
send out invitations to same people that went to Camporee. Have had several inquiries
about the date and some alternative dates also.
For 1st class requirement, the boys must now bring a new
scout to a meeting or outdoor activity.
1st year boys need to be aware of this requirement. They can get a recruiters badge if the new
boy signs up. If they want to try it for
a month or two it will cost them $2.50.
District is trying to push this program.
We are 56 boys short of being quality district, and 11 cub scouts short. If each troop got 3 boys we would meet the
District goal. Get word out to boys
tomorrow. Trend for last 4 years is that
cub scouts are declining, so now it is showing up in boy scouts. Cub Scouts have been pushing for
recruiting. Our numbers as district and
council are better than others for others across the country. They cannot advance to 1st class if they
don’t bring anyone. Check your books for
the requirement.
Honor Camping O/A Dave Contag
David Contag not present, but there will be e-mail going out for those to
reregister for OA. Last year Kevin just
billed everyone who was eligible, and if they said they didn’t want to
register, he removed the charge. We sent
it out last year before it was due, so we only sign up only those that were
registering. David is also working on
C-teams for Webelos.
Meeting at 6:30 on Nov. 20th. Also winter banquet in
Jan. for OA. Will
be a notice out on that. Jan 6th at Bartle Hall. Due by Dec. 29th.
Adult Training Blake Williams
E-mail with adult training opportunities if anyone
needs training. Check the Troop 10 Web
site.
Community Service Deb Dellinger
Ernie
Miller nature cleanup – only 3 scouts, but they worked real hard. Director of Ernie Miller was happy to have us
and would like us to do a spring cleanup.
Nov.
13th Clarebridge Community Home to race hotwheels. Another opportunity with Salvation. Army
and Leawood Lions Club – ring bells for 3 Wallmart stores and HyVee. Families can sign up, or patrols can sign
up. Uniform is optional also. We can hand out candy canes and will need
adults. Deb will pick some dates and get
them on the web site.
Round Table Muchow
Roundtable
information was not related to Troop 10 activities this month. Most of the discussion was regarding
emergency preparedness. Announcements about adult recognition awards. Marc Elkins, Dr. Norman Kahn. Trailhead district leaders will be recognized
on November 15th.
New Business:
Dec.
committee meeting – club is closing early on 10th, so moving up to
4:00 p.m. instead of 6:00 p.m. January
will have different location since club will close for a few weeks. Also, new policy, jeans are now allowed at
Blue Hills on Sunday nights.
Trailhead
Camporee – need recap discussion on Camporee, what went good, etc. We had to scrape all fire ashes off the
service road. Need to remember next time
if we do this again. Greg – think about
doing our own Camporee. We could plan our own Camporee
and invite our own set of packs. Some
resistance by Scouting packs, didn’t get a lot out of
it, and our own boys do not have much fun.
Low attendance by scouts. We could teach Webelos’
more fun stuff. It would be a couple of
hundred people total. Do things like
cooking without utensils, monkey bridge, knots, knife
and axe, etc. Could do rockets, all
kinds of stuff and put on same thing for less cost. Jim Wasko says we
would do a better job if we do decide to do something different, and could
probably have a better turnout. We did
have district representation though at Camporee that
did come around and visit the troops.
Would another possibility to have troop 10 run next year’s Camporee? They have
asked if we would be interested? We did first year and most of second
year. Will put on agenda for next
January and make a decision as troop then.
Either we take opportunity to lead or do our own. District Executive will be looking to fill
lead troop by then.
Scott
Weaver has some insight on religious merit badge opportunities. We need to consider offering them as a
troop. There is an individual to present
to the troops. He has several
presentations for troops. There are a
lot of troops not affiliated with particular denomination, so those have the
potential to fall through the cracks.
Dr. Tenny knows the district rep. He gave the name to Scott to work with. If no objection, Bob will follow up. He can help the boys find out where to find
their own faith’s representative hopefully.
Dr. Bob Tenney – training –
when we do first aid we are supposed to document the first aid that we give to
any scout or adult. There is a journal to fill out any time you
give first. Bob has book ‘Outdoor
Emergency Handbook’ to add to our medical equipment. Book tells you what to do in emergency
situations. Easy to work with, so will
be available at all campouts.
Open Discussion All
John
Ahart – research on DVDs on survival in
wilderness. Demonstrations
and tactics. Best ones might be a
good meeting topic to play.
William
– thanks for well wishes following his surgery.
William would like to volunteer to be the “uniform cop” for Troop 10
meetings. We need to make it very clear that this is the rule so they
understand the implications. As a
committee we can decide what fully makes up the uniform. Need to define the basics. Pants, shirt, neckerchief,
slide, belt at a minimum. It is
important when we go to Mic-O-Say voting we need to
have accurate records and that should include uniformed attendance. William will visit with Scott and Brent. Need someone who is above the color level
just to confirm that effectiveness is being followed. Boys turn in cards to ASM and the ASM
confirms before turning in to Brent. Deb
Herman is the one who is entering the attendance. Deb is the recorder, we need to be confirming
before we give her the cards.
David
Corley organized the Haunted House tour for Troop 10 scouts and adults. You need to have good ear plugs if you
participate in this event. We had 21
scouts, probably 30 total. They really enjoyed the night though. Jeff – Thanks to Dave for coordinating this
event.
Jeff
– one other thing – email from former eagle scout – Aaron Jacobs – he has been working
with
Meeting was adjourned at 7:15 p.m.
Jeff Muchow adjourned the meeting at 7:25 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted
Robert J.
Key, Secretary
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