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TROOP
459 COMMITTEE MEETING
September 13, 2007
Colonial
Presbyterian Church
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The troop
committee meeting was held on Thursday, September 13, 2007, at
7:30pm, located at Colonial Presbyterian Church, 12501 West 137
Street, Overland Park, KS. 66221. |
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The following members were in attendance: Dennis Anderson, Ed
Buckner (Committee Chair), Darrel Gibson, Caren Howes, Craig
Howes, Jeremiah Randolph, David Rudaitis and Jim Unruh. |
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Call to Order: Ed Buckner, Committee Chair called the
meeting to order. |
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Approval of Minutes of Last Meeting:
Last meeting minutes to be
prepared and approved at next troop meeting. |
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Scoutmaster’s Report: Jim Forson was unable to attend and
no report was shared. |
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Treasure’s Report: Dennis Walsh was unable to attend and
no report was shared. |
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V. |
Department Reports: |
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Committee Reports were as follows: |
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a)
Committee Positions/Volunteers: Ed Buckner shared a need
to fill the following positions: 1. Assistant Committee Chair
2. Assistant Scoutmaster 3.
Secretary
4. Good Turn Coordinator
5. Chartering Organization Representative (COR)
6. Order of the Arrow (OA) Coordinator |
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Jim Unruh shared that he and Kent Gwen have been
working on identifying roles and responsibilities for each of
the committee positions. The goal being for volunteers to get
an understanding of what the expectations are in order to best
match their skill sets with the troop committee needs. |
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Darrel Gibson
agreed to take the COR position, and David Rudaitis agreed to
take the OA Coordinator position. Other positions that were
discussed needing to be filled include: Coordinator for First
Year Scouts, Traveling Coordinator, and District Coordinator. |
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Recruitment -
Webelos Walkabout: Caren Howes discussed this recruiting
program that will take place at Lake Olathe on September 29th.
Craig Howes agreed to call Rickie Ogden to take the lead on this
event.
Camporee is scheduled for October 12th -14th.
Troop is responsible for the canoeing demonstration. This is a
pack recruiting event.
Ed Buckner will contact Brentwood
Pack 132 and Westminster Pack 3030 to invite them to visit us
(Sat 29 Sep) as part of Webelos walkabout during up-coming
Camporee and/or our 3 Nov pre-Thanksgiving campout. |
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Advancement -
Court of Honor - Pam Forson and John Terwilliger – This
event is scheduled to take place on October 15, 2007 at the
Wornall campus. |
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Fundraising -
Spring 08 Fundraiser -
Caren
Howes passed out flier describing a Geranium sales program
(delivery early May) thru Ray Baldwin / Junction Greenhouse.
This program includes provision for return of extras. If decide
to do, the order does not need to be placed till February.
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High Adventure -
Caren
Howes passed out flier summarizing information about camping
option at X Lazy F Ranch in Crawford, Colorado. Ranch is
surrounded by Gunnison National Forest. Basic cost $10 per
person per night. The available period is July 27 – Aug 6,
2008. Not recommended for family (i.e. younger siblings) but
rather for scout/parent(s). Troop 459 attendances will need to
be coordinated with another troop from Atchison KS that will
have people there during same time slot – coordinating session
with Atchison troop will need to take place in Dec as
commitments for the camp need to be lined up by end of this
year. Craig Howes indicated intention to convene committee w/
interested boys to plan. |
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VI. Old Business -
No old business
was discussed.
VII. New Business -
Next troop committee meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 8th
at 6:00pm.
Inquiry from
another Troop re joining our troop for Summer Camp at Bartle.
David Rudaitis related that Troop master of another Troop of about 10
boys out of Martin City, MO (affiliated w/ Mormon church – as part of
church youth program boys required to join scouts) had expressed an
interest in exploring notion of forming some form of sister troop
arrangement with 459 in order for their boys to be able to attend Bartle
(instead of Nash) and camp with us as guests of our troop. General
discussion of the matter was favorable to exploring the idea. Aside
from sorting out technicalities of other troop attending Bartle in some
form of guest status, it was generally understood that Mormon Church may
impose some restrictions outside the norm of 459 (e.g., including of
women at camp) that would likely also need to be resolved. ‘Motion
made, 2nd, passed indicating that Committee open to further
exploring the idea and to request that Scoutmasters of the two
respective troops get together to discuss further. It was anticipated
that Jim Forson would provide summary of these discussions for
Committee’s consideration at next regularly scheduled Committee
meeting. A further decision by the Committee as to how to proceed could
be made at that time.
Respectfully submitted,
Dennis Anderson &
Jim Unruh
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