ELLICOTT CITY, MD
Minutes for August 21, 2007 Committee Meeting (held during Troop meeting)
Created August 23, 2007
Attendees: Carol Bateman, Janet Boettcher, Mary Bullinger, Belinda Byrns, Jim Clark, John Dittman, Dennis Fugate, Pat McDermott, Robin Nussbaum, Randy Strem, Dale Walker, Howard Warner, Judy Wheeler, Gy Williams
Previous Minutes: Last month’s minutes were approved as written.
Committee Chair’s Report: Need to be concerned about filling some of the adult leader positions in the upcoming year.
Treasurer’s Report: Brian has three uncashed checks. Kiwanis Check for July 4th clean-up is reported to be in the mail. Judy is finalizing Northern Tier expenditures.
Scout Master’s Report: Nothing to report.
Greenbar Report: The Greenbar established the basics for the “2007-2008” calendar at the Sunday August 19th meeting. The planning portion of the meeting was performed in conjunction with Crew 759. Several items were scheduled as combined troop/crew activities. The crew was tasked with coming up with combined high adventure activity for late November/ early December. Caving and climbing were discussed. A formal calendar will be presented to the committee for approval at the next committee meeting.
Advancement Chairperson Report: Preparations are being finalized for this Sunday’s COH.
Quartermaster’s Report: Need to go through the chuck boxes. Several activities have occurred since they were last inspected. Possible troop meeting activity
Merit Badge Counselors Report: Pat will send most recent copy of adult merit badge councilor list to Dale.
Activities Coordinator Report: Submitted in writing. Priority issues include: 1) making arrangements for the September beach trip, 2) Acquiring a date and location for the 2008 ski trip. (follow-up: Dennis F. made contact with Timberline and forwarded an email; Gary R. checked out the web page for Wisp and forwarded an email), 3) Make arrangements for the Broad Creek Field Sports Challenge on September 28-30, (provided we have interested scouts.), 4) Select location for the 2008 summer camp; plan is to vote at Sunday’s COH. , 5) Make reservation for the 2008 beach camping trip at Assateague.
Howard stated that he was not sure if a JLT training weekend has been scheled.
Roundtable Minutes: Submitted in writing.
Webmaster’s Report: Still working on the archive section of the web page. Additional historic documents were provided by Gary R. and Robin N. Still working on assembling a list of food items that are appropriate for back packing. John D. could not find information in his Philmont guide for this task. Pictures for Wes’s Eagle COH have been formatted, but still need to be posted on web. Would like to obtain pictures from Jeremy’s and Robert’s Eagle COH.
Miscellaneous: Janet B. attended the pop corn training session on August 21, so we are ready to start selling pop corn for this year’s fund raiser.
Next committee meeting is scheduled for September 17, 2007, starting at 7:00 at Emory Church in Ellicott City
Meeting: Started 7:45 PM; Ended 8:15 PM