Committee
Meeting Minutes
Sunday, October 26, 2008
7pm 2003 Linda Lane
Attending: Jim Hopkins, Tim Meeks, Brady Anderson, Miko Sprunck, Rick
Montgomery, Brad M., Gale Marvin, Jeanie Lawson, Laura Jones
1)
November Campout
~ (Pedro Patrol)
Mountain
biking campout at Cedar Hill State Park, November 14 -16, 2008.
Pack 576 (Big Springs) has agreed to attend. Pack 516 (Yale) will be at Cedar
Hill for a pack campout but will spend Saturday morning with us. Miko will check
with Dartmouth again to see whether or not they’ll attend. We will buddy up
our scouts with the attending Webelos to make them feel welcome.
2)
Winter Camp
~ Rick Montgomery
Rick has reserved our spot. Winter camp will be Dec.
27 - 31, 2008 at Camp Cherokee. Cost
is $110 by Dec. 1. Rick will present information to the troop at our next
few meetings, Laura will email information to the parents and ASPL of camping
will present information on cold weather camping in December.
3)
January Campout
~ John Benavides (not in attendance)
We are unable to reserve Fort Sill or the
Lexington. We will have an overnight climbing campout instead. The committee
discussed and agreed to have the overnight January 23rd or 24th
instead of RISD’s long weekend. The troop calendar will need to be changed.
4)
Treasurer ~
Jeanie Lawson
Report approved by Committee.
5)
Leadership
~ Rick Montgomery
No report.
6)
Philmont 2010
~ Rick Montgomery
Rick will enter our troop for two treks Summer of
2010.
7)
Meetings ~
Scott McCray (not in attendance)
8)
Recruiting
~ Miko Sprunck
Upcoming recruiting events are:
Webelos
Woods ~ Nov. 1-2 at Camp Cherokee. Volunteers will be in charge of the BB gun
range. Several Webelos groups have asked to camp with Troop 81 so we will need
to stay overnight on Saturday. Those going will leave at 6am Saturday, Nov. 1.
Troop will pay for fees and mileage as this is a recruiting event. Adults
attending are Miko Sprunck, Jim Hopkins and Steve Weaver. They will need 6 to 12
scouts.
Mountain
biking campout ~ Webelos dens will be invited to join us for the
weekend or day. See notes in “mountain biking campout”.
Troop
81 Open House ~ Saturday,
Nov. 8 from 2 to 4pm at New Life Church. Patrols will be manning
“booths” ~ Rope bridge, cooking, campsite construction, first aid and fire
building. Indoors will be slide shows and information. Miko will present to the
troop on Tuesday to get the scouts organized. Brady will discuss how to greet
and visit with the Webelos and their parents. We’d like to have the Eagle
plaque up to date…Laura will discuss with Cesar Aragon to see if we can get
the plates engraved in time.
9)
Camping ~ Tim Meeks
No report. Committee discussed educating during the
next meeting about duties of grubmaster and treasurer. As these duties rotate
within the patrol, it’s rarely the same scout at each campout. Once the scouts
have organized their food for each campout, it should be approved with their
patrol counselor.