Historical Cub Scout Pack 6

Real Pack 6

Sample Committee Meeting Minutes

Short minutes from committee meeting, April 19, 1995

Present: JJ, KM, DD, CJ, DJ, CP partly.
Written by: CJ. In italic unsaid or personal additions.
Distribution: Leaders, committee members, commissioner and chartered organization rep.

No den leader part

Quick program review of last pack meeting

May pack meeting, Arrow of Light Ceremony.

• Gathering Game idea from KM with animal kards on the back. (Last years trick was praised, but it can't be repeated.)
• Flag ceremony: SL's den
• Arrow of Light graduation ceremony. CJ and JJ picked a ceremony with candles from ceremonies book. Small changes for: less talk, more fun, shorter. Jean will make arrows to give boys. GL will shoot arrows.
• Small activity (could be something from the "sparkler").
• Marshmallows and drinks will be served.
• Need wood. Bridge. Speaker system. Sticks. Candles. Candle holder.
• Not all 5th grade webelos have already decided what troop they go. Need to ask scoutmasters for participating in arrow of light ceremony. Indecisive webelos are welcome to stay with pack 6 longer until they find a troop.

April family Viking campout

• Sofar 17 families have signed up.
• Our camp site is occupied the previous night, but first come first served single family sites are usually available on friday nights.
• We had a long experiment with an egg powered steam boat in JJ's bath tub. It didn't work; I guess vikings didn't use steam boats after all. We'll use a sail (skewer+paper).
• The ominous obligatory dangerous and hated (by parents) Zorch game.
  We figured that no grownup knew the rules. CJ volunteered to come up with a game which we will call "Zorch" (and the cubs will like).
• Activities roughly
• Saturday
  • Craft Helmets and Shields
  • Scavenger hunt with orienteering elements
  • Boat building and race (plastic bottles)
  • Dinner (not pack organized)
  • Apple in foil
  • Zorch
  • Campfire Songs. Story.
• Sunday
  • Treasure hunt
  • Bug hunt
  • Sock game
  • Reserve
  • A few games
• Materials
  • Marshmallow DJ
  • Plastic bottles all
  • Apple in foil JJ
  • Skewers JJ
  • Poison Oak remedy CJ
  • Maps CJ
  • Paper CJ
  • Plaster of paris JJ
  • Check boxes all
  • Treasure CJ (real pennies?)
  • Styrofoam CJ
  • Rope. CJ
  • Old socks! Believe it or not. JJ and DJ
  • Cardboard JJ and CP
  • non-corrugated for helmet
  • corrugated for shields
  • Firewood DJ asks G. first; CJ as backup.

ScoutORama tickets

SL has tickets.
Selling lots of tickets could save us from deficit. Den-leaders are encouraged to ask SL for more tickets.

ScoutORama booth

Helper schedule; JC. condemned to ask people. This might be a lot of work and JC. shouldn't be left alone doing this.
DJ will buy two boxes of thin scrap leather and one cheap leather puncher for us at Tandy in San Jose.

Earthquake book distribution

The pack volunteered to distribute the earthquake books for the City of Palo Alto. Chris and Jean did decide to volunteer Pack 6 on the spot when asked by the fire department. The committee blessed their decision.

The pack got the same area as used for scouting for food. However KM decisively subdivided the grid area into new den sized pieces. Den leaders which haven't picked up the books, please do so. They are at Chris's home. xxxxxx.

Distributing the books is NOT solicitating and should be done at every house. It is ok to combine book distribution with ticket sale; the fire department volunteered that idea.

Financial state

Good news. CP. told and surprised us that our checking balance still is approx xxx dollars (last years reserve was approx yyyy$). We extrapolated that we will use up a little from our reserve, but that we will stay reasonable, unless the ScoutORama ticket sale would go bad. I apologize for "approx" but remembering financial information is not one of my strong points.

This means we probably won't need to participate in the popcorn sale fundraiser in September.

Friends of scouting fund raiser

Council goals for our pack might not be reached. DS. will send a second letter to all people who are not on file for a donation yet. This is not good, but we are a somewhat better then last year.

Personnel issues

We don't think Jean can be replaced. CJ was asked to make a plan on how to split parts of the cubmaster jobs in smaller units so we are more likely to find volunteers. We might have to re-shuffle wolf dens to be able to have leaders for two dens. We promised KM that we will try not to re-shuffle webelos dens if possible.

Summer activities

It was decided that the pack will provide some summer activities like last year. The details are not yet proposed or decided. Den's are encouraged to meet through summer but it is acknowledged that this is not possible for all dens. I encourage dens to do things and open it up for other dens to participate.

Camp Takima day camp registration requirements
Packs were required to help in registering for the Takima day camp, and to make sure adult help is provided. The committee thought that registration help requirements don't not need to be taken serious.

It was mentioned that our council camps, (cub scout day camp and resident camp) are pretty good and have excellent leadership this year.

Misc

Next district roundtable, May 4
7:30pm at LDS Church building at xxx Avenue just off yyy Road.
Jean should go.

District Arrow of Light Weekend June 3-4 is open for all Cub Scouts (including Tiger Cubs). We recommend to rather go to this weekend camp then to the cub-on which is at the same time.

Next committee meeting: May 31.