Pack 3025 Parents Meeting
Monday, May 14, 2018
1) Meeting called to order by
John Henry at 7:30 pm.
2) Attending:
John Henry; Chris Klaren; Michael Treinen
3) Review of
previous meeting minutes –
April meeting minutes approved
4) Reports:
·
Cubmaster
·
No
report
·
Secretary
·
Review
pack schedule for next 3 months. The
schedule was reviewed and a June 8 fundraiser for parking at the Elks lodge was
added.
·
Health
forms, status – unchanged from last month, still need for 3 scouts. With the school year nearly ended this item
will not be tracked or reported on until next fall.
·
Treasurer
– Pack financial report: The
pack’s bank accounts total $2,586.80, with $1203.49 in the general fund and
$1383.31 in scout accounts. Amounts do
not include checks from the May pop can drives nor adjustments for the Backbone
campout (reimbursements for food or transfers from scout accounts for campout
fees). Scout account balances can be
found at http://troop1waterloo.org/1/pack25/ScoutAccounts.pdf. Contact Chris Klaren for other details.
·
Outdoor/activities
· April 28 – River Valley District Pinewood Derby, College Square Mall, report. The event was held and entries from our pack were very competitive.
· May 11-13 – Pack campout at Backbone State Park, report – It was a good campout with good attendance. Weather was a little soggy and chilly at times, but everyone seemed to have a good time. The trip to the Manchester fish hatchery was great. The group decided that last minute cancelations should be charged $10 per person instead of the full $20 per person campout fee.
·
Advancement
– advancement activities
·
Service Projects
·
Pop can
tabs for Ronald McDonald House, report.
This was not done at the May can drive due to the large amount of cans
and bottles that needed processing.
·
Chaplain
– Religious awards, update –
Mike need information from a few scouts before submitting the packets to the
diocese.
·
Training
·
Position
Specific Training - a deep dive into some of the training categories found a
large number of online courses needed for completions to be considered
“trained”.
·
New
Youth Protection Training – Chris is in contact with the council to obtain the
materials need to conduct the YPT2018 training as a group.
·
Hazardous
Weather Training – Several leaders have recently completed this training.
·
Equipment
–
Due to concerns with a tire not holding pressure, Jim Lind checked the tires,
repaired the valves as needed, and greased the wheel bearings before the last
campout, free of charge. Our trailer
should be good to go for quite a while now, thank you Jim Lind!
The last campout highlighted the
need for more donations of dish towels and dish rags. Please bring any that you would like to donate
to an upcoming pack or den meeting.
Thank you.
·
Fundraising
– Last pop can drive, May 5, report. The May can drive was very successful, as we
anticipate receiving a check in the amount of $480-$520. June 2 is the next planned can drive.
·
Managing
Elks parking lots for My Waterloo Days and Irish Fest. The pack will manage the parking in the 2
Elks Lodge lots during the My Waterloo Days parade on June 8 from 4-7 pm. The pack will receive ˝ of the proceeds, with
1/3 of the pack’s portion credited to the scouts of parents that work the event
(we do not want to mix cub scouts with cars in parking lots). We will need 6 volunteers per shift (either
(1) 3 hour shift or (2) 1-1/2 hour shifts, yet to be determined), and they
should wear a Class A uniform (scout shirt) if they have one.
We are pursuing the same activity
for one or more days of Irish Fest, although it seems as though we may in
competition with other scout troops for this fundraising activity. More information to come later.
·
Popcorn
sales – while the pack has yet to determine if we will sell popcorn next fall,
we will register before June 1 so that we have the option of doing so if we
choose.
·
Membership – no report
·
Round
Table Update – update from
May 10 round table – The meeting at Camp Ingawanis focused on the upcoming
changes with Family Scouting, for the most part reviewing and discussing
information from previous round tables.
5) Old
Business
·
Webelos to Scouts transition, followup from November
parents meeting – no report
·
Family Scouting (Girls in Cub Scouting) – what are
the pack’s future plans? John contacted
Deacon Larson, and they found no reasons to not pursue recruiting girls next
fall. John will contact Mr. Becker and
potentially some current Girl Scout leaders at St. Eds to further close the
loop.
·
Insulated
water canteens to replace disposable water bottles at campouts. Canteens have been received, paid for, and
distributed to those that ordered them.
We have approximately 35 more available at $10 each for those that would
like some.
·
Class B
shirts – no report
·
Scout
trailer registration, update – John paid the registration last January and was
reimbursed for the $21 fee.
6) New
Business
·
No new business
7)
Announcements
·
Next
parents meeting Monday, June 18, 2018 at The O.P. (on Ridgeway Ave across from
West High), meeting starts at 7:30 PM.
8) Adjournment – Upon having
completed the evening’s business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:46 pm.
Tabled items for future consideration:
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n/a
Respectfully Submitted,
Chris Klaren
May 18, 2018