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Who “owns” the pack, troop or crew?
Scouting Charters are held by a chartering organization owns all of the assets of a Scout unit.
As for whether or not they will dictate how the money is spent; the chartered organization is responsible to make sure finances are administered properly.
In practice most chartered organizations do not get very involved in the management of the finances or the program, they entrust those decisions to the volunteers involved.
Someone is registered as the chartered organization representative, they handle the relationship between the packs volunteers and the chartered organization.
Most of the time the charter for a unit predates the present volunteers and many of the people at the chartering organization. Nobody may know how any of this is arranged because they weren’t around when it was set up. See the Chartered Organization Representative Guidebook link in the podcast notes to learn more.
In This Podcast
[0:19] How do you make a mosquito repellant?
[1:07] Mailbag, Intro
[5:44] Andrea Kuperman’s advice on working with Scout parents
[7:20] Scott Williams asks about parents driving Scouts to activities.
[10:45] Who “owns” the pack, troop or crew?
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Podcast Notes
Chartered Organization Representative Guidebook
Get the song Sasquatch by Bucky’s band Los Festingos.
Happy Wanderer Opening Music
Yancey’s Bugle Call Closing music
You’re my favorite all time Boy Scout
The Scout Law
Boy Scout in Switzerland
Boy Scout Boogie
Camping Christine Lavin
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Since it is the chartering organization that “owns” the troop/pack, anytime that I hear that a troop/pack are in trouble, I am always wondering where is the chartered organization rep? Where is the long term planning? If a troop does not have a “feeder” pack, it will soon be closing. Most scouts are crossovers from cub scouts. I have seen troops where the pack fell apart and shortly thereafter the troop folded. Council drives to start new troops all the time, meanwhile, you have troops that are in trouble makes no sense. It is just a metric the Executive is graded on, how many new troops did you start. There were troops allowed to recharter with only three scouts. How does that work for “working the patrol method”. It is unfortunate that troops with a very long history end up folding. Unless the chartered organization is watching the store, it is the chartered organization that closed the troop
Scouting Charters are held by a chartering organization *who* owns all of the assets of a Scout unit.