Boy Scouts Albion Michigan Troop 172 October 1, 2000
Calendar - all meetings are at St. Paul's Lutheran Church unless otherwise indicated

October
Tuesday Oct 24 - citizenship 7:00-8:30 Mike Herman, City Manager
Tuesday Oct 31 - no meeting

November
Monday Nov 6 - City council meeting (at City Hall) 7:00-8:30 scouts
need to participate (for citizenship badge)
Tuesday Nov. 7 - 7:00-8:30- Citizenship - Mike Herman, City Manager
*Tuesday Nov. 14 - 7:00-8:30- web site development (new date)
(communications badge) @ Maggie LaNoue's
Sunday - Nov. 19, Board of Review - for First Class Scouts who are
ready. 7:00-8:30
Sat. Nov 25, 7:45 a.m. boys meet at Bearman's house. work towards coin
badge. have uniforms on. Pizza will be furnished. They will build a
coin display. Will be back in time for Eagle Court of Honor, 3:00 boys
here, (parents 4:00) Lutheran Church
Tuesday, Nov 28, Anderla's - wreaths, bring old "rings" 7:00-8:30

December
Tuesday Dec 5, citizenship 7:00-8:30
Sunday Dec 10 Eagle Court of Honor, Dessert Potluck,
(bring desserts) Lutheran church 7:00
Tuesday Dec 12 (meeting) 7:00-8:30
Tuesday Dec 19 (no meeting) 7:00-8:30
Tuesday Dec 26 no meeting

Other minutes:
Scouts are reminded to keep a running notebook of activities related to scouting and merit badges. All volunteer work, service work, hikes. (notebook is required.)
Also discussion of trailer insurance. Eric Krause will ask if church can cover with their policy and we reimburse them.
Popcorn sales start the end of this month. Most scouts sell $200 of product each. Need someone to handle all sales. probably $1,000 or so. starting 10 or 17th.

Decisions - short of leaders within the next year. Terry Anderla winding down. Eric will be resigning (Troop Committee Chairman) in June 2001. John Dack has 2-3 Webelos, might pick up some new scouts, potential new leadership Jan or Feb. that will help.

Ideas - different types of activities to attract new boys What are other troops doing? Need to identify all other local troops, how many participants, what are they doing etc. Some discussion of trip to Virginia next summer for Jamboree. (when is it?) Cost will be $450 per boy to attend in an unofficial capacity. Any fundraisers that could help?
Also - we will be doing calendar planning and other brainstorming via email in the future as much as possible. We can do more of this type of work with less time spent in meetings this way. A list of leadership positions and all scouts & parents will follow. If you have email send your address of any family members to: maggie@albionmich.com.

This quarter's minutes are submitted by Maggie LaNoue. maggie@albionmich.com
Our new web page will be located at www.albionmich.com/scouts
check out another really good web site at www.troop172.com