Attending: John Dorner, Scott Elliott, John McLeod, Danny Stewart, Brian Wilson

 

Scott Martin's Eagle Court of Honor is scheduled for May 6, 2007 2:00 p.m. at FUMC

 

New Patrols assigments were reviewed and accepted.

 

New Patrol	Old Patrol	Rank	Age	Scout
unnamed 1			10y9m	Fraser Shuman
unnamed 1				David Owen
unnamed 1	Dragon	1st	13y10m	Jake Dorner
unnamed 1	Dragon	Tfoot	15y0m	Lee Brunell
unnamed 1	Mtn	2nd	13y1m	Damien Rose
unnamed 1	Dragon	2nd	13y7m	Jesse Blackman
unnamed 1	Dragon	Scout	12y10m	Alex Lawing
unnamed 2	Dragon	1st	13y4m	Justin Yowell
unnamed 2		Scout	12y1m	Stephen Phillips
unnamed 2			11y9m	Wesley Benson
unnamed 2	Flaming Arrow	2nd	12y0m	Dylan Gurley
unnamed 2	Dragon	Tfoot	11y5m	Will Newkirk
unnamed 2	Dragon		11y11m	Jack VanHorn
unnamed 2	Mtn	2nd	15y0m	Justin Franks
Cobra PL	Cobra	2nd	12y4m	Sam Justice
Cobra		1st	15y6m	Alex Flynn
Cobra				Paul Nemeth
Cobra		Scout	11y2m	John David Clark
Cobra			11y9m	Kyle Leahy
Cobra	Cobra	1st	12y5m	Micah Yowell
Cobra	Cobra	Scout	11y7m	Josiah Williams
Cobra				Nole Brunell
Dragon PL	Dragon	1st	11y6m	Zach Fisher
Dragon	Dragon	Tfoot	12y5m	Turner Strayhorn
Dragon			10y7m	Drew Chapin
Dragon			11y6m	Henry Pomphrey
Dragon	Mtn	Star	14y11m	Carmello Hernandez
Dragon	Mtn	Tfoot	13y1m	Kennan Leahy
Dragon			11y0m	Tanner Hutchins
Dragon	Dragon	1st	11y9m	Cory Ecker
Flaming Arrow PL	Flaming Arrow	1st	14y5m	Paul Connell
Flaming Arrow	Flaming Arrow	Tfoot	11y8m	Thomas Richmond
Flaming Arrow	Flaming Arrow	2nd	12y6m	Kevin Elliott
Flaming Arrow	Flaming Arrow	Tfoot	12y2m	Tommy Connell
Flaming Arrow	Flaming Arrow	1st	14y3m	Brendan Elliott
Flaming Arrow	Flaming Arrow	2nd	14y1m	Carl Light
Flaming Arrow			10y9m	John Miller
Flaming Arrow			11y5m	Caprio Collier
Mtn PL	Mtn	Life	16y3m	Jamie DiGregorio
Mtn			11y7m	Christopher Wilson
Mtn	Cobra	1st	11y7m	Andrew Banks
Mtn	Mtn	Tfoot	12y11m	Clint Roberts
Mtn	Mtn	Star	12y11m	Wesley Holland
Mtn		Scout	11y5m	Wyatt Butler

 

Assistant Scoutmaster Assignments

Cobra - Brian Wilson

Dragon - Joe DiGregorio

Flaming Arrow - Gary Justice

Mountaineers - Scott Elliott

Untitled 1 - John Clark

Untitled 2 - Jeff Holland

Venture - John McLeod

 

Review Meeting Plan

PLC will determine the monthly themes and make program suggestions to Venture

Venture will determine the weekly programs & games

 

Monday April 2 Meeting:

At the beginning of the meeting arrange patrols

During Patrol Corners:

Untitled 1 & 2 need to have PL elections and pick a patrol name

John Dorner & John McLeod will talk to Venture and let them each pick the patrol for which they want to be the instructor.

 

Danny Stewart indicated that lining up by patrols wasn't the ideal for closing.  Decided to have boys sit down when in troop formation more often - so all could see.  Would like to return to circling up, but concensus was that there just wasn't enough room for that to happen.  Any alternatives?

 

Behavior Problems

We need to stay on top of the fighting/hitting/kicking and address it immediately.  There are 5 boys that need to be watched very closely.

John Dorner will bring this issue up at PLC and get them involved in policing this.

Reviewed policy on behavior problems:

- 1st offense - Scoutmaster visit - will get boy to sign a behavior report - indicating that he understands what will happen if offense occurs again

- 2nd offense - will be a conference with parents & removal from that activity (meeting/outing)

- 3rd offense - suspension from all troop activities for time to be determined by severity of offense

 

John Dorner will announce this at next meeting.

 

There is also been an increase in foul language which will not be tolerated.  Please listen for any unacceptable language and call attention to (stop) it immediately.

 

Review of Skills campout at High Rocks

Went very well - would like to continue pioneering project next year.

 

 

April Wilderness Survival/Tarp-oree

Location discussed - John Dorner did not get reservations made in time :(

Site to be determined by Monday 4/2

John Dorner to look at Jones Gap, SC and John McLeod to look at Daniel Ridge Loop (by fish hatchery) or Graveyard Fields

 

May Climbing Trip

Again, John Dorner didn't make reservations for Cove Creek in time :(

Claims he has learned his lesson.

If we can have enough climbers attending, we'll go - working with Clyde to determine location.

If not enough climbers - will have to pick another activity.

 

Keeping track of boys on outings

Discussed the idea of using the bracelets and it was voted down.

Decided on: continuing to have at least three troop reports per day (morning, noon and evening)

Patrol leaders responsible for keeping track of their patrol

Provide each scout with the start of an emergency kit - including an emergency blanket and whistle - (Brian Wilson to purchase)

Recommend an activity to make a pouch or some other type holder for this. All boys (and leaders) will have this with them when they leave the campsite.

 

Online Photos

John Dorner created a Flickr account for "troop701"

http://flickr.com/photos/7460707@N08/

Email John Dorner for login and password to be able to post photos to this account