TROOP 433

TROOP COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

April 11, 2005

Note: action items are underlined

Present:   Dennis Lindeke, Scott Betlach, Kelvin Vartti, Steve Wiberg, Mike Checky, Bob Libel, Paul Hoff, Steve Lindloff, Lee Hunt, Steve Kuhn, John Norlien, Dick Bartlet, Steve Frost, Lee Hunt, Wyeth Lewis, Paul Hoff, Rich Logan

 

n       Pancake Breakfast Report (Brad Bartlet):

o        Brad discussed the Pancake Breakfast status of each area of the planning.  Everything appears to be on track for a successful pancake breakfast.  Instead of the homemade French Toast, we’ll be trying a prepackaged French Toast.  Dennis L. needs to supply a business card for the French Toast donation.  From the past pancake breakfast we’ll need 60 lbs of links, 40 lbs of cobosta, ~600 French Toast.

o        Isak Vartti presented the bake sale idea to re-sale Grandma’s bakery goods at the pancake breakfast.  The proceeds would be used to purchase new troop equipment.  The committee brought up the idea to ask for bakery goods donated by the parents of the troop then all of the proceeds from the bake sale could be used to purchase equipment.  The suggest donation will be two bake items (pies, breads, cookies, ect.) per scout.  Isak will make the announcements and hand out flyers at the upcoming troop meetings.

 

·   PLC Report:   Mike Greene reported that next months troop meetings will have a cooking theme.  Mike also reported:

o        Scouting for food on 4/23.  The Ligers patrol will be taking the lead.

o        Pancake breakfast is going smoothly

o         The PLC would like to have pizza for their PLC meeting.

o        Ben Logan and Spencer Christenson have been nominated to be PLC and ASPL for Tomahawk.

o        5/20 the OA kickoff camping cleanup weekend

o        Up coming meetings:

§         4/18 – demos on different methods on how to cook.  Fire safety, how to light a stove. Mock planning for cooking for the older scouts.  Ideas for the cook-off

§         4/25 – Information on what to bring for the 5/2 cook-offs.  There will be no help for the 5/2 planning.  The first years will be also be doing the cooking but with more adult help for learning the cooking.  Kelvin will check on the status of the propane.

§         5/2 – Cook-off and there will be a cleaning demo.  The SPL and ASLP will judge the cook-off.  They also suggest that each patrol will feed 12 – 14 people.

§         Steve also noted that the May 5 roundtable wants each troop to supply a patrol to cook off at the roundtable.   The winners of the 5/2 cook-offs will be given the prize to represent our troop at the 5/5 roundtable cooking demonstration.

 

n       Roundtable Report:

o        There was good participation from the troop.  Some of the adult members that attend safe swim defense and safely afloat training.  Steve W. presented good information at the roundtable on eagle preparations.

o        Manitou District Dinner – April 28 @ 5:30.  Pack 433 is getting special recognition at the district dinner for their FOS.  Troop 433 is also a leading the district in its FOS drive.  The dinner is presents the additional awards, star of the north, silver beaver.  Plan on attending if you can.

 

Newsletter / Calendar

-- News Letter was sent on the beginning of March.  The next News Letter will be sent out at the end of May.  It will include summer meeting dates.  Merit Badge councilors need to supply any dates that are reserved for summer merit badge work..

 

Good Turn

o        The Liger Patrol cleaned out the Wood Duck houses on 4/3/04 and Ramsey county was called to report that ~1/2 of the houses housed wood ducks.

o        There was some participation in the White Bear Lake cleanup.

o        St Jude Church Cleanup – Pick a weekend in May.  -- Announce to the boys to see if a boy / patrol want to lead this.   The committee suggested that  we should invite the new priest to the Pancake breakfast.  Wyeth and Steve L. will contact the church to see if there is some additional spring cleanup to be done at the church.

o        Lee Hunt mentioned that there would be a buckhorn remove project in the northwest corner of White Bear Lake.  This will be done in the fall.  

 

Minutes:

• Approved

 

Outings / Trip Reports:

• Merit Badge weekend, Fred C. 3/11 – There was a good turnout and many scouts completed their badges.
• Bullheads – The adults are working on training and Dick Shank from the district will come and talk to the bullheads about route planning for this summers Northern Tier canoe trip.
• Shoot and Fest, 4/15 – 4/17 -  Mike Checky will be the troop leader for this weekend.  The group will be meeting at the arc at 6:00 on 4/15.  Any troop equipment will be picked up on Friday night.  Dave W. will be purchasing the food for the weekend on Thursday night.

o        Kelvin will check up on the Tomahawk possible tomahawk clean up dates.  Is there any June dates

o        White Water rafting – June 4.  Planning on leaving June 3, campout on Friday night, raft on June 4 and back at home on Saturday night.

o        Cleanup Weekends:

§         Phillippo cleanup 5/20-22 – The PLC indicated that they are interested in this cleanup weekend.

§         Tomahawk cleanup 6/3-5 – This weekend conflicts with the whitewater rafting trip, however not all scouts are signed up for the whitewater rafting outing (age restriction of 12).  John Norlien and Steve Frost indicated that they you lead this weekend with the younger scouts.  Kelvin will check up on other possible Tomahawk dates.  (the front desk at the district office only had info on the 6/3 weekend).

·         Tomahawk camping. 

o        Jim G. will need to supply an additional $25 per scout deposit for returning scouts.  This is due in March.

o        Bullheads are doing a boundary waters outing instead of Tomahawk this year.  Need to re-view the leadership that will be at Tomahawk.

·         Scouting for Food – We need to coordinate with the other troops and packs in the area so we don’t overlap pickup areas.  In the past we always received the best response when we went door to door instead of dropping off bags to be filled.  Steve W. will contact T89 coordinator to ensure that we don’t overlap areas.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

n       The Treasure reported that we’re in good shape.  There will be some coordination between the Cub Scout accounts for the webelo transition to pay for the transition fees.

n       The pancake breakfast placement ads gave Steve $730.01 checks that Kelvin received so far for the placement ads.  Steve also issued a check for $155.54 for the full color placemats.  This cost is up from the ~$25 for the black and white placemats of the past pancake breakfast.

 

Eagle Projects: 

n       Carl Betlach completed his Eagle.

n       The eagle plaque is complete and looks good.  Dennis suggested that we could get some information about the older eagle scouts.  Maybe we could incorporate this into a dedication of the eagle plaque.

 

 

Deep Star Meeting: 

n       A Deep Star meeting was held after March 14 after a Troop Meeting to give the Star scouts information and coaching for their eagle rank.

 

Webelo’s Transition:

The webelo’s crossed over into the Troop.  We need to ensure that all new scouts are registered with the troop.  Boy Scout registration forms were given to each patrol leader.  The registration forms will be given to Bob L. so he can add each boy to the troop software and so the new families will receive their newsletters.

 

Den Chiefs:

There will be new Webelos dens need some Den chiefs for next year.  We need to get some Den Chief training for the Den Chiefs available for the packs.

 

JLTC:

Three boys from the Liger patrol (Ben, Isak and Spencer) are going the JLTC this summer.  In addition Ben and Isak will be serving as CIT’s (Councilor In Training) this summer at Tomahawk.

 

New Business:

Wyeth handed out some information on the World Conservation Award.

-- The zero hero awards from Opik need to be filled out.  Steve W. will contact Fred K. about the zero hero paperwork.