Attending: Kay Lannen, Jeff Wood, Dana Shellberg, Judi Urlocker, Dean Gould, Pam Harrington, Mark Williams, Alan Anderson, Barbara Clayton, Eric Williams, Steve Tucker, Jennifer Ochwat, and Brian Thompson.

Location: Kay Lannen's house

Kay Lannen chaired the meeting.

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Treasurer's Report from Pam Harrington

The current balance was reported to be $2,529.73. Recharter fees are due by the end of December so Den Leaders need to ask scouts to pay in November. This cost is $10 for registration and $10.80 for the magazine. This will carry the scout thru 2004. The Pack will pay for the transfer fees for any scout. It is $1/scout.

The budget for the Blue/Gold Banquet is $500.00.

Pam stated that popcorn sales bring in roughly $6000.00 in revenue.

Pam stated that boys who graduate from Webelos to Boy Scouts can get a credit based on their POPCORN sells. This is called CAMP Bucks and can be used for day or night camp. The maximum they can receive is $50.00.

OPEN COMMITTEE POSITIONS: Kay explained to the den leaders that they needed to encourage ALL parents to help out in Pack 191. She asked that the salmon colored papers be returned to her as soon as possible. The open committee positions that need to be filled ARE the following: Treasure (Pam Harrington is leaving in JAN.); Web-Master (Scott Johnson is also leaving soon); coordinator for Scouting for Food,

Friends of Scouting; Popcorn Kernel for next year; Assistant to Judy Urlocker in Day-Camp; Assistant to Kay Lannen in Committee Chair; AND an assistant to the CUBMASTER-Jeff Wood.

Woody is in the process of putting together a calendar. He will e-mail it out to the committee when it is completed.

It was decided by the committee that an opening and closing ceremony was needed for each Pack Meeting.

It was also recommended that only one sparkler be used at the Pack Meetings.

There will be no awards in November because of the "Space Derby."

The Blue and Gold will be held in February. So there will be no awards in February.

It was reported at this committee meeting that Den 4A was "officially" named the COBRAS.

And Den 4B was "officially" named the DRAGONS.

It was announced that in November there would be a uniform inspection. Judi Urlocker talked about everybody getting something "little" for participating (ex. Candy). She said the inspection would be kept simple. It was mentioned that the correct uniform format was on the web at "scoutstuff.org."

AWARDS ISSUES:

The question was raised: Do we want to do activity badges and never get the Webelos rank 1st? After a great deal of discussion it was voted by the committee to go with the progress towards rank.

The electives beads are done at the Den meetings.

Give the totems at the Pack meetings.

It was suggested by the committee that Clean-Ups for the nature areas be moved to every other month because there was not enough trash every month.

It was decided to drop Kathy Fromme in May because of snakes endangering the scouts. It was also recommended to add the new park, Fossil Creek Community Park, for trash clean-up.

A brief explation of the two roles were discussed at the meeting.

The Cubmaster's role includes, but are not limited to being in charge of Pack meetings and signing scouts' registration cards.

The committee chairperson's role includes, but are not limited to being in charge of running committee meetings, coordinating all volunteers, and signing parent registrations.

It was approved by the committee members that Jennifer will buy some more Quality Unit Patches.

The committee nominated Fran Blackburn for the "Helping Hand Award."

A reminder was brought up about local tour permit requirements. If a den is going on a field trip they need to file for a permit. Also, all drivers must have personal injury insurance or BSA will not back the driver. Or each parent may drive their own child.

Kay will give out coupons to those individual that need t-shirts and then they may pick up a t-shirt at the Pack meeting from Jim Pelichowski.

Fran still has name tags and Kay will check on them.

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