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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op please pick up phone and have a conversation. Also offer to volunteer and help. It takes a village and if comms is a gap maybe you can offer to help with that.

Leaders are often overwhelmed. They aren’t trying to not share, just taking so much of their own time to prepare for troop meetings, get supplies, coordinate room logistics, keep kids happy, manage fires or complaints, etc that they don’t have extra time to think strategically about everything.

They are tired and overwhelmed bc often no other parent steps up. Ideally, every parent takes on a volunteer role to help support the troop and it helps create cohesion and shared understanding.

Your troop must have a money manger that manages the budget. It’s impossible not to have one given regs each troop needs to have two background checked, trained non-related adults to stand up your troop with one bring Troop Leader and one bring Money Mgr. Sometimes the second troop leader might be the money manager as well.

Most funds go to troop meetings and annual membership fee for service unit (no one listed that but that’s additional fee) and CPR and camping trainings for adults (they aren’t yearly but expensive).

Most of time troop leaders say what they are doing, but kids never share back with parents so it’s lack of comms vs being malicious.

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Not all Service units have fees.  I’m a SU manager and read this and my first thought was oh crap — did I forget to charge a fee?  But I’m pretty confident we’ve never had one!  We always somehow end up with extra money that we are trying to spend! [/quote]

Right!  I read that and was so confused.  I’m on our SU team and I can’t imagine charging troops a fee, and I sure wouldn’t be happy to pay one as a troop![/quote]

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