My kids hear ‘take out the trash’ and I hear ‘pay the bills’ and other tasks when running a household.  Running a Cub Scout Pack has some tasks that occur unacknowledged and need to be done or we don’t have a great Pack.   The most important task in the Pack is the Committee Chair, not a Den Leader or Cub Scout Master (as a Cub Scout Master is all hot air at a Pack meeting 🙂 .

Our Committee Chair has been instrumental in running the committee meetings and working with our Treasurer on next year’s budget.  For instance, for four years our pack has held dues flat at $90 while fundraising has reduced and expenses have increased. This is resulting in our need to generate more income in the next pack financial year to keep the pack solvent. The quality of Cub Scouts programing depends on the participation of the Scout parents. Our pack is lucky to have great volunteers and while we have most spots filled for this year there are a few where we could really use some assistance.  Here’s a detailed description of all volunteering opportunities.

The committee always needs more parents to help out and to help figure out how to keep the pack solvent.   If interested in helping, our Committee Chair, Verlyn Fischer, would be very interested in your assistance.

Now back to the rest of the story… our Committee Chair is helping to lead the pack towards its goals creating a direction that assists Den Leaders and the Cub Scout Masters in providing quality programming.  Without our Committee Chair we could not be as well organized as we are now.

Pack 340 would like to thank Verlyn for all he is doing as our Committee Chair.

– Crusty Cub Master Doug