November Meeting Minutes

Pack Meeting this Friday, December 5th
**WE DECIDED AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING THAT THIS PACK MEETING WILL BE "PICTURE DAY". PLEASE E-MAIL YOUR DENS TO ARRIVE AT 6:30PM WITH ALL SCOUTS IN COMPLETE UNIFORM TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS TAKEN BEFORE THE MEETING. GROUP PHOTOS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER THE MEETING.

**LEADERS, IF POSSIBLE, ARRIVE AROUND 6:00PM TO HELP SET UP FOR MEETING, ETC.

**WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO HAVE FOUR PEOPLE TAKING PICTURES TO SPEED THINGS UP. HOWEVER, WE NEED AT LEAST TWO OTHERS WITH NICE DIGITAL CAMERAS TO HELP LORI SARKISIAN AND PAT CASSELL. HEATERS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING.

- Wolves will bring baked goods
- Tigers will perform the opening
- Bears will perform skits
- John Kozar will hand out popcorn prizes
- Den Leaders will hand out awards
- Any remaining pies to be thrown will be put off until January pack meeting
- If scouts follow instructions and get pictures taken in a timely fashion, they may get to play sock after ALL photos are taken

Blue & Gold Banquet- It looks like we will be signing a contract at Happy Days Lodge in the Cuyahoga Valley NP.
- Lodge rental is $375.00. We will use one of their preferred caterers and will work on making the menus a bit more kid friendly.
- To keep the cost down to $375.00, we will help clean up and will bring some side dishes, etc. More info to come.

Code of Conduct- Steve M. will e-mail everyone the Wolf Code of Conduct they created this year. Everyone can add to it and send back to Steve. Maybe we can finalize it at the next committee meeting.

Den Chiefs- We found out that Troop 327 is a young troop, therefore, we are going to look to Troops 321 and 333 for some den chiefs. One for Wolf Den and one for Bear Den. They can primarily be in charge of redirecting scouts energy to activities before meetings versus running around like lunatics.

Service Project for HUMC- We are going to clean the hundreds of plastic candle holders for the church's Christmas Service. May have a special Saturday meeting for those scouts that can make it. More info to follow.

Salvation Army Bell Ringing- December 13th between 1-5pm at the Cuyahoga Falls Walmart on Hudson Drive. Sign up sheet will be sent out later this week.

Life Centers Reward for ALL Scouts for Fantastic Popcorn Sales- Kozar is setting up a few hours at Life Centers for the scouts. Pack will pay for everything and will include rock climbing, dodge ball, and wally ball. Either on a Saturday or Sunday in January or February. TBA

Centennial Award- Steve Mileski will get all information to Andy Morse to see if we qualify and if not, what we need to do to qualify.

Pack Master Program- We decided to invest in "Pack Master" to help keep track of Leader Training, Scout Advancements and Awards, etc.

*All Leader Training will now be officially paid for by pack. If you have receipts hand them in to either Steve Mileski or Dennis Withem

Pizza Party?
*We may consider doing a Pack Dinner at Ci Ci's Pizza in Streetsboro. Kozar found out that if we eat there as a non-profit organization, they will give us 10% of sales back to pack....and maybe more if we help bus, etc.

*If you buy a Christmas Tree from Troop 320 at the Log Cabin on the Town Square and if you have a scout in any Pack (not sure if Hudson Pack or any pack), you will get a $10 discount if you tell them.

*GOOD NEWS....The Hocking Hills campsites for our Spring Campout were finally added to the Ohio State Park inventory. We have reserved 2 adjacent, 60 person campsites for May 2nd for $50 each plus $16 in fees for a total of $116.00