Meeting started at 8:00 p.m.

Treasurer’s Report: (See balance sheets.) Craig presented the monthly report.

Summer 2003 - Philmont: The $294 debt has not yet been paid. Bill needs to contact Craig.

BMX Food Tent (June 17 – 20, 2004): Ed has the letter ready to send.

Summer Camp: PLC selected Camp Lowden for next year. Ryan and Sandy will look at the calendar to determine dates for summer camp 2005.

Florida Sea Base (Aug. 7-14, 2005): Have 2 confirmed boys and 2 adults. We need at least 6 people, so it will be opened to the District after 12/31/04.

Eagle Cave (April 4, 2005): Eagle Cave has been reserved – deposit check was received. The cost will be $42.

Boundary Waters: The sub-committee has been looking at various opportunities and needs to make a decision ASAP. Eric will check into Northern Tier. The cost was $250-350 per person for 7-day trip. Sandy’s trip was $175-$260 depending on group’s size. Subcommittee will pursue this. (Phil, Ed, Brian, Sandy, and Al). Looking at mid-late June.

Equipment: Still looking for a couple of hatchets. (John Vermie & Steve Horan have them.) Motion to purchase a couple of fiberglass handles and sledge hammers. Motion passed. The PLC cannot use the troop computer, so a motion was made to donate it to a Scout. Motion passed.

Fire Station #3: Phil & Eric met with the CVUM Church, but the Trustees were reluctant, due to lack of storage space. A vote will be held at their next Board meeting. Bill will check into leaving our supplies in the fire station basement until we can get things arranged at the new meeting place, but the troop would actually begin meeting elsewhere by 1/1/05.

Discipline agreement: They have not yet been returned from the newer Scouts, so the Derek Dwyer will take care of this. Recommendation was made that these should be gone over annually with all Scouts as a refresher.

Wood Badge: No new information.

Midwest Regional Extrication Competition May 2005: No new information. Bill LeFevre said our troop would be asked to do this. A motion was made and passed to offer our services for this. organization. Last year they had brats and hamburgers. The committee agreed to explore this further – as a service project. The Midwest Regional Extrication Competition needs a group to serve food to participants. It would be 7am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday in May of 2005. It means manning the kitchen at Station #3 and buying and serving the food for a couple hundred people. It would support the fire station, which is our charter

Venture crew: Flyers for an Open House were distributed at the meeting.

Popcorn: Orders are due next week. Jamie Beck is coordinating this.

District Dinner: Gretchen’s sub - committee for next year 2005 - Eric Schmidt, MaryAnn Bushaw, Craig Louthain, and Phil Reece.

PowWow (November 13, 2004): No new information. (MaryAnn is the Council coordinator.)

Christmas Tree Lot: There are about 12 open slots available. Some Scouts have not signed up for any times. Phil will call these Scouts and will notify people they can sign up for extra shifts now. Money collection: Steve Fedor volunteered to take care of that. Tree lot campout: planning will be done next week. The troop has 3 heaters lined up. Motion made to allow Terry to order 2 boxes of netting and 2 boxes of bags. Motion passed. Phil will contact the newspaper about advertising and try to get publicity for the set-up of the tree lot. Bob will call a couple of radio stations.

Christmas Wreaths: The trailer is available. Bob will work with Steve to get wreaths. Eric will also offer his trailer. Pick up is about noon with the Scouts collecting them around 2 p.m. The troop promised to repair the trailer so that needs to be completed.

Merit Badges: Phil is working on posting information. Need volunteers for Patrol Coaches and coaches for the various leadership positions. Ed is working on this.

Veterans Day Parade: It is November 13^th at 10:30 AM – meet at the Log Cabin. This will follow the Set-up for the tree lot. Everyone has been notified.

Jamie Boone Yard Rake: He would like the troop to come out on Sunday, November 14^th. The troop will leave the firehouse at 11:30. Bring your own lunch. Return would be at about 4:00 p.m. Any money earned would go directly into the scouts’ accounts. Bring rakes and tarps and leaf blowers.

First Aid/CPR: Eric will try to set something up for January.

Den Chief cords: Nick still needs some.

Uniform Inspection: Ryan will check into this.

Family Night: At the last Family Night, everyone sang a couple of songs. There were mixed reactions to it. May try it again.

Adjourned 9:05 PM