From: Kevin (kjmineart@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 08:22:51 CST
--- Joseph Wiggs <wiggs@infonet.isl.net> wrote:
> I've looked through Selden's pages and have
> subscribed to this list for a
> while, and I have a question that hasn't been
> addressed in either---
> establishing a "crew fund" for common expenses. The
> Troop one of my sons
> went with this past summer collected $75 from each
> participant for a central
> crew fund. From this they paid for gas for autos
> (it's about 260 miles to
> the train), stove fuel, 30-06 ammo, crew water
> bottles for dry camps, first
> aid & sewing kits, root beer in horse camps,
> imprinted crew shirts &
> bandanas, ranger "gift", pizza in Raton at the end
> of their trip, and the
> list goes on. I have an ASM who'll be bringing his
> son on our trip next
> summer who absolutely disagrees with a central fund
> of any kind. He says
> each particpant should pay his own expenses, and
> doesn't want an extra
> t-shirt.
The central fund is definitely the way to go. Chipping
in is not only a real pain in the backside to manage,
no one ever has the right change for it to come out
right and you have to go and collect at the point of
purchase etc, but inevitably, when it comes time to
chip in later in the trip (like on the way home)
someone (or several) won't have money left to chip in.
If he doesn't want to have an extra shirt so be it,
don't make the extra shirt part of the central fund,
take "extra shirt" orders and handle the extras
separately. This goes back to crew identity a little,
I would assume that he WILL be wearing a crew trail
shirt like the rest of the crew but he doesn't want
more than one or what ever the minimum requirement
would be. If not, I feel like Coop, he's not thinking
in terms of being part of a crew.
=====
Kevin Mineart
T214 & P14 West Burlington, IA
Silver Tomahawk Lodge 80
Jambo'01 Fishing Staff
Jambo'01 Troop 1003 "4th Ass't SM" Corps
a good ole Bear too! (C-15-01)
...can't wait to go to Philmont, 8/03!!
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