Re: [Philmont]: bsa unit thrown off state forest

I'm with Rick on this one. I would volunteer to pay if I felt I was
negligent. I have the same feelings with fundraisers when my Troop committee
wanted to make a family responsible for a bad check. I said certainly, but I
will never accept another check on behalf of the Troop.

YiS,
Jim Welton

On 11/21/05, rhtyler@comcast.net <rhtyler@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Make the tour leader personally financially responsible for any
> oversights, mistakes, or other problem interpreting the thickets of local,
> county, state, and federal laws and regulations? Sure. Sounds good to me. I
> mean, I'll never volunteer to lead another trip -- ever -- but it might save
> our troop a few bucks someday. That is, if we can find any adult willing to
> accept unlimited personal responsibility.
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> - Rick Tyler
> ASM, Troop 575, Chief Seattle Council
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: bill55@comcast.net
> To: Multiple recipients of list philmont <philmont@troop47.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:56:44 +0000
> Subject: [Philmont]: bsa unit thrown off state forest
> Another thought. When a ticket is issued for a group which blatantly
> violates regulations clearly set forth for use of the public lands, the cost
> of that ticket should be borne by the adult who set up the trip and either
> neglected to find out if there were regulations or, after learning of the
> regulations, decided to ignore them. The ticket should not be paid by the
> Troop Committee, who trusted that leader to determinine the rules and to
> follow them.
> Bill Sheehan, ASM
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Received on Mon Nov 21 17:13:12 2005