Troop 8 Leader's Meeting April 8, 2002 Financial Report No financial report Estimated Financial Report for the Pancake Feed 758 tickets sold served 426 people Grand total $3137.25 Troop will make $1229.20 Scout accounts will amount to $1908.00 Expense amount to $0.00, everything is donated 2. Leadership training 20 - 25 people showed up for training, the estimate was that 50% was from Troop 8. Jerry Bowman is going to start keeping track and update training in the future. 3. New merit badge Fly fishing is a new merit badge, and the troop is looking a merit badge. 4. Campouts Philmont - Three more people backed out, the troop is currently at 28 people. The cost is still estimated at $550.00 - $580.00 per person. The troop is going to purchase the equipment (cups, bowls, cooking  equipment). In the future high adventure will charge the scout for the use of equipment. April canoe trip - The campout will be at stagecoach lakes on April 19-21 Atikokin - 2003 canoe trip - The troop  is signed up for July 20 through July 28 or 29. The plan is to travel on July 20 and 21, canoe on July 22 through 27, and return to Lincoln on either July 28 or 29. Camporee is May 3 & 4, and will be at Pawnee lake. The troop is planning on staying Saturday night and return home on Sunday May 5. 5. Equipment The new equipment that has been purchased are: Cook Kit 3 gas bottles 2nd gas stove 12 Aluminum paddles 15 life jackets 4 featherweight stoves (backpacking) 3 backpacking first aid kits repair kit for water pumps cups and bowls for backpacking There was discussion to sell three of the old tents to scouts at a discount and replace them with new tents. This should be an on going project every year. Should there be a fund with money set aside for replacement equipment. Wayne Jensen is going to do some more research on if there are discount tents available. A motion was made and approved, to allow Wayne the authority to purchase up to three new tents. 6. Other discussion There are two new software programs, one is troop master. This will keep track of scout advancement, and will email the scouts parents the progress of their scouts. The second program is troop ledger, which will keep track of troop finances. The program will give ledger of where the troop money is being spend. The cost for the two software programs is $75.00, a motion was made and approved. Larry Homes and Kevin Griffin went through the scout roster, and made sure that everyone was registered. There are two potential Eagle projects, one being to tare down the old building behind the church. The second would be to build a new building that would house the troop trailer. The new building will also have a space for the church. There will be a meeting with the church, on the troops views on homosexuality.