Redwood Empire Service Area
Redwood Empire Service Area
Unit and Member Renewals
No longer will you have to worry about Unit Renewals during the holiday season! The Unit Renewal deadline will now be Feb. 28.
(OK, every four years it’ll be Feb. 29.)
The Unit Renewal process will start in January. The same deadline will be for members (Scouts and Scouters). There will no longer be a grace period.
Units not renewing by the end of February will be suspended, may not meet or function, and will have no insurance coverage. Members joining Jan. to
Nov. 2027 will be charged dues prorated to the February 2028 renewal.
Notes from Our Commissioner
Last month, we talked about the urgent, critical need to improve our Cub program so as to increase our retention rate. This month, I want to share other changes announced at the National Annual Meeting (NAM). The NAM was rather remarkable for the effort that was taken by National to look at Scouting and itself in the mirror and take honest stock of what was reflected.
Notes from Our Key 3
We have a real challenge . . . If we don’t change the way we do things, there will be only 500K Scouts in Scouting America in 2030, down from our current 877K. These stats are all the more worrisome in that we have registered 1.5 million new Scouts in the last five years. Check out what it means to be a Unit Commissioner and their vital role in the Commissioner section of Roundup. Then, sign up!
School will be out very soon so what to do with all that spare time? No brainer . . . it’s Camping Season! And there’s a great selection available. Residential Summer Camp, Local High Adventure with Ocean to the Redwoods and Wolfeboro Trek, Day and Twilight Camps, Family Camp, and Cub Camping.
Hello and Goodbye!
Peter Carlson is now serving as the RESA Vice Chairman and Oren Noah is the new RESA Commissioner.
Oren has been the Pomo District Commissioner for the last ten years. Before that he was the Scoutmaster for Troop 14 in Sebastopol. He and his wife raised an Eagle Scout from Tiger Cubs on. He himself was a Scout in Troop 10 in San Rafael and an Explorer with both the San Rafael Police and Fire Departments.