Commissioner Meeting

No Commissioners Meeting

District Operations Committee Meeting

Friends of Scouting
- Family FOS campaign 123.97% of goal
- Community FOS campaign 116.08% of goal
- Overall 120.82% of goal
Popcorn
- Sales Total
  - Online Sales $10,533.00
  - Storefront Sales $158,317.45
  - Total Sales $168,850.45
  - 94% of district goal
- Upcoming dates
  - Oct 21st – Final Returns Date
  - Oct 28th – Final Order Date
  - Nov 15 – Final PIckup Date

Franklin Elementary, Alameda is the new meeting location of Troop 89.
Richard Christman is working to start up Pack 89 to meet at the same location.
Pack 1015 has 124 youth members, 58 who started this year.
Pack 97 has 20 youth members, 10 who started this year.
Pack 612 has not yet become active, still waiting on youth applications to be turned in. Need assistance in reaching out to SLZUD school principles.

Cub Scout rank advancement reporting seems to be minimally reported. Sea Scout and Venturing programs are either not emphasising rank advancement or are not reporting.
- Cub Scouts – From 6/1/2025 to current: 615 youth, 6 rank advancements
- Scouts BSA – From 6/1/2025 to current: 683 youth, 148 rank advancements (13 Eagles), 1546 merit badges.
- Sea Scouts – From 6/1/2025 to current: 32 Youth, 0 rank advancements.
- Venturing – From 6/1/2025 to current: 23 Youth, 0 rank advancements

Training Status
- 23.9% of Direct Contact Leaders are fully trained
- 47.1% of all Leaders are trained.
It’s required for at least one adult to be BALOO trained for any Cub Scout overnight activity, including pack camping and Webelos den overnighters.
- Camp Herms Saturday 10-18-2025 7:30 AM to Sunday 10-19-2025 12:30 PM Registration now open
Council has requested that all district make Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills (IOLS) training a priority
- Our district training lead, Tina Michael, is planning a April 4-5 session at Rancho Los Mochos, but this date is not firm.
- Our district is also working on a Fall IOLS. Classroom session on Sep 26th, and the Outdoor Session on October 9-11 at Rancho Los Mochos.
- Introduction Briones & Herms District will be doing a fall IOLS training.
  - Camp Herms Saturday 10-18-2025 7:30 AM to Sunday 10-19-2025 12:30 PM
- Some troops, 722 in particular, have done the Scoutmaster Position Specific training as a unit, with the Unit Commissioner updating the member’s training records.

Spring 2026 Camporee. The OA chapters are working on the program. Still need an Adult Camporee Chair, and Adult Volunteers for the Camporee Committee.
National Jamboree contingent fee will be around $4100.
- There will be no tours involved this time
- Our contingent will need to purchase our own tents.
- The contingent will include Scouts and Scouters from Golden Gate, Golden Empire and Piedmont Councils.
Camp Noyo may expand to two week-long sessions next year.
- Cost is expected to be $200 per participant, with a maximum of 135 participants each session
- Access to the camp is via a dirt logging road.
- This camp is privately owned land, but was once a Golden Empire owned camp.
Overall the 2025 Summer Camp numbers were up, including out of council camping.
- Overall our camps were running about 60% of capacity, especially Royaneh and Wolfeboro.
Webelos Woods on Treasure Island on the Oct 17-18th has had to push back the latest registration date to October 9th at the request of the Coast Guard, to allow time for security checks.