DUES

[KB1KOI]

Its like a reward for your hard work. There are only 2-4 boys who are eagles in the troop (about 7 adult leaders), so it wouldn't rellay affect the money input. They still have to pay for campouts

[OregonScout]

$22.00 Youth Recharter -- Includes Boys Life (pre-collected as part of dues)
$11.00 Adult Recharter
$24.00 Annual Gas Fee -- given gas prices, this might have to go up, we are into general funds to pay for gas as of August. This is the first year of no surplus!
$10.00 per month dues -- Dues/paid as long as active
$??? Summer Camp (depends on summer camp)

100% of youth outting expenses, including all food, camp fees, council fees.

*100% of troop equipment (tents, patrol boxes, water carriers, heavy camp stoves, propane, backpacking stoves, backpacking water filters, first aid kit, etc.) provided by troop.
*Youth council leadership training.
*Partial payments for National Jamboree
*High adventure savings.

Adults pay own camp council fees and food.

Funding for scouts comes from one large annual fund raiser ($4000 to $6000+ gross); name a single job a 11 year old can make $5+/hour net. 1/2 all net funds are prorated (hours) to youth and adult accounts; the other half pays for * items above. A single season can pay most youth Scouting expenses for the entire year. A parent (or two) works too and a good portion of Philmont/National Jamboree is paid with tax free funds.

All council fund raisers are 1/2 cash to scout. 1/2 to fund additional scout accumulated incentives; low end flash lights, nalgenes - to high end of personal backpacking tents, stoves, and water filters, including the right to use them on scout outtings!

Most the youth in our troop do not come from wealthy or middle income families, more than a few are single parent households!

[Holaka]

Our small troop charges $10.00 per month from September to May. This covers almost everything we do. We try to do 1 campout every other month, with a day event on the opposite month. Sometimes, we need to collect a little extra because the event costs more. This is starting our second year with this, and all the boys and parents seem to like it.
Cheryl O

[SM270PAL]

We charge $70 annually. This covers everything during the year for the most part. Covers all badges, registration, insurance, recharter (not Boys life) and also pays the many camping fees we have to camp. More and more we need to pay at the various places we used to go to for free. Also covers some for the equipment replacement. We have a trailor we maintain and have to register which is also a big bite. We also have a family BBQ during the year, also covered in the fee.

[fritz1255]

$50 per year. It is spent on activities and equipment. As I found out during a brief interim stint as treasurer, we always seem to lose money on campouts and activities, since we are often charged a set fee for instructors, etc., and the money we collect never seems to cover it, especially if attendance at the activity is low. When I was a Den Leader, I tried to collect dues every week, which was a logistical nightmare. I think a yearly fee is the way to go.

[diamondbackAPL]

$52 a year or a dollar a week this goes for like campsites and patches and eqipment we recently bought ten tents

[scubascout]

our troop charges $75 per month and my patrol charges dues $2.00 a week

[John F.]

Our troop charges $0.50 a week when we have a meeting. We have meeting from Sept to Jun. If the meeting falls on a holiday, then there is no charge. The only time we charge more is when we have our "father/son" campout. Then we ask for $10 from each scout that is going and $10 from any father that is not driving. We figure that the driver is paying for gas to drive to the camp site. Which is usually 3 to 4 hours drive one way.

Summer camp the scout pays for that.

[Mrw]

our troop charges $75 per month and my patrol charges dues $2.00 a week

That sounds like an awful lot and would price some of our families right out of the troop. Do you do this in place of any other fundraising?

[ThunderingWind]

All council fund raisers are 1/2 cash to scout. 1/2 to fund additional scout accumulated incentives; low end flash lights, nalgenes - to high end of personal backpacking tents, stoves, and water filters, including the right to use them on scout outtings!

Nice fee schedule. I am concerened with the council "prizes" also coming with rights to be used. That language strikes me as odd and makes me want to ask what other equipment has to be earned by the boys to be used.

There are too many ACLU staffers paid to search for languagae such as yours to start lawsuits agianst the BSA just to waste out time and money (money that could have been used on the youth of America.

Off my soap box......