"Based on a recent conversation with the leadership of [Council Service Territory] #10, it is official, the Rip Van Winkle Council will be issued a TRANSITIONAL CHARTER for June 2024 to May 2025. This decision has been reviewed and approved by the National Key 3 of the Boy Scouts of America. This decision is final, there is no appeal for this decision.
This decision means the Rip Van Winkle Council needs establish a plan to merge with another nearby council or councils.
Anticipating this outcome, our Executive Board had started to organize a volunteer committee to consider and plan our transition. The Transition committee will be looking into various analytics for each of the councils being considered. Those analytics may include:
The Transition committee has been tasked with selecting the best council for us to merge with in order to continue to meet the needs of our youth."
David Gagnon, Council President, Elise Anderson, Council Commissioner, and Dana Kuhns, Scout Executive/CEO"For all we have gone through in the last four years, we have weathered the storm. We have been resilient. Call it pluck. Call it motivation or drive. It is that part of each of us the refuses to quit. It’s that part that is continuing to provide a quality Scouting program to the youth of Ulster and Greene Counties.
At this point, I am not sure what the future of the Rip Van Winkle Council holds. What I do know is that we should not quit. Delivery of the Scouting program is too important for the youth of Ulster and Greene Counties."
Dana E. Kuhns"During a meeting last month with the National Service Territory #10 (the state of NY) leadership, we were informed the Council would be receiving a Conditional Charter for the upcoming year. The territory cited concerns about our Council’s sustainability. They cited specifically the declining membership of the Council for the last few years.
Last month, at our monthly Executive Board meeting, the Council Key 3 signed a document that gave the Rip Van Winkle Council a Conditional Charter for the year 2023 to 2024. It also outlined the expectations the Council is to meet in order to maintain that Conditional Charter.
If we do not meet the expectations of the Conditional Charter, the Council will be forced to begin a plan to merge with another Council.
"As we shared with you in November of 2022, the Iroquois Trail Council and the Greater Niagara Frontier Council have been engaged in merger discussions. We are excited to let you know that effective May 1, 2023 the councils will formally come together to create the new Western New York Scout Council, Boy Scouts of America.
The Iroquois Trail Council and the Greater Niagara Frontier Council have partnered together for generations on many activities. As a result of this close connection and the desire to grow the Scouting program in WNY, the councils began merger discussions last fall. The result of these careful and detailed discussions was the unanimous realization that the councils were truly stronger if they joined together to share resources and programs. Combining the strengths of each council into one organization will benefit our Scouts and leaders through increased summer and offseason camping opportunities, more frequent training programs, a wider range of council-hosted Scouting events and activities, and a larger council staff to support units.
The WNY Scout Council will serve youth from all of Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, and Wyoming counties, and most of Livingston County. The new council will continue to operate both Scout service centers in Buffalo/Cheektowaga and Oakfield. The council will also continue to operate Camp Scouthaven and Camp Sam Wood.
The transition process will take a couple of months logistically as we work with BSA National on many system issues behind the scenes. With a new Council name also comes new imagery including a new council shoulder strip, logo, flags, signage, and website all of which will be phased in over the coming days."
Indian Waters - Pee Dee Area Council merger: "The voting memberships of the Pee Dee Area Council and Indian Waters Council separately convened on Monday, July 11th and each council unanimously voted to merge, effective August 1, 2022. This was preceded in June by merger approval from both council executive boards after extensive research and a recommendation by a combined-council Merge Study Committee."
"On Sun., Nov. 14th, over 65 members of Ktemaque and Nacha Nimat Lodges gathered at Camp Bullowa for the first official meeting of our new lodge. The new name for the Greater Hudson Valley Council Order of the Arrow lodge will be 'Mahicantuck Lodge #15, W.W.W.' and it's totem will be that of the historic 'Mastadon', where remains have been found in the Hudson Valley area.
The new officers were elected at this meeting."
Even though they were both chartered to Greater Hudson Valley Council, according to Project Magellan, Ktemaque 15, as part of the old NE-2B, was assigned to Section E18, and Nacha Nimat 86, as part of the old NE-2A, was assigned to Section E20. Now they've merged, I had to consult both the Project Magellan map and Section E20 website's list of lodges, to decide that Mahicantuck 15 must be part of Section E18. This was confirmed by the logo for their 2022 conclave held at Alpine Scout Camp, which listed all of the attending lodges: 4, 15, 360, 412, and 427.
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This change will reunite the lodge brothers of the old Section NE-5.
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