Cedarlands News

30 June 2008

A Call for Questions…

Posted by Ivory under: General .

As many already have heard, I met for lunch last Tuesday (6/24) with Bill Garrett, the new scout exec and CEO of the Revolutionary Trails Council.  Joining us were Mark Miller, and Marybeth McCall, the council president.  I’ll be writing about the meeting itself in a different posting.

One outcome of the meeting was that we all agreed that a lot more communication is possible regarding the decisions that lead up to the logging / harvesting of Cedarlands.  Marybeth suggested that we work together to put up a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page.  I think this is a fantastic idea.  Anything that will help dialog on this topic is good.

Towards that end, I volunteered to serve as both a clearing house for the questions, and as a publishing house for the answers to be provided by the council.  So…

• Feel free to post questions here, as a comment/reply to this post, or…
• Feel free to e-mail me directly with questions you’d liked asked

Not everybody wants their identity to be known.  (As measured by the attacks some have levied against me or the troop I work with, I can understand why.) If you want to remain anonymous, that’s perfectly fine by me; I’ll be sure to give your questions the same visibility and will not disclose anything about how I heard from you.

Working together with the folks from council, we welcome any and all questions related to the Cedarlands events.  The questions can be fast-pitch hardballs, or softballs with a gentle lob.  The goal here is open communication.

To start the ball rolling, I’ll toss out these…

• What’s the next area to be harvested?  What’s the sequence after that?
• When did this topic first come up?
• What’s attendance like at Cedarlands this year?  How’s that compare with the past several years?  Ditto for Russell and Kingsley, please, for comparison.
• What percentage of scouters during the summer come from in council vs out of council?
• How much money was raised from the sale of Watch Rock?  From the Easement with NY?
• Why was the Base Camp area harvested first?

It turns out, I’ve already learned the answer to some of the above, but am asking the questions here so that council can more easily share the answers with the rest of the reading community.

After a reasonable list has been formed (anonymously or publicly), I’ll provide it back to Bill, Mark, and Marybeth, and they’ll work to generate a full response which will be posted here for review and comment.

My thanks in advance to all.

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