My planning agenda seems almost continuous right now. Last month we wrapped up the SummerPlanning. I've planned out a fishing derby for this weekend and a skit for our may graduation ceremony in the past month. Now to move on to the Rest of next year.
I love google calendars for planning the cub year. In the past couple of weeks I went to my local school district web site and transferred all of the Holidays, early release days, and any other important date to a Google Calendar I set up for my pack. Then I pulled out my council calendar and copied every district and council training date, Cub event, camp, Etc.
Basically we have a list of events that we as a pack want to do and our normal months to do them. All that's left for the Pack Committee to work out is when.
We started our annual list last year, by sitting down and saying we always do a blue and gold and that has to be done in February. We always have a Pinewood derby. We give the cars as gifts at the Christmas party so it has to be after December. Then the space derby comes out. we want to camp X number of times. ( We're currently up to 3 trips per year. ) We need to sprinkle some service projects in as well. Suddenly you have a packed schedule.
For those that want to see the calendar (http://bit.ly/15gR2W)
Next you'll need to set up a meeting with your Treasurer and see how much you spend on each type of event, how much you want to spend, where your going to hold various events, etc. to build your rough budget. You can give the total to your popcorn chair for them to set your popcorn goals.
And that should be the last of major planning until fall. During the summer it's just the details for summer events.
Keep on moving forward.
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