Scouts BSA at Spectrum Academy: NOTICE OF MEETING

The Boys Scouts of America has approached our PTO about becoming a chartered organization, thereby allowing scouting units to be organized at our school. The school has offered the use of its facilities, but in order to move forward, someone needs to step forward as a chartering organization.  A representative of the Great Salt Lake Council, Yaroch Rocque, attended our last PTO meeting to give us more information. He compared becoming a chartered organization to being a franchise owner. We need to determine if this is something we are willing and able to do.

An information meeting and vote has been scheduled during our next meeting on:

Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 9:00 a.m

In order to vote on this measure, you will need to be a member of the PTO. If you have not already joined, please visit our PTO table at Parent Teacher Conferences on November 28th & 29th. We will also be able to accept dues and enroll members at our meeting on December 6. Yaroch has been invited to our meeting on December 6th. He will also be available at Parent Teacher Conferences to answer your questions.

Please note that the measure being discussed at this meeting is whether or not our PTO can and should act as a chartering organization for a BSA unit at Spectrum Academy. We will NOT be planning said unit. All planning, organization, registration, etc. would be organized through a scout committee after the process of chartering has taken place.


We asked Yaroch if he would write a brief introduction to be shared on our blog. Here is what he wrote:

Greetings to all Parent Teacher Organization members!

To those of you I haven’t met, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Yaroch Rocque. I’m a district executive at the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Some of you may have ran into me at the Parent Teacher Conference this past Wednesday and Thursday. I had a booth set up in the Intermediate School. The purpose was to see what kind of interest there was in doing Scouting at Spectrum.

I am happy to say that the level of interest was extremely high. I found a lot of interested parents and kids alike. I had several parents approach me to say they are committed to being leaders in Spectrum Scout units.

As many of you may already know, I had the pleasure a few Fridays ago to sit down with Krisanne Lewis and Deanna Billings, along with a couple of parents, to discuss the possibility of having Packs, Troops, Posts and/or Crews for boys and girls at Spectrum Academy. The discussion was positive. We were able to answer a lot of each other’s questions and talk about how that might look at Spectrum.  The general structure that was proposed is that the Chartered Organization for these Scout units be the Spectrum Academy Parent Teacher Organization and that we use the Spectrum Academy facilities for the meetings. The time for meeting is yet to be determined but we would want to organize it in such a way as to accommodate the students, parents and teachers.

I am writing you all to see if there is a time I can come meet with one, some or all of you to discuss this. I’d be happy to answer any of your questions by email as well. If there is a time that is convenient for you, I’d love to come meet you and talk about this.

I hope to hear back soon,

Thank you for all you do for our youth!

Yaroch Rocque | Unit Serving District Executive 

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Great Salt Lake Council - 590
525 Foothill Blvd | Salt Lake City, Utah 84113
yrocque@scouting.org
801.582.3663 ext. 227 

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This is a big decision for our new little PTO. We really need your input. Please join us for the meeting on December 6. And if you can't attend, please reach out to one of our board members in order to help to make your opinion heard.