In attendance at the meeting:

Sandy, Gilmore, Cayman, Charlotte, Kristen, Emily, Tracy D., Frank, Deana, Betsy
Installation
The 2015-2016 officers present were sworn in. 
President Emily Gentner
VP Program Charlotte Miller
VP Admin Kristen Garvine
Quartermaster Sandy Dougher
Historian Cayman Fabian

Interests:
Frank compiled preliminary notes on the crew surveys. The officers will consider this when putting the program calendar together.

• Unanimous: Camping Trip, Wilderness Survival
• Strong Interest: Winter Sports, Military Base Trip
• Some Interest: Backpacking, Bike Hike, Canoeing, 1st Aid, Trail Cleaning, Life Saving, Shooting Sports, Scuba, Winter 
• High Adventure Top Interests: MOHAB, Sea Base, K-M Float

Program:
Frank worked with Scouts on metal melting - I was too busy making a Wilderness Survival webpage to know more than that, but it was apparently fun.

Wilderness Survival:
There is a lot to this - Pres. Emily requested a webpage (already done under activities) to have requirements and resources for working on this requirement. We reviewed briefly the requirements.

Contact Information Update
Everyone - please update your contact information on the website form. 

Tentative Officer Planning Meeting
Wednesday, November 11 6:30 - 9:00 is the proposed date for the Officer Planning meeting. More information will be posted, but please RSVP to Betsy if you can attend - you can just put in the comments to this post. 

Service Hours 
Nice job to Charlotte, Madison, and Sandy for painting the Hope fence. (4 hours). Also Tracy, Frank, Deana, and Betsy helped.

NEXT MEETING PROGRAM
Tuesday, November 10   TAPING KNEES AND ANKLES. How can you stabilize joints when you are in the back country? Come learn and practice this important wilderness first aid skill.

APOLOGIES - tonight's meeting was incorrectly listed on the calendar at 6:00 start. Meetings start at 6:30. It has been corrected!

Notes by Betsy as fill in secretary.

Attendance- Emily Gentner, Charlotte, Hanna, Kristen, Cayman, Sandy, Emily Gilmore(LATE) & Betsy, Frank, Tracy D. Deana Bailey
Excused – Band - Alysa, Reilly, Madison; Iceland Departure - Verena
Shirts—Given out at the meeting.
Popcorn—Popcorn order into Mary By Sunday 10/18/15 via email
Fence—finished stripping it. Girl scouts want to help stain fence-so call them!!
Find a day?? Saturday 10/24/15 1pm-4pm sign up on website. Frank is going to talk to the church. Cayman bringing tarps
Friday movie night? YAY.
Sewing Party?? YAY? Next meeting right after? 10/27/15
Mentoring Big Sky Crew?? They want to hang out with us!!!! YAY!!!
Wilderness Survival— our outing is a full weekend two nights. A lot of info before we can do this. April????? Need to get wilderness first aid renewed. 
Keenager Dinner—15 dollars a ticket. Small salad. Spaghetti dinner. French dinner? Frank is taking lead on this to figure out what is exactly going one. Kristen is asking parents to take lead on this.
K-M takeover— Patch is really awesome!!!!!!!!! We are host crew. 20-21 venture scouts there. Betsy up early. Frank group at 930pm. Meet here at 6pm on Thursday evening. Anybody that went through NYLT is asked to be more responsible for “Teams”. Ready-men. Class a A for flags and ride up. ATV long sleeve shirts, Jeans. Over ankle boots. Gloves. Goggles. Any questions ask Betsy.  Hopefully leaving by noon Sunday. Meals, Bring dinner Thursday night. Winterizing K-M. bring work gloves. 
Communication—Complaints about website and not getting emails/texts. Any suggestions??? Should have no trouble getting on website. Send emails out and make sure you got the email. Deleting webs website.
New Officer Start-Up—Installment, Adult Committee (training?) TBD, Planning Seminar 3 hours, each officer will have an advisor standing by them during the seminar, Calendar-Programs.
 
YAY -  Notes by Hanna
 

Besides eating great food at the Philmont look-back, we also kicked off Popcorn Sales. Yes - I know not all of you are crazy about selling popcorn, but we reviewed the important reasons why we do sell popcorn:
1. It costs money to fund Scouting in Montana - Popcorn pays some of those costs.
2. You like to spend money to do cool things - Popcorn helps pay for this.
3. It is a great way to tell people about Venture Scouts.
4. It gives you the chance to have people buy popcorn for the Military.
5. Selling is a good business skill.

The crew does not have dues - so it is an obligation to sell popcorn if we are going to keep it this way. Here is the guideline for every crew member for Popcorn - you can:
1. Sell $500 worth of popcorn  OR
2. Fill up one order sheet OR
3. Spend 6 hours (yes - send a log) trying to sell popcorn.

We are lucky to have the Venture program - so lets keep it alive and give the chance to other youth too through popcorn sales.
​Betsy