Our memories are for sale.

BSA Council 617, the Buckskin Council, is trying to secretly sell off all their Boy Scout Camp properties.
Before I go on, let me put this plainly; the council leadership is currently trying to become a Boy Scout council...with no Boy Scout camp.
By secretly, I mean that in sealed meetings, with no publicly available minutes of which I am aware, decisions are being made that are at the moment, leading towards the end of all three camps; Roland, Chief Logan, and Buckskin Scout Reservation as council properties.

I have seen, and will be posting scans of documents handed out at a meeting at which council bigwigs attended and confirmed their authenticity, which was held at Camp Chief Logan and documented by local media.

The media however, and people following the story have been misled and the council is exerting no effort to correct an assumption arising from that meeting. Which is to say that no further vote has been held on the fate of Camp Chief Logan, and it is by no means "saved" from becoming a non-BSA administered property.

An additional bit of misinformation is the mention of "options." What really happened is that an outside consultant made several lists of several options to address the council's cashflow issues, and that was all thrown out, with the result that what are perhaps the worst parts of each plan were assembled into a horrifying document labeled "Alternative Plan." A document which was confirmed at the Chief Logan meeting as being legitimate.

The essence of this plan is to divorce the council of the costs of administering and maintaining the camps, while attempting to derive some instant money now, and a minor amount of money over time. What it does not address is the fact that the model the plan puts forth practically garantees that we will receive very little to nothing at all in terms of income from the camps. Which will cascade into a downward spiral of decreasing funds, a lack of maintenance, decay of the facilities, less interest in using the camps, which means less funds...and so on.

More to come.