Your Scout Needs You!

The Boy Scouts is a volunteer organization, and the quality of your child’s experience in Troop 175 depends on parents like you, pitching in to make a difference. If we all do our part, the load is more evenly spread and our sons benefit from the variety and abundance of the adult involvement.

If there is something specific you would like to do, please contact one of the adult leaders listed in the first tab as soon as possible. There are always a number of volunteer opportunities you can choose from. Please be generous with your time when contacted by an adult troop leader looking for assistance.

Here are a list of areas you can help us:

• Driver: Help drive the scouts to their various activities and outings.
• Activity Chaperones: Assist trip leaders in planning, accompany on the trip, carpool arrangement or other tasks for various outings such as day hikes, camping trips and etc.
• Service Project Assistant: Assist in troop service projects such as helping with volunteer sign in and sign out or being
  drivers for community directory deliveries, food drive, senior citizen visits, etc.
• Uniformed Adult Leader: We have continual turn over in the troop and Assistant Scoutmaster (ASM) positions as Scouts “graduate” from the troop and their parents move on with them. Help provide a new perspective and leadership for the Scouts.
• Committee Member: The troop Committee helps to plan, organize, and coordinate the overall running of the troop. We meet one evening a month and make sure the troop and adult leaders have what they need to do their jobs. Current open positions: Communications Coordinator
• Merit Badge Counselor: If you have a hobby, profession, or special skill that lends itself to merit badge instruction, help the Scouts earn their advancement badges.
• Others: Please list any other areas in which you will be able to help out or interested in.

Role of the Troop Committee

• Troop Committee Positions
• Advise the Scoutmaster on policies relating to Scouting and the chartered organization (Foster City Rotary Club)
• Assist in transportation
• Assure that a qualified substitute leader is assigned if the Scoutmaster is absent or unable to serve
• Assure that quality adult leadership is recruited and trained and encourage adult leader training
• Carry out the policies and regulations of the Boy Scouts of America (found in the Guide to Safe Scouting)
• Coordinate the Friends of Scouting Campaign
• Encourage the leaders
• Ensure that the troop program provides at least 10 days and nights of outdoor programming per year
• Manage troop finances