Here’s the starting plan for meetings this year that Pat proposed in our August newsletter.  No one has mentioned any conflicts so far except for Mrs. Gargiullo, who may have an October conflict.  Please check your calendars for conflicts so that when we meet, we can work out any problems.

September 21               November 30                January 18                    March 14

October 19                    December 14                February 22                  April 18

Plans for the September 21 meeting

 We will need to decide if we want to do the Empty Stocking Fund in December, the dinner for Nicholas House in January, and a cookie booth in March.  Please bring your Gold Award notebooks so that we can finish up or sign off on whatever paperwork still needs doing.

Mrs. Gargiullo has followed up with the Girl Scout office to confirm our reservation for the Farmhouse at Misty Mountain. The dates are October 26-28.  Please check these dates too, and at our meeting we can decide if we want to camp and what we would want to accomplish.

Finances

We’re in pretty good shape with a troop balance of $694.10.  Out of that $153.31 is our Gold Award Project fund.  Maria may need some of that to finish up her project, and we certainly can spend our treasury on any of the projects if we choose to do so.

The Gold Award Scholarship choices often make how you raised your money for your project a criterion, so planning how to pay for your project is part of the process.  You certainly are allowed to get your fellow troop members to help in any fund raising you need to do.

However, if we are planning to do any troop fund raising, we are required to participate in both the Calendar Sale and the Cookie Sale.  How much we have to sell is not part of the requirement, but we must participate.

If we have money left over at the end, we can always donate it to any number of good Girl Scout things like the Juliette Low fund that helps pay for travel by girls, or to one of the World Centers, or even to the Service Unit or to a Brownie troop that is starting up.