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QUALIFICATIONS
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The Troop Treasurer must meet BSA membership
requirements, be at least 21 years of age, and register with
the Boy Scouts of America as an adult leader.
The Troop Treasurer is selected by the troop committee,
with the approval of the charter organization.
Complete troop committee Fast Start Training, Youth Protection Training, New Leader Essentials and Troop Committee Challenge.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
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- Help the troop committee and Scoutmaster establish a
sound financial program for the troop with a troop budget
plan.
- Open or maintain a bank account in the troop's name
and arrange for all transactions to be signed by any two
of the Scoutmaster, troop committee chair, secretary, or
treasurer.
- Approve all budget expenditures. Check all
disbursements against budget allowances, and pay bills by
check. The troop committee chair must approve bills
before payment.
- Collect dues from patrol leaders at the troop PLC
meeting, preferably 'in sealed patrol dues envelopes.
Open envelopes in the presence of patrol leaders. Give
receipts for these funds, and deposit the money in the
bank account.
- Keep up-to-date financial records. Enter all income
and expenditures under the proper budget item in the
finance section of the Troop Record Book. Credit each Boy
Scout with payment of dues. From time to time, compare
the records with those of the patrol leaders to make sure
they agree. Give leadership in developing a coordinated
record-keeping system in the troop.
- Be responsible for thrift training within the troop.
Encourage each patrol leader to explain the troop
financial plan to each boy and his family so that boys
will accept responsibility for paying dues and family
members will be alert to opportunities for boys to earn
dues money and develop habits of thrift.
- On the request of patrol leaders, sympathetically
counsel with a boy who does not pay dues, determine the
reason, and encourage regular payment. If the boy is
unable to pay, work out a plan with the Scoutmaster and
troop committee so that the boy can earn dues.
- Report on the troop's financial condition at the
monthly PLC meeting. Make regular monthly reports to the
troop committee on the financial condition of the
troop.
- Provide petty cash needed by leaders. Keep a record
of expenditures.
- Guide the troop in conducting council-approved troop
money-earning projects.
- Train and supervise the troop scribe in record
keeping.
- Keep adequate records in the Troop/Team Record
Book.
- Supervise the camp savings plan.
- Lead in the preparation of the annual troop
budget.
- Report to the troop at each meeting
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