Your troop is "owned" by a chartered organization, which receives a national charter yearly to use the Scouting program as a part of its youth work. These chartered organizations, which have goals compatible with those of the Boy Scouts of America, include religious, educational, civic, fraternal, business, labor, governmental bodies, and professional associations.
Each chartered organization using the Scouting program provides a meeting
place, selects a Scoutmaster, appoints a troop committee of at least three adults, and chooses a chartered organization representative.
The Chartered Organization Representative:
- Is a member of the chartered organization
- Serves as head of "Scouting department" in the organization
- Secures a troop committee chair and encourages training
- Maintains a close liaison with the troop committee chair
- Helps recruit other adult leaders
- Serves as liaison between your troop and your organization
- Assists with unit rechartering
- Encourages service to the organization
- Is an active and involved member of the district committee
As the troop committee works on behalf of the chartered organization, your
troop must be operated within the organization's policies.
The chartered organization must also approve all adult leaders. The chartered
organization representative is your liaison to the troop's operating organization.
As a member of the chartered organization, that person will guide you on the
organization's policy. The representative will also know the most effective ways
to get the organization's assistance and maintain a mutually satisfactory working
relationship with the chartered organization.
In the chartered organization relationship, the Boy Scouts of America provides
the program and support services, and the chartered organization provides the
adult leadership and uses the program to accomplish its goals for youth.
The troop committee's primary responsibilities are supporting the Scoutmaster
in delivering quality troop program, and handling troop administration.