2018 Annual Meeting

We’re getting ready for the 2018 Annual Council Meeting! It will be held Saturday, April 28, 2018, starting at 8 am at the Parsons Leadership Center at South Mountain. If you are a Girl Scout aged 14 and older, you can represent Pima at this meeting.  

We need 10 delegates for the meeting and priority will be given to those who have not attended in the past two years.  Girl members will be given priority over adult members. 

Please send your name, address, email address, phone number, and troop number to pima.neighborhood@gmail.com.

Deadline to sign up is February 5th.

Current seats remaining: 6

December Leader's Meeting

AGENDA

Leader Informaton
MSE Report -- Susan Rees

Babysitting List
Annual Meeting Delegates
E.L.F.

Events
Cookie Rally
Thinking Day
Spring Encampment
Camp B.A.S.I.C. 

Volunteering

Angel Tree — Diana 

Vista del Camino -- Susan V
Cookie Cupboard Staffing

Product Sales
Fall Product Sale -- Louise
Cookie Sales Q&A -- Teresa


UPCOMING EVENTS 

December 4: Leader's social at Goldies, 8:15 pm

Caroling --  December 10 -- Maddie 

Cookie Rally -- January 12 -- Marilyn/Maria

**Sleeping Beauty, Fountain Hills Theater -- February 18/February 24 (SOLD OUT!) -- Diana, 2256 
Thinking Day -- February 25 -- Diana, 2256
Encampment -- March 2-4 -- Lee, 2010

Brownie Father/Daughter Dance -- April 6 -- Troop 231

Leader's Gala -- April 2 -- Michelle, Diana, and Pat (Note date was incorrect)
Camp B.A.S.I.C. -- April 14-15 -- Lee, 2010
Neighborhood Cruise to Alaska -- June 3-10 -- Teresa
Day Camp: Myths and Legends -- June 25-29 -- Troop 2256 (Date Set)

Camp Basic 2018

Camp B.A.S.I.C.

Brownie-Aged Skills and Interest Camping

April 14-15, 2018  

WHO: Brownie troops and any first-time campers, grades 2-5.

Learn how to camp and have fun!

Fire Safety Tents

Outdoor Cooking SWAPS

Knife Safety Knots

Leave No Trace Songs

and more!

WHERE

Usury Mountain Park, north of Mesa.

WHEN

Saturday April 15 to Sunday April 16.

Campers will arrive at noon on Saturday and leave at 10am on Sunday.

COST

$37 until Feb 5, which includes all meals, snacks, lodging, training, SWAPS, crafts, and patch.

Late Registration until March 15:  $47 (if space is available).  Sorry, no refunds can be issued.

TO REGISTER

Fill out the Camp B.A.S.I.C. online registration form.    

Submit a roster of all attendees (including adults), emergency contacts for each, and age of girls plus payment (checks to Pima Neighborhood) to:   Lee, c/o RSI, PO Box 22400, Tempe AZ 85285-2400.  

Camp B.A.S.I.C. is sponsored by Troop 2010 and is staffed by Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scouts.  Please contact Troop 2010 at gstrp2010@gmail.com with any questions.

Spring Encampment Spring Camp!

PIMA NEIGHBORHOOD ENCAMPMENT 

When: March 2-4, 2018
What: Camping and fun in the pines!  
Where: Camp Maripai, outside Prescott
Who: Camp Overnight:  3rd+ grade and 
                1st/2nd grade leaders and daughters; 
                Saturday Day Only:  1st/2nd grade troops   
Cost: $38 per person (+program fees). 
        $15 for Saturday only (no meals)

Registration deadline: Jan 8. Late Registration until Feb 5: $48. Space is limited--first come, first served!

We are having our Spring Neighborhood Encampment at Camp Maripai, our Girl Scout camp located near Prescott, about 1.5-2 hours from Scottsdale.  It's a beautiful camp.  You'll love it!  

Program Opportunities:  Our Camp will be themed around Sustainability and Pirates.  Arrrrr!(Get it:  The 5 R’s ?) The wide game on Saturday morning will have games and crafts.  The afternoon is open for your own troop's activities, so you can take a hike, work on a badge, prepare gourmet meals, or even give your girls some down time.  Whatever you wish!  Archery ($6) for girls 4th and up is available.  We'll have a campfire Saturday night.  

Meals:   We will serve Saturday Breakfast, Saturday Dinner, and Sunday Breakfast in the lodge.  All troops will cook Friday Dinner and Saturday Lunch and any snacks they want.  Feel free to buddy up with another troop!  This is a great bridging or friendship building opportunity.

Accommodations:  There are various cabins and buildings for us to stay in, each of which accommodate a different number of people.  Some buildings have beds, some have only mattresses.  Sites will be assigned beforehand.

Swaps:  Once again, we will have a swap exchange. Please prepare your swaps around the camp theme or a wilderness/camping/outdoors theme. We suggest that each girl bring at least ten swaps, but that's up to you and your troop.   

Required Training:  All troops must have a troop First Aider with current First aid and CPR cards and a TCC person (Troop Camp Certification Levels 1 and 2).  (Leaders attending with just their daughters are exempt.  If you’re having trouble getting a TCC person, let us know.)

To Sign Up:  Please fill out the registration form.  

More information:  See the general encampment packet (camp rules, directions, schedule, etc.), and the Camp Maripai map.  Also, don’t forget to send Lee your check and Roster/Car Form and submit your Troop Trip Form to Susan R.  Troop camping assignments will be available a week or two before the encampment.  

Cupboard Guidelines

Some Rules...

• You may not pick up your initial order at a cupboard. If you did not place a pre-order, you must go to the council warehouse to do that.
• You must pick up by the case only.
• You may NOT return cookies to the cupboard nut you may trade in any of the $5 varieties and you may exchange damaged boxes and cases.
• Toffee-tastics and Smores may not be traded in for other flavors.
• Please place your cupboard order in eBudde before you go to the cupboard.  Please do not place orders more than 48 hours in advance.
• You must have your eBudde password when you go to the cookie cupboard. You cannot pick up cookies without it.
• Cupboards *may* limit the number of cases per troop.

Cookie Booths

DO

• Enter all your self-scheduled booths into eBudde for approval.
• Cancel any booths that you will not use.  If you can't make a booth offer it to a fellow Pima troop onf Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/pimags/ or send a note to Pima Neighborhood before cancelling so we can keep the booth in our neighborhood. 
• Bring your own equipment and supplies (a SMALL table, tape, carts, signs, etc).
• Talk to parents and girls about expectations and behavior.
• Wear Girl Scout identification. You will do better at a booth if your girls wear matching/troop tshirts with vests/sashes.  The more professional you look, the better you will do.
• Have girl health forms with you, as well as a MS-27 emergency card for reference. http://www.girlscoutsaz.org/content/dam/girlscoutsaz/documents/forms/ms-27-emergency-procedures.pdf
• Take written proof of booth scheduling from eBudde with you.
• Take a signed agreement to AJs or Basha's to give to the manager. 
• Arrive five minutes before your booth start and leave promptly when your time is over.
• Check in and out with the store manager and give him/her a thank you note.
• Follow store set-up rules.
• Follow any directions given to you by the store managers and employees.
• Be polite to customers, store employees, fellow Girl Scouts, and adult volunteers at all times but particularly if you encounter a confrontational situation.
• Keep less than $100 in your cash box.
• Leave the booth space cleaner than you found it. Take all your trash with you, especially your empty cases.

DON'T

• Do not contact Basha's, Food City, AJ's, Walmart, Sam's Club, Albertson's, Safeway, Fry's, Target, or ASU.  Booths for these places are only scheduled by council and are available via Ebudde.
• Don't booth at locations that are not girl appropriate such as marijuana dispensaries or bars.
• Do not fill store garbage cans with empty boxes.  Take them with you.
• Do not sit on or use store merchandise (for example, do not sit on patio furniture that is for sale).
• Do not use store property (for example, do not use store carts and do not sit on store furniture that is intended for their customers' use).
• Do not eat or allow your girls to eat at a cookie booth.
• Do not let girls sing, shout, or chant.
• Do not bring bags from other stores to a booth. (No Fry's bags at Walmart, for example).
• Do not block the door.
• Do not bring non-Girl Scout friends and/or siblings.
• Do not staff your booth with more than four girls at a time.
• Do not take bills over $20.
• Do not take checks.
• Do not ask store managers to mediate any conflict.
• Do not argue in front of customers, girls, or store employees.

LINKS

More Boothing Guidelines

Booth Worksheet
Basha's/AJ Agreement

November Agenda

AGENDA

Enrichment: National Convention Recap (short version: it was AMAZING!)

Leader Informaton
E.L.F.
MSE Report -- Susan Rees

Recaps: Encampment, Birthday party, Songfest

Volunteering

Angel Tree — Diana 

Vista del Camino -- Susan V
Super Troop Tshirt -- deadline is 11/7

Events
Caroling -- Maddie
Older Girl Safety Talk -- Diana
Father/Daughter Dance? Other Events?

Product Sales
Fall Product Sale -- Louise
Cookie Sign Up and Training -- Teresa
---Advice for training?

UPCOMING EVENTS 

November 6: Leader's social at Goldies, 8:15 pm

Caroling --  December 10 -- Maddie 
Cookie Rally -- January 12 -- Marilyn/Maria

**Sleeping Beauty, Fountain Hills Theater -- February 18/February 24 (SOLD OUT!) -- Diana, 2256 
Thinking Day -- February 25 -- Diana, 2256
Encampment -- March 2-4 -- Lee, 2010
Leader's Gala -- April 7 -- Michelle, Diana, and Pat
Camp B.A.S.I.C. -- April 14-15 -- Lee, 2010
Neighborhood Cruise to Alaska -- June 3-10 -- Teresa
Day Camp: Myths and Legends -- June -- Troop 2256