Funds for scouts unequal
Boys get more than girls
By BARBARA FRICKE
Special to The Battalion
There are more girls than boys
in scouting in the Brazos County
area. Yet the Boy Scouts get
$3,600 more than the Girl Scouts
from the Bryan-Brazos County
United Way and College Station
United Fund.
Marilyn Randall, Girl Scout
district adviser, said there are
nearly 1,100 registered Girl
Scouts in Brazos County alone.
The Boy Scout enrollment in
Brazos County and in parts of
Burleson, Robertson, Grimes
and Madison counties reaches
about 1,000, said Omar Smith,
Boy Scout district chairman.
Marianna Bond, executive
secretary of the United Way,
says the Boy Scouts of America
will receive $18,300 this year
from the Bryan-Brazos County
Fund and $5,000 from the Col
lege Station Fund. The
Bluebonnet Girl Scout Council
will get $13,700 from Bryan-
Brazos County and $6,000 from
College Station.
Randall voiced a concern say
ing the Girl Scouts are depen
dent on the United Fund money
for their programming. She
added that the amount appropri
ated is only about half of what
was requested.
The Boy Scouts also will get
less than they requested. Smith
said the difference is about
$6,000 or $7,000 between the
amounts requested and appro
priated. To balance the totals as
in past years, the Boy Scouts will
conduct their “Friends of Scout
ing” drive, he said.
“We go back to past scouters
and others interested in scouting
to raise what we’re short,” Smith
said. He added the drive is usu
ally very successful.
Both Randall and Smith ex
plained that the money, funded
and raised, goes directly to their
district councils. The councils
provide the majority of pro
gramming and training for the
scouts in the county and pay for
any professional personnel. Indi
vidual scout units usually have
small dues that pay for their spe
cific unit activities.
Judy Rychlik, president of the
Bryan-Brazos County United
Way, said the fact that the Boy
Scouts receive money than the
Girl Scouts has always been a
controversy.
‘T don’t know, but I think way
back they decided the little boys
needed more money for their
programs than the little girls,”
she said. Whatever the reason,
the practice has continued ever
since.
Rychlik explained that the
10-12 member Budget and Ad
missions Committee appropriat
ing the fund has been working in
recent years to balance the dif
ference. The Girl Scout appro
priation has increased from 1977-
78 to 1978-79 by 9.6 percent,
while the Boy Scouts will receive
only 5.7 percent more money,
she said.
“Our thinking is that it will
even itself out,” Rychlik said.
She said it would not be fair to
the young people already in
volved in the Boy Scouts to cut
their funding and give the extra
money to the girls. Such a cut
would decrease the boys’ pro
gramming drastically, making it
impossible to have activities for
even the present membership.
The Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts, as well as other agencies,
do not get the requested funding
for several reasons, Rychlik said.
These groups are like any other
organizations or people — they
probably ask for more than
needed, she said.
Rychlik explained that each
requesting agency must fill out
financial forms explaining budget
requirements and program forms
explaining service in the com
munity when applying for funds.
Then a representative from each
agency appears before the board
for an interview.
The committee members’ de
cisions are based on three
criteria, Rychlik said.
First, they consider the serv
ice the agency renders to the
Brazos County community.
There is no real concern about
what the group does elsewhere.
Then the organization’s re
sponsibility is studied. Each
agency must show prudence in
its management of financing and
programming.
“We don’t want them going
hog-wild,” Rychlik said.
Finally the committee deter
mines appropriations according
to money availability. Rychlik
said the committee makes a
realistic guess of how much
money can be raised in the area
based on how much was col
lected in previous years.
When considering these as
pects, Rychlik said committee
members often discover pro
gramming problems that could
be improved within the agencies
themselves. She explained that
the members would like to point
out these problem areas, but
they want the agencies to re
quest the information.
To increase the efficiency of
the United Fund, Rychlik ex
pressed her desire for a single,
county-wide drive. As it is now,
one community waits to see how
much the other is going to give
before pledging an amount, she
said. This causes delay and con
fusion.
She added that a country-wide
drive and fund would eliminate
“one community carrying the ball
for the other.”
According to figures from the
agencies, Rychlik said 59 percent
of the Brazos County Girl Scouts
are from the Bryan area and the
other 41 percent live in College
Station. Yet Bryan gives 69.4
percent of the funding, while
College Station gives 30.6 per
cent, she said.
The funding and membership
percentages for the Boy Scouts
are closer, Rychlik said. While
79.4 percent of the Boy Scouts
live in Bryan, 20.6 percent live
in College Station. She said 77
percent of the funds come from
the Bryan area. The remaining
23 percent is supplied by College
Station.
Beer smashed,
fizzled at dump
United Press International
RIFLE, Colo. — It wasn’t easy for some of the spectators to watch
a huge yellow bulldozer crunching 1,077 cases of perfectly good beer
at the city dump.
The beer was smoke-damaged in a recent fire at a Glenwood
Springs warehouse. The contents of the cans and bottles were not
damaged, but the manufacturers refused to allow the tarnished Con
tainers to be sold.
Officials said in order for the distributor to recover taxes already
paid, amounting to about half the cost of the beer, the brew had to be
destroyed in the presence of an agent of the federal Division of Al
cohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
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