Anyone used their bus to haul Boy Scouts?

[lostagain]

I would stay away! Let them hire a commercial charter company. If anything happened while they are on your bus, you would be in deep poopoo. The kids parents have friends that are lawyers, and they will be all over you.

JC

[belfert]

I donated a lot of time,money,machinery and labor to BSA at the Zink ranch in Ok then one day it stopped for me when I found out they paid the CEO over $1,500,000 a year that one just took my breath away

The actual salary of the CEO of Boy Scouts of America is about $600,000.  It is on the high side, but not overly excessive for the total budget of the organization.  The reason for the high salary for the one year for the CEO was that was the year he retired and most of his retirement funds were included in the reported $1.5 million amount.  I read at one website that the CEO of the Boy Scouts is paid less as a percentage of expenses than most non-profit CEOs.

I've worked with a lot of the Scout professionals from the local council and they are paid a mere pittance.  Most only stay a few years because they are worked to death and the pay is so little.  They work in the office during the day and most of them attend Scouting functions at least a few nights a week.

I did 50 hours of construction work at a local Scout camp this past summer and I'll do it again next summer.  They could not survive without volunteer labor.  Boy Scout summer camps are some of the least expensive around.  Our troop charged $290 for a week of summer camp this summer.  The fee included bus to/from camp, food, lodging, and program.  I was astounded to read an ad for some other summer camp that charged over $1,000 a week!

[luvrbus]

Brian, I just read the Scouting News web in 2009 the BSA  CEO was the 5th highest paid in that class salary of 1,577,660.00 a year pretty good huh

[belfert]

I can guarantee they won't be hiring a charter company.  They don't have anywhere close to enough attendees to afford a charter bus.  The other alternative they are looking at is renting a 12 passenger van. Flying hasn't been ruled out, but the cost of the shuttle from the nearest large airport and the baggage fee make that a costly option.  Denver and Albuquerque are the suggested airports, but they are both over 200 miles away.

Like I said before I think the idea of using my bus probably isn't going to work.  I've driven Scouts in my personal vehicles dozens or hundreds of times and liability has never even entered my mind.  I do have auto insurance that far exceeds the BSA requirements.

[belfert]

Brian, I just read the Scouting News web in 2009 the BSA  CEO was the 5th highest paid in that class salary of 1,577,660.00 a year pretty good huh

2007 was the year the Boy Scouts CEO retired and his retirement benefits were included in the $1.5 million he was paid that year.  His actual salary that year was right around $405,000 because he retired in September 2007.  The issue didn't become big news until 2009 when some organization compiled non-profit CEO salary data from 2007 Form 990s filed with the IRS.  If my employer included the value of my pension in my reported salary for my last year of work my pay would look awfully high too.