National_Service_Territories

Council Service Territories

Council Service Territories

Boy Scouts of America by region

The Council Service Territories are to successors of the Regions of the Boy Scouts of America. In June 2021, "National Service Territories" came into effect for the Boy Scouts of America. This affects how the BSA national office works with the local councils The transition from the four regions of the Boy Scouts of America to the sixteen National Service Territories were made as an effort to reduce staff and save costs. At the territory level, there is minimal staff and no board or committee structure.[1]

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In 2024, NSTs were renamed to Council Service Territories (CSTs) and several CST boundaries were updated. Additionally, CST 2 and CST 11 were merged into adjacent CSTs resulting in a total of 14 CSTs.[2]

Background

Until 2021, the operations of the Boy Scouts of America was divided into four regions for administrative purposes — Central, Southern, Western, and Northeast.[3] Each region was then subdivided into areas. Each region had a volunteer president, assisted by volunteer officers and board members, and the day-to-day work of Scouting was managed by the regional director, assistant and associate regional directors, and area directors. Regions and areas were subdivisions of the National Council and did not have a corporate status separate from the BSA.[4]

NST

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More information NST 9 17 councils, NST 10 14 councils ...
Key Factors of Restructuring
  1. Respect of council cultures and its volunteers, communities, state boundaries and natural geographic territories
  2. Business commerce, traffic/highway patterns, and future growth trends
  3. Optimize the level of service and support to local councils
Legend
C#/G# = Council Class/Grade[lower-alpha 1]

See also

Notes

  1. An explanation of class and grade may be found at Scout councils

References

  1. [1]
    "National Service Territory Maps". Boy Scouts of America. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Council Service Territories". scoutingalumni.org.
  3. [3]
    Nelson, Bill. "Organization of the Boy Scouts of America". U.S. Scouting Service Project. Archived from the original on February 15, 2008.
  4. [4]
    Rules and Regulations of the Boy Scouts of America. Boy Scouts of America. 1985.
  5. [5]
    "Churchill Plan Restructure of Councils by National Service Territories" (PDF). scouting.org.
  6. [6]
    "UNDERSTANDING THE CHURCHILL PLAN AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR SCOUTING". Scouting Wire. July 17, 2020.
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