{"id":20143,"date":"2025-02-10T23:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T22:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20143"},"modified":"2025-02-14T23:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:28:22","slug":"daily_3632_-_scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/daily_3632_-_scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3632 &#8211; scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3632_scouts.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nSp\u00e5nga scout club annual general meeting. An hour and a half of the kind of unexciting formality that is nevertheless absolutely necessary for democracy: approving the profit and loss statement and balance sheet, electing new board members, voting on a budget. I&#8217;m continuing in my role as (unelected) accounting assistant. I&#8217;d go nuts if I had to sit in regular board meetings and debate or spearhead projects, but I am happy to contribute in this kind of routine, introverted way.<\/p>\n<p>Sp\u00e5nga scout club is one of the largest in Sweden (someone mentioned we might be #3?) so keeping the ship going is a fair bit of work. My role didn&#8217;t even exist before I took it on: the (elected) treasurer used to do alone what is now split between three people. Now we have one treasurer who thinks about finances on a strategic level and sits on the board, one accounting assistant (me) who does the day-to-day grunt work of accounting and paying bills, and one person who deals with applying for various state and local grants to keep us afloat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sp\u00e5nga scout club annual general meeting. An hour and a half of the kind of unexciting formality that is nevertheless absolutely necessary for democracy: approving the profit and loss statement and balance sheet, electing new board members, voting on a budget. I&#8217;m continuing in my role as (unelected) accounting assistant. I&#8217;d go nuts if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20144,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions\/20144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}