Nisha Kittan Lodge Resources and Data
Nisha Kittan Lodge By-Laws
Nisha Kittan Lodge is proud of our history in Scouting, carrying that timeline is a list of procedures and rules that the Lodge Executive Committee votes on. This document is the foundation for how Nisha Kittan operates, you can find those By-Laws below!
LEC Minutes
In Nisha Kittan lodge we have a monthly meeting known as the LEC (Lodge Executive Committee), following those meetings we publish our “Minutes” which establishes a historical reference for the discussion and voted on items by our Youth LEC representatives. You can find the newest publications of our LEC Minutes below!
Unit Elections
Nisha Kittan Lodge ask for it’s units to complete elections from March 1st – May 15th, for the requirement and helpful resources about conducting a unit election please open the drop down menu below!
Qualifications for Election
Youth Candidates are designated as those under 21 years of age. Adult candidates are 21 or older at the time of election.
Unit elections are permitted in Scouts BSA, Venturing, and Sea Scout units. The Order of the Arrow membership requirements are as follows:
- Be a registered member of the Boy Scouts of America.
- Have experienced 15 nights of Scout camping while registered with a troop, crew, or ship within the two years immediately prior to the election. The 15 nights must include one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of at least five consecutive nights of overnight camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of the Boy Scouts of America. Only five nights of the long-term camp may be credited toward the 15-night camping requirement; the balance of the camping (10 nights) must be overnight, weekend, or other short-term camps of, at most, three nights each. Ship nights may be counted as camping for Sea Scouts.
- At the time of their election, youth must be under the age of 21, and hold one of the following ranks corresponding to the type unit in which they are being considered for election: Scouts BSA First Class rank, the Venturing Discovery Award, or the Sea Scout Ordinary rank or higher, and following approval by the Scoutmaster, Crew Advisor or Sea Scout Skipper, be elected by the youth members of their unit.
- Adults (age 21 or older) who meet the camping requirements may be selected following nomination to and approval by the lodge adult selection committee.
National Order of the Arrow has published several helpful documents and videos to assist you in carring out your unit elections, please review the material below!
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