Details about Elections to Lenapehoking IX can be found at http://bit.ly/LodgeIXElections

Each year, upon holding a troop or team election for youth candidates that results in at least one youth candidate being elected, the unit committee may nominate registered unit adults (age 21 or over) to the lodge adult selection committee. The number of adults nominated can be no more than one-third of the number of youth candidates elected, rounded up where the number of youth candidates is not a multiple of three. In addition to the one-third limit, the unit committee may nominate the currently-serving unit leader (but not assistant leaders), as long as he or she has served as unit leader for at least the previous 12 months. Recommendations of the adult selection committee, with the approval of the Scout executive, serving as Supreme Chief of the Fire, will be candidates for induction, provided all conditions are fulfilled.

The camping requirement set forth for youth candidates must be fulfilled by adults for them to be considered. To be eligible, the adult must have completed 15 days and nights of Boy Scout camping during the two-year period prior to nomination. The 15 days and nights must include one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of six consecutive days and five nights of resident camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of the BSA. The balance must be overnight, weekend, or other short-term camps. Include above the dates and location of the resident camping experience.

For 2021 completing this form is the ONLY way adults can be nominated to the Lodge Adult Selection Committee.  Paper forms WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED whether scanned and emailed, snail-mailed, handed in at the Council Service Center, handed to a Chapter Officer or Adviser, handed to a member of the Unit Elections Team, etc.  

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:

Submitting a nomination form is not a guarantee of being selected to become an OA member as an adult.  It is good practice not to let the adult candidate know you are submitting the nomination.

- The omission of information in any cell of the form will result in the candidate not being submitted for review.
- Cutting and pasting the same verbiage into adjacent cells will result in the nomination being rejected.
- Dates are required for the long-term camping requirement
- Dates are not required for the short-term camping requirement, just descriptive text.
- WE ALL are doing our best to live our lives by the Scout Oath and Law,,,,, what is it beyond that, that identifies that this adult should become an OA member? Give some thought to those questions on the form.
- The candidate must be over 21 Years of age, otherwise they are considered a young-adult or a youth.
- The Unit must have had an OA election with at least one youth being elected
- ONLY the Unit Leader or Committee Chair can submit an adult nomination
- You cannot nominate yourself.

Any questions about this policy should be directed to Lodge Adviser Steve Leonardi (lodgeadviser@oaix.nnjbsa.org)