Historically, BSA has always struggled to make payroll. BSA's membership peaked in 1973. It's been declining ever since. During the 1990s it made the administrative decision to consolidate/merge local councils to decrease headcount and sell-off surplus under utilized properties. I believe I read somewhere that the actual BSA employment is around 3,000 - and that is across the nation in all of the local councils plus the National office in Irving.
... did they ALL get to vote at the meeeting in Irving? Or was only a portion of the regional representatives actually there and able to vote? Just wondering if the executive council votes really outweighed the “regular” people from the regional areas?
That information has not come out yet. It may not ever. Can't even estimate what % of the ~1,400 delegates showed up to cast their vote. The main point is that the delegates from the local councils were way in the majority over the National Executive Board members. The National Executive Committee worked very hard to lobby these delegates to vote FOR the resolution.
The meeting was actually held in Grapevine.