This maybe calls for a little backstory: I heard a rumor that the prior Cubmaster and his wife bought a Domain. Namely, VPpack122.org. I guess they bought it years ago with the best intentions of publishing on that domain. Interesting fact, they were at least the 2nd set of people who tried to publish a site with the first group being this site: sites.google.com/site/vpscoutspack122 which really needs to be taken down but we can't get a hold of the owners. I've put Kelly on that task.

Well initially the email address associated with VPpack122.org was free but a couple years ago Google started charging for Google Workspace accounts if they weren't a non-for-profit. the owner of the site didn't want to pay $5 / month (per user I might add) for an email address that was unused so she turned it off. She was happy to pay the $12 per year for the domain but an extra $60 seemed like a waste to her. Frankly, I agree. I saw her earlier this year and she told me she has this domain and she wanted to hand it off.

Well I built the rough site in Google Sites so that future generations would be able to edit it easily but I wasn't able to convince the committee that my vision of having a complete technology suite, was a good one so I was met with a hesitation. It sounded like, I don't want to burden the Cub Scouts with big bills in the future. So I set off on a solution. and found it with Google for Nonprofits.

I believe I launched the site that currently resides at sites.google.com/view/pack122 about a year ago. Its taken me this full year to get to today but today I was able to sit down with St. Alexander Church office staff and work through the verification process to get us registered. I've requested a token and within 3 weeks I should be ready to go realizing my full gambit of email addresses so transfering leadership to future generations is easier.