About Us
Chief Tarhe District Information
The Chief Tarhe District is one of thirteen districts in the Simon Kenton Council which encompasses over twenty counties in central and southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. Chief Tarhe is based in Lancaster, Ohio and serves the youth of Fairfield and Hocking Counties with fifty-one Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Venture units. The Chief Tarhe District serves the suburban areas of Lancaster, Logan, Baltimore, Carroll, Canal Winchester, Lithopolis, Bremen, Sugar Grove, Pleasantville and Millersport.
Boy Scouts of America Organization
The Simon Kenton Council is one of over 300 local councils within the Boy Scouts of America. Its council number is 441 and it is part of Area 4 of the Central Region. The image below illustrates the breakout of Scouting Regions:
The BSA is divided into four regions and each region is divided into areas. Regions and areas are subdivisions of the National Council and do not have a corporate status separate from the BSA. The BSA program is administered through local councils, with each council covering a geopolitical area that may vary in size. Councils receive an annual charter from the National Council and are usually incorporated as a charitable organization.
The council level organization is similar to that of the National Council. The council executive board is headed by the council president and is made up of annually elected local community leaders. The board establishes the council program and carries out the resolutions, policies, and activities of the council. Board members serve without pay and some are volunteer Scouters working at the unit level. Youth members may be selected to the council executive board according to the council by-laws.
Councils are divided into districts with leadership provided by the district executive, district chairman, and the district commissioner. Districts are directly responsible for the operation of Scouting units and, except for the district executive, are mostly staffed with volunteers. The voting members of each district consist of volunteer representatives from each chartered organization having at least one BSA unit, plus annually elected members-at-large who in turn elect the district chairman. Boroughs and districts are subdivisions of the local council and do not have a separate corporate status.
The unit is the main operating group of the BSA. Units use different names for each membership level—Cub Scouts are organized as packs, Boy Scouts as troops, Varsity Scouts as teams, Ventures as crews, and Sea Scouts as ships.
Each unit is operated by a community-based organization such as a business, service organization, school, labor group, or religious institution that has applied for and received an annual charter from the BSA. This chartered organization is responsible for selecting leadership, providing a meeting place, and promoting a good program. The chartered organization representative is the manager of Scouting in a chartered organization and serves as a liaison between the unit, the chartered organization, and the BSA. Chartered organizations use the Scouting program to support the goals and objectives of the organization.
