Monterey Bay Area Council
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | San Jose, California | ||
| Location | Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County, San Benito County, Monterey County | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Coordinates | 37°19′59″N 121°54′34″W / 37.333113°N 121.909557°W | ||
| Founded | August 20, 1920 | ||
| Founder | John Crummey, Robert Bentley, Jr., Archer Bowden | ||
| Scout Executive | Jason Stein | ||
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Website svmbc.org |
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| Monterey Bay Area Council (#025) | |||
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Salinas, California | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Founded | 1933 | ||
| Defunct | 2012 | ||
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Website http://mbacbsa.org |
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Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council (#055), the result of a council merger between the Santa Clara County Council and the Monterey Bay Area Council, is a Boy Scouts of America council headquartered in San Jose, California. In 2004, the previous two councils served over 11,000 youth in over 400 Boy Scout troops, Cub Scout packs, Venturing crews, and Explorer posts. In 2012, the Monterey Bay Area Council announced that after 89 years as a separate council, it had agreed to merge back into the Santa Clara County Council. As of 2013[update], the council served 23,000 youth in four different counties.
The council is divided into districts:
The San Jose Council of the Boy Scouts of America was founded on August 20, 1920 by John Crummey (president of Bean Spray and Pump Company, later known as Food Machinery Corporation), Robert Bentley, Jr. (president of Muirson Label Company) and Archer Bowden (San Jose attorney). Bentley served as the first council president, Julius Rainwater was the first scout executive, and Edmund Richmond was the first council commissioner.
In 1922, the council changed its name to Santa Clara County Council, and took over administration for all of Santa Clara County. The council was incorporated in 1923, and oversight of San Benito County was added the same year. Monterey and Santa Cruz counties were added in 1927.
In 1933 San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties were split off to form the Monterey Bay Area Council. In 1939 the area around Palo Alto split off to form its own council, the now-defunct Stanford Area Council. That council, which had been one of the smaller BSA councils in the nation by area, merged with San Mateo County Council in the 1990s to form Pacific Skyline Council.
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