range, full commercial kitchen, rock climbing wall, camp fire bowl and waterfront facilities. Marin Sierra hosts resident camp for Scouts BSA troops and Venture crews. The facility is also used year-round by various Scout units and is staffed by a full-time ranger. Camp Tamarancho located in Fairfax, CA. 412 acre camp available for year-round use, the camp has developed facilities including a full commercial kitchen, archery and rifle ranges, a chapel and both developed and primitive campsites. Tamarancho hosts BSA units from around Northern California as well as Marin Council programs such as Cub Scout day camp. The camp is staffed by a full time ranger. Surrounding the camp is one of the Bay Area’s largest network of maintained single-track mountain bike trails. Order of the Arrow Talako Lodge #533 Monterey Bay Area Council In July 2012, the Monterey Bay Area Council announced it would be merging with the Santa Clara County Council. Upon the departure of former Council Executive Albert Gallegos, the existing council board asked the Santa Clara County Council to operate the council while the merger is underway. The new combined council name has been selected to be the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council. The merger was finalized in December 2012. The Santa Clara County Council and the Monterey Bay Area Council share borders on two sides. The Santa Clara Council has successfully balanced its budget from 2002 to 2012 and has attracted new membership every month for nearly four years. It was recognized by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America as a Centennial Quality Council every year from 2006 and 2010 and was a Gold level Journey to Excellence Council in 2011. The Monterey Bay Area Council was on “conditional charters” during 2010 and 2011 and was given specific goals to balance its budget and increase its membership. The Council failed to reach those goals and in 2012 the national BSA gave the Monterey Bay Area Council a “transitional charter” and instructed it to seek a merger. The announcement attributed the merger in large part to more than a million dollars in debt accumulated by the Monterey Bay Area Council during the construction of a fish ladder and a new dining lodge at Camp Pico Blanco along with declining enrollment. In September 2012, the combined councils announced that over 75 names had been suggested by volunteers for the new council, and that from