Tucker Romagnoli
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Eagle Scout service project · Boy Scouts of America, Troop 67 · Oct 2024 – Feb 2025

Eagle Scout Project

A barren parking island at a local VFW post, and a forgotten, broken flag retirement mailbox from an earlier Eagle Scout project. I planned and led the work to turn them into a landscaped drop-off with a poured concrete pad, the restored mailbox, and a plaque.

My role
Project lead: the proposal, plan, budget, crew and final report
Crew
A team of 3 for all the physical work
Budget
$450
When
Oct 2024 – Feb 2025
Work
Digging, framing, stone base, poured concrete, mulching, installing the mailbox and plaque
The restored mailbox, painted red, white and blue and labeled Flag Drop Box, standing on a new concrete pad with a small plaque, in a mulched island with snow piled at the edges
Finished, with the plaque installed, Feb 2025.
1,200+American flags honorably retired
$450Budget planned and managed
Eagle ScoutScouting's highest rank, earned after 13 years

How it came together

  1. Plan it

    Devised and planned a service project: renovating the parking island and presenting a flag retirement mailbox.

    The starting point: a forgotten, broken Eagle project.
    A bare, weedy parking island edged with stone, beside parked cars
    A barren parking island.
    A worn mailbox painted with stars and stripes, its door hanging open, leaning against a wall
    The old mailbox, before.

  2. Build it

    Led and managed a team of 3 for all physical work. Removed layers of hardset to build and set in a frame for the pedestal, and mulched the island. Laid stone and concrete before installing the mailbox and plaque.

    Three people working in the parking island, digging around a square wooden frame
    A square hole dug into dark soil between shrubs, with a shovel at the edge
    A wooden form filled with gray crushed stone, next to a concrete mixing tub
    A smooth wet concrete pad setting inside its wooden form

    Completed the concrete platform after constructing a frame, then pouring stones before concrete.

  3. Document it

    Extensively documented each step, including the project proposal, the plan and budget, and the final report reviewed by Council, resulting in earning Eagle Scout and honorably retiring 1,200+ American flags.

    The restored red and white mailbox bolted onto the finished concrete pad, with fresh mulch and a stepping stone in front
    Installed on the new pad, Dec 2024.

More photos

Someone in a gray hoodie bent over a bucket, finishing the edge of the new concrete pad