Telephone Status 1 Dec 2021
Council service center 925-674-6100 PBX main number is working.
GGAC Professional Staff Directory December 2021
Professional staff directory with phone numbers and email links was updated 1 December 2021:
New GGAC office sites in November 2021
- Listed on GGAC home website 13 November 2021 at https://ggacbsa.org/ were:
Pleasant Hill Scout Shop
508 Contra Costa Blvd, Suite K2
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
(925) 674-8500
The store new site is located in the County Square shopping center which is north of the Target store on the same side of the street and just south of 2nd Avenue where the casino is located. The new site opened Monday, 15 Nov 2021 (per post on Facebook, Mon 11:16 am PST (UTC -8).
This Scout Shop is a national BSA Scout Shop. You can find other national Scout Shops by using the
- Scout Shop store locator: https://www.scoutshop.org/storelocator
GGAC Trading Posts planned
- New “Trading Posts” (mini-Scout Shops managed by the council) telephone plan (1 Dec 2021):
- Pleasanton Trading Post COMING SOON 925-674-6140
- Fairfield Trading Post COMING SOON 925-674-6166
- Alameda Trading Post COMING SOON 925-674-6130
GGAC Service Center
6601 Owens Drive, Suite 100
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 674-6100
The building is located with easy access from the 580 and 680 freeways, and is a short walk from the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station per GGAC 16 August 2021 eNews.
- Dublin / Pleasanton Station | bart.gov, 5801 Owens Drive, Pleasanton, CA
Outdoor Programs Office
1714 Everett Street
Alameda, CA 94501
(925) 674-6100
Telephone numbers are listed in the GGAC Staff directory for:
- Outdoor Programs Office
- Program Director
- Program Executive
- Program Assistant
- Camp Herms / Wolfeboro Ranger
- Camp Royaneh Ranger
- Wente Scout Reservation Ranger
Some previous news
- Office Sale Update (ggacbsa.org), May 2021
- San Leandro East Bay Scout Shop Closing (ggacbsa.org) - CLOSED 15 May 2021
Government and telephone company information
- Numbering Resources | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov)
- “Beginning October 24, 2021, consumers must dial 10-digits (area code + telephone number) for all local calls.” - planned date for implementation
- Telephone Consumer Guides | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov)
- Porting: Keeping Your Phone Number When You Change Providers | Federal Communications Commission
- https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ten-digit-dialing
- Affects area code 925.
- May require changes to council office PBX equipment or services.
- Area-Codes-N-America-by-State.pdf (att.com), 2017, old, incomplete
Telephone wireline service challenges
Local Wireline Area Codes
- Alameda has area codes 510 and 341 numbers
Old service center building
The old service center office building previously used by the Mt Diablo - Silverado Council (which became part of the new Golden Gate Area Council with the same council number “023”) and the nationally managed Scout Shop was located at:
800 Elllinwood Way, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523. phone (925) 674-6100
The Scout Shop may have had the address of “801 Elllinwood Way”.
The council service center has been closed over 6 months due to the pandemic with the professional staff working remotely at home or in the field.
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