Here is what helped make Dan Beard District a Quality District in 1999:
Executive - Our annual District Planning Retreat was attended by 17 Scouters.
Commissioner's Area - 100% of our units re-chartered on time. More than 69% of our units were Quality Units. The Unit Commissioner staff has increased by 10. We have 83 units now; 36 Packs, 36 Troops, 8 Venture Crews and 3 Varsity Teams.
Membership - We formed 4 new Packs, 2 new Troops and 3 new Venture units. Our Spring and Fall Roundups signed up 337 Cubs, 44 Scouts & 2 Venture Scouts. We had 1 Pack drop from our rolls in November 1999. We have a total membership as of September 2000 of 1463 Cubs, 974 Scouts and Varsity members and 71 Crew members, for a total membership of 2508, versus 2629 in September of 1999.
Camping - Our Spring Boy Scout Camporee had more than 600 Scouts from 32 units in attendance. Our Spring Cub Scout Camporee had more than 500 from 18 Packs in attendance. Our Cub Day Camp was held over 2 weeks, (the 2nd week was for the Year-Round schoolers) and had more than 450 Cubs and Webelos in attendance. We think that at least 50% of our BS Troops attended one or more Summer Camps.
Eagle Board of Review - The District Eagle Board reviewed 52 Eagle Projects and completed 42 final Eagle Board of Reviews for the Eagle Rank.
Training - Our District Cub BLT's trained more than 90 new Cub Scout leaders and 84 of them were from Dan Beard. Our Tri-district Scout SMF's trained 126 new Boy Scout leaders and 62 of them were from Dan Beard. More than 80 of our district's adult volunteer leaders earned various types of training awards.
Advancement - About 800 Cubs and 600 Boy Scouts earned advancements this year.
Finance - For the first time in many years we fell short of reaching the goal of $70,000 by at least $3,000; nevertheless, the amount raised was the most ever in the district and the most by any district in the council. 44 units sold more than $263,000 worth of popcorn, almost 1/4 of the total sales for our Council. We were the top selling District for the 13th time out of the 15 years of the popcorn sales.
Activities and Civic Service - At our 19th Annual Recognition Event 30 adult Scout leaders received the Distinguished Leadership Citation and 4 Scouters received the District Award of Merit. 90 Scouting Religious Awards were recognized, along with the 56 Boy Scouts that had earned the Eagle Rank. Two of our District Scouters received the Silver Beaver Award.
Our Scouting For Food Good-Turn had 12 units involved and they collected more than 3400 pounds of food which was distributed to 5 local food distribution agencies. Our 2000 Annual Uniform Sale netted over $200 in profits.
The 2000 Mall Expo was held at Cary Towne Center with 6 Packs, 8 Troops and 1 Post attending, with a total attendance of about 300 Scouts and Scouters. The District Pinewood Derby had a total of 26 Packs entered; 39 Tigers, 60 Cubs and 60 Webelos entered cars in the race and design contests.
The annual Round Table Kick-off dinner had more than 65 Scouters in attendance.
Order of the Arrow - About 123 Scouts and Scouters were elected to the OA.
Audio-video - Our http://www.bsa.net/occo/danbeard website was updated and has had more than 300 visitors since May of 2000. Our video tape libraries loaned out more than 29 tapes to 21 units for training purposes.
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