Here is what helped make Dan Beard District a Quality District in 2000:
Executive - Our annual District Planning Retreat was attended by 16 Scouters.
Commissioner's Area - 98% of our units re-chartered on time. More than 76% of our units were Quality Units. The Unit Commissioner staff has increased by 2. We have 84 units now; 36 Packs, 36 Troops, 9 Venture Crews and 3 Varsity Teams.
Membership - Last year we formed 1 new Pack, 1 new Troop and 1 new Venture unit. Our Spring and Fall Roundups signed up 662 Cubs, 24 Scouts & 5 Venture Scouts. We had 2 Packs and 2 Crews drop out last year. Our total membership is approximately 1356 Cubs, 1060 Scouts and Varsity and 66 Crew members, for a total of 2482 in 84 units, versus 2508 in 83 units in September of 2000.
Camping - Our Spring Boy Scout Camporee was attended by 500 Scouts and 140 Scouters from 29 Troops. Our Spring Cub Family Campout had about 800 Cubs and Scouters from about 18 Packs attending. Our Cub Day Camp was held during 2 weeks and had more than 285 Cubs and Webelos in attendance. We think that at least 70% of our BS Troops attended one or more Summer Camps.
Eagle Board of Review - The District Eagle Board reviewed 86 Eagle Projects and approved 66 Boy Scouts for advancement to the Eagle Rank.
Training - Our District Cub BLT's trained more than 135 new Cub Scout leaders and 130 of them were from Dan Beard. Our Tri-district Scout SMF's trained 117 new Boy Scout leaders and 35 of them were from Dan Beard. More than 30 of our district's adult volunteer leaders earned various types of training awards. Our training tape video libraries did not loan out any tapes to units in 2001.
Advancement - About 1355 Cubs and 697 Boy Scouts had advancement this year.
Finance - We exceeded our Friends of Scouting goal of $73,000 by $3,000. This amount was the largest amount ever raised in our district and the largest amount raised by any of the 11 districts in our council.
Popcorn Sale - 29 Packs and 21 Troops sold more than $344,000 worth of popcorn, about 26% of the total council sales. We were the top selling District for the 14th time out of the 16 years of the popcorn sales.
Activities and Civic Service - At our 20th Annual Recognition Event 31 adult Scout leaders received the Distinguished Leadership Citation and 4 Scouters received the District Award of Merit. 91 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 23 units involved and they collected more than 7,300 pounds of food which was distributed to 5 local food distribution agencies. Our 2001 Annual Uniform Sale netted over $148 in profits.
Our 20th annual Mall Expo was held at Cary Towne Center with 6 Packs and 9 Troops putting on displays, with a total attendance of 203 Scouts and 104 Scouters. The District Pinewood Derby had a total of 60 Tigers racing from 27 Packs; 70 Cubs racing from 31 Packs and 67 Webelos racing from 29 Packs. 88 Tigers, Cubs and Webelos from 25 Packs entered the Best Design and the Most Unique Design categories.
The annual Round Table Kick-off dinner had more than 65 Scouters in attendance.
About 110 Scouts and Scouters were elected to the Order of the Arrow.
Our http://www.bsa.net/occo/danbeard website has had more than 1000 visitors since June of 2001 and our DanBeard e-mail list server has 150 district and unit leader subscribers.
Filename: ANNRPT01.TXT ----------- "the LEAR report" -------- Amended: 10/17/01