Dan Beard District Committee Meeting Minutes
August 2, 2000
Attendees:  Dennis Antkowiak, Stan Belyeu, Linda Boggs, Dusty Fletcher,
            Roger Lear, Geri Mangum, W.E. Medlin, Bob Ratledge,
            Steve Stewart, Karl Thiele, Judy Ward, Ron Werley,
            Lisa White and Ed Williams (14)

1. Pledge by Ed Williams, Invocation by Karl Thiele.

2. June minutes approved as written.

3. District Commissioner - Ron Werley: 100% of our units are rechartered.
   Ron put information up on the district web site for the DC staff and
   UC recruiting information.  Five new UC's have been recruited.

4. Boy Scout Program:

   Advancement - Ed Williams: No Council advancement information available.

   Eagle Board - Steve Stewart:  June had 7 projects and 4 finals approved.
   July had 9 projects and 5 finals approved.  August so far has 3 projects
   and 3 finals scheduled.  The board needs volunteers for this month.

   Training - No Report.

   Camping - No Report.

5. Cub Program - Lisa White:
   Lisa's husband has been transferred and they are moving.  Lisa has
   recruited Linda Boggs as Cub Program Chairlady.  Linda can be reached
   at 557-5192 and her e-mail address is lindab@ipass.net.

   Training - No Report.

   Advancement - Judy Ward: No Council advancement information available.

   Cub Day Camp - Lisa White: 450 Cubs attended Cub Day Camp.  About 225
   the first week and 225 the second week.  They had to evacuate twice
   due to bad weather.  They lost $2500 worth of equipment in a cyclonic
   windstorm.  An anonymous benefactor donated $2500 to cover the loss
   of the equipment as the Council refused to cover the loss as the
   equipment "wasn't theirs"!  Our thanks to the unknown benefactor and
   to the Fairview Fire Department who helped set up after the storm
   and provided ice every day.  Bob Ratledge is going to send a letter
   to the fire department thanking them for their help.

   Cub Camporee - Lisa White: Jenny Elwell (Pack 397) and Gary Thorn
   (Pack 201) are going to serve as the leaders for the 2001 Cub
   Camporee.  Dusty Fletcher made a motion to discuss the separation of
   the Cub and Boy Scout Camporees.  Many of the Cub parents like the
   separation as they have children in Cubs and Scouts.  There is also
   the concern that our Council cannot provide the required space needed
   for both groups at once and also meet the BSA National Cub camping
   requirements (porcelain toilets for Cubs).  Others were concerned that
   the combined camporee is the only time that we get the Cubs and the
   Boy Scouts to really interact with each other and work together.  Lisa
   made a motion to separate the two camporees for next year.  Judy Ward
   seconded the motion and it carried.  Lisa will talk to the camporee
   committee and see if they will agree to a May 18-20 date so that we
   will not have 2 district camporees (they were looking at May 4-6)
   on 2 consecutive weekends (the Boy Scout Camporee is April 27-29).

6. Order of the Arrow - No Report.

7. Health & Safety - Need a new chairman.

8. Membership - Stan Belyeu:  Join Scouting Night is August 24.  About
   15,000 bulletins are being printed to be distributed to the schools.
   Stan needs help in delivering them to 34 schools in our area.  He also
   needs help at the JSN sites.  Please contact Stan if you can help.
   Pack 253 was formed by Troop 253 and they are our newest unit.

 9. Activities and Civic Service - Dusty Fletcher:  Our August 17 Round
    Table Kickoff dinner will start at 6:30 PM at our RT location.
    Dusty wants the Committee helpers there at 5 PM to help get set up.
    We are going to charge for the dinner this year to see if we can keep
    from digging into Committee members pockets to pay for the dinner.
    The Round Table will start at 7:30 PM.  Our storage area no longer
    contains some of our equipment and uniforms - no one knows how or
    when they disappeared.  Therefore, unless Dick Fletcher can get the
    information from the Council on the kids who have left Scouting in
    the past couple of years, we may not have enough uniforms to have a
    Uniform/equipment sale for the second year in a row.

10. Finance - No Report.

11. New Business - Our District was presented a $50 voucher for the Scout
    Shop in recognition for our being one of the three Quality Districts
    in the Council in 1999.  A motion was made, seconded and carried to
    raffle off the $50 voucher at the Round Table Kickoff meal, with the
    proceeds going to John Spinks for his use at our council camp.

12. New Business - Karl Thiele (our webmaster) reported that our website
    had 13 different visitors in June and 63 visitors in July.  There
    were more than 280 snapshots of our pages taken by those visitors.

District Committee Member of the Month:  Lisa White for Cub Day Camp

Next District Committee Meeting:  The next Committee Meeting will be held
on September 6 at the First United Church Library in Cary at 7:30 PM.

For this month and September:

AUGUST       9  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
            17  Dist. Roundtable Kickoff & 6:30 meal   Activities and CS
            17  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner
            19  Wood Badge Orientation                 Council
            24  Join Scouting Night                    Mem/Relationships

SEPTEMBER    6  District Committee Meeting             Executive
          8-10  Tri-District SMF                       Boy Scout Training
             9  Annual District Uniform Sale           Activities and CS
         11-15  District Popcorn Sale Kickoff          Popcorn Kernel
            13  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
         15-17  Council OA Fall Inductions             Order of the Arrow
            16  Cub Scout LBT (Impeesa)                Council
         16-17  Council Wood Badge Course starts       Council Training
            21  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner
         22-24  Council Cub Family Weekend             Council
            25  Council Popcorn Sale starts            Popcorn Kernels
      29-Oct.1  Council Wood Badge Course (Wkend #2)   Council Training


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