Dan Beard District Committee Meeting Minutes
February 6, 2002
Attendees:  Stan Belyeu, Jim Conrad, Herb Council, Steve Glass, Roger Lear,
	    Susan Long, W.E. Medlin, Pam Sen, Rodger Skirvin, John Slocumb,
	    Steve Stewart, Marvin Tharp, Gary Thorn, Ed Walsh, Ron Werley and
	    Ed Williams (16)

1. Pledge and Invocation by John Slocumb.

2. January minutes approved.

3. District Commissioner - Ron Werley:	Ron has asked his Commissioner Staff to
   be at the February Roundtable to help all of our re-chartering units go over
   the unit charter documents so they can be submitted to the Scout Office.  We
   have recruited Keith Leister as the Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner.

   Roundtable ADC - Gary Thorn:  February Roundtable will feature help with
   unit re-chartering, a report on Scouting for Food, information on the 2002
   Mall Expo and a meaningful program for Cub and Scout leaders.

4. Boy Scout Program - Ed Walsh:  Ed reported that he had received the CD ROM
   from another council which contains PDF files for all of the new training
   manuals, along with viewing programs and the inter-active Troop Committee
   game.  We will copy the CD ROM and make it available in our training tapes
   library and each training chairperson will have their own personal copy.  He
   and Susan Long reviewed the CD ROM to make sure it was complete.

   Advancement - Ed Williams: Ed handed out a final report (using the best
   figures the council can give him) for Boy Scout advancement for the year
   2001.  The report will be placed on our district web site.

   Eagle Board of Review - Ed Williams for Tom Allen:  3 Eagles and 3 projects
   were approved in January.  The Board needs help with the February review as
   there are 13 finals and 2 projects to be reviewed.  If you can help on Feb.
   13, e-mail Tom Allen, Warren Dunshee or Ed Williams.

   Training - Susan Long:  Susan is getting council approval for a training
   course on May 4, 2002 for Troop Committees and Chartered Organization
   Representatives.  It will be held at Sony-Ericsson's 8001 Building at Davis
   Drive and Development Drive at the Research Triangle Park.  Registration
   will be at 8 am, with COR training going until about noon and TC training
   going until about 2 pm.
   Susan is also holding a Tri-District training teams meeting at the Scout
   Office on February 19.  They are hoping to form at least 4 Tri-District
   training teams to do training during the year.

   Spring Camporee - Ron Werley:  Ron is working on getting the camporee patch
   ordered and completing the budget.  The camporee web site is being used
   effectively, although many units have not yet signed up.

5. Cub Program -

   Advancement - Pam Sen:  January reported 4 Tigers, 5 Bobcats, 9 Wolves,
   28 Bears, 41 Webelos and 33 Arrows of Light for a total of 120 advancements.

   Pinewood Derby - Jim Conrad:  Jim could use more help for the Pinewood Derby
   and he had gotten Greg Fishel as one of the announcers for the derby.

6. Finance - R. Skirvin:  Rodger introduced Steve Glass, our 2002 FOS Chairman.

   FOS Campaign - Steve Glass:	Steve has lined up the Community Campaign to
   start in March.  He has recruited Dr. Fred Oliver to contact the medical
   community in our area for help with our FOS goals.

   Family Campaign Chairman Ed Walsh:  With 16 units visited the Family
   Campaign has collected about $17,000.00.  There are about 14 more units
   scheduled to be visited.  If you can help Ed contact him via e-mail.

   Popcorn - Rodger Skirvin for Dusty Fletcher:  Dan Beard District was
   recognized as the top selling district in our council at the annual council
   Popcorn Recognition Dinner held at the North Raleigh Hilton.  Our council
   was the 4th largest seller in the Southern US and the 17th largest seller in
   the US.

7. Camping - John Slocumb:  John asks that all Boy Scout units fill out the
   Camping Survey that is on the district web site and send it to him.

8. LDS Liaison - Herb Council:	Herb has distributed the FOS information to the
   LDS units.  He has also lined up Unit Commissioners for most of the units.

9. Membership/Relationships - Marv Tharp:  Marv has had meetings to do some
   council and tri-district membership coordination in order to try and resolve
   some of the issues that are facing us this year.

10. Activities and Civic Service - Dusty Fletcher:  Dusty was not at our
    meeting, due to illness, but submitted a report via e-mail.

    Scouting for Food: Remember Scouting For Food collection this coming Sat.,
    Feb. 9 from 11 am to 2 pm.	The collection sites are in Cary, Garner and
    Fuquay-Varina.  The goal this year is to collect at least 8,317 pounds of
    food, which would be 1,000 pounds more than we collected last year.
    Scouts collecting 50 pounds of food or more will receive a Scouting For
    Food patch.  All of the information is available on our district web site.

    Scouting Anniversary Week:	We are in the middle of Scout Anniversary Week.
    Scouts are encouraged to wear their uniforms to school on Friday, Feb. 8
    to commemorate the 92nd Anniversary of the BSA.  Scout Sunday services were
    held last week at area churches and those for the United Methodist churches
    will be held this Sunday, February 10.

    Cub Leader Pow Wow Training:  Dusty encourages Cub leaders to register for
    Pow Wow which will be held Saturday, March 23 at Raleigh's Highland United
    Methodist Church.  Registration forms are available on the council web site
    (www.campdurant.com) or our district web site (www.bsa.net/occo/danbeard).

10. High Adventure - Steve Stewart:  The Venture Powder Horn training is on
    schedule for May 24-28, 2002.

    New Business - W.E. Medlin:  W.E. and Rodger are trying to get the Dan
    Beard District NESA group started.	There is a note on our district web
    site about starting the group.  If you are an Eagle Scout and you can
    help, contact W.E. or Rodger.

District Committee Member of the Month: Ed Walsh for his work as the FOS
Family Campaign Chairman.

Our next District Committee Meeting is scheduled for March 6, 2002 at 7:30 pm
in the library of the Cary First United Methodist Church.

The new calendar for the year of 2002 and the tentative calendar for 2003 are
on our district web site.  The calendars have also been sent out to the
subscribers of our e-mail list server on YahooGroups/Dan Beard.

February, March and April follows:

  DATE			     ACTIVITY		       RESPONSIBLE AREA
--------------	-------------------------------------  ---------------------
FEBRUARY     2	Scouting for Food flyer distribution   Activities and CS
	     3	Scout Sunday (Methodists on 2/10)      All
	     6	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	     9	Scouting for Food pickup	       Activities and CS
	     9	Scout Sabbath			       All
	    13	District Eagle Board of Review	       Boy Scout Advancement
	    21	Roundtable/OA/DC Meetings	       Commissioner
	    21	Unit Charter turn-in night	       Commissioner
	    23	Council Adult Recognition Banquet      Council

MARCH	     2	District Mall Expo & Pinewood Derby    Activities and CS
	     6	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	  8-10	Natural Rock Climbing Course(Pilot Mt) Council
	     9	Council Trainer Development Conference Council
	    13	District Eagle Board of Review	       Boy Scout Advancement
	 15-17	Order of the Arrow Pow-Wow	       Occoneechee Lodge
	    16	Council BALOO Cub Scout Training       Council
	    21	Roundtable/OA/DC Meetings	       Commissioner
	    21	Unit Charter turn-in deadline	       Commissioner
	 22-24	Intro to Outdoor Leadership Skills     Council
	    23	Council Cub Scout Leader Pow-Wow       Council

APRIL	     3	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	     6	Cope Staff Training (Camp Durant)      Council
	    10	District Eagle Board of Review	       Boy Scout Advancement
	 12-14	District Spring Cub Family Campout     Cub Scout Camping
	    13	Council Canoe Handling Course (Lake)   High Adventure
	    18	Roundtable/OA/DC Meetings	       Commissioner
???	 19-21	Council Canoe Handling Course (River)  High Adventure
	 19-21	Order of the Arrow Conclave	       Occoneechee Lodge
	 19-21	Intro to Outdoor Leadership Skills     Council
	 26-28	District Spring Camporee	       Boy Scout Camping
	    30	District FOS Community Campaign Bkfst  Finance


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