UNIT LEADERS PLEASE TAKE NOTE: There will be NO ROUND TABLE in November. The
20th Annual Recognition Event will be on that
night starting at 6:30 pm at our Round Table
location at Raleigh United Pentecostal Church.
Attendees: Dusty Fletcher, Rudy Hines, Roger Lear, Geri Mangum, W.E. Medlin,
Jeff Rock, Rodger Skirvin, Steve Stewart, Ritchie Taylor,
Marvin Tharp, Gary Thorn, Judy Ward, Ron Werley, Ed Williams (14)
1. Pledge by Geri Mangum and Ron Werley.
2. October minutes approved with one addendum: The Cub Family Campout was
going to try to use May 18-20 for the campout and if facilities were not
available they were to try March (see CS Program below for the final dates).
Attached to these minutes is the amended 2000 Annual District Report.
3. Bob Ratledge, our District Chairman for the past year, had to give up the
position due to the time constraints of his job. The nominations for W.E.
Medlin as District Chairman and Stan Belyeu as District Vice-Chairman were
presented to the committee. A motion was made by Ron Werley and seconded by
Steve Stewart to accept the nominations for those positions. The motion
was approved unanimously. Congratulations to W.E. and Stan.
4. District Commissioner - Ron brought us some sad news. Ray Tiedman died at
age 57 on 10/26. Ray was a good friend of Ron's and a Unit Commissioner
and had been active in our District for many years. He will be missed.
Ron also mentioned that Karl Thiele has had to curtail his Scouting for now
and that means Ron now has 20 Commissioners and he would like to have 30.
Judy Ward has agreed to become an ADC for Ron. There are still some units
that have not picked up their charters.
5. Boy Scout Program:
Advancement - Ed Williams: No Council advancement information available.
Jeff Rock reported that the Council Scout Office is about 20 days behind
on entering advancement data. They expect to catch up very soon.
Eagle Board - Rudy Hines: October had 4 projects approved, 4 projects were
not approved and 4 finals were approved. November has, so far, 8 projects
and 9 finals scheduled. Rudy needs MORE HELP for those review boards. If
you can help, please contact Rudy (e-mail address rhines@ncshp.org).
Training - Roger Lear for John Slocumb: The Tri-District SMF held on
October 20-22 had 43 participants and about 1/3 of them were from Dan Beard.
Ed Williams and Roger were on the staff and they said the weather was great!
The next SMF course is on our calendar for April 20-22 but that won't be
possible because that is the weekend of the OA Conclave. Roger Lear will
contact David Purser, last SM and Kevin Carpenter, the next SM, to find out
what date they are going to schedule it for.
Camping - No Report.
6. Cub Program:
Training - Gary Thorn for Pam Strug: The Cub Scout BLT on October 14 had
44 participants and 41 of them were from Dan Beard. The Webelos Leader
Outdoor Training of October 27-29 has been moved to March 2-4, 2001.
Advancement - Judy Ward: Judy reported on the Cub Advancement that she
thinks is incomplete as they show only 5 Bobcats and 3 Packs advancing.
Cub Family Campout - Gary Thorn for Jenny Elwell: Gary reported that the
Family Campout is now scheduled for March 16-18, 2001 at Camp McNeil (at
Camp Bowers). The date was the only time they could get a campground. The
Committee approved the date so that she can firm up the reservations. The
date for the 2002 Cub Family Campout will be set at the January committee
annual retreat and planning session.
7. Order of the Arrow - Ritchie Taylor: The OA has elected new leaders and
they have planned 3 work days at our Scout Camp before the OA Conclave.
8. Membership - Rodger Skirvin: At the end of October we had 1654 Cubs, which
is 99 Cubs short of our goal for 2001. We have 1032 Boy Scouts (already
over our goal for 2001) and 75 Venture Scouts for a total of 2761 Scouts.
We now have 36 Packs, 39 Troops and 8 Crews for a total of 83 units.
9. Finance - Rodger Skirvin: We are at $69,000 of our $70,000 goal. The
Trail Blazer training is set for next Thursday (Nov. 9th) at Highland
United Methodist Church in Raleigh.
Popcorn Sale - Marvin Tharp: Marv reported that 50 units have sold more
than $346,000 worth of popcorn, which is 33% better than last year! There
are still 8 units that have not reported. Our Show-n-Sell sales almost
doubled and the take order sales jumped about 26%. What a fabulous jobs
by the Scouts, Unit Kernels and Area Kernels and of course, Marv himself.
Those figures mean about $120,000 for the units - Great Job Scouts!
10. Activities and Civic Service - Dusty Fletcher: Dusty needs the Committee's
help with our 20th Annual Recognition Event on November 16. She would
like committee members to show up at around 5:30 or 6 pm to help get it all
ready for our guests. Gary Thorn, Steve Stewart and Marv Tharp will each
provide a Scout so we have a Cub, a Boy Scout and a Venture Scout for the
flag ceremony for the opening. Geri Mangum will bring our district flag.
If you can help, call Dusty at 387-9205 or send her an e-mail. Let's make
sure the event gets advertised well by passing the word around to our adult
Scouters, our past year's Eagles and the Religious Awards recipients.
Dusty also reported that the District Awards Committee elected 27 of our
adult Scouters for a Distinguished Leadership Citation, 4 for the District
Award of Merit and 1 adult for the Scouting Spirit Award. She wants to
thank all those Scouters who took time to nominate our outstanding adults.
11. High Adventure - Steve Stewart: Steve and Tom Stalker are distributing
flyers for the Venture Day on April 27-29, 2001 at Camp Durant. There will
be many high adventure activities for the Scouts of the attending units.
12. New Business - Rodger Skirvin: Rodger asked everyone to tell anyone who
asks "How is Scouting Doing?", that the program continues to grow and is
healthy. If they ask how they can help, tell them to contact the United
Way and ask them to continue to support Scouting.
13. New Business - Ed Williams: The Council has been granted permission to
raise a 7th Troop for the National Boy Scout Jamboree. They need 4 adult
Scout leaders for the Troop and about 25 to 30 more Scouts for the troop.
If you have questions, contact the Scout Office at 872-4484.
14. New Business - W.E. Medlin: W.E.'s business location has a meeting room
that we can use for our January Annual Retreat. Rodger Skirvin would like
us to have the Retreat on Jan. 19-20, 2001. If that meets with the
committee's approval we could meet Friday night and then all day Saturday
at W.E.'s business in Fuquay-Varina. That would mean less travel, no over
night stay, no cooking and perhaps a better attendance. W.E. can have the
event catered for Saturday or we can order-in pizza, etc.. W.E. has
already made sure the room will be available on those dates. That also
means that we would have a January Committee meeting. Any comments?
15. New Business - W.E. Medlin: We are recruiting Scouters for the positions
that are open on the District Committee and on the District Commissioner's
staff. If you want to help or know of someone you think would serve on our
Committee, contact W.E. at 552-6554 (home) or 552-4517 (work).
District Committee Member of the Month: Dusty Fletcher for her work on
heading up the District Awards Committee.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Next District Committee Meeting: December 6, 2000 at the home of W.E. & Becky
Medlin at 716 Holland Road in Fuquay-Varina for our annual Christmas Party.
District Committee members and their spouses are invited and uniforms are NOT
required. The party will start at 7 pm. Each committee member is asked to
bring some "finger foods" as we have done in the past years. W.E. asks
everyone to RSVP to Roger Lear as to whether you will be attending or not, so
that we know how many are coming. Roger's phone number is 467-9391 and his
e-mail address is learbsa@utinet.net. Roger will have directions to W.E.'s
house that we can e-mail to you.
Calendar for this month and December:
NOVEMBER 1 District Committee Meeting Executive
1 Popcorn Orders due to Council by Noon District Popcorn Kernel
1 Silver Beaver Nominations Due Executive
8 District Eagle Board of Review BS Advancement
11 OA National Day of Service Order of the Arrow
9-11 Popcorn Distribution to the Units Popcorn Kernels
16 District Adult Recognition Event Activities and CS
16 ** NO ** Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Commissioner
16 District Unit Inventories started Commissioner
17-19 OA Lodge Leader Development Order of the Arrow
DECEMBER 1 Popcorn settlements due to Council UNIT Popcorn Kernels
2 Order of the Arrow Winter Banquet Order of the Arrow
6 District Committee Christmas Party Executive
13 District Eagle Board of Review BS Advancement
21 Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings Commissioner
21 District Unit Inventories completed Commissioner
26-31 Council Holiday 50-Miler Council
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. END OF REPORT Amended 10/31/2000
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