Attendees: Stan Belyeu, Kathy Connelly, Dusty Fletcher, Glenn Garrett, Shari Garrett, David Hearne, Rudy Hines, Roger Lear, Jim McSherry, Steve Merritt, Bob Ratledge, Don Schmidt, Bill Slocumb, John Slocumb, Rodger Skirvin, Steve Stewart, Karl Thiele, Judy Ward, Ron Werley, Lisa White and Ed Williams (21)

Pledge and Invocation: John Slocumb and Bob Ratledge. Our new DE, Rodger Skirvin was introduced as well as guests Karl Thiele and Glenn Garrett, Shari's husband and Crew Advisor for 391.

October minutes were approved as written.

District Commissioner - David Hearne: P/T 307 are re-registered. We are about 2 units short of being a Quality District.

Boy Scout Program Reports - Don Schmidt:

Camping - Don Schmidt for W.E. Medlin: Camping Report will be mailed. Don is looking for a District Camporee Chief.

Advancement - Ed Williams: No report. Council still having entry problems and advancement forms are being filled out incorrectly.

   SCOUTMASTERS & CUBMASTERS PLEASE NOTE:  The scout's name appearing on
    any advancement forms MUST BE IDENTICAL to the scout's name as it is
    shown on the Unit Roster that the Council provided to you at re-charter
    time.  IF THE NAME IS NOT THE SAME THE COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE THE PEOPLE
    OR THE TIME TO RECONSILE THE NAMES AND THE ADVANCEMENT RECORD WILL NOT
    BE ENTERED.  Sorry folks, but that is the way that it is!

Eagle Board - Jim McSherry: In October we had 3 projects and 4 finals approved. There are 3 projects and 4 finals for November. So far we have had 56 Eagle ranks earned in 1999.

Training - John Slocumb for John Cortese: TTT is going to be held for the last time on January 22, 2000, somewhere in the Fayetteville area. John Slocumb is the SM for the spring 2000 SMF and Jack Nichols is the SM for the JLT Course in 2000.

Cub Program Reports:

Advancement - Judy Ward: There were 4 Bobcats, 1 Webelos and 2 Arrow of Lights for October with 4 out of 36 units advancing.

Training - Kathy Connelly: CBLT may be held on January 10 or 17.

Order of the Arrow - No Report.

Health & Safety - Steve Merritt: Still working on getting the safety instruction cards out to the leaders.

Activities and Civic Service - Dusty Fletcher: Dusty would like to see helpers at RFUPC at 5:30 pm for the Recognition Event setup. We should be out by 9 pm or so if all goes according to plan.

Membership - Stan Belyeu: Last year we had 2719 scouts in 78 units and we now have 2698 in 74 units. We have to work hard to get more scouts if we want to be a Quality District.

Finance - Rodger Skirvin: No Report

Popcorn - Shari Garrett: Our 44 units hit a new high in the 1999 popcorn sales. The gross sales for our district, including the show and sell popcorn, stands at $261,566.00. We had $222,066.00 in take order sales and $39,500.00 in show and sell sales. What a great job the units did! Congratulations Shari and all units selling popcorn. The Council finally hit more than $1,000,000.00 (1 Million $) in popcorn sales and we accounted for more than 1/4 of it and there are 11 districts in the Council (the other 10 districts sold the other 3/4 of the popcorn). Think what we could do if the other 30 units in our district sold popcorn! We increased $71,523 over last year. Units will be contacted by Shari for their popcorn pickup times on Friday, Nov. 12th or Saturday, Nov. 13th.

Council Camporee - Rudy Hines: Rudy is now the Camporee Chief as the person who was the chief is ill. We have a total of 4429 scouts that are pre-registered and the weather forecast looks good.

Nominating Committee - Don Schmidt: The 1999-2000 District Committee nominations were presented and approved unanimously by the committee. The nominating committee was made up of Bob Ratledge, W.E. Medlin, Larry Gracie, Don Schmidt and John Slocumb.

DE's Minute - Rodger Skirvin: Rodger congratulated the district on the great job on the popcorn sales and our district's hard work.

District Committee Member of the Month: Shari Garrett for her great job as 1999 District Popcorn Kernel.

Next District Committee Meeting: Wednesday, December 1, 1999 at the Hearne residence at 7:00 pm. Uniforms are not required, but you should bring some type of finger food to share with the group.

For this month and next:

NOVEMBER    13  Commissioner's College                 Council Commish
            10  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
         12-13  Popcorn Distributed to Units           Popcorn Kernels
            18  District Unit Inventories (at RT)      Commissioner
            18  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner


DECEMBER     1  District Committee Christmas Party     Executive
             3  Popcorn settlements due to Council     Popcorn Kernels
             4  Order of the Arrow Winter Banquet      OA
             8  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
            16  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner
            17  District Unit Inventories Completed    Commissioner

  DATE                       ACTIVITY                  RESPONSIBLE AREA
--------------  -------------------------------------  --------------------

JANUARY      5  **NO** District Committee Meeting      Executive
           7-9  District Committee Retreat             Executive
            12  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
         13,20  Tri-District Cub LBT                   Cub Scout Training
            20  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner

FEBRUARY     2  District Committee Meeting             Executive
             5  Scouting for Food Bag Distribution     Activities and CS
             6  Scout Sunday (Methodists on 2/13)      All
             9  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
            12  Scouting for Food Pickup               Activities and CS
            17  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner

MARCH        1  District Committee Meeting             Executive
             4  District Mall Expo & Pinewood Derby    Activities and CS
             8  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
            16  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner
            21  Unit Charter Turn-in                   Commissioner
            25  Cub Pow Wow                            Cub Scout Training
            31  Unit Charter Turn-in Deadline          Commissioner
           TBA  Bear Claw JLT Training                 Boy Scout Training

APRIL        5  District Committee Meeting             Executive
            12  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
         14-16  Tri-District SMF                       Boy Scout Training
         14-16  Council Canoe Handling Course (Lake)   High Adventure
            20  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner
         28-30  District Spring Camporee               Camping

MAY          3  District Committee Meeting             Executive
           5-7  Council Canoe Handling Course (River)  High Adventure
            10  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
            18  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner
            18  District Unit Inventories started      Commissioner
         19-21  Order of the Arrow Spring Inductions   Order of the Arrow
            20  Tri-District Cub LBT                   Cub Scout Training

JUNE         7  District Committee Meeting             Executive
            14  District Eagle Board of Review         BS Advancement
            15  Roundtable/Key3/OA/DC Meetings         Commissioner
         19-23  District Cub & Webelos Day Camp        Cub Program
            30  District Unit Inventories due          Commissioner

District Committee Meetings:          First Wednesday 7:30 - 9:00 PM
District Eagle Boards of Review:     Second Wednesday 7:00 - 9:00 PM
District Key 3 Meetings:              Third Thursday  5:45 - 6:45 PM
Roundtable, OA & Commissioner's Mtgs: Third Thursday  7:00 - 9:00 PM

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