BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
			      OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL
			      CROSSWINDS DISTRICT

       Robert Spivey		  Susan Long		   Martin Banning
     District Chairman	     District Commissioner	 District Executive

Attendees: Keith Biegert, Bob Gamble, Jerry Jester, Roger Lear, Lu Little,
	   Susan Long, Monte McCaw, Anne McVeigh, Bill Reynolds, Suzie Slopek,
	   Robbie Spivey and Chris Thomson (12).

1. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Robbie Spivey.

2. There were very few minutes for February 2006 as we held the Committee
   yearly planning meeting on February 11, 2006 from 8am to 1pm and those
   few minutes have not been written up yet (coming soon).

3. Order of the Arrow - Monte McCaw:  Netami Chapter wants to emphasize OA
   Webelos Day.  (Lear had put out a note on the e-mail list server informing
   everyone of the OA Webelos Day).  One of their major goals is to increase
   their membership.  They will meet at 6 pm on Roundtable nights from now on.
   He will contact Rudy and Jerry about a room to meet in for March and April
   Roundtables as we are meeting in a different location for those Roundtables.
   Our OA Chapter will help our District by counciling our Troops and Scouts in
   the Trail-to-Eagle.

4. Commissioner Service - Susan Long;  We have 9 District units that have not
   yet signed up for rechartering.  Susan wants those units to contact her
   immediately.  Unit Commissioners have committed to work at both the
   Cub-O-Ree and the Boy Scout Camporee.  Council wide Commissioner Training
   will be on March 25, 2006.  There is no charge and lunch is provided.  A
   place is yet to be determined.  We will let all our units and our Committee
   know that we will be meeting at different locations for our March and April
   Roundtables.

   Roundtable - Jerry Jester:  We will have hot dogs and hamburgs at the March
   and April Roundtables.

5. Activities & Civic Service - Chris Thomson:	She will talk to Martin if they
   need money for anything.  She would like to do a display of types of events
   that we are going to have in order to advertise Scouting (similar to our old
   Mall Expositions).

6. Membership/Relationships - Bill Reynolds:  Someone from membership was
   at our District Pinewood Derby to recruit for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.
   They are compiling a list of unit people who can be contacted if a youth
   wants to join Scouting.  They are still planning a Tiger fun-day on June 10,
   2006.

7. Finance - Jerry Jester:  About $42,000 has been committed so far towards our
   $79,250 goal.  He has hopes that at our March 14 FOS Breakfast that we will
   get numerous $250 donations just so the donees can get the Norman Rockwell
   coin that the Council is making available to givers of $250 or more.

8. Cub Family Campout - Rudy Rowell (via e-mail):  Rudy is worried that no Cub
   units have signed up for the Cub-O-Ree and the price goes up on March 25.
   He asked Lear to put out a reminder on the list server (and that was done).

9. Boy Scout Program:

   Eagle Board of Review - Tom Allen(via e-mail):  The February EBOR approved 6
   Eagle Ranks and approved 8 projects and rejected 2 projects.

10. Training - Suzie Slopek:  There are numerous training activities happening
    in March, April and May of this year.  Most of the courses have fliers on
    the Council website Training page.

    March 11, TDC at Greystone Baptist Church
    March 18, BALOO Training at Garner UMC
    March 25-26, New Webelos Leader Introduction to the Outdoors
    April 1, Den Chief Training and SM and Den Leader Training
    April 7-9, IOLS at Camp Durant
    April 12, Troop Committee Challenge at the Cary Masonic Lodge
    May 6, SM/ASM training at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Apex
    May 19-21 and June 16-19, White water kayaking

11. Scouting for Food - Cindy Smith:  Our District will participate in Scouting
    for Food on April 8 this year along with the rest of the Council.  Ten of
    our units have signed up so far.  Cindy is using the unit's Luminaria
    routes to cover our area.  If your unit is going to participate you MUST
    contact Cindy.  The food will be turned in on April 8th at the same
    location as we used last year, the closed Pizza Hut parking lot on Kildare
    Farm Road in front of the KMART store.

Committee Member of the Month:	Jerry Jester for his work as our District unit
FOS Chairman.

The calendar for March 2006 and April 2006 follows:

  DATE			     ACTIVITY		       RESPONSIBLE AREA
--------------	-------------------------------------  ---------------------
MARCH	     2	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	     3	Council FOS Breakfast		       Council - Finance
	     4	District Pinewood Derby 	       Activities and CS
	     8	District Eagle Board of Review	       Boy Scout Advancement
	    16	Roundtable/OA/DC Meetings	       Commissioner
	 17-19	Order of the Arrow Spring Pow-Wow      Occoneechee Lodge
	    25	Council Religious Award Dinner	       Council

APRIL	     6	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	     8	Council Scouting For Food	       Council
	    12	District Eagle Board of Review	       Boy Scout Advancement
	    20	Roundtable/OA/DC Meetings	       Commissioner
	 21-23	Order of the Arrow Conclave	       Council - OA
	 21-23	District Cub Scout Family Campout      Cub Program
	    24	ScoutReach Golf Tournament	       Council - Finance
	 28-30	District Spring Boy Scout Camporee     Boy Scout Camping

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