Attendees: Keith Biegert, Herb Council, Tom Doligalski, Bill Fairhurst,
Bob Gamble, Roger Lear, Susan Long, Pam Sen, Suzie Slopek,
Robbie Spivey and Gary Thorn (11).
1. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Robbie Spivey.
2. The Crosswinds District minutes for March 2005 were approved as written.
3. Membership/Relationships - Susan Long reporting: We are currently working
on a total of about 7 or 8 new units right now. We need 11 new units to
make Quality District in 2005.
4. Religious Emblems - Robbie Spivey: One of our Scouters wants to lead Jewish
Scouts for their Religious Awards. St. Michael's has started another Ad
Altare Dei Religious Award class.
5. Commissioner Service - Susan Long: 43 out of 46 charters have been turned
in, with P102, P208 and P431 not in yet. 36 of the 43 units are confirmed
Quality Units for 2005. All 5 Teams and 4 Crews of the LDS units have
dropped, along with P313.
Susan wants to thank all of the ADC's and UC's for their extensive help in
getting this year's re-chartering done!
Susan said that she thinks that next year it is very possible that on-line
re-registration for our units may NOT be optional.
NOTE TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS: If you are not affiliated with a unit make sure
you are registered with the BSA for 2005. Some of us were NOT!
RoundTable ADC - Gary Thorn: Gary presented the statistics for the RT
attendance. We still need to work on getting our RT attendance figures up.
6. Finance - Robbie Spivey for Martin Banning: We have reached $116,000. We
$17K over our $99K goal. The FOS breakfast brought in about $39,000.
7. Activities and Civic Service - Open position:
Scouting for Food 2005 - Cindy Smith: Cindy reported via e-mail that some
of our units turned in figures on more collected food.
8. Cub Scout Program - Open position:
Cub Day Camp - Ken Truelove was at our last RoundTable and spoke about the
2005 Cub Day Camp. Ken says that plans are going well, but that they need
Scout and Scouter volunteers to help make it a success.
Cub Scout Advancement - Pam Sen: Pam reported that the Cubs have reported
1075 advancements in March of 2005. We are currently at 676 Rank
advancements since December 2004.
Cub Scout Pinewood Derby - Roger Lear reporting for David Kellerman:
We had 131 Cubs entered and 20 volunteers helping. David, Bruce Wilcox and
Jeff Conley did a great job! We had 22 Packs with 37 Tigers, 48 Cubs and
46 Webelos enter the races. The report listing the winners is on the
website and pictures and detailed race times will appear sometime soon.
(I forgot to report this at the meeting, but am including it here.)
9. Boy Scout Program - Ed Walsh (who is down at Reeves preparing for camporee):
Boy Scout Advancement - Tom Doligalski: Tom wants all units to be aware
that if they turn in advancements electronically, that they ALSO MUST turn
in 3 printed copies of the report or the District will not get a copy. So
UNITS MAKE NOTE: Please make sure you send in 3 copies of your electronic
report!
Eagle Board of Review - Tom Doligalski for Tom Allen: The March EBOR
approved 5 Eagle Ranks and 5 projects and rejected 2 projects.
Boy Scout Camporee - Bob Gamble for Jerry Jester: We are expecting about
600 Scouts and Scouters at our FIRST Crosswinds (only) 2005 Camporee. Jim
McGraw, Jerry and Ed Walsh have been at Reeves since Wednesday preparing for
this all important Camporee.
10. Order of the Arrow - Tom Doligalski: Our OA chapter elected more than 100%
more Scouts into OA than any of the OA chapters in our area. The OA must
have the birthdate of elected Scouts or they can't be registered in the OA.
11. Venturing - Bill Fairhurst: There will be an NRA rife class held at the
Sir Walter Raleigh Gun Club on April 23 and 24th. E-mail Bill for details.
On August 8 there is a Caving Outing; Tall Ships has some room available
and Life Guard Training is coming up soon. They can use more help on the
Venturing Vortex and are looking for some specific items. Again, contact
Bill via e-mail for more details.
12. Training - Suzie Slopek:
Canoe Safety Training will be held on April 22-23 at Lake Crabtree. Cost
is $30 for the session. On April 29-May 1 a Friday evening to Sunday
evening is planned and the cost is $45. Tenting location to be determined.
The Wake County Service Area Training Team will present a Safety Day
training courses on May 7, 2005. Five different courses for $5 will be held
from 8 am to 1 pm at Benson Memorial UMC in Raleigh.
On May 21, 2005 there will be SM/ASM specific training at Cary 1st Baptist
Church. It is an all day course and is sponsored by the Crosswinds
Training Team. Cost is $15.00 and times are from 7:30am to 5:00pm.
UNIT LEADERS TAKE NOTE OF THE ABOVE COURSES! For course details see the
Occoneechee Council main page (top left) and the Training Calendar page.
13. Jeff Rock leaves Occoneechee - (Another non-committee item added by Roger):
On March 31, more than 100 Scouters got together to say goodbye to one of
our long time Council Professionals. Jeff Rock, who has been with our
Council since 1986, left to take the Scout Executive position for the
Shawnee Trails Council in western Kentucky.
Thanks to Dusty Fletcher, the Activities and Civic Services Chairlady for
the Hemlock District, we (Dusty, Susan Long and Roger Lear) were able to
present a framed plaque with the Scouting "You can do it" drawing in it,
with the signatures and sentiments of many of our Crosswinds and Hemlock
District Scouters. The plaque, Jeff and the presentors, is present on
our website. We know Jeff will be an excellent Scout Executive!
Committee Member of the Month: Susan Long and the entire District
Commissioner's Staff for their outstanding job in re-chartering our District's
Units for 2005! Many thanks to all of you for your time and expertise!
The calendar for April and May 2005 follows:
DATE ACTIVITY RESPONSIBLE AREA
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APRIL 7 District Committee Meeting Executive
8-10 District Boy Scout Camporee - Reeves Boy Scout Camping
8-10 District Cub Family Campout - Reeves Cub Scout Camping
9 Council wide Scouting for Food Council
13 District Eagle Board of Review Boy Scout Advancement
15-17 OA Conclave Occoneechee Lodge
21 Roundtable/OA/DC Meetings Commissioner
22-23 Council Canoe Safety Training Council - Training
29-May 1 Council Canoe Safety Training Council - Training
MAY 5 District Committee Meeting Executive
7 Safety Training Day Council - Training
11 District Eagle Board of Review Boy Scout Advancement
14 Council Program Planning Resources Council
19 Roundtable/OA/DC Meetings Commissioner
19 District Unit Inventories started Commissioner
20-22 Order of the Arrow Spring Inductions Occoneechee Lodge
21 SM/ASM Training - Cary 1st Baptist Council - Training
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