BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
			      OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL
			      CROSSWINDS DISTRICT

      Jonathan Taylor		  Jerry Jester		   Martin Banning
     District Chairman	     District Commissioner	 District Director


Attendees: Keith Biegert, Will Highsmith, Jerry Jester, Roger Lear,
	   Monte McCaw, Bill Reynolds and Jonathan Taylor (7)

1. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Roger Lear.

2. The minutes for April 2008 were approved as written.

3. Training - Will Highsmith:  The IOLS course graduated about 45 students. Ed
   Walsh and his staff are to be commended for showing Scouters how the course
   goes on even with bad weather.

   Will reminded everyone about the May 31 Boy Scout Leader Specific course
   at Cary 1st Baptist along with the first aid and CPR and AED course.
   Gantt Edmisten is going to do a course on Merit Badge Counseling at 1st
   United Methodist Church in Cary on June 7, 2008 from 8:30am until about
   10:30am and the cost is $5.00.

4. Finance - Jerry Jester:  We are still about $15K short on our FOS goal but
   hopefully we will meet the goal by the end of June.

   Popcorn - Jerry Jester: Prices are going up on some items this year.  The
   prizes are going to come from Trail's End due to the poor quality of last
   years prizes.

5. Membership/Relationships - Bill Reynolds:  May 29 is the Wake County Spring
   Roundup kickoff.  Every Pack in our District needs to send 1 person to the
   Forest Hills Baptist Church to represent their pack.

6. Boy Scout Camporee - Ed Walsh:  We had about 500 show up at the Camporee
   which was 150 shy of what the Units pre-registered.	We met the budget but
   only because we had the $15 per Scout registration fee.  It was a good
   Camporee and the weather cooperated with us and the Scouts had a lot of fun.
   Our DD, Martin Banning, was a Marine but he proved to us that he was not to
   good a marksman, because he tried the slingshots at our Quail Hunt and he
   couldn't hit anything.  Martin, Jerry Jester said we had to put this in the
   minutes for the record.

   Monte McCaw thought the tap out ceremony was outstanding and he wanted to
   thank the District for all the help they got with the OA drink sales and the
   donation of all the tools we used at the Camporee, which they will sell.  He
   felt, like some of the others at the meeting, that the skits at the campfire
   were not well lighted and that you could not hear what the Scouts were
   saying.  All of us are looking at a way to remedy that problem at the next
   Camporee.

7. Eagle Board of Review - Gantt Edmiston (via e-mail):  The April Crosswinds
   EBOR approved 6 Eagle Ranks and 8 projects.

8. District Commissioner - Jerry Jester:  Jerry said that alot of the Unit
   Commissioners were at the Camporee helping out.  He wanted to thank them
   for their effort and for spending the gas money to drive to the Camporee

   He also said that the Commissioner staff will start the unit inventories at
   the May Roundtable.

9. District Cub-O-Ree - Rudy Rowell and Bill Daunch:  The Cub-O-Ree had 5 Packs
   and about 100 Cubs and Scouters in attendance. Rudy and Bill want to thank
   all the Scouters that helped staff and run the 12 activites they had.

 Committee Members of the Month: Ed Walsh, Jim McGraw, Robin Biegert, Bob
 Gamble, Neal Keeter and Matt Breneman for all their work on the great 2008 Boy
 Scout Camporee and Rudy Rowell and Bill Daunch for all their work on making
 the 2008 Pirates of the Cub-Rean Cub-O-Ree a rip roaring sucess.


The calendar for May and June 2008 follows:

  DATE			     ACTIVITY		       RESPONSIBLE AREA
--------------	-------------------------------------  ---------------------
MAY	     1	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	     3	Apex Peak Fest			       Activities & Civic Service
	     8	Netami Chapter OA Meeting	       Order of the Arrow
	    14	District Eagle Board of Review	       Advancement
	    15	Roundtable/DC Meetings		       Commissioner
	    15	District Unit Inventories started      Commissioner
	 16-18	Order of the Arrow Spring Inductions   Occoneechee Lodge

JUNE	     5	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	    11	District Eagle Board of Review	       Advancement
	    12	Council FOS Victory Celebration        Council - FOS
	    19	Roundtable/DC Meetings		       Commissioner
	 22-27	Boy Scout Summer Camp - Week #1        Council - Camping
     28-July 4	Boy Scout Summer Camp - Week #2        Council - Camping
	    30	District Unit Inventories completed    Commissioner

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