BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
			      OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL
			      CROSSWINDS DISTRICT

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


Attendees: Martin Banning, Jerry Jester, Roger Lear, Lu Little and Bill
	   Reynolds (5).

1. The meeting was called to order by Martin Banning and the Pledge of
   Allegiance was led by Roger Lear.

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

3. Membership/Relationships - Bill Reynolds:  To be ranked as a Quality
   District we need 138 Cubs, 33 Boy Scouts, 8 Venture Scouts and 2 Explorers.
   We also need to form 4 new units and we only have one coming on-line for
   sure.  Bill and Martin are looking into various avenues of opportunity to
   increase Membership.

4. Training - Lu Little for Will Highsmith:  The Troop 224 Troop Committee
   Challenge had 7 attendees.  Mega training had close to 200 attendees and
   lots of staff from Crosswinds.  We host the Mega training next year.  T216
   and T212 Troop Committee Challenge will be held on October 11 at
   St. Michael's church. University of Scouting in on November 1.
   On 11/22 we will hold CS Leader Specific, New Leader Essentials and Youth
   Protection Training at Cary First Baptist Church.
   Refer to the Council Training calendar on the www.ocscouts.org web site.

5. Activities & Civic Service - Chris Thomson (via e-mail):  Chris reported
   that JOTA has about 15 Scouts registered and she is going to broadcast the
   availability to other Districts.  Thanks to our local HAM operators we are
   going to do the classes again.  She still has not heard from any units about
   attendees at the November 11 Veteran's Day Parade in Raleigh.  Units are
   being slow in signing up for Scouting For Food for the rest of this year.

   We do need to have our units start signing up for the 2008-2009 Scouting For
   Food program.  We really want to have about 4 units sign up for each month
   to get all of our units involved.  If we could do that, we would collect
   much more food every year.  Contact Chris (info on our web site) to sign up
   your unit.  PLEASE DO IT NOW, so that we do not have to pester you, plus if
   you sign up early, you can probably pick the month of your choice.

6. Finance - Martin Banning:  The Council 2009 FOS Kick-off is October 9, 2008.
   We have a Community Chairperson and Martin is working on a Major Gifts
   Chairperson.  Jerry Jester should be "knighted" as he is going to be our
   Family Campaign Chairman for the fifth year in a row.  Our District is going
   to be expected to raise around $150,000 this next year.

7. Popcorn - Jerry Jester for Beckie Dayton:  Scouters unloaded an 18 wheeler
   full of SNS popcorn in 31 minutes on Sept. 25.  Then workers sorted the SNS
   cases, about 2000 of them, into the orders for the units.  All units had
   picked up their orders by Friday afternoon.	Beckie wanted to thank all
   the Scouters who made that possible.

8. Eagle Board of Review - Gantt Edmiston (via e-mail):  The September
   Crosswinds EBOR approved 3 Eagle Ranks and 7 Eagle Projects.

9. Commissioner Service - Jerry Jester:  Jerry announced that Martin has gotten
   some new members for our District Committee.  Amy Edge has agreed to be our
   Advancement Chairperson.  We do not have any Cub or Boy Scout or Venture
   Advancement Chairpersons for our District yet this year.  Mike Stellar has
   agreed to be our District Finance Chairman.

   Jerry said that he is also out there recruiting and has signed up 4 new Unit
   Commissioners.  He is also trying to get the last of our units to send in
   their Centennial Quality Unit Awards, about 65% of them are already in.

10. Web Site Fee - Roger Lear:	The $100 per year web site fee will be due to
    be paid in December for continuing the web site thru 2009.	Martin said
    that the money is available in the Council budget to pay that bill.
    Roger Lear has contacted Gantt Edmiston and Gantt will have a bill for the
    2009 year sent to Martin.

 The December District Committee Meeting will again be in the form of a
 District Christmas party for Committee members and their spouses.

 Committee Member of the Month: Beckie Dayton for her work as the District
 Popcorn Kernel for the fourth year in a row.


The calendar for October and November 2008 follows:

  DATE			     ACTIVITY		       RESPONSIBLE AREA
--------------	-------------------------------------  ---------------------
OCTOBER      2	District Annual Business Meeting       Executive
	     2	District Awards Nominations Deadline   Activities & Civic Service
	   3-5	WoodBadge			       Council - WoodBadge
	     7	District Awards Committee Meeting      Activities & Civic Service
	     8	District Eagle Board of Review	       Advancement
	     9	Netami Chapter OA Meeting	       Order of the Arrow
	    16	Roundtable/DC Meetings		       Commissioner
	    18	Jamboree On The Air (1 day event)      Activities & Civic Service
	 19-20	OA Vigil Gathering		       Council - OA
	    23	Crosswinds District Recognition Event  Activities & Civic Service
	    25	Commissioner's College - 1/2 day event Commissioner's Staff

NOVEMBER     1	Silver Beaver Nominations Due	       Executive
	     1	University of Scouting		       Council
	     1	Popcorn Sale ends		       Finance
	     6	District Committee Meeting	       Executive
	    12	District Eagle Board of Review	       Advancement
	    13	Netami Chapter OA Meeting	       Order of the Arrow
	    13	Popcorn Take Order delivery at	       Finance
		Neomonde's Baking Co. Beryl Rd. Ral.
	 13-14	Popcorn Take Order Sale distribution   Finance
	    15	OA Lodge Leadership Development        Council - OA
	    20	Roundtable/DC Meetings		       Commissioner

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