District Committee
REMINDER: June Committee Meeting
Just a quick reminder that June’s Committee Meeting will be Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
Location
We will be meeting in the main building at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Room W-125 at 100 West 86th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46260. Enter through the most westerly door this time (Entry #4). The room will be immediately on your right.
Who Should Attend?
All members of the Committee are asked to attend. Attendance is a key responsibility for committee members. If you cannot, please talk to other people on your committee in advance. We have a lot to do and little time to get it all done.
All District Commissioners’ Staff are encouraged but not required to attend. This is the perfect opportunity to discuss problems found in the field with Committee members, allowing them to better design their plans.
Remember Chartered Organization Representatives and District Members-at-Large are automatically members of the Committee. Their attendance is highly valued. The purpose of the chartered organization representative attending is to be sure information gets shared to all units and all chartered organizations have their voices heard. Given the need for all units to be involved in this year ‘s recruitment drive, we are asking all chartered org reps to participate or ask a unit member to attend this meeting.
Interested Unit Leaders, Unit Chairs, and other interested are welcome.
Agenda
District Chair Steve James will announce a formal agenda later on this blog or by email.
In the meantime, the Committee should expect to discuss the Committee’s broad goals including
- Lose no units from June 1, 2015 forward.
- Meet our goal for Scout Recruiting for the fall campaign
- Design and implement resources that fit units’ needs.
July Roundtable Postponed a Week for Holiday
Please note that July’s Roundtable will be on July 9th at the same time and place, not the usual date.
We will hold a general session for all attendees at 6:30 pm. At the close of general session, Cub and Scout Roundtables will be held.
Training for Chartered Organization Representatives and Representatives-Elect will be held at the same time. (RSVP’s requested for training.) This training is mandatory for a COR to be “Trained.” Our goal in North Star is 100% Trained-COR’s by the completion of this year’s Rechartering Process.
District Planning Session Follow up
Dear North Star District Committee Members,
This is a follow up to my earlier blog. Our meeting on June 11th will be no more than a two hour commitment. I sure hope you can attend. You will have an opportunity to meet our new District Executive Con Sullivan. He is going to be a great addition to our Key Three Con is energetic and ready to work with us. Please come and welcome him to North Star.
Steve
Committee Planning Session
I look forward to planning with you on June 11th at St Luke’s UMC. This will be an opportunity for us to begin to gel as a team. North Star will once again rise to it’s #1 status in this council. What a great bunch of volunteers! GO NORTH STAR!
District Committee Planning Session June 11th
All members of North Star District Committee should attend Committee Planning Meeting.
To that goal, Vice President of District Operations Stroh Bronn and Director of Field Services Rob Hemmelgarn will be leading this session on the evening of June 11th. The session will be held at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Room N101 (the same room as the May District Committee Meeting). The class will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Merit Badge Counselor List
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One of the major projects for the District Committee is going to be making sure that the Troops’ expectations of who is a registered Merit Badge Counselor matches the District’s records.
The Guide to Advancement (2015) now has a system for automatically de-registering merit badge counselors who do not respond to emailed inquiries. Several of our former merit badge counselors are no longer registered in that position, who believe that they are. A copy of the current merit badge counselor list has been mailed to all of the Troop’s Key 3 (chartered org rep, Scoutmaster, and Troop Committee Chair).
Chair announces Committee agenda
Steve and I are working on allowing him to post directly to this blog. However, WordPress is not acting as we would expect.
Steve has posted the agenda for Thursday’s meeting here.
We hope to figure out this technical problem soon.
To make matters worse, in trying to fix the problem, I have broken the calendar and event links. For the committee meeting to RSVP, you will hopefully temporarily have to click here.
District committee structure
As we have been working to rebuild the district committee, I have learned how the Boy Scouts of America structures their committee system. It is a little bit unusual, so it is worth sharing more broadly.
Each committee in the BSA system is interlinked with more than one committee outside of itself. What does this mean?
Let’s look at one example. Since Cub Scout recruitment is going to be a major issue in the next 90 days, let’s look at the membership position on a pack committee.
District Leadership Conference Announced
UPDATE: promoted to top.
Mark Maucere of Pack 105, Troop 358, and Crew 358 has announced that, on Monday 4, 2015 at 7 pm, Troop 358 and its chartered organization St Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church in Zionsville hosting an open forum on leadership in the North Star District. The meeting will be in the St Robert’s Room (northwest corner of Wetzel Hall). See event list for location info and RSVP (“ticketing” is for calendaring. RSVP requested in form of “ticket” but not required to attend). District Chairman Steve James and District Commissioner Jeff Heck will be in attendance.
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Who are the District Chair and Commissioner?
For information about the District Committee, visit the Committee page. It will give you updated information as to who has accepted positions on the committee and which positions remain vacant. Steve James is the District Committee Chairman.
For information about the District Commissioner Service and its mission, visit the Commissioner page. After the Commissioner Staff has held its first meeting in May, this page will be updated with Unit Commissioner names and unit assignments. Jeffrey Heck is the District Commissioner. His email is jheck@cacnorthstar.org. His phone is (317)822-8220.
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