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Training at the Camporee
At the Camporee on October seventh and eighth, the district will be providing training for scoutmasters, assistant scout master is, and Webelos den leaders. Other cub leaders who see themselves being involved in scouting in the future or heavily encouraged to participate.
The training will include youth protection training on Friday night at 8:30 PM. Then beginning after the senior patrol leader and scoutmaster meeting will begin the introduction to outdoor leadership skills. This training is designed for scoutmasters, assistance got masters and we blows den leaders. It is also useful for other Cub Scout leaders and scout leaders because it covers the basic camping and outdoor skills than adult leader needs to know to train the boys.
REMINDER: District committee meeting next week
Eight days from now is our next district committee meeting on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at Second Presbyterian Church. This is the last meeting before the Camporee. Is also the last chance for units to have any input on the rechartering process.
Remember expected participants include district committee members and chartered organization representatives from their respective units. All of the above are voting members.
We are beginning the preparations for year-end. With that includes active involvement of the nominating committee he for the 2017 calendar year. If you have suggestions of people to serve on the district committee or comments, feel free to bring those and share them with members of the nominating committee, if present. Otherwise you may write down your comments and give them to district chair John Wiebke.
Rechartering Emails Expected Today
The bad news is we are in rechartering season. The good news is that we’re about to get it started so we can get it completed sooner.
That last report we expect rechartering emails to go out today, Wednesday.
This means it is crucial to get our 144 people in the district who have expired or expiring (i.e., less than 90 days until expiration) youth protection training up to speed as soon as possible. We have several scoutmasters, committee chairs in chartered organization representatives who have expired or expiring training. This means their unit’s rechartering cannot proceed forward. If their training is currently expired, they are not authorized to participate in scouting activities. This is even worse.
Unit should have a Denna five the key three personnel for the upcoming year, two additional committee members, unit leader training, YPT, and the other prerequisites to rechartering.
In the email containing the rechartering codes, there is a checklist of items to prepare. Please make sure to do those as soon as possible so that when you’re turning date arrives, your unit is ready to complete the rechartering process.
Remember our goal is to complete rechartering in the district before the end of October. If there are units that need additional time to cover the dues from popcorn proceeds, we’re willing to work with you on that.
October Roundtable
October Roundtable on October 13, 2016 will focus on rechartering preparation for the following weeks.
Remember Recharter Applications are due on October 20, 26, 0r 27, 2016, depending on the date assigned to your unit.
Roundtable will address many issues and will offer a Youth Protection Training at the end for those interested.
YPT Status report
I have not been able to pull the YPT reports from my.scouting.org this morning because the website is down for maintenance.
Please make sure that your unit has its YPT up to date in the next 10 days to expedite the rechartering process. If you do not have the report, log in to my.scouting.org. Visit the Training Manager page for your unit. The report is available on the right column.
Contact Jeff Heck or Con Sullivan if you cannot pull the report by this afternoon.
Delay in newsletter articles
Due to conflicting personal obligations, I have not had the ability to draw up this morning’s newsletter articles. I will be resending the email blast later this afternoon once the articles have posted.
Sorry for the confusion.
In the meantime, if you have any articles or bullet points you wish to share, please email me as soon as possible for addition in this week’s newsletter.
Rechartering Turn-In Dates Announced
District Commissioner has announced the turn-in dates for late October 2016. Watch this page for updates on procedures.
Please make sure that your unit Chair has the correct date on the calendar.
All charters must be turned in to the District Commissioner. The Council Registrar will take all applications turned in to her and return them to the District Executive before processing them, if the District Commissioner is skipped.
This is for the convenience of the units. Last year, we had problems with the Registrar not having had a chance to troubleshoot applications until 7 weeks after they were submitted to the Council office. That meant that diligent units were forced to scramble to fix problems in December when they thought everything was done.
By turning in your recharter application through the Commissioner Service, you will get an immediate troubleshooting review and avoid weeks of delay in finding out about problems.
Please help us expedite this process, so we can be done with turn-ins by Sunday, October 30, 2016. The way to do this is to send a representative to the turn-in date posted.
Thank you for your cooperation in advance.
YPT Report: 192 expired/expiring
We are 15 days away from the opening of rechartering season. We have 192 scouters who have had their YPT status lapse or will lapse in the next 90 days. We have a handful more whose memberships will drop because their YPT expires before March 1, 2017.
This is a very bad trend. We are making little to no progress on fixing this problem.
Please talk to your committees about fixing this as soon as possible to make rechartering easier.
Popcorn Sales Troubleshooting
In the next couple days, we will post an article on foreseeable problems in popcorn sales. I do not have the full information available at this moment. Watch this website for the article. It will be posted as soon as I get the information. I apologize for the tease now, but I thought you would want to know.
One example that I have heard is that the new popcorn app will add an order for popcorn to be delivered later if the scout does not mark the popcorn sale as already fulfilled. This will require the Popcorn Kernel to need to verify all future deliveries are correct before submitting the final order to avoid excessive fulfillment.
Camporee Planning
As we all know the Fall Camporee is fast approaching Friday, October 7, 2016 to Sunday, October 9, 2016.
We will have a planning meeting this Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 6:00 pm at St Luke’s United Methodist Church, 100 West 86th, Room N103-104, Indianapolis, IN 46260. Enter by Entry #7, turn left down the first hallway, third door on left. (If Entry #7 is locked, go to Entry #6, and turn left in corridor, then right down last hallway).
This will be our final planning meeting for the Camporee. All units should send a representative and have their event planned with rules and scoring. Remember ideas should have already been submitted to Fall Camporee Chair Brian Crow via email. Priority will go to units having the earliest date stamp, for any duplicated ideas.
Our Winter Camporee is scheduled for January 20-22, 2017. (We will have a new president at noon that Friday. I will let you determine whether that is good or bad.)
Our Spring Camporee is scheduled for April 21-23, 2017 at Ransburg Scout Reservation. There will be a strong emphasis on shooting sports. We will have NRA Instructors onsite to manage rifles and pistol shooting. We will plan on offering archery. Our goal is to have more opportunities to aim at targets that scouts get at summer camp.
These upcoming camporees may be discussed at the Camporee Planning Meeting, but the emphasis will be on the Fall Camporee.
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