Dear Rockford Girl Scout Leaders,
Just a few items.
1. Planning update – positions filled and still needed
2. Fun older girl get-together (chocolate!!!)
3. Next planning meeting
4. End of Year paperwork
5. Girl Scout presence at community event
1. Planning Update: Thanks to those leaders who were able to come to my house on July 22 and help plan the new year. We brainstormed some ideas and got some new volunteers.
Good News: Our Service Unit has:
Treasurer: Kristy Neill
Secretary & Newsletter: Lynn Surdock
Day Camp Coordinators for next year: Holly Kinney & Lori Dettloff
Cookie Sales Coordinators for next year: Jen Shook & Susan Witte
Several School Reps
Older Girl Coordinator: Beverly Dickinson
Fantastic web page & webmaster: Jane Fabiano-Turner
Recruitment Coordinator: Veronica Antel
Bad News: Our Service Unit needs:
Director
Registrar (I'll do it if no one else will.)
Publicity
Adult Education Facilitator
Mentors
Event Coordinator
We really need someone to step up and be Director. If we don't have one, Council will run our service unit and have to approve everything. Do we want council supervising us for every detail? We need to give council a name. Please. Can we maybe get a couple of co-directors to take turns?
Here are the main tasks of the Director.
Monthly meetings at Council (someone has to attend, but we can split among service team)
Run Service Unit Meeting monthly
Paperwork
"Buck stops Here" (to sign forms and make a final decision)
2. Rockford Service Unit Older Girl Scout Kick-off Planning Event – Chocolate Fondue
Who: Girl Scout Cadettes, Seniors, Ambassadors, AND their leaders
Cost: $7.50 per person includes chocolate fondue, beverage, & gratuity
Date: Thursday, Aug 5, 2010 4:00—5:30
Location: Melting Pot, 2090 Celebration Drive, Grand Rapids
Questions: Call Beverly Dickinson at 874-8926 or beverlyd@charter.net.
RSVP by Monday, August 2.
Come to Melting Pot, 2090 Celebration Drive, for Chocolate Fondue! We will greet old friends, make new ones, plan what we want to do this year for Older Girl Scouts, and eat Chocolate!!! Bring your ideas and your appetite!
3. Next planning meeting will be Monday, August 9 at Rockford United Methodist Church. Business meeting from 7 – 8:30.
For all Girl Scout Leaders. Everyone is welcome. Service Team members, new leaders, everyone!
Questions: Call Beverly Dickinson at 874-8926 or beverlyd@charter.net.
Topics for discussion:
• Vacant positions – what to do if we don't have a director
• School Night and Recruitment in general
• Training
• Budget
• Events
4. If you have not done your year end paperwork, council does still want it. You need to do the following forms which are all on the www.gsmists.org/resources page
• Troop Detailed Cash Report
• Troop Annual Finance Report Form
• And the most recent copy of your troop bank statement
Please drop off at my house, 6237 Arroyo Vista, Rockford, and I will make a copy for our Service Unit and get it to council.
5. Boy Scouts are celebrating their 100 years in 2010. Boy Scout Troop 264 is a Hundred Year event on August 26, 27, and 28, in downtown Rockford. They have been planning it all year and have some great ideas. They want us to have a tent or booth about Rockford Girl Scouts, which I think will be great for recruitment. So we need some ideas for crafts (SWAPS probably) and posters and displays and photos etc. Send me your ideas and we'll talk more about it at the August 9 meeting.
Thanks again for hanging in there with me.
Beverly
PS: If you are not returning as a leader, please let me know. But you will have to remove yourself from the mailing list. Go to our website, www.rockfordgs.com, and click on the mailing list link. There are instructions to remove yourself from the mailing list.
Beverly Dickinson
Rockford Neighborhood Girl Scouts
874-8926
304-2615 (cell)
beverlyd@charter.net
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