The NW Scouters' Club is a co-operative of Scout Troops. Representatives of member Scout Troops gather to share ideas and experience, plan joint activities, and pursue other projects of mutual benefit.
Consensus that forward-planned dates by week is most convenient. Accept: Proposed Meeting and Event Schedule for North Waterloo Scouters' Club pending below Action. Action: Rob to review September and January dates for conflict with holidays and to revise schedule table to include exception statement.
The plan is to have everyone called before Club meetings. Currently there are three callers and we are looking for a fourth. Phil Dick, 1st Maryhill volunteered to join the calling club.
Ken Coyle asked the Club to commence looking for a new chair. While Ken remains active in Scouting he is a Rover adviser and not a Scout Leader. He suggested that next year's chairman be a Scout leader.
The group had a Pentagon-style discussion on how to better market the Club to North Waterloo Scouters. This discussion came out of the agenda item dealing with callers for the meetings. While a lot of members have email, there is better meeting turnout when there is a call-around first. We need to do a telemarketing-type campaign to call everyone on the phone list to remind them about the Club, the reasons for its existence, and the activities are provided. This would be likened to a selling day for the club or a recruitment drive. The Club would organize a phone blitz where Club members would call all the local Scouters. Scouter Ted will contact Tony Skells regarding the phone blitz.
All Scouters are urged to check the Club Directory to ensure it is up to date. Please refer to his email on how to access the listing through the Web.
Ken asked if the members were getting called about the meeting. Everyone said they were. Our thanks go out to Tony Skells and Beverley Wood for making the calls.
Elections for Club officers were held.
The website will continue to be maintained by Liam.
The next Club meeting will be at the 3Rs Scouters' Social on September 26. At that time, a decision will be made about how to structure the Club and who will fill the various roles. Liam indicated that he intends to retire as Chair.
For each position, there was just one nomination:
Ted suggested that the Club place a bulletin board at NWD Scouthouse. Scouters discussed what would go on the board and agreed that the content should change often to maintain interest and should be more pictures than text. The Club decided to post an events calendar, contact information, photos of recent events, and information cards which can be taken home by board readers. Disposable cameras could be given to each patrol at Club events allowing them to provide the photos for the bulletin board. These cameras can be bought in bulk at Price Club.
Liam described by purpose and nature of a Scouters' Club. The name of the club and its charter was agreed upon as follows: "The NW Scouters' Club is a co-operative of Scout Troops. Representatives of member Scout Troops gather to share ideas and experience, plan joint activities, and pursue other projects of mutual benefit." Liam provided background information on what it means for an association to be defined as a co-operative. A co-operative is a democratic association where people come together to co-operate to meet common objectives. More information is available from the International Co-operative Alliance.
