Minutes for 3/13/2014
Happy Birthday Girl Scouts! Yesterday was the 102nd birthday for Girl Scouts. Vicky celebrated by handing out Girl Scout peanut butter bears from our QSP sales.
Treasurer Report-reminder again that the Service Unit assessment is due at cookie paperwork time. $2/per registered girl in your troop. The April Service Unit meeting is mandatory for at least one rep from each troop to review the financial report procedures. Troop financials are due 6/1.
Girl Scout Day Proclamations were issued in Orange (3/10)and Woodbridge (3/12). Thank you also to Melissa Carrington and Deanna Driscoll for presenting their awesome Girl Scout cookie wreath creation to the Girl Scout museum at council.
Cadette Ephemia presented a slides how of photos from Girl Scout Day at the Capitol, Amity Service Unit Thinking Day and the Woodbridge Proclamation presentation.
Recruitment update: Anita and Mary hosted a table at Thinking Day. A few inquiries but the most fun was meeting the two Girl Scout alumni who saw the ad in the paper. In other Recruiting news, Tara will work with Vicky to try and send a letter to Bethany kindergarten parents instead of just a normal recruiting flyer. Problem is the lack of parent volunteers. In Woodbridge, Karen is still trying to re-ignite the 5th grade troop. Karen will brainstorm some sort of event to re invite those lost girls back.
Registrar report: good news is that Earlybird this year will save you money!!! If you Earlybird, the council service fee will be $10 instead of $15. More info at the next meeting.
Cookie Sales: goal getter sales continue! Keep selling! Let's break our service unit record! If you need cookies, your troop cookie manager/mom just needs to contact the cookie cupboard to get your boxes. There isn't a full case requirement for goal getter sales. Payments are due 3/21. Information is forthcoming from Sue Leigh to your troop cookie moms. Assessments are due at the same time (see earlier Treasurer report for details)
Secretary Update: if anyone wants to be recording secretary for the meetings, please talk to Clio. It would help her get the minutes out more quickly. If you want to see the Amity Pinterest board, search Pinners for Amity Girl Scouts (amity is the "first name"). Feel free to follow boards, suggest pins or send photos or links to be shared. This board is meant to help. Clio will be pinning (no pun intended) all the SWAPS from Thinking Day there.
Service unit Calendar:
- Thinking Day raised over $500 --yahoo!!! We collected almost 300 books. 10 troops presented countries, 3 troops registered as "observers" and many friends and families came (about 200 attendees). Mary C. Mentioned that she received a call from Steve, editor of the Orange times and he would love to know when other Girl Scout events take place in Orange.
- Recognition Dinner will be held 6/13 (with an alternate rain location). Allison M. Is hosting at her house and we will bring in trays of food to keep costs down. We are looking at some church spaces as the rain location. Vicky would like to invite our older Girl Scout alumni who attended Thinking Day. In addition to the dinner, after much discussion, we decided to implement a Court of Awards event before the May Service Unit meeting in order to honor the following: Lifetime membership recipients, Gold, Silver & Bronze Award recipients & Troop recognitions for QSP and Cookie Sales records. This is a great time for younger scouts to be inspired by older scouts. Save 5/8 6:30-7:15. We can also invite Themis Klarides, Joe Crisco and Ellen Scalettar. ****email Vicky if your girls have earned Bronze/Silver in the past year.
- Camporee June 6-8. April 11 deadline is only to guarantee a sleeping spot. Troops registering to sleepover after 4/11 will be accommodated on a first-come, first-served, as available basis. (If our Service Unit cannot guarantee 80% occupancy of sleeping space then we have to give up sections of campsite to others or possibly open up Camporee activities to other Service Units.)
Training moment: don't forget-if you are doing troop trip forms for "high" adventure, including laser tag or white water rafting, do them early!!!!! These forms need extra attention.
Leader Success Stories/Best Practices:
1. Laurel shared the shadow box/diorama project that her troop did based on Anita's suggestion. She said it was a great peaceful activity. It's still a work in process but all the materials the used were 'recycled' or 'reused': scraps of material or leftover scrapbook/decorative paper.
2. Karen shared about her Cadette troop's book drive for Read to Grow and All Our Kin. The girls loved assembling the bookcase and then delivering the books to the All Our Kin mentored daycare provider.
Respectfully submitted,
Clio, Secretary
Amity Service Unit
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