Service Unit (SU) Coordinator: Amy Kelly [71901,73897], SU Secretary: Debbie Nearing [73891], SU Recording Secretary: Alycia McGoldrick [73904], SU Event Coordinator: Angela Danico [71886], SU Registrar:Anne Valade, SU Cookie Coordinator: Kerstin March [71898], Little School Organizer: Barbara Gravel [71876], Batch School Organizer: Michelle Rosenthal [71896], Hood School Organizer: Janice Sarno [71872], Stephanie Musgrave [71868], Kristin Kuperstein [71890/85119], Denise Forcellese [73901], Debbie Hoey [71884], Kerry Lord [71889], Laura Wall [73903], Sandy Griffin [71900], Nancy Vadala [71874], Ruth Kennedy [73899], Sue Kirby [73899], Barbara Duff [ 71902], Janice Gulbicki [71905], Cindy Russell [73917], Michelle Gwozdz [85120], Amanda Heffernan [71888], Christie Perrone [73898]
Items requiring attention are marked in
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ASAP!! Items requiring IMMEDIATE attention are preceded by
"ASAP!" and marked in red
Intro/Announcements
- Meeting was called to order at 7:38 pm
- The Pledge of Allegiance and Girl Scout Promise were recited
Council Updates/Service Team Updates
- Volunteer Agreements are required and still missing for a lot of leaders. A copy can be found off of the blog under "Forms" on the right hand side. These forms can be dropped off with Alycia McGoldrick at 7 James Millen Road, or mailed to her. Reminders to the delinquent folk will be coming soon via email.
- CORI forms are required. A copy of the form can be found off of the blog under "Forms" on the right hand side. These forms need to be verified - which can be done before the next Leader's meeting from 7-7:30 pm. Remember, the applicant must present the form and a license for identification verification.
- We are adding Service Opportunities to the blog - as blog postings and a running list. If you have any ideas, please email them to Alycia (
amcgoldrick@comcast.net). There are 3 recent opportunities: Birthdaywishes.org, H.O.T. Help Our Troops, and 100th Anniversary Patch contest. More info about each of these will be available in separate blog postings.
- We will be mailing a postcard to every registered family to let them know about the blog.
- Meeting Space guidelines - Council wants a copy of your homeowner's policy if you have regularly scheduled meetings in your home
- There are still open Service Team positions for anyone interested. Don't forget that Service Team meetings are open to all - feel free to attend a meeting to get a flavor for what is involved!
- Monday emails will continue - for the time being...though we're trying to get everything up on the blog.
Registrations
- Over 70 new girls and many adults registered for the first time this fall! This is enough to form 5 new troops (4 Kindergarten Daisy troops, 1 1st grade Daisy troop)
- A big thanks to all of those leaders who took on a second troop. We are really desperate for new/more leaders!
- A big thanks to all of those leaders who added girls to their troop.
- Deadline for new registrations is 11/1 (though it is really never too late).
Fall Product/Cookie Update
- 7 troops are participating in the Fall Product sale
- Deadline for input is 10/31. Questions - email Shauna Wagner
- Cookie sales run 12/10 - 1/25
- Cookie cupboards will open 12/10
- Training for Cookie Advisors will be in November.
- Get names to Kerstin March
march.family@verizon.net (she is putting together an email list)
- Booth Sale request for will be turned in AT training
- New cookie is called "Shout Outs" - a Belgian style Caramelized Cookie (the Daisy Go Round was retired)
- Delivery of ordered cookies will be ~2nd week of February
Events
- Discussed guidelines for running events, which ones can be run as fundraisers for a troop, requirements for being allowed to keep the funds, badge workshops, etc.
- Guidelines will be documented and added to the blog as a permanent document
- If anyone has event ideas - email them to Angela Danico
angela@danicofamily.com and Amy Kelly
kellys@majekelly.com. The Service Team will make sure that it fits in the calendar, is appropriate, etc...and then it'll get added!
- Halloween Party - remind the leaders to tell the moms that this is a drop-off event. Daisy leaders can stay if this helps calm the mothers of new Daisies.
- Father/Daughter Event for Daisies & Brownies - will be a Field Day on 11/20 from 10-12. A flyer will be available and posted by Monday!
- Apple Festival - 21 girls came to help out! Thanks to those leaders that recruited the girls - there was a strong showing (even if there wasn't a lot we could help with).
Misc.
- Debbie Nearing still has a few Lost and Found items from Encampment. Email her
bcednearing@comcast.net if one of your girls is missing something.
- Idea of the day - if you have a fidgity girl - give her a pipe cleaner to keep her hands busy during the meeting. Call it a fidget stick!
Outing Ideas
- Corn Mazes - Davis Farm in Sterling, Conners Farm in Danvers - this one is done at night, with flashlights!
- There is a Pumpkin Face Plate Workshop at Look What I Made on Friday (hope you read this in time)!
Next Meeting: 11/16 - we will be in the Town Hall Gym (we got kicked out of our normal room...)
Looking for a Service Project for your girls? Birthday Wishes, in Lowell, is looking for help from local area Girl Scouts.