Onondaga District
Activities Committee
Co-Chairman: Scott Maimone
E-Mail: adkscotty@aol.com
The primary job
of the District Activities Committee is the planning and coordination of district
events including participation in council activities. This includes the district Klondike Derby, Spring
and Fall Camporees, annual District Awards and Recognition Dinner, and the
Cub-A-Ree. The committee also is involved
in the tri-annual Council Camporee and to
a lesser extent the International Brotherhood Camporee when it’s on the American
side.
To accomplish this goal the committee is involved in all aspects of planning for an activity starting with recruiting. The staff needed to put on an activity includes, but is not limited to, Activity Chief, Program, Physical Arrangements, First Aid, Publicity, Participation, Awards and Judging, Health and Safety, and Staff Feeding. Each of these positions has their own specific responsibilities and may have their own sub-staff to handle the details of that job. In the past we have primarily used three different types of staffing for activities.
1. The first type of staffing is the traditional method where an activity chief is recruited and he or she builds a staff for the event. The staff members recruited to fill the various positions often include members of the activities committee but may include other scout leaders or outsiders with expertise in a specific area.
2. The second type is a unit sponsored activity. In this case the troop provides all of the staff positions using their available youth and adult manpower. The unit may have to recruit outside it’s own organization to fill the staff.
3. The third type is a youth run activity. To do this the activities committee recruits youth members from different troops to provide the primary staff. A member of the activities committee acts as an advisor to the youth camporee staff to guide them.
A secondary job of the District Activities Committee is to act as the selection committee for the Award of Merit, Spark Plug Award, and the Lamp Lighter Award. Award nomination forms are submitted and the committee makes it’s selections at the April committee meeting with the awards presented at the annual District Awards and Recognition Dinner.