Muir District
Mt. Diablo Silverado Council
Boy Scouts of America

Leaders:

• Jennifer Rupert
  1st Vice Chair, Concord
• Mike Warriner
  2nd Vice Chair, Martinez
• Derek Pizzagoni
  3rd Vice Chair, Clayton
• Patty Hargreaves
  Ayers Tiger Den Incubator
• Kathy Bernard
  Las Juntas Tiger Den Incubator
• Donna Dunn
  Westwood Tiger Den Incubator
• Lynn LeFevre
  Webelos Transition, Martinez
• Marcielle Cundiff
  Martinez Unified School District
• Eileen Ladarre
  Mt Diablo Unifed School District
• Jill Hecht
• Ian Greensides
• Lisa Trott
• Bob Espinosa
• Carrie Grothman
• Jerry Geronimo
• Jim Hefferman
• Daniel Huang of Contra Costa Times

Membership Committee Overview:

1. Organizing new units
2. Recruiting new members for existing units
3. Guiding program transition
4. Stopping dropped units
5. Increasing tenure-more youth reregistered at unit charter renewal

1. Gather information about the district.
• District membership and population trends over a period of years.
• A listing of community organizations functioning within the district, and information about each.
• A community-by-community youth survey for Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturing.
• A listing of all units that have not added new members during the past 12 months. This may indicate other problems in these units.
2. Develop a plan for membership growth.

At the end of each year the district needs to use the above information to assess its membership situation, then develop a plan for the year ahead.
These are some of the questions to be answered:
• How many new units are needed to serve the available boys and young adults?
• How many units can the district organize in the next 12 months?
• How can we make our membership more representative of the community?
• In which community organizations will these units be organized? Who will organize each, and under what schedule?
• Which units need to be reorganized, and who will reorganize them?
3. Use special membership approaches where appropriate.
• Together plan?
• Roundup?
• School nights?
• Impact plan?
• The relationships conference?
• Who will carry these out?
4. Use special relationship efforts.

How will the district develop closer ties with community organizations? (Both those that now operate units and those that do not.) Will the leaders of those organizations be brought together in a conference? Who will do it?
5. Secure the cooperation of those responsible for other district functions.

Membership growth is a concern of the entire district. Commissioners can help unit volunteers understand why the district is interested in membership growth and alert other district volunteers to units needing reorganization. The assistance of skilled volunteers in training is needed to train the leaders of new units, reorganized units, and new leaders in existing units. Volunteers who specialize in camping need to be alerted to the camping needs of new and reorganized units.