Re: District subdivisions
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Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:35:24 -0600
Thanks, both Pete and Mike, for the corrections.
Peter Farnham <pfarnham@CAPACCESS.ORG> (and "Professor Beaver",
Mike Bowman) wrote in separate postings:
>Mike I think misstates his numbers for the old (now non-existent)
>George Washington District of the NCAC.
I did. I've been trying to find a copy of the District Summary
that Tommy Thompson, the ADC I worked with, provided me when I
first "signed on" there back in '91. Tommy went onward to serve as
the District's Commissioner later that year.
The one thing I could find right off, was an "Area Summary" of just
the units in the Alexandria part of the George Washington District
(one of 13 ADC "areas" within the District): we had 23 units and
555 youth (which I quickly equate with a *regular District*!); so a
simple multiplication by 13 yields 300 units and 7200 youth (give
or take away a couple of units and a couple hundred youth).
It's REALLY OFF from what I stated earlier:
"The District at one time had more than 4000 YOUTH (no fooling!)
and more than 1200 UNITS scattered out in two counties in northern
Virginia."
Off quite a bit on both units and youth served. Sorry, gang!
>At the time it broke into three districts, GWD had about 185 units
>and more than 6,000 youth. It included Alexandria, VA, and almost
>all of Fairfax County, VA. Anyway, on June 1, 1998, the GW
>district went out of existence; it was replaced
>by the Colonial District, the Old Dominion District, and the
>Patriot District.
>
>IN any case, Mike is right that the old GW district WAS one of
>the largest districts in the entire country--larger than some
>councils, I understand.
Very easily, Pete, when a PART of a District could easily become a
District in its own right!!
>This is why it was split up by NCAC as part of a Council
>long-range plan. IN fact, all of Northern Virginia was split up,
>from 4-5 districts (I think, maybe a couple more) into 17 new
>ones.
>
>The idea was to get the Northern VA districts ilnto line with the
>norms natiaonally, which apparently are around 2,000 -2,500 youth
>and 60-80 units.
The last numbers I had (from 1996) had us down to 1400 +/- and 53
units +/-. Judy, Ted; you two know what those numbers (the "ratio
of professional to unit to youth") are now??
>So far, it's working out pretty well, too. It's nice to have a
>district small enough that you can get to know most of the unit
>scouters, and recognize boys from the different units at camporees
>and other district events.
Both of my fellow Beavers also would agree as the Professor wrote
earlier, that it makes it easier for the smaller District to find
locations and facilities for District-wide events and it makes it
easier to manage the youth attending the event.
Thanks, guys, for correcting the exerggrated numbers!
Settummanque!
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