2018 - Scout Executive

I began my service as Scout Executive for the Black Hills Area Council in June of 2018.  

Responsibilities:

• • Serve 30 counties in Western South Dakota and Eastern Wyoming

  • Supervise 5 to 7 staff members

  • Recruit Board Members

  • Maintain proper governance

  • Develop and maintain council budgets

  • Develop new and existing staff members

  • Represent the council and BSA at all local events

  • Annual Leadership Breakfast

Accomplishments:

• • Successfully navigated and lead council through 2020 COVID Year

  • Successfully navigated the lead council through the National Bankruptcy

  • Secured and paid Victim's Fund assessment

  • Started tenure with -$235,000 net assets, net assets as of December 2022 was +$170,000

  • Raised $350,000 for debt reduction in 2020/2021

  • Raised $75,000 to $85,000 at annual Leadership Breakfast

  • Paid off Line of Credit in October 2020, did not use thereafter

  • Clean Audits for 2018 through 2022

  • Ended 2018 and 2021 with surplus revenue over expenses

  • Started Medicine Mountain Fun Run special event fundraiser

  • 10% growth in popcorn sales in 2019

  • 7% Membership growth in 2019, 8th in the Nation

  • Unit growth in 2019

  • Personally started the first girl troop in the Black Hills Area Council

  • Continuous +15% gender diversity since BSA tracking began

  • Recruited 19 new Executive Board members

  • Increased the diversity of Executive Board members by gender, ethnicity, age, and geography

  • Restructured staff to a financially sustainable level

  • Record summer camp attendance in 2018

  • Stabilized Scouts BSA camp attendance (1000 youth)

  • Continued to improve camp facilities including renewed trading post and camp office, one latrine, one shower house, painted training center, archery range, and rifle range. Short-term plans to finish rifle range, one more latrine, pump house, and deep well repair

  • Returned over $150,000 of camp revenue to operating budget in 2021 and 2022

  • Graduated from Leadership Rapid City 2018 class

  • Brought back Wood Badge training to the Black Hills Area Council in 2022

  • Successfully navigated a conditional charter in 2020-2021

  • Grew the Order of the Arrow membership from 40 participants to 103 participants, increasing female adult and youth participation

  • 25% of Arrowmen attended NOAC 2022, highest in the country by lodge

  • James E West fellow - 2021