This is a no frills backblast summary of our organizational meeting on Tuesday 8/18/21 7pm at the PJS on Magazine St. I am sure if Hawgcycle wrote this – it would be witty and clever but I am neither of those things. I assigned it to the Birdcage AO but this really belongs to ALL AOs.
The rain tried to keep us away, but we would NOT be deterred. Even non-beatdowns happen rain or shine. During the meeting the PAX enjoyed bourbon produced by a PAX member and beer brewed by a PAX member. Seaman brought his own stuff.
The PAX – assembled…Tool, Roots, Catfish, Triple Shift, Mahatma-Ice, Cowbell, Fast Tax, Kuch, Seaman, Vagabond, Sandbar, FracSac, Rudy, Rev Sox and Baywatch. We were missing Hawg and Gabby due to RONA, several PAX out of town, several PAX had other obligations.
Tclaps to Aubry Miller – owner of PJS magazine for reserving the space for us!
The outline of the meeting was…
1. The History of SLT 1.0
-Here I explained how I landed the sweet job of Nantan for the last 7 years-(not really 7 but since we became a region). How Hawgcycle became Weasel Shaker and how Tool, Roots, and Rudy(Comz) ended up becoming part of the SLT 1.0 although we never truly embraced this idea. Instead, we focused on the Starfish and all of us equally stepping up and in when and where needed-along with many other PAX of F3 NOLA over the years. Side Fx, Woz, Amnesty and some other PAX have been part of the “undefined” SLT in the past.
2. Leadership Roles in F3 Nation (typically)
Nantan – Q of the Region “the guy”
Weasel Shaker – Support for Nantan but also the guy that keeps people from weaseling out of things. Q school guru. Finger on the pulse of our region guy.
1st F Q -Fitness: Checks and makes sure we have site Qs, Q schools, checks to see if all Aos are viable,etc. **This is just the surface but you get the idea
2nd F Q Fellowship– Mr Party Pants “the glue” CSAUPS, etc
3rd F Q Faith – Dr Dynamite. This is Qsource, Bible Studies, Shield Locks, Outreach, Service opportunities, etc (This model isn’t compulsory- just what is typically done)
And Comz.
NOT part of SLT but part of the regional leadership are the Site/AO Qs.
Each AO has a site Q – we will start to push for yearly leadership change at each AO.
Site Q duties are:
a.) Manage Q schedule for AO, headlocks Qs.
b.) Welcomes Fngs – gets their information to COMZ
c.) Sells AO, and the mission. Qs when Q fartsacks.
d.) Harass Qs to write BBs. 1 year term.
3. The plan for SLT 2.0 — We spent a chunk of time debating selection of the SLT members outside of Nantan and Weasel. Hawg’s wacky lottery idea and my more normal idea that comes from almost all of the other F3 regions concerning selection of SLT by Nantan and Weasel. The end result merged both ideas.
-Term will start at the CONVERGENCE 10/16/2021
-SLT 1.0 will not be permitted to serve on SLT 2.0
-2 year terms (maybe first two appointees only serve one year so that we can change the rotation of leadership to every year we have 2 new leaders every year)
–New Nantan and Weasel Shaker will be selected by SLT 1.0
–New SLT breakdown will be 2 selections by the new Nantan/Weasel. 2 selections by self selected lottery. If you agree to be in the lottery – you agree to also be selected by new Nantan/Weasel for the two positions of their choice.
–Rudy will be COMZ until we find a suitable replacement – that change can happen as soon as we find “the guy” otherwise our leadership is stuck with him
–SLT 2.0 will need to have meetings (don’t commit to this if you don’t have time)
–I will reach out to the PAX via the weekly email to volunteer to be in the lottery this weekend.
4. The plan for future growth (for the SLT 2.0)
a.) 501c – Tool and the $$, Gaby and Moana
b.) Slack vs Groupme
c.) Growth of AOs in the region (Northshore region plan, Thibodaux, West Bank,etc)
d.) EH Outside our demo
5. CSAUP calendar
a.) IRON PAX – Sept – start getting Pax registered now
b.) 10 yr anniversary in Wilmington, NC aka CAPE FEAR Oct 9/10
c.) Roast to Coast – first weekend in NOV
d.) Go Ruck Vets beatdown in NOV
e.) Christmas Party – Almonaster has the Q
I am looking forward to pushing forward with SLT 2.0. I can’t wait for some explosive growth in 2022. I hope that we can keep our own regional identity and stay true to the starfish and really insist that we are all the F3 NOLA leadership. Also – NO Otisbombs. If you have a great idea for F3 NOLA – you step up and you Q it!
SYITG –
Reluctant Yankee
