2. What to look
forward
Council Officers
Training
Nomination
Committee –Dave
Sullivan
Commence
Regional Meeting
– Welcome,
Posting of
Colors, and
Invocation
Best Practices
Northeast,
Central, & South
Florida Areas-
Vargo, Paddock,
& Black

3. Regional Member of the
Year
Council President of the
Year
council reports
retention breakdown
commission affiliates
payment from National
expectations from P, VP, Sec. and
treasurer
National , Regional, Area, and Local
Fundraising, Recognition and State
Reports

4. Membership
Gold (10+) Skip Witunski 21, Bill Dudley 16,
June Moore 12
Silver(5+) Simone Ramos 9, Chris Paddock 7
Regional Member of the Year John Beckett
Council President of the Year Lynn Drucker

5. Council Growth
Net Increase 13 Jacksonville
Percentage Growth 5.30% Key West
Total New Members 33 Tampa
Council of the Year Key West
Council President of the Year Lynn Drucker
Community Affiliate of the Year Konica Minolta

6. in 2013
Tampa 33
Fort Lauderdale 29
Jacksonville 27
Palm Beach 27
Key West 24
St. Augustine 21
Sarasota 20

7. We’re increasing in numbers!
Tampa
New
Members
33
Key West
5.3% age
growth
Jacksonville Net
Growth 13

8. Friday April 11, 2014 SNOWY EGRET 2nd Floor
Meeting Room
4:00 – 6:00 PM Council Officers Training (2nd
Floor SNOWY EGRET 2nd Floor Meeting Room
6:00 – 7:00 PM Social Hour HERRING GULL
7:00 – 9:00 PM Dinner Armani's
Saturday April 12, 2014 SNOWY EGRET 2nd
Floor Meeting Room All Day
8:00 AM -10:00 AM Nomination Committee –Dave
Sullivan Chairman SNOWY EGRET

9. Meeting Break
10:15 AM Commence Regional Meeting – Welcome,
Posting of Colors, and Invocation
10:30 AM -11:30 AM Florida Regional Awards
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Keynote Speaker – Captain Kenneth
S. Wright, Commanding Officer, Navy Operational Support
Center (NOSC) Plank Owner and CO of Seal Team 16
Lunch SANDHILL CRANE
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Best Practices Northeast, Central, &
South Florida Areas-Vargo, Paddock, & Black
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM State Reports-Paddock & Witunski
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Regional Status-Witunski
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM National Status & National Convention
Tampa 2015

10. What we’ve identified last
Recommendations
Finance
Membership
Communication

11. Questions for National
Leadership:
Issues
Communications
Marketing &
&Membership
Challenges
Finances
Refocus to the
core NLUS
missions
Timely
reports
Coordinaton
What we need to
address:
Recommendations:

12. CAPTAIN KENNETH S. WRIGHT
UNITED STATES NAVY
Captain Wright is a native of San Pedro, California and
received his commission through the Naval Reserve Officer
Training Corps program at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) in 1988. After graduating as Class Leader
for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Class 169,
his first operational assignment was to SEAL Team Five
where he completed two Special Operations Platoon
deployments to the Western Pacific. His next assignment
was to Naval Special Warfare Unit One in Guam, serving as
Commander, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit Belleau
Wood. Transferring to Naval Special Warfare Group One in
September 2001, he again deployed as Commander, Naval
Special Warfare Task Unit Esse x His other assignments
have included Executive Officer of Special Boat Team
Twelve, Commanding Officer of Naval and Marine Corps
Reserve Center Encino, Executive Officer and Commanding
Officer of Naval Special Warfare Operational Support Team
Two, Chief Staff Officer for Naval Special Warfare
Operational Support Group, and serving on the staff of
United States Special Operations Command. He twice
deployed as a member of a joint special operations task
force conducting operations in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom. In 2008 he became the plank owner Commanding
Officer of SEAL Team Eighteen, conducting Naval Special
Warfare operations in support of the Central, European,
and Southern Command areas of responsibility. In 2012 he
deployed to central Africa, commanding a joint interagency
task force conducting operations with regional partner
nation forces against Joseph Kony and the Lord’s
Resistance Army (LRA) transnational terrorist group. In his
most recent assignment, he served as the Chief of Staff for
Special Operations Command South.

13. A 2006 graduate of the U.S. Army War
College, Captain Wright is a designated
Joint Qualified Officer and has a
Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace
Engineering and Master’s Degrees in
Business Administration/Technology
Management and Strategic Studies. His
personal awards include the Defense
Superior Service Medal, the Bronze
Star, the Defense Meritorious Service
Medal (two awards), the Meritorious
Service Medal (two awards), the Joint
Service Commendation Medal (two
awards), the Navy and Marine Corps
Commendation Medal (five awards), and
the Navy and Marine Corps
Achievement Medal.

15. FEEDBACK
Email to skip@witunski.com
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