May was a
busy month for the flotilla and the summer months will be no less active.
The busiest
area in May was public affairs. We gave
presentations to the Lee County Sheriff’s Marine Enforcement Division and the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Marine Enforcement Department. The flotilla conducted vessel safety checks
during National Safe Boating Week at Fish Tale Marina and Lover’s Key Boat
Ramp. Our final promotional event was the successful training demonstration
with the MH-60 Jayhawk from Air Station Clearwater. I hope everyone had an opportunity to see the
coverage on Channel 5 WINK News.
Our flotilla
dashboard shows that we are ahead of our goals and in some cases we have
already exceeded our annual goals.
We have
conducted 14 speaking engagements this year and may have as many as 34 by
year’s end. We planned two other
promotional events for the year and we have organized four.
We’ve
sworn-in nine new members, which is 60% of our annual goal. We’re at 78% of our annual program visitation
goal and 60% of our annual goal for vessel safety checks. Public education has achieved 90% of its goal
of graduating 120 students for 2012.
Member
Training will offer another class for telecommunications operators beginning
June 21. An instructor development course (IDC) starts August 13 for six weeks
of two-hour classes.
Last of all,
I ask each of you to help with our primary goal of recruitment. If you know of any organization that would be
interested in learning what the Auxiliary is and what we do, please contact Jim
Mayer
I thank all
of you for your hard work. As always, we
are Semper Paratus.
