New Western Region OA Section Alignments Issued
Out today is the new re-alignment of OA sections for the Western Region.
See the following PDF:
There will be six (6) areas with a total of fourteen (14) sections. I’m not sure how many there are currently. This covers 23,748 OA members.
I know Central region has reconfigured its Areas and my guess is the other regions as well. This is probably in response to a re-org in Western Region. I’m sure there is some bouncing around for some lodges. Locally here, Toledo, Ohio (Erie Shores Council, Tindeuchen Lodge) was in our Area and Section, then out of our Area and Section and are now back in our Area but I don’t yet know about section. Always confusing. Hopefully it helps. I’m sure the OA will adapt.
on August 16th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
(1) Yes, areas are being reconfigured in all four regions. For some time, urban/metro councils were classed separately from the rest and had different area directors. Now they are switching back to having area directors responsible for geographically contiguous groups of councils, including metro and non-metro councils together.
(2) Very odd (new?) numbering system on that PDF–areas are lettered and sections numbered, rather than vice versa. So unlike (also in the new system) Area NE-6 being broken down into Section NE-6A and NE-6B, you have Area W-A broken into Section W-A1 and W-A2. I don’t recall seeing this scheme used before.
on August 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
The list that was posted is complete, except for the names of the section-areas, which are only preliminary. The lettered areas were used in their region’s planning for the council realignment, but these are not the final designators.
I am assuming that they will use W-1A, etc., just like in the last version of the FOG that I’ve seen.
Check back at http://www.oasections.com/WR2008R.html
on August 26th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Although the new areas for the Central Region have been announced, their section realignment has been postponed until next year.
http://www.oasections.com/CR2009R.html
on August 27th, 2008 at 3:58 am
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