A Little Mentor Problem

[cameron.lynn]

First, this is going to be our second year of competition. Last year was our rookie year, and because our head mentor was familiar with registering and beginning a FIRST team, he took on some of the responsibilities that we wouldn't have been able to accomplish because of confusion and lack of knowledge. Nobody on our team had any experience with FIRST, so he took some necessary steps to get the ball rolling.
However, this year he stepped down from head mentor and is just a regular mentor, and we have a new head mentor. Our new head mentor is more than willing to let us students do some of the work that we didn't do last year, especially since the school board is willing to work with us now and we have a little more experience. Our former head mentor, however, is still trying to take over some of these responsibilities. I know he means well, and he only wants to see us succeed, but how do we make it clear to him that we're ready to take on these responsibilities? We've already tried to volunteer to do some of them, and he just says that it's more of a job for a mentor. We don't want to upset him, but we don't want him to take on more than his fair share.