Meeting Minutes from May 7, 2008
Minutes from the Meeting of May 7, 2008
In Attendance:
Guests:
President Elect Erik Tremblay opened the meeting.
Steve Halyk led us in invocation.
Erik invited us all to go to Woodstock District Developmental Services for our June 11th meeting. We plan to have our dinner and a tour there. WDDS ran our silent auction for our Fish Fry this year. Erik will sign us up. If you are not attending that meeting please let him know.
John gave us an update about our Rotary Medals program. The evening is planned for June 4th at the Quality Inn. Please invite your spouses or significant others as this evening never seems to disappoint! The price is $20.00/person.
John also was ordering golf shirts with the Rotary Logo on them. The sale on those shirts has now ended. For more info talk to John.
Fines and Happy/Sad Bucks:
This evening the Sargent at Arms was Jack Bingham.
Tim - fined for making us rush home from our District Assembly early because he had a planned "social encounter".
John - fined for being late, his excuse was that it was a Rotary reason?
Steve - fined for wearing a pin from his place of employment
Steve - a happy buck for his trip to Aruba. It rained twice. Two seconds each time.
Peter - happy buck
Rama - happy buck because he's going to Texas with Lada next week
Jantine - happy buck for attending the Districk Assembly
John - happy buck that daughter arrived at point of destination safe and sound
Rest of the club - mandatory happy bucks
Rama proposed a fine to Erik for all the troubles with the Kiddie Pool
Rama, Jantine and Erik talked the District Assembly they attended last Saturday. Some of the topics were: Foundation, Treasurers Meeting, President Elect's Meeting, Water and the World and Membership. At the Assembly they talked about this session that they offer to Rotary Clubs called a "Long Term Planning Session". 2 or so facilitators will come out to your club, upon request, to help create a long term plan. It's a free session, about 4 hours long. It works best when 15-20 people from the club participate in this session. All that the club has to arrange is a u-shaped meeting room and food.
They mentioned again how important it is to have our police checks done. If our club participates in any community events that include vulnerable people, this is necessary. Vulnerable people aren't just youth, they are also the elderly and special needs people. Think about all those events that we are a part of, and please get those checks done. We thoroughly enjoyed the Assembly.
The Fish Fry made approximatly $14,600.00. Mark your calendars for the next one on April 18th, 2009!We had a discussion about choosing club delegates for the RI Convention. Pieter and Jantine Stam's names were brought up.
Tim mentioned that at the District Assembly on Saturday, at the Treasurer's Meeting, they said that most clubs include their dinner fees in their membership fees. Tim also brought up that we need to make a decision about our bank accounts.
Next week our Fire Chief Scott Tegler will be here. Please invite your friends to join us for that meeting!
Meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m.