Business Meeting – July 22, 2015
Attendance:
16 of 25 members attended.
Schedule:
See the Upcoming Events section on the left side of the Crete Rotary home page. You may click on a specific event to get more details.
July 29 – District Governor Rod Bates will meet with the club. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND.
August 5 – Dr. Dick Dudley will bring Chinese teachers who are at Doane for two weeks. The teachers will be immersed in workshops to learn teaching methods that will enhance the teaching of English in their classes.
Treasurer’s Report:
No report.
Club dues of $65/six months were due July 1. Our local dues include per-member amounts that we pay to both Rotary International and Rotary District 5650. Please pay your dues promptly.
Picnic Table Project:
Tom Parker built a prototype picnic table to better understand the work involved. We will determine a plan for cutting the parts and then assembling them. Bret Schroder will contact the City of Crete with regards to placing tables at Rotary Park.
Saline County Fair:
We had 16 Rotarians volunteer to work 38 different assignments at the fair. Most of them helped pick up aluminum cans and plastic bottles for recycling.
Recycling results:
2015 – 173 pounds (21 bags) of aluminum cans, 7 bags of plastic bottles.
Cumulative since 2003 – 2,136 pounds of cans, 105 bags of plastic bottles.
Program:
We held a Club Assembly to discuss plans for the upcoming year. John reviewed some of the specific club goals for 2015-16.
• Foundation giving = $2,500 (every member gives, average of $100/member)
• Polio giving = $35/member (give or get)
• Establish an Interact club (start with 4 RYLA students?)
• Make our club appealing to current & new members
We discussed committees for the year and came up with the following:
• Foundation
– Raise awareness of The Rotary Foundation (TRF), track contributions
• Public Relations
– Boomerang – edit and publish. Members will submit articles, in particular the member who arranged the program for a meeting.
– Crete News articles as appropriate
– Publicity
• Membership
– Create a plan to retain current members and get new members
– Identify changes to make Rotary more appealing
• Program
– Members will be responsible for arranging programs one month each year.
– Program “Chair” will coordinate our monthly schedule with regard to programs and service projects.
• Service
– Identify and schedule service projects. Coordinate with the Program Chair.
• Fundraising
– Manage the Grocery Grab.
– Identify how we will raise $2,000 for the picnic table project.
– External efforts for End Polio Now?
• Youth Programs
– Coordinate recruiting and selecting students for RYLA and scholarships.
– Start an Interact Club at Crete High School.
• Social
– Coordinate plans for the annual Christmas party.
– Identify and implement other social activities for the club.
Club members volunteered for one or more committees then we broke up into small groups to discuss specific committee actions.
Committee assignments identified at the meeting were:
• Foundation
– Mary G, Jim F, Cody V
• Public Relations
– Alec E, Jack T, Judy H
• Membership
– Cody V, Jack T
• Program
– Chair/Coordinator – Vicky J
– All members will be responsible for programs for one month each year.
• Service
– Tom S, Chris D, Bob G, Jack G, Craig S, Tom P
• Fundraising
– Chris D, Tom P, Barb H
• Youth Programs
– Judy H, Alec E
• Social
– Jill M, Chris D, Tom P
If you were not at the meeting and did not submit a committee preference, please contact John Lothrop to volunteer for one or more committees. Since we want all members to participate, you will be assigned to a committee if you do not volunteer.
