Rotary Club of Bellingham Board Briefs April 12, 2018
New Membership Proposals for Nathan Conant, proposed by Scott Hume & Lynda Hinton to fill the classification “Marketing” and Garrett Jeffery proposed by Scott Hume to fill the classification “Medicine-Family Physician”
They will be eligible for membership on May 7, 2018 unless written objection is received on or before April 28th mailed to Sandra Lindhout, 2200 Vining St., Bellingham, Wa. 98229
Sandee reported that Joe Coons has edited and brought the Member’s Manual up-to-date and personally paid to print off 20 copies.
Sandee, Steve Gray, Mike Diehl and Cathy Buckley attended the recent District Training Assembly in Surrey, BC and learned that it is an RI rule that we must make all Board of Directors Minutes available to the membership 60 days after the meeting. The Board approved making them available from this date forward and the March 8th,2018 Minutes will be placed on the website in the Members Only section. The Financial Reports are already available there.
TREASURER’S REPORT: JOHN HOLTZHEIMER
The March 31, 2018 financials were approved. John reported that there are 9 members who have not paid their 1/1/2018 dues. Teri will make a reminder announcement to the membership. Rotary International and District dues have already been paid out and we need reimbursement. July dues statements will go out May 1, 2018 because of RI and District requiring payment immediately July 1st.
John Holtzheimer asked for permission to investigate getting a better rate for the clubs Savings account and it was given. John, Nathan Twining and incoming Treasurer Steve Gray will work together and report back to the board.
2018-2019 MAJOR PROJECT SELECTION COMMITTEE REPORT
Brian Griffin & Peter Theisen re- visited our Board meeting to follow up with a proposal the 2018-2019 Major Project Selection Committee is asking the Board to consider.
Pete and Brian reported the current status of the Estuary Park project including some previously unknown concerns resulting from a meeting with COB public works. The board thought it best to make no decision at this juncture until further information was received.
An Engineering study costing $15,000 to $20,000 might resolve some of those concerns. Other issues were discussed which dictated that no board decision should be made until clarification can be found. The question of supporting the Estuary Park concept will be put off to a later board meeting but the Committee will make a report to the membership on the meeting of April 23rd.
The project is to improve an old Estuary located in Fairhaven. Brian has found in the1887 Coast and Geodetic survey map of Bellingham Bay, what appeared to be two salt water estuaries where Padden Creek met the salt water.
Teri is still working on finding one more member to appoint to the RCOB Foundation Board and asked for recommendations from the Board.
She reported that Veritas Video has completed a 2.8 minute version of the longer original one. It will be great for recruitment and available on YouTube.
Our website has made great progress and the PR Committee, Chaired by Yvonne Cartwright is working on a New Press Release.
She is very pleased that we have made the Presidential Citation this year, especially on our 100th Centennial Year.
Roland Trenouth, presented a request to the club to consider helping support the resurrection of the Blossom Time or Memorial Day Parade this year by donating to The Marine Corps League. It was announced in January that the Bellingham Chamber of Commerce would no longer sponsor the parade and therefore it was essentially dead. They have raised around $20,000 of the $30,000 needed and are aggressively pursuing other organizations to donate and participate. Unfortunately, the time frame is very short in that the parade is May 26, 2018
Roland understands that The Marine Corps League is a 501c3 (non-profit) organization and if that is the case, we can donate thru the Rotary Club of Bellingham Foundation. The Board approved $2,000 with the contingency that if the event does not happen we would receive the funds back. A Grant request will be made to the Rotary Club of Bellingham Foundation.
The Board was also enthusiastic about getting the other Bellingham clubs involved and participate in the parade. There is a Rotary Wheel on a trailer in Canada and Marysville. Del will look into seeing if the Marysville one is still available. Teri is going to speak to Curtis Dye, Bellingham Bay President to see if they would also participate and Felicity Dye if we could get the Exchange Students involved. Again, the short notice is the dilemma and also it being a long weekend over Memorial Day causes a number of people to be out of the area.
DEL VANDEKERK – PAST PRESIDENT’S REPORT:
Del submitted a Draft for the Memorandum of Understanding between the Rotary Club of Bellingham and the Rotary Club of Bellingham Foundation. The Board made a couple recommendations and Del will take the comments back to the Foundation.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMITTEE REPORTS: ARLIE NORMAN, NATHAN TWINING, MONTY MCALLISTER & PAULA MCCANDLIS
Monty McAllister reported that we have at least 2 RYLA participants attending this year. He also reported that our Incoming Exchange Student, Ivanna Platt, went to Hawaii and Washington D. C. recently with the Dye’s. We still have room for 1 more student.
Nathan Twining reported that the Social Committee is actively working on improving get togethers.
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