Board Briefs – July 13, 2017 meeting:
Rotarian Rud Bowne attended the Board meeting to present a new Rotary project. In attempting to work with Northwest Youth Services to connect homeless youth with the agriculture community for jobs he unveiled a consistent obstacle. Many of the homeless population have lost, had stolen or do not have proper ID to get jobs, etc.
He explained how our society manages to make it difficult to impossible for many people to obtain access to, ad participate in the most basic aspects of life.
He estimates that there are between 100-200 homeless youth and between 700-800 total homeless in Whatcom County
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He is proposing that we have multiple Rotarians to aid the students to retrieve the information needed to get their ID, i.e. find high school yearbook photo’s
He envisions that in tracking this information down we could contact other Rotary Clubs in the persons hometown to aid in getting this difficult information from high schools, etc.
He is also looking for funding as he estimates out-of-pocket cost to acquire/re-acquire valid “Stand Alone” ID for a homeless person is between $153 to $207 per person.
He was encouraged to look into this further.
New Membership proposal for Felicity E. Dye proposed by Monty McAllister & Dominique Zervas to fill the classification “Telecommunications” was approved by the Classification Committee and the Board of Directors. Unless written objection is received by Sandee Lindhout, 2200 Vining St., Bellingham, Wa. 98229 by July 24th she will be eligible for membership July 25th.
The Board wants to see proposals and inductions be expedited so we will start notifying the membership by email after their approval instead of waiting until the next Tattler is sent out.
Treasurer, John Holtzheimer, presented the 2016-2017 Year End Financial Report
He also presented the 2017-2018 Budget and it was approved by the Board
President Teri Treat explained her new Committee Structure & Assignments. Chairman are selecting their own committee members this year and the chairman are asked to inform her and Sandee their committee names.
She also reported that Board members will no longer track monthly their various committees and report to the board. The committee will report to the membership when they have something to report. Chairman are encouraged to contact Sandee or herself for announcement time.
Monty McAllister reported that our outgoing student, Issy Cybula will be leaving in two weeks. Our incoming student, Ivanna Platt from Hermosillo, Mexico, will be arriving soon also.
The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 4:30 at the Dorothy Haggen Building, floor 3
Ongoing announcements:
If you are interested in becoming a website sponsor, now is the time to sign up. The costs is $300 for one year for a rotating ad on the home page. The link takes people to your business website. There are up to 100 hits on the website per week.
Golfun, the District 5050 fundraiser for the Foundation, is on Friday, August 18 at the Homestead Golf & Country Club. Contact Del VandeKerk for more information.
The first Rotary Rally will be on Saturday, August 12 beginning at 4:00 PM. This will be a fun event, requiring a driver and a navigator and will end with a social gathering. You don’t need a sports car to participate. Nathan Twining is coordinating this event.
On a more somber note, Teri let us know that, club member Roger Barnhart is moving into Silverado Memory Care Community at 4400 Columbine Dr., Bellingham in the Cordata area. Nancy emailed Sandee and said he is ready for visitors and that morning or afternoon are the best times. Also Brad and Sharie Burdick had a house fire over the weekend. Both Brad and Sharie were unhurt but their house has major damage.
Del VandeKerk, District 5050 Assistant Governor, reminded us that 57 clubs in Washington and British Columbia make up District 5050 which offers a variety of trainings and seminars for club members. Del will be publishing dates of District 5050 events in the tattler including GolFun, a fundraiser to support End Polio Now. Del reported that we have one team signed up for the tournament on August 18 at the Homestead Golf and Country Club but that we hope to have two.
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