Tattler Newsletter November 9, 2015 (Nov 09, 2015)

November 9, 2015

Opening:

President Chuck Snyder opened the meeting at 12:30 pm. John Harris played the Star Spangled Banner.

Announcements:

URGENT HELP NEEDED: Can you help pick up and deliver lunches for Rotation Day on November 23rd? If so please contact Lori via email lori@lorimicheleleavitt.com or cell 360 303 4617.

Jim Vos, Chairman of the Bell Ringing Committee, announced that the bells will be run at 4 locations on December 19^th. Sign up sheets are on the tables and will be at next week’s meeting as well. We need 32 Club members to participate. He encouraged everyone to sign up as time allows.

Tom Beaumont provided an update on the clubs contributions associated with the capital project this year. So far, we have received contributions from approximately 46% of the rotary members—roughly 40% toward our goal. He gave a friendly reminder to everyone to make their contributions in timely fashion to achieve our goal.

Football Pool - Seahawks vs. Arizona November 15, 2015 numbers

Board Brief – November 10, 2015

Monty McAllister attended the meeting to ask if the Board was interested in him looking into bringing back the Student Exchange Program that we supported for years. We eventually stopped around 2011 because of lack of hosts and visa difficulties. The club would be looking at an annual budget of around $6,000 per student. The Board is very interested and Teri Treat suggested we look into working with another clubs also. Monty will proceed looking into this by determining if there is membership interest.

The Board discussed a suggestion for the 2017-2018 Major project and will be considered further.

The Stop Hunger Now Whatcom County Rotary Project is set for February 27, 2016 and we approved a club contribution of $1,500, plus a $1,500 matching donation coming from a very generous member of our club, for a total of $3,000. We have additional donations of $7,000 from the other Whatcom County Clubs.

Bob Trunek attended the meeting to ask the Board to approve $1,000 for a Malawi School Project. This was approved.

Wacky Wickets final numbers indicate $12,019.61 in proceeds from the 2015 fundraiser and a remaining $3,4887.50 from the 2014 Wacky Wickets for a total of $15,507.11 available for contributions. The Board approved moving $2,000 to the RCOB Foundation for Service Fund projects and will decide how the remaining proceeds are to be used in the future.

President Chuck reported that we will be featured in December “Rotary Moment” on the radio. He will write up a document featuring our Bellingham Theatre Guild Project and the Stop Hunger Now Project, February 27^th.

Blood Drive: John Moffat/Dale Rings: It appears that 16 units of bloooooooood were donated at the Oct. Blood Drive.

NEW BUSINESS:

We received a letter of resignation and it was accepted with regret from Scott Walker. He is living primarily in Montana and Arizona now.

Next Board of Directors meeting will be held Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at the Dorothy Haggen Building.

Guest of Rotarians:

Brad Burdick introduced John Ingles

Presentations:

New member induction: Kimberly Perry proposed by Larry Halgren and Jim Cunningham to fill the classification "Education: Technical College President"

President Perry’s administrative experience includes, but is not limited to, serving as the superintendent/president of Butte-Glenn Community College District in California, vice president of academic affairs at Los Angeles City College, and six years as vice president of instruction at Reedley College in Reedley, CA. Perry received her doctorate in education from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., and her master’s degree from University of California, Davis. Perry and her husband, Ellis Evans, both enjoy musical theater, country music, fine dining, and spending time with their canine and feline pets.

Program:

We held our Club Assembly where each table selected a note taker and discussed the following topics. If you were not in attendance and would like to have input, please contact President Chuck and any Board of Director.

President Snyder asked each table to take 20 minutes to discuss and provide feedback on the annual fundraising goal and preferences regarding fundraising related to direct contributions vs. events and activities. The notes from each table were turned in to President Snyder.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

What should be our goal regarding annual fund raising:

Should we continue to raise a set amount (currently $100,000) in one major fund-raising effort?

Should it be our policy to set aside money from smaller activities (Wacky Wickets, etc.) to be available throughout the year for projects or needs that arise after we have chosen our major project OR
Should we routinely set aside a percentage of our total raised for the major project (say 20 or 25%) for projects or needs that arise during the year?

What are your preferences regarding fund raising – direct contributions (as we do now) or holding events/activities to raise money? If your preference is events/activities, are you willing to commit to participating in such event(s) by planning, working on, and attending them?

These are weighty questions and need to be considered as such. Results will come soon. Be on the lookout.

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