Minutes of April 24 2019 Business Meeting

Jerry Zdril, President and Chairperson

Roberta Zdril

Pat Hahn

Peter Herz

Scott Phemister

Alan Benson

Deidre O’Ruairc

Jeff Richards

Rhonda Latreille

 

Guest:

Fraser Drummond, Semiahmoo Club

 

Jerry called the meeting to order and introduced our guest, Fraser Drummond.
Scott led the singing and Deidre offered the invocation.
 

Pat offered the Rotary Minute and spoke about the gift of being a Rotarian on the Peninsula.  Rotarians in this area represent a group of good people, integrated into the community, committed to serving in a meaningful way.

Jerry shared for consideration the 2 motions arising from Executive Meeting:

Discussion -- Can we do this through our Society?  Jerry will check with Jeff.

Jerry shared that the Executive passed the following motion for consideration by the full membership.

Moved by Pat and seconded by Deidre that :

Vote at Business Meeting:

 

1 opposed - no abstentions

 

B. Cambodia Project – Some Expense Reimbursement:

Jerry shared the following motion from the Executive Meeting:
It was moved by Jerry and seconded by Pat that :

There was discussion about how best to set this up to keep within Rotary policy.Jeff will provide us with his recommendations.

 

Beer Gardens:
Pat and Jerry meeting with Alex this week about the footprint.  Scott suggested that we allocate our next meeting to serve as a committee planning meeting for Beer Garden.   We will then arrange for a joint meeting to coordinate tasks with other Rotary Club.

Shred it
Confirmation of June 1 at Safeway at Ocean Park.  No dates available for October, so confirmed November 2. 
Scott will send an email to Superstore for November 2 event.

Roberta asked for a copy of the poster for the previous events.  Helps to have telephone number on poster - Deidre offered her number.

Ticket to Ride Dance - October 19
Confirmed

Jerry will bring up at President’s meeting to avoid competing events like we experienced last year.

Projects:

East Beach Clean-up - Saturday April 27
Meeting at ‘What’s Cooking” and will proceed by there. 
Jerry hoping to have T-shirts soon - someone took them for our club from the District Conference.

 

Janet wants to organize an internship for their students to get work experience. 
Jerry, Rhonda and Pat going to meet with Janet next week to learn more about their vision and how this can be developed.

Confirmed the Rotary Field House.  Tickets will be $35 per person. 
Start at 6:30 - applies - stand up event.  8:00 presentation and 8:15 installation and over by 9:30pm.  Have some great items for auction in addition to silent auction. 
Proceeds to Guatemala Project.  Already have over $25,000 raised.

May 17 - Fund raising Gala at Vancouver Golf Course - Black Tie Formal. 

In Memory:
Don Boyce’s Funeral will be held on May 4. 

New District Governor Visit -  August 21
If we want to change the date - need to do this soon.

District Awards
Need to be completed by May 15.

Might want to consider 3 - International Project — Cambodia Project
Avenues of Service - Brian and Chip for their work with Cambodia Award.

Jerry to ensure submission is made.

South Surrey Rotary Installation Dinner:
We still need this event even though Jerry is continuing for his 2^nd of a 2 year term. 

Deidre offered to help Roberta to coordinate the dinner.

Rotary World Health Container Project. 
What if we had a container on our own?  Focus on medical equipment but also ship computers - items for Hospice?  Have to pay for shipping — Jerry to get more information and will bring back to Executive.

Jerry may ask him to come and speak to our club — been here before.

Jeff again brought up the idea of sending a picture of Cambodia Project to Rotary International Magazine for their Cover picture.  Everyone agreed.
We’ll review all the photos available when Chip and Brian return home.

Sgt at Arms. - Happy/Sad dollars.
Scott collected the donations from the group.

 

Jerry provided information about his discussions with Fraser about the fit between Rotary and Toastmasters.  This led to the invitation to come and share the ideas with our club.

Fraser commented that he is a fairly new member to the community.  Simultaneously joined Toastmasters and Rotary, Semiahmoo Club. 

Toastmasters was founded in 1824 - non-profit organization dedicated to personal improvement by learning how to better communicate with confidence.  Fraser recognized how this could positively help individuals in a number of scenarios - both personally and professionally. 

In terms of Fraser’s work with Rotary, he shared that the focus of youth and leadership was more extensive then he realized originally.  They have had a number of remarkable young people present at the Semiahmoo meetings.  He recognized that for every outstanding presenter – dozens of youth are locked in a shell and not able to express themselves and show their whole potential.  Fraser saw tremendous opportunities for offering some of the Toastmasters programs to young people.  Fraser attended the breakout session (at District Training Conference) – about how our 2 organizations can work together. 

Good discussion about the value and fit for the 2 groups.

Fraser thanked us for the invitation to come and speak about these discussions.

Pat thanked Fraser for coming and sharing the information.

Jerry adjourned meeting at 8:30 am.