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July 13, 2020 Meeting Bulletin
Welcome by President Bill Roy at 12:00 pm
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Song: America the Beautiful – lead by President Bill
• 4-Way Test recited by all members
• Weekly Invocation/Inspiration: Linda Hatfield- provided inspiration through a beautiful poem
• Guests: Greg Ross, Nancy Sovran
• Birthdays: Rich Shapack, July 9 (belated) Molly Swart, July 18
• Anniversaries: Rich and Harriet Shapack (51), July 6; Nave and Gary Grewal (21), July 4; Bill and Sharon Roy (49), July 3
• Volunteers:
• Invocation/Inspiration: Linda Hatfield
• Bulletin Editor: Marsha Kovacs
• Host to Speaker: Dave Underdown
2 Minute Update: Bryan Frank – discussed endowment and presented $2500 check to Nancy Sovran from Wish Upon a Teen. Nancy reminded the group how her group decorates hospital rooms for teens that are going to be in the hospital long term. She also mentioned they weren’t able to get into hospitals until recently with COVID. She thanked us for the donation.
• Invocation/Inspiration: Linda Hatfield
• Bulletin Editor: Marsha Kovacs
• Host to Speaker: Dave Underdown
2 Minute Update: Bryan Frank – discussed endowment and presented $2500 check to Nancy Sovran from Wish Upon a Teen. Nancy reminded the group how her group decorates hospital rooms for teens that are going to be in the hospital long term. She also mentioned they weren’t able to get into hospitals until recently with COVID. She thanked us for the donation.
Bryan also reminded us that we have money set aside for COVID related opportunities and encouraged anyone to request the grant money if they know of an organization working on COVID.
• Membership Minute: Linda Hatfield – Linda welcomed Greg Ross and is sending him an application
• Treasurer Update: Regan Gilshire – Regan indicated that the invoices for this years dues have been sent and about half of our membership has already paid. She reminded us that there is a credit being applied due to cancelled lunches and how we can donate that credit to Polio Plus, endowment, etc. She also discussed future credits depending on when we start lunches again.
• Virtual Happy Hour: July 14 at 5:30 pm via Zoom – Bryan will send out notice. Theme is wild and crazy backgrounds.
Announcements
• Don’t Forget About Us… Supporting Nonprofit Service Clubs during COVID-19 article by John Westerheide
• Don’t Forget About Us… Supporting Nonprofit Service Clubs during COVID-19 article by John Westerheide
• Hope Warming Center Thank You From Director Elizabeth Kelly - new beds are starting to arrive
• Birmingham Rotary Donates to Hope during June-Carol Peterson – Carol took some needed breakfast foods to Hope Warming and will contact them to see if they need anything further
• Letter from visiting Rotarian regarding Rotary Tiger – Rotarian from Indiana saw Tiger and sent note asking about it. Thought it was great way to get Rotary noticed in area.
• Ad Hoc Weekly Meeting Venue Committee: Joe Bauman and Bryan Frank. Bryan and Joe have contacted many facilities and are waiting for 8 proposals to see if any of them work for our club. They indicated that because more cleaning and more staffing are necessary due to COVID, larger spaces are needed to social distance, and buffets cannot be used, restaurants are struggling to provide lunches to large groups at lower price points. Several members mentioned possibly boxed lunches or catered lunches at the library.
• Members, please recommend speakers to Wendee Haugh and David Underdown. We have speakers for July but are looking for speakers for remainder of year.
• Board Meeting July 15 via Zoom- all invited to attend
• Committee Chairs/Others Updates – no new updates
• Committee Chairs/Others Updates – no new updates
• Club Goals for 2020-Message from District Governor - Bill Roy
Bill discussed some goals for the year but also indicated goals are hard to set until we know what will be happening with COVID.
- Club membership – 55 is the goal. Alicia Green is leaving our club
- Service participation – 30 members is goal. Discussed several of our service programs but not sure how many of them we will be able to do this year with COVID. Regan is still planning to give away Turkeys at Thanksgiving. Hopefully we can ring the bell for Salvation Army. Bill asked group to suggest other service opportunities. Discussed possible opportunities at Micah or Habitat.
- Literacy – Not sure if schools will open this fall. Paul Toepp is investigating reading by zoom. Paul is also taking over Interact Club
- Rotarian Action Groups – would like our members to participate
- Attend district conference and training
- Develop and update strategic plan. Our plan is done but we should meet to see if we need to update for the year.
- Social activities – 6 events is goal. 1 per quarter and 2 special. Perhaps a golf outing in fall can be one.
Bill discussed some goals for the year but also indicated goals are hard to set until we know what will be happening with COVID.
- Club membership – 55 is the goal. Alicia Green is leaving our club
- Service participation – 30 members is goal. Discussed several of our service programs but not sure how many of them we will be able to do this year with COVID. Regan is still planning to give away Turkeys at Thanksgiving. Hopefully we can ring the bell for Salvation Army. Bill asked group to suggest other service opportunities. Discussed possible opportunities at Micah or Habitat.
- Literacy – Not sure if schools will open this fall. Paul Toepp is investigating reading by zoom. Paul is also taking over Interact Club
- Rotarian Action Groups – would like our members to participate
- Attend district conference and training
- Develop and update strategic plan. Our plan is done but we should meet to see if we need to update for the year.
- Social activities – 6 events is goal. 1 per quarter and 2 special. Perhaps a golf outing in fall can be one.
•• Q&A - none
• SMILE
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• Next meeting: Monday, July 20 at noon Via Zoom
• Next meeting: Monday, July 20 at noon Via Zoom