Club Assembly - October 6, 2016

West Bay Rotary Club Assembly

 

Kristen – Membership invoices went out from October – December.  Please let her know if you haven’t received your invoice.  We have several members that are late in dues in the amount of $2,500.  These funds pay for our bills.

 

Proper Emails – 47 people who have not signed up for myrotary.com

 

On November 17 we will get everyone at the meeting signed up for myrotary

Charitable Foundation – West Bay Rotary Club Charitable Foundation – We give up to $2,500 to grantees in the community.  Mik Mikelson, Kim Milton, Barbara Hurd.  We recently got a $1,000 gift as a matching gift from Athena.  Grant Cycle just ended on October 1 – they contributions will likely be awarded in January. 

 

Community Service – Already completed Toboggan clean up – more work to do.  Habitat for Humanity is starting a project off of Cobb Road in Camden.  Looking at weekends in November.  Community Service meeting (provide details) If you have community service ideas, come to a meeting and let the community know the details.  Doesn’t have to be a weekend.  Community Service manages the vetting of the grant requests. Road Rally details were emailed.

 

Hospitality House – George Abendroth – We have defined a walking path around the property and we are going through to figure out what tools we will need.  Much of that work will be held until the spring.  We will be stepping in to assist with some interior construction throughout the fall/winter. 

 

Heidi – Youth Exchange - Nat Lawson went to district orientation.  We are going to take one year 2017/2018 from long term youth exchange.  We will try to regroup and decide how/if we can rejuvenate that program.  We will continue short term exchange.  We can send a lot more people for short term exchange.  Exchangestudent.org – a link to the short term exchange countries.

 

Jim Potter – Kicked off 2016 entrepreneurship class.  There are 8 participants this time around.  Have a waiting list for additional participants.  October 19 – Peter is on the speaking panel.

 

Polio Walk – October 22.  We are going to do a walk – the route is going to be about 3 miles.  It’s the 100 year anniversary $26.50 – asking all Rotarians to donate $26.50 in

 

Leadership Conference – Lewiston, Nov 5 – Several are signed up.  Please let Peter know if you want to participate.

Camp Capella – West Bay Rotary – is being recognized. 

Youth Leadership in Quebec

We won 2 Best of the Best awards (Best of Knox County) – great way to promote the club.  There’s a silent auction.  Encourage folks to participate.  November 16.

 

Christmas Tree Sales – Trying to grow revenue opportunities by engaging other local charities.  We will be doing more promotion for xmas tree sales to raise awareness and hopefully boost sales. If we can increase sales, then we can focus more time and money on actual community service.  November 3 – Sign up sheets.

 

Club Survey – Developing a survey that allows folks to really share their feelings about events. 

 

International – For a number of years we have supported 2 students at the Camden Conference for $550.  We can send students to the Strand for the life simulcast for $50.  For the same $550 we can send 11 students instead of 2. 

 

Fellowship – Holiday party – sometime in early December.  Looking for a cool, low cost venue.