Mayor Mike Clay

Posted by Bill Lawrie on Sep 06, 2018
Great meeting.

President Ian’s weekly quote: 

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its’ ability to climb a tree, it will live its’ whole life believing that it is stupid.” Attributed to Albert Einstein 

Guest speaker and Mayor of Port Moody our very own Mayor Mike Clay

 

 

Mayor Mike began his talk by saying our Rotary Club does more for the City of Port Moody than any other group. Then he gave us a detailed overview of the City of Port Moody, its history, its growth, its structure and its projects. It was great to get a better overview of everything that goes on to make our City the best in the Lower Mainland. As Mike said he wanted to tell us what people think he does and tell us what he really does. In addition to showing us a sample of a 1 week schedule and knowing how much preparation goes into each and any meeting on the calendar it is hard to see where there are enough hours in a week to do the job. We have a very lean organizational chart for the City Departments but we get great production from the Staff we have. We do trend to be a training ground bringing younger specialists into our different departments where they get to do a lot of different things making them very attractive to other larger Cities when they need to replace retiring officials. It keeps everyone on their toes as there are always new people coming in, bringing their new ideas and getting trained in the Port Moody system. 

 

Guests this week were:  Sven Hansen - 95 years old and unofficial Mayor of Newport Village
 
Jennifer MacKinnon  & Chris Wilson  Coquitlam Sunrise Club members
 
George Balzer - the Mayor of Music for Port Moody 
 
Chris Wilson, attended on behalf of KIDS SPORT
President Ian presented a $1,000.00 cheque to Chris Wilson thanking  Kid’sSport for their volunteer effort helping with the Monday take down of tables and chairs.
Chris was also at the meeting to promote the Sunrise Club’s Amazing Race fundraiser on September 29th
 
 
 
 
  1. Birthday celebration—Ann’s on September 11th and our guest Sven’s (95th) on September 4th. Both got our traditional Club Happy Birthday song.
  2. Steve and Lauralea’s 26th anniversary.
  3. Reminder there will be an opportunity to sign up to help register participants for the Terry Fox Run on September 16th.  Please sign up on Club Runner
  4. Cleone and Brian W announced this year’s RIPS event will be held on Saturday September 22nd at Noon’s Creek Hatchery 9:30-1:00.
  5. Cleone is also organizing a Fall Social for Thursday September 20th from 6-9pm
  6. Cleone is looking for someone to replace her on the Community Service Portfolio as she will be moving into the President’s office in June this year. This will give her 9 months to mentor and prepare her replacement.