Meeting May 19, 2016

Nicole Kreutz led us in the Flag Salute today.

 

Jeff Burgh announced that our opportunity drawing prize was a gift card to Larson's.

 

President Bruce recognized Pete Gallagher for his new wheelchair and Joe Strohman for wearing a tie today instead of a bow tie. Joe let President Bruce know that this was the second meeting in a row that he has worn a tie.

 

President Bruce thanked Joe Strohman for the great job Joe did in organizing the 4 Way Test Essay Contest.

 

Todd Juvonen gave our Inspirational Message followed by our joke of the week given by Jordan Eller.

 

Jordan Eller reminded us that scholarship interview are next Monday and Tuesday and that Jordan needs volunteers to chaperone those evenings. Judy & Colin Hoag volunteered for Monday and Alison Thompson will do Tuesday.

 

President Bruce asked for volunteers to fill out the duty roster for the remainder of the year or Michelle Cekov will just start volunteering you!

 

President Bruce thanked the people who scheduled our programs for the last year. President Bruce thought the program rotation worked out well. Bob Pazen will be scheduling programs for the 1st quarter of Husam's year.

 

President Bruce reminded us about the Push em Pull em parade on July 4th. This will be the 40th year we have organized this parade, please think about what we can do to get better PR and fundraising at this event.

 

The next board meeting will be June 2nd instead of June 1st.

 

Dave Anderson spoke about the Step Down dinner on June 12th at the Wedgewood Banquet Center from 6 - 9pm. Please sign up on the sign up sheets being passed around if you haven't done so online.

 

We had a visiting Rotarian today from Ventura-South, Nkosi Khumalo.

 

P.E. Husam Hishmeh let us know that the Board Retreat would be an Husam's office on June 18th starting at 11:30 then off to a BBQ at Husam's home afterwards.

 

Jim Word gave us a few words about water. If you live in Santa Paula, Oxnard, Thousand Oaks or Westlake you will get State Water ... the rest of us are in big trouble. Lake Casitas is at 40% capacity and we will have to conserve another 30% this year. The really bad news is that we are halfway through an 8 year drought. 75% of Ventura County gets its water from the Colorado River or State Water. 

 

To answer the question about desalination, it takes 14 years to get desal on line. Calleguas water is halfway through construction of a 30 mile brine line.

 

Midge Stork conducted the raffle and our winner was Jim Emch!!!

 

President Bruce asked everyone to take a Club Roster Information sheet and bring it back completed next week.