President John Bolto welcomed Rotarians, and all joined for the Singing of the National Anthem.
John Thornton was present hence the singing was sort of acceptable.
Business Lunch – 155 attending to date, target 220. Email sent replies expected this week to firm up numbers with 3 weeks to go.
The Parkinson’s “Walk in the Park” had a few RCD attendees for a very pleasant morning.
Rotary Leadership Institute – nominations please? 4 attendees this year.
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Visiting Rotarians and Guests:
Pres John warmly welcomed the guests to our meeting;
- Bill Charlton - Rotary Club of Peth
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Apologies and LOA: 32 members and 1 guest were in attendance. 9 + 5 apologies & 9 LOAs, 3 late apologies and 3 no response!
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Question of the Week:
Q: What role does the Rotary Legislative Council play?
A: Every three years, Rotarians meet at the Council on Legislation to review and vote on proposed changes to the legislation that governs Rotary. They consider enactments, which change Rotary’s governing documents, and position statements by the RI Board. Chris Cole and his table came close to this answer!
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Family & Friends Announcements:
No news.
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Birthdays & Anniversaries: Richard Ranshaw
Richard announced the following birthdays and anniversaries:
Member’s Birthdays;
- Stuart McCourbrie - 17 September
- Steve Halbert - 20 September
Partners Birthdays
- Bec Robertson - 18 September
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Members Attendance: 32 members at 56% attendance rate.
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Committee Reports and Announcements:
Charitable Trust (Russell Hawkins)
The Trust had a meeting this afternoon and it is going very well with a pretty good share market at the moment. The portfolio is very positive. The AGM is on 28 October 2019 and all members (which is pretty much all members of RCD) welcome to attend. The audit is currently being done. They are checking out organisations for DGR status and if ok plan to donate $20,000 to a variety of charities.
Russell is sourcing some great wine at the right price. Stay tuned!
Secretary (Craig James)
Craig received a unique communique from District today. The District is looking for all clubs in the two WA Districts to support the Greenbatch Foundation which would play a role in the education of recycling plastic and hence support the Greenbatch Plant! More info to members will be circulated shortly.
Club Service: (Anthony McGrath)
No report
Community Service: (Tim Humphry)
Tim Humphry also noted that the Polio Coin Collection day is 19 October 2019. Pretty good numbers for the collection just need a couple more.
Vocational Service: (Michael Bisset)
Michael Bisset noted that we are down on numbers for the Business Lunch - please get a table together!! Important.
The meeting was held for Vocational Service this evening. John Thornton (who is not on the committee) joined them and had a number of great ideas!
Rotary Foundation & International Service: (Peter Webb)
Peter was getting over jet-lag. Maybe more info next week!
Public Image: (Kevin Jackson)
Holmes a Court collection visit on 10 Oct 2019 (max 30 people). It is in Douglas Street West Perth. It will be a wonderful event. Also includes a special art event featuring Lesley Meenie - An artistic Journey. $50 per couple.
Jon Steward noted the visit to the Harry Perkins institute on 18 September, 10 am -12 pm. Meet at 9:45 am. He will send an email to all people on the list. Meet in the lobby.
Kevin has organised for Trevor Fisher to speak at our club next year. He is from Busselton Rotary and their Men’s Shed guy. He is currently the WA Volunteer of the year.
Youth Service: (Kim Smith)
He and Michael Bisset went to the Rotary Citizenship awards - 5 RCD members are mentors. Most mentees are doing their MBA. The point is cultural exchange and assisting the mentees. The mentees will be required to visit the club and help in a couple of fund-raising activities.
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A photo of the DRC, Rotary Global Citizenship Awards (RGCA) mentees taken at the Induction Sundowner held on Friday 13th September 2019.
The Mentees (with DRC Mentors in brackets) are from left to right: Tuan Pham ( Kim Smith); Kuenley Dorji ( Tim Humphry); Barbara Murerwa ( Leon Lorenzon); Sonam Dorji ( Michael Bissett); and Deewan Gurung ( Peter Panek). Over the course of the next 12 months, the mentees will be involved in our club fundraising activities, events and the occasional Monday night dinner. Please make them welcome!
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Youth Committee meeting tonight.
Michael Bisset has already raised $30k towards the Science & Engineering Challenge!
Other Announcements
No others.
President’s Report: President John Bolto.
Pres John noted the following
Greenbatch collaboration partner opportunity, access to a portion of the $160m pa to be distributed to the community through the Container Deposit Scheme commencing in June 2020. Want to raise $150k by Nov with our contribution $3.5-4k on a per capita basis.
Make FASD History – collaboration of Patches and Rotary. This collaborative approach and having Aboriginal people supporting the community has led to the successful decrease of alcohol consumption from 65% to 15% over 8-years for Aboriginal (First Nations People) & non-indigenous pregnant women.
No More Homeless Inc – Eliminate Type 4 Homelessness through affordable housing delivery.
St Yarad’s School, Addis Ababa – new school Assoc. with the orphanage of the same name that has been running for some time and supported by Jacqu Gilmour, speaker 21st October.
Christmas Cocktail Party booked for the 9th Dec at the Weld Club.
Shark Insurance – Steve Halbert’s idea to sell shark attack insurance as a fundraiser.
Dick Smith compassionate grants (local) - $1m extra on $ for $ matching grants
Breakfast event to hear from the WA Auditor General - Ms Caroline Spencer - about “Access to State Managed Mental Health Services in Western Australia”, 7 am 9th Oct at UWA Club.
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Sergeant: Sergeant (Tony Chien)
The second time Tony has done this role. Fines were as follows;
- Arrivals Tax - Jock Laurie & Peter Webb.
- Car Bingle - Neil Wilkie.
- Eagles supporters because they save money NOT going to a Final!
- Those who DIDN’T go on the Parkinson walk.
- Liberals voters because their Franking Credits are safe!
- Trevor Gorey trying to ap only $30!
- Russell Hawkins for parking in the Women’s Captains spot!
- Ken Ilett for NOT fining himself for good golf last week.
- Brian English for a good farming season!
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Club Forum: Pres John Bolto
John circulated his “Why Rotary & Why Meetings” result sheets from the last Forum.
Some ideas and comments from various members follow;
- We should get a better alignment of vision of what we do as a club.
- Committee meeting should talk about our vision
- Two big projects that we have been doing are coming to an end. What do we want to do now? Please bring your ideas for projects to us.
- Consider taking on a Big Project
- How do we Fundraise outside the club? The Science & Engineering Challenge shows that we CAN do it!
- Do we need to change our Committee Structure so that we have Club Admin & then Project Committee(s)?
- Look at allocating people to where they want to go.
- Note that the current Committee Structure is so the Board gets feedback.
- Look at a re-vamp of Club events so that they don’t get stale.
- Look to do other things with other Rotary Clubs - power in collaboration.
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Future Events: President John Bolto
- Next Week – Rev Dr John Sheperd – Partner & Guests Night
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- Next Week’s Sergeant – Trevor Gorey
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- October 3rd – Business Lunch
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- October 7th – Alice Mabin – Asia Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year
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THANK YOU
President John thanked;
- NCG staff Denise & her team
- On Par Caterers
- Club Sponsors
- Our guest Bill.
Recognise our very generous Sponsors;
- Lizzy Bee-supplier of flowers
- Butler Settineri – Hon Club Auditors
- Paragon Consultants -Our Foundation’s Auditors
- PSZ Accounting for providing Xero Accounting software and Sharesight Portfolio reporting software to the Charitable Trust.
He called on members to recognise RI President Mark Maloney’s Presidential theme for the year, “Rotary Connects The World” and to Salute the Flag.
