Called to order by: Pres Garlan

 

Opening Song: R-O-T-A-R-Y

 

Patriotic Song: O Beautiful for Spacious Skies

 

Invocation: Garlan

 

Song Leader: Carla Skinder  Song: April Showers (a couple of days early)

 

Dick Wierwille

 

Lillian Nelson, niece of Ernst Oidtman, Nurse Practitioner and off to California

 

Raffle: Mary Detsch drew 9 of hearts

 

 

David Robinson was awarded his Paul Harris + 1 pin          

Jason Eborn, sponsored by Paul Boucher, and Valerie Armstrong, sponsored by Forrest Cole, were inducted by President Garlan

John Yacavone donated $78 to the Rotary Foundation on the occasion of his 78 birthday

Garlan asked committee heads to get budget requests in

Bruce Pacht noted that registration forms for the District Conference were online at the district site. There is also a form to fill out for staying at the Snowflake: this form is for Rotary’s use. You would also need to call the Snowflake and register for a room. Bruce was annoyed that the hotel would not collect this info for Rotary, thereby requiring the extra form.

 

 

Ron Carr noted that the Lake Sunapee Bank Facebook page has a photo of him accepting a Kindle Fire, won at the Home Show raffle.

On a more significant note, as life changes go, Jennifer Grant noted that she had been with Rob with 7 years. They flew to Hawaii together recently.. As a proper romantic should, he proposed to her. She accepted. (Note that this was properly under Announcements: I’m sure Jennifer didn’t mean to “brag”)

 

Rotary Minute: Paul Boucher on Rotarian magazine: One of the oldest continuously-published magazines in the world: started in 1911. It is now published in 14 languages, and has had 14 Nobel Prize-winners as authors of articles.

 

Speaker: David Juvet, Senior Vice-President of the Business and Industry Association of NH

David is a former Rotarian, and a former Boy Scout. While brought up in Arizona, when he married they honeymooned in the Northeast, and felt they had to come back: two years later they were in Massachusetts, and then New Hampshire: this was 1988!

David is a registered lobbyist. Most of his talk was about the political environment: what the legislature is doing and what impact it has.

It is now Crossover: the time when bills must be finalized and passed to the other side of the legislature.

Budget is $300 million less than requested by the governor. This was achieved by raiding the rainy day and renewable energy funds, reducing various human aid programs, education funds, and DOT funds, which will be $20 million under proposed budget. The Medicaid Expansion program was also dropped, leaving 30-40 thousand people uninsured as of December 2016. The expansion program would have been funded by ½ billion dollars from federal government, covering 100% of inured recipients. However, that would have changed to 90% in 2016, costing NH $15 million. David pointed out that BIA had supported the Medicaid expansion, since it provided health coverage that the NH taxpayer did not have to cover, and BIA was concerned that legislators threw away ½ billion dollars to save $15 million next year. BIA also supported a fuel tax increase, as being a logical way to fund badly needed infrastructure maintenance. This was also not approved.

A Worker’s Compensation adjustment was dropped because two competing bills could not be reconciled. There are cuts to the business profits tax, and another business tax, but both were actually very small.