Meeting minutes 11APR08

*  Rotary Club of Anthem met at the Ironwood Country Clubhouse on Friday, April 11, 2008.  President, Larry Evans, rang the bell at 7:30 a.m. to start the meeting.
*  Members and guests stood to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, sing "It's a Grand Old Flag" and hear a prayer.
*  Doug's Thought for the Day: Phiser (sp?) is in the process of developing a new liquid Viagra cocktail that is mixed with Pepsi Cola.  It can not be called a soft drink, however, because when you pour it yourself, it is a stiff one.
*  Introduction of guests: Don Roberts, Bev Sumner (assist. district gov. of Rotary 5490), Dave White, Alex Thomas and Jerry Sheridan.
*  Barry: Rotary Minute: April is look at your club demographics month.  15% of members are women, worldwide and in our club.
*  Larry: Next week the club will honor those who brought in members during the past year.
*  Bob Ticer: The hospitality suite at the district conference has been booked.  The theme will be Africa / Water for the World.
*  Barry and Tim: Interact reports.
*  Jim: Called for team numbers of Ball Drop tickets sold so far: Ron: 70; George: 50; Doug: 6; Alan: 88; Craig: unknown for lack of cold, hard cash.
    Next Golf Tournament meeting at Boates & Crump office at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 14.
*  Ray: Golf outing at Luke AFB was a success last Wednesday morning.
Next outing scheduled for May 8 in Cave Creek at Rancho Manna.  Sign up on the sheets on each table if you wish to be called.
*  Ron: Indicated that five members would be giving "Who Am I" 5-minute speeches next week: Milan Fortner, Tim Maki, Tom Keck, Bill Irman, and David Livingston.
*  Ray: Reminded members that he still needs signatures in order to run for the Daisy Mountain Fire Council as a non-partisan candidate.
*Claudia: Wants members and significant others to plan to join her and her husband, Frank, at their home for a social event in May.
*  Scott: Said that there will be pre-registration at Fellowship Church for Emma's Run tomorrow.  1,500 people are expected to show up to raise money for charity.  Adults will begin to run or walk at 8 a.m. at a cost of $35 each.  Children will start to walk at 9:15 a.m. at a cost of $5 each.
*  Tim: Plans to go to the Rotary Leadership conference in Prescott on Saturday, April 26.  He's willing to carpool.
*  Happy Dollars collected.
*  Raffle: won by Bob Bradshaw who missed the Joker and $150 pot.
Keith Standerfer: Introduced the two guest speakers: Alex Thomas who works at the Lower Buckeye County Jail in the psych ward, and Jerry Sheridan, a representative of the Arizona Peace Officers Organization who was first appointed by former governor Jane Hull and later by governor Janet Napolitano.
    Alex said that there arae six pods at the Lower Buckeye County Jail; five are for males and one is for females.  At any one time, there may be up to 300 inmates at that jail.  It is one of the most secure jails in the country.  When 20 members of the Mexican Mafia were captured in New Mexico by a police agency other than the Maricopa sheriff's office, those bad men were housed in the secure jail; one prisoner to a cell to keep them from communicating with one another.
    In the psychology ward, each new inmate is given a psychological evaluation by trained medical personnel and given a rating.  Fourth Level rating means that the inmate indicates that he may harm himself.  In that case, all clothes and personal effects are taken away & the inmate put on a cot with a shred-proof blanket to cover up and is watched constantly.  It takes four officers to get an inmate secured to a cot; three to get him down and one to videotape the events.  The video is for future use in case the inmate should bring brutality charges against the officers.  Every few hours said inmate is allowed to get up & stretch.  Level two means that the inmate is not so inclined to harm himself and is usually calmer than those that are at level four.  At level two, the inmate gets a smock as well as a blanket and will be checked every 15 minutes.  Level three watch, the inmate gets his clothes.  
    Jerry spoke about the Special Management Unit (SMU) which houses serial killers and gang members.  Each cell is equipped with a shower, toilet & sink so that corrections officers are not needed to take the inmates out of their cells.  Again, four officers would be needed each time an inmate is removed from a cell.  The usual length of stay in the jail is 29 days; although, some inmates have stayed there up to 18 months.
    Sheriff Joe has a VACANCY sign up outside the jail.
*  Larry rang the bell to end the meeting at 8:35 a.m.
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*  Submitted by Rotary Club of Anthem Scribe, Jan Samar