Meeting Minutes 15 May 2019
An enjoyable meeting with an indeterminate number of attendees. Nooka was so dismayed at Robert Coffey’s handling of the Footy Tipping in his absence, that he was in a mood which could only be described as ”funny". Winnings have been paid out to 4 people who got nine. How could this happen? And instead of using names, Robert had apportioned a number to everyone so that he could keep track of things. A number? A number! And so when pressed for the attendance,…. "Who cares? It's just a number!"…
But we got past that and welcomed “The Life of” Riley as a guest again. Great to have you along Paul. Guest speakers were Rob Coffey and James Mepham reporting on the Peace Concert. Some great names among the bands…. "The Naked Waiters"…. Reminds me of my university days with "Frozen Doberman" and "the Fish John West Reject"… 360 tickets were sold for around $10,400. The budget was traditionally $6000 with $3000 for the bands and $3000 to be Lighthouse Theatre. Selling 200 tickets was the breakeven point. But the Lighthouse now costs $5300 being $2200 for the venue and $2100 per staff. So the total cost of putting on the event is now over $8000 meaning we made only $1800 on this occasion. There were however some abnormal costs including stick pins for award winners, and the drinks which were put on. Robert recommends raising the ticket from the $35 it has always been, to $40. Perhaps consider varying ticket costs depending on the position of seats?
Credit to James for his multimedia work which greatly contributed to ticket sales. Indeed James own presentation during lunch was a real eye-opener to those of us who don't live on Facebook. Prior to the event it had been thought this might be the last Peace Concert which is why we went with Peace awards. But the event went off so very well that it is proposed to repeat the concert next year and repeat awards, but with less in number. Rob points out that award winners provide an array of potential Rotary members.
The new arrangement for Fines continues to work seamlessly, with still no sign of Rowan O'Brien who was away for another month*. So Bomber Raymond was immediately fined again, and then with one fine from President Lewis we raised enough money to call it quits and go back to work/the rest of the day. His fine?.... On every person who didn't attend the Group 5 Social Day at Portland. Well done Lew.
Robbo
*For members not up to speed, here is the story in brief. Penno has been making a big contribution to the Central Spoke recently, and has introduced some ideas that are much better than what your editor has been doing for years. One problem we had with the old roster was that the designated fines master often wasn’t at the meeting. Penno came up with the idea that each week the fines master would choose who would be fines master for the next week. The idea was that this would ensure we selected someone who would be there the following week.
Penno’s plan kicked off on the first week with Bomber choosing Rowan to be fines master for the following week. Rowan agreed, but neglected to mention that he was about to jet off to Europe and wouldn’t be back for several months. Ahhh, yes Penno, don’t you just love it when a plan comes together!
Hola Penno! Rowan and Lorraine
enjoy sangrias in Porto.
