March 18, 2019 Board of Directors Briefs
We have been informed that we must change our location at the Dorothy Haggen Building for board meetings and new board member, Lisa Saar has arranged for us to meet at the Bellingham Legal Center, 805 Dupont St. the second Thursday of each Month.
We want to thank Rick Haggen and the Dorothy Haggen management for allowing us to use the board room since Rick’s Presidency in 1997, over 22 yrs.
Nathan Conant has requested a leave for one year due to business and family commitments. The Board approved with regret. We will miss his beautiful piano playing and the new RCOB Rotary Song he created. Come back soon!
Brad Burdick, Chairman of Las Vegas Night reported that we made a profit of $9,025.19 on the event after snow cancellation, expenses adjusted and donated time. The board congratulated Brad and his committee on a job well done. We also want to thank all the members who helped make this event and fundraiser a success!!
Linda Hinton encouraged the club to help the Boys and Girls club by adopting a baseball field. Apparently the nefarious Sunrise Club has already stepped forward to adopt one of their fields. We don’t want to look bad, do we?
Mark Knittel, member of the International Service Committee presented a request to the Board that was approved and a request for a grant was made to the RCOB Foundation and approved as follows:
- Rise Against Hunger for $5,000. This meal packing project will be held in Bellingham April 27, 2019. This will be a Whatcom County Rotary Project with the Bellingham Rotary Club being the lead. This year it is tied in with District Rotary Work Day. We are going to be asking the membership to match this Grant by April 1st (the deadline for us to make donations). The goal this year is to package 88,000 meals which requires $30,000 to buy the raw materials and 300+ volunteers. The RCOB Foundation has already donated $2,000. This organization is a 501 ©3. The deadline is creating an urgency in the approval of this grant by the Foundation so that the challenge can be made to the membership as soon as possible.
Catherine Riordan presented the following offer to President Sandy: Paul Chappell will speak on “A New Peace to Paradigm: Our Human Needs and the Tangles of Trauma” in Bellingham 4/10 at 206 Prospect St. sponsored by Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center and WWU. She has offered to show us as a “sponsor” at no cost to the club. He is also speaking at the District Conference 4/13. The Board approved showing the club as a sponsor if there is no cost to the club. Catherine will be providing further information to the membership March 25th at the Monday meeting.
Kim Perry, Co-Chairman of the Student of the Month attended to discuss the 2019-2020 schedule. They are planning on changing the presentations from the business time slot to the program segment time and doing three per year, to allow more time for the students. We will also look at the Phil Millard Scholarship presentation date. The board approved.
Monty McAllister reported that we have at least 1 student for RYLA. There is a new 1-month short exchange program and we have 1 student from Spain coming this summer at no expense to the club. They are currently also doing outboard interviews for the 2019-2020 Rotary year.
Monty also gave us thank you notes from Charla Anne Larson, Carla Serrat, Rumbidzayi Machiridza (Rumbi) and Cole Drinkwater for their attendance of YAIL.
Next Board of Directors meeting is April 11, 2019 at the Bellingham Legal Center, 805 Dupont St., Bellingham
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