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     President David Morse without the official bell, sounded the Cowbell.  Rising to the call from Chuck Snipes, we sang “Smile” and “America the Beautiful.”

 

     Dick Berry introduced visiting Rotarian, Paul Hart, from the noon club.

 

     President David passed around post cards received this week including a card from Brodie Hamilton visiting the California ghost town Bodie.

 

     Brodie Hamilton announced the upcoming demotion dinner: June 24, 2018. Mark your calendars!

 

Sgt. of the Day Dennis Lindsay called for Happy Bucks.  Dick Bourne is celebrating Bastille Day and his recent trip to France.  Patsy Inouye is happy that Ken Firestein agreed to fill in occasionally as our photographer for Jim Belenis. Patsy asked for additional Get up and Go reporters.  Chuck Cunningham had a wonderful time at Julia Sway’s wedding in Portland Maine.   Nathalie Minya Mukome is happy with an intern in Zimbabwe and her son turning 8 on Sunday.  John Youmans thanked Chuck Snipes for transportation around Davis.  Rose Cholewinski is happy that she is going for a 10-day trip to Montana with her daughter.  Rose is also happy that John is a fighter.   Carolyn Geanacou has been recognized by the Meb foundation (Meb Keflezighi) to run in the New York City marathon (which she ran in 2009), as a fundraiser, Carolyn is soliciting donations.  Clay Brandow has received 22 notes from folks who read his blog, Clay rounded to 30 and presented a check for the foundation.

 

Larry Greene was fined for moving from Davis to Woodland thus avoiding Davis’ tax increases.  Chuck Cunningham (Cunningham Engineering), Dave Heard (Masson Mcduffy) and Jeff Adamski (First Northern Bank), Gary Johns (Teichert Construction) were fined for recognition in the recent Davis Enterprise insert on the history of businesses in Davis.   Tom Cross was thanked and not fined for the great picture as “umpire Tom” at the plate.   Tracy Stapelton, Davis HS water polo coach, recently noted that Rick Stromberg (former DHS athletic director) was an inspiration.  Jay Brookman received a July 4 honor of winning the watermelon seed-spiting contest with a 30’ shot.

 

President David asked various Committee chairs to provide a short overview of their committee’s:

 

House committee: Dave Heard says set up is easy, but he could use some help with take down and possibly some occasional help with set up (6:15 am each Friday).

 

International Committee: Dave Coop explained that we have two major projects in Kenya.  One project is making and distributing Sanitary Pads to schoolgirls. The other project is rebuild at latrine at a Kenya village school.  The committee will have several other projects over the year.

 

Community Service:  Committee co chairs Mitch Mysilwiec  and Vanessa Errecarte explained that each year begins with a needs assessment based on discussions with various local organizations.  The needs assessment results in a list of projects for the committee, focusing on hands on work, not just sending a check.  The Committee also wishes to appeal to all skill levels.  There is something for each club member to contribute

 

Fund Raising:  Committee Chairs Tim Daleiden and Meghan Likes were not in attendance prompting Dennis Lindsay to provide an overview.  The Club’s largest fundraiser is the Oktoberfest, September 30, second is Ribs and Rotary, which occurs on the third Saturday in May, and then Sergeant’s collections.  The annual goal is about $30k to $35k.   According to Chuck Snipes Trivia Night was a huge success this year with more folks participating; Chuck’s goal is for Trivia Night to surpass “Sergeant’s” fines.  

 

 

     Jim Smith introduced our guest speaker, Prof. Giovanni Perri, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, UC Davis.  His topic “International Migration and the Affect on Labor Markets in Receiving Countries.”

 

     Dr. Perri has made a career of this hot topic.  He zipped through a power point presentation on immigration issues.  He challenged the rhetoric on undocumented and documented immigrants armed with facts, studies and lots of graphs. 

 

    For example: undocumented migration to the US is no longer increasing.  It has been stable for the last several years.  Immigration to the US is lead not by Mexico, but rather China and India.  Immigrates from India and China are mostly people with advanced educations in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM).  Dr. Perri noted that a new wall along the US/Mexico border would be “useless.” Mexicans are less attracted to immigrating to the US due to several reasons including smaller family sizes and a secure US border.

 

     US immigration issues are similar in Western Europe, Canada, and Australia, but not Japan which has a “closed” immigration policy.

 

    Immigrants come to the US to work.  Unskilled immigrants are more likely to work than unskilled US residents. Among unskilled folks with no high school diploma about 30% of US permanent citizens were employed, while 70% of unskilled immigrants were employed. 

 

     The challenge is treatment of our existing immigrants.   Dr. Perri notes that economic analysis of immigration data indicate that there is little or no effect of immigrants taking jobs from native workers.   Joblessness by lessor educated native workers is caused by changes in manufacturing and increased needs for technology.

 

     Dr. Perri recognizes that there are social and culture tensions on this issue.  He suggests that immigration policy focus on facts.  He believes that refuges are a very small part of our economy; we can afford to be compassionate.

 

 

Lots of hands went up; but time for only two questions.

 

John McNamara: Do you distinguish documented vs. undocumented workers?

Dr. Perri’s statistics mostly combine the two into a category of less educated or unskilled workers.  He finds that immigrants in this area are not taking jobs from native workers.

 

Jim Smith asked, what about “Joe bag of donuts” working at a place that makes mobile homes.  He sees an immigrant that looks different, speaks differently, and has different beliefs.  Don’t we need to address the concerns of this type of person?  Dr. Perri agrees, but explained that even if immigration were stopped, the worker would not be better off.

 

Draw of the day: $627 in the pot, Rick Stromberg won a free breakfast.  David Morse struck the Cowbell at 8:03 to end our meeting.