We had a few visitors at our meeting:Ty from Binghamton Noon Club, Sal P from the Johnson City Club, Sadie Purdy (prospective member) & Rich Heffner – our speaker today.
Christina thanked all who participated at the JC Carousel Day over the weekend.She referred to our Facebook page for pictures from the event!Richard was the lucky winner of a drawing held at the event and Sal presented him with his winning item – Nintendo Switch!We know his grands will LOVE this!
50/50 was $28 and was won by Steve Miller (Jr)
Fines were a total of $124 & included:
Steve M – donated his 50/50 winnings back to the club
Aaron M – was fined due to his “face” being seen on TV 2 or more times
Art – happy fine due to how involved in our community Aaron is…
Aaron – happy for all our “cool” members being at the JC Carousel Day
Nate – happy to have provided “ADULT” water at the JC Carousel Day
Ty – happy about an event being hosted at United Methodist Church
Carol – happy to report it was her BIRTHDAY!
Kevin – happy to have visited Arizona for a fraternity event
Sal – happy to be going on a trip to Cape May
Ted – happy to have found a check floating around in his vehicle
Lori – happy to have participated at JC Carousel Day & being able to see Nate in need of using a stool to reach a high space – not reserved for vertically challenged only!
Danielle – happy to have been to Morgan Wallen Concert and Ocean City MD
Ike – happy to be back from Florida
Richard – happy to pay a fine for his recent birthday
Aaron – happy to have attended an event at the German Club
Christina – PROUD TO BE A VESTAL ROTARIAN!
Our speaker was Rich Heffner, Vestal Town Assessor!He shared that his reason for relocating to the Greater Binghamton Area was FAMILY!He has 2 kids under 2 years old!His position is an appointed position in NY rather than an elected position in PA, so NEW YORK won out! He has 5 years prior experience in an assessor type of business. In addition to valuing property, assessors have other responsibilities – inspect new construction, approve & track property tax exemptions, review real estate sale data for accuracy to name a few.Rich shared that he expects to have all property in Vestal reviewed within 5 years with a fair & equitable valuation for each property – residential as well as commercial!A LOT of questions came up after his presentation including topics such as where info can be found on valuation, difference between insurance replacement vs assessment values, assessments vs taxes etc.It was VERY informative!
Our next meeting will be held at MHAST for a tour of their new facility on August 10th.You should have received an invite w/ a RSVP required so they get the right amount of food for those planning to attend!DO NOT GO TO CALI GRILL ON MONDAY – AUGUST 10TH – THEY ARE CLOSED THAT DAY!
