MAY BOARD MEETING NOTES

Directors' reports -

• Dave Ercolano - Membership - The Board approved membership applications for Tammy Miller (sponsored by Charlie Menoher) and Doug Tooley (sponsored by Bill Haedrich). Both can now move through the orientation process, with Laura Redwyne also if she hasn't yet started.

• Glenn Rank - Community Service - nothing new to report. Looking forward to the Visioning process moving forward with the whole club weighing in on next year's planning.

• Chad Thompson - Foundation - excused absence 

• Denise Yergenson - Public Relations - Denise is sending a group email out each time she updates the website. Very helpful to keep all as informed as possible!

• Ken Miller - Youth Service - excused absence

Old Business --

• Anniversary Party/Scholarship Fundraiser Results - Charlie & Allyn - The Scholarship auction itself netted more than $18,000 and once other donations are added to that, Allyn expects the club's net contribution to our scholarship fund to exceed $20,000 for this fiscal year. Charlie will send thank you letters to donors. Bev will get a giant thank you card to circulate for the McConnell Foundation, and regular cards for other non-member participants in the event.

• Visioning Update - Charlie - Charlie and Allyn are finalizing the program to bring the Visioning process forward to the entire club on June 2^nd.

• Bylaw change(s) update - Keith - We don't need to make any bylaw changes to accommodate a change in practice regarding our Nominating Committee. It was Board consensus that from now on that Nominating Committee will be comprised of the immediate Past President, current President and President-Elect of the club. Past practice had the Past President and 2 prior presidents responsible for the task and it was proving problematic to convene that group, which had not been in the governance mode for so long.  We WILL need Bylaw changes to reflect RER's change in organizational structure. You'll recall that last fiscal year we implemented the new club organizational structure recommended by RI on a trial basis. Board consensus is that the new structure is proving very successful. Keith was charged with bringing forward revised language so we can amend our Bylaws to reflect the new organizational structure, to whit, our Avenues of Service (Director positions) are now Membership (which includes Club Administration); Community Service; International Service (Foundation); Public Relations; and Youth Services.  (Club Service I and Club Service II were old terminology.)

New Business

• Nomination to Scholarship Investment Committee - Committee Recommendation Howard Taylor was unanimously approved for another 5-year term on this committee, per the committee's recommendation.  Rank moved/Menoher 2nd

• Scholarship amounts for 2010 - Committee Recommendation - The Board heard a presentation by Eric Woodstrom on behalf of the Scholarship Selection Committee. Action was taken regarding the amount available to disperse in this year's scholarship awards. This action will be reported as part of the scholarship presentations next week so as not to lose the element of surprise for our scholarship recipients.

• Lunch Renegotiations - Subcommittee- Charlie and Denise Yergenson will form a subcommittee with the member(s) of their choosing to try to reduce our lunch expenses through Riverview

• Summer Youth Exchange request - Ken (from Chris Haedrich) - The Board approved allotting $250 to sponsor a Summer Youth Exchange candidate recommended by Chris. Her name is Jocelyn Graham.

President-Elect's comments - None

Past President's comments - None