Coming Up this week
This week’s Guest Speaker is Paul Nicol, one of Australia’s top financial advisers. If you have an interest in Australia’s financial outlook, this should be a great night. If your partner, a friend or family is interested they are very welcome, but please let Eileen know ASAP as the room size restricts us to 40.
The following week we have Kristy Kendall, Principal of Toorak College, who is also likely to be of great interest to partners, friends and family.
Last Week’s meeting
It was an important meeting where we agreed four major local projects are worth pursuing, but all are subject to final member approval before proceeding.
- Bushfire Relief – we will round up the $9k from the Silent Auction to $10k and research Mornington CFA as our preferred recipient. Anyone who would like to join me for that conversation …you are very welcome. Please contact me.
2. The Roof on the Long Table – we are still trying to get an estimate of the cost based on a simpler design and have received a council grant of $5k.
3. The Homeless Bedding and Trailer project – hopefully we will have more on this, this week, but we are guessing $10k for the trailer and moveable bedding. We hope to get a District Grant for some of this. It’s to be managed by the Mornington Community Information & support Centre.
4. Gateway Park as the Eastern Link. We allocated funds for this beautification project this year and again next, plus potentially funds to go to a Centenary gazebo.
More details on these were in the paper circulated to members last week.
We also greed on the following smaller projects, with funds to contribute towards the following:
- A Sky Hydrant, as displayed at the Art Show, which by the way, creates the opportunity for a member to travel with it to Bhutan.
- Contribution to Sailability for a Lift at the Yacht Club -
- End Trachoma
4. Another Indigenous Health Scholarship
5. Polio Plus
6. Australian Rotary Health, for mental health. We have already remitted $1k from Lift the Lid
7. Youth Projects – across the various programs this year, but we agreed we would be unlikely to host or send a Youth Exchange candidate next year.
8. The Primary School Student support program
Succession Plan
On the subject of succession planning, firstly congratulations to Brian Mann, who is next year’s President elect. Thank you too, to the Committee Chairs who are all continuing (except the Art Show), and all the members who nominated to join one of our Committees for next year. The Board’s desire is to have every member on a Committee and have a Deputy Chair for each Committee. More on this over the next few week’s as this is an important matter for the Club.
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