Guests: Speaker Jeremy Bricks-Transportation Superivsor Pal-Mac Central School District
Students: Sarah Rector, Noie, Ginna DeRidder and Nacho who got a rendition of Happy Birthday from the club
Thoughts and Prayers: Bill Abbott is in Rochester General, Kim Brooks mom passes away, and Williamson Rotay Brian and ONSEYAWA board member Jim Albright is in hospice
Birthdays: Nacho
Anniversaries: none
Fines and Happy bucks:
Bob S loan was happy for the time with Nacho since he has moved to his next host family
Michele paid a happy buck for a great new neighbor on Kemp Drive…Mark and Kim’s son Dan
She also paid happy dollars for Nacho’s and boyfriend Brian’s birthdays
Dianne is very happy to be chosen for a Rotary Friendship Exchange to England in June
Gary is happy to sell you Murder Mystery tickets for March 30th
Marie is happy for the interesting Murder Mystery rehearsals so far and also paid a fine for a
wonderful vacation in Key West
Margaret paid for the birth of her 11th great grandchild-Antigone
Rollo has happily sold his home in Pittsford and moved closer to Rotary
Kim Clement was happy to announce the Foundation Gala has netted over $700, a record!
Leslie fined herself for suggesting that Rollo could now make more Rotary meetings. She was
Also very happy to have spent time in California with Julianna and Anthony as well
As walking the Red Carpet before the Oscars
Announcements:
If you were not able to attend the Foundation Gala please pay Margaret $5
Jim Bush noted the one year anniversary of Gary Haigh’s death and suggested passing
a hat for the Haigh Scholarship Fund
Due to the Murder Mystery march 30th there will be no meeting on the 27th
Leslie is looking for help planning an event for Middle and High School students over
Spring break
Rotary-Lions dinner is April 3 at the Coverlet Museum at 6:00pm
The 7120 District Assembly is April 6 at Wayne High School
Mark has sent out an e-mail to club members reminding them of our summer fundraising events, try to not schedule a vacation during these times if possible.
Rotary is looking for a volunteer to be a representative on the Cator Foundation.
It requires about 3 meetings per year and must be a Palmyra resident
50-50 Marie donated her winnings to Nacho
Mark getting revenge on boss Jeremy Bricks
Dianne, Nacho and Bob Sloan
Students Sarah Rector, Ginna DeRidder, Leslie Noie and Nacho
Mark introduced Jeremy Bricks to discuss the new computer program being installed in all buses in the Pal-Mac district. Jeremy has been the school district’s Transportation Supervisor since 2010 and is also a certified bus driver, trainer, 19A examiner and Vice-Chair for the NYSED Transportation Committee.
Jeremy showed a video made by him and second grade students from the district. It showed the new program on all 50 buses that help keep our students safely in the right place. Drivers have tablets in the buses that show the names of the students and their bus stop on each day. If the child has a varying routine of stops, the tablet will show that to the driver. Starting with Primary and Intermediate students, each child will have an ID card that will be scanned entering and leaving the bus. If a child is accidentally left on the bus, an alarm will sound notifying the driver that the card was not scanned.
Only Pal-Mac and Saratoga Springs districts are using this type of technology. The overall goal of the program is to increase student safety, knowing where they are at all times. The screen is only lit when the bus is stopped so it will not be a distraction to the driver. It also has a photo of every student so even a substitute driver will know if the right child is entering or exiting the bus. If a child should forget their ID tag the driver can manually sign them in.
As with any new program there will be some bugs that need to be worked out, thus the start with the Primary and Intermediate schools only. Middle School and High School students will be included at a later date and hopefully the program can be modified for sport activities as well.
