Kevin Dolliole began his aviation career at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport before going on to lead and transform the San Antonio and St. Louis Airports. Now with over 40 years of experience in various facets of the aviation industry, he is once again back at the helm of Armstrong International where he plans to continue effectively managing operational, organizational, and development initiatives like the new $1 billion airport terminal. Kevin was recently appointed to serve on the American Association of Airport Executives Policy Review Committee and previously served on the Board of Directors for Airports Consultants Council and the Board of Directors for Airports Council International-North America.
Hello, all. If you were at the meeting this past Wednesday, you heard about ROTARY RESPONDS. This is a service initiative of the Rotary Club of New Orleans (RCNO). Its goal is to assist when emergency situations arise so that help is received quickly and effectively by using the manpower of the RCNO and the expertise of its members.
Committee Members include: Jeff Hamm, Dottie Nelson, Monique Gardner, Brian Mora, Mike Bourg, Bob Heaps, Susan Simon, Ernesto Carballo, Jr., Peter Waring, Henry Lowentritt, Joshua Joachim, Randall Feldman.
We are working on a number of potential projects. The outline of one of them is as follows:
Partner with a storage facility or company that has secure warehouse capacity that will commit to store donated building materials, tools, blankets, tents, children’s items, and non-perishable food and water, etc. The goal is to have enough merchandise to fill an 18-wheeler.
Partner with a trucking company or business with trucks that will commit to provide the truck and personnel to drive to the disaster area.
RCNO will supply personnel to load and unload the truck.
RCNO will partner with local clubs, and districts, the Rotary District 6840 Foundation to determine who the merchandise will go to, e.g. families or intermediaries like the Red Cross. Top priority will be to provide support at local disasters. However, depending on the Club and the merchandise donors, food and materials could go outside the immediate area. The Club will create a policy for when and how this process will work.
Acknowledgements. The Club will create a temporary use logo for the truck when it is being used. The project will be called ROTARY RESPONDS and will include the logo of the RCNO, the trucking company, the storage facility, and others as appropriate.
Rotary District 6840 Foundation may want to take part by making grants for the merchandise.
The RCNO will develop a promotion plan.
We are at the stage that we need to know the feasibility of finding free storage space. We estimate about 1,600 sq. ft. with five feet vertical. We can be flexible about this.
So, the question is do you know of some company that might have available storage area and partner with us? If so, please let me know.
The neutral ground is located on Poydras Street between Tchoupitoulas Street and South Peters Street. The Rotary signs make it easy to see where you need to go. Two or three Rotarians are scheduled each week, but you can get creative and have others help if you wish. If you cannot work during the scheduled week, try to switch off with someone else. During your week, the deal is to pick up trash or broken limbs you find on the neutral ground. You can bring your own garbage bag and gloves. The trash pick up takes less than 15 minutes but be careful on the busy street. After you are finished, just throw the garbage bag into one of the public trash containers on Poydras Street.
Week of 04/22/19 Tommy Moore, Brian Mora
Week of 04/29/19 Bob Mora, Angela Morton
During the year, we will arrange to do more gardening work on the neutral ground and go to lunch afterward.
REMEMBER that in addition to keeping up this stretch of Poydras Street, this is a great way to get to know your fellow Rotarians. Also, if you cannot perform your assigned task think about getting a group of younger folks to handle it for you. They can be Interactors, high schoolers looking for community service hours or just folks looking for a way to get involved.
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