Greeter: Roberta Rochetti
Invocation: Roberta Rochetti
President's Report - Kathy reminded us that the Rotary International Leadership Institute will take place on Saturday, 1/24/26. This year the institute is offering 10 slots for free admission for Rotarians who have been members for three years or less. Regular admission is $50. Please let Kathy know if you are interested.
Jonathan Sturdevant has resigned due to his expanded duties at Woodstock Academy that make it hard for him to go to a meeting at lunchtime. We accept his resignation with regret.
We will presenting our scholarship awards to our award recipients on December 30th. All eight recipients and their family members will be attending. Please consider attending.
Our Holiday party is scheduled for tomorrow December 10 at 5:30 p.m. at the Courthouse Bar and Grill.
We will be having a special meeting next week. It will be a working, fun, meeting implementing our “Boots on the Ground” program. We will be putting together packets for homeless and mental health awareness and health.
Action Item: We made four motions for budgetary issues. The club moved and voted on transferring the following funds into the Putnam Rotary Foundation:
- The scholarship assets in the club surplus funds
- The balance of our Certificate of Deposit (that is currently a little over $32,000) minus the penalty for early withdrawal
- Transfer $4,000 from surplus funds to the “Boots on the Ground” program since it was not originally in the budget.
- To transfer $5,000 from the club founded scholarship
We continue to look for two people who can help with the newsletter.
Secretary's Report: Emily received a thank you from the 4H foundation for our recent contribution. The letter has been scanned and is available on our website.
