Rotary Club of San Lorenzo Valley Meeting
Wednesday 12/10/2014
7:15am
Mount Hermon Conference Center
Birch Dining Room
7:15am
Buffet Breakfast Served
7:30am
  • Ken called the meeting to order, Mary led the pledge of allegiance, Joe had the thought/quote of the day.
7:35am Announcements & Club Business
  • Ken presented the calendar summary for the months of December and January.  It is posted in the Download documents link at the lower right of the home page.
  • Ken also presented the revised Meeting Duty Roster for the remainder of the Rotary Year.
  • Gil announced that our own Ron Sekkel and Cindy Sekkel would come to the Christmas Luncheon next week.
  • Cameron sported this week’s Ugly Christmas Sweater – here he is:
                                                     
7:40am            Detective Report & Happy Bucks
  • Carol raised some more funds for the club as detective with Christmas as the theme.
                                                 
7:50am            Club Assembly Meeting
  • Today was election day for the club according to our newly adopted Bylaws.  With 100% voter turnout (those attending) the results were unanimous for: Mike Holton, President-Elect 2015-2016; Julie Haff, Secretary-Elect 2015-2016; Thomas Wynn Treasurer-Elect 2015-2016; Ken Macy Vice-President (Past-President) 2015-2016; Steve Lanctot Officer-at-Large 2015-2016; Karen McNamara, President-Elect Nominee 2016-2017.  Thanks to all who are willing to execute these offices for the club!
  • Janet Coit went over planning for the next RYLA; also the Interact Presidents Retreat, similar to RYLA but 2 days rather than 3.  The club voted to continue to support 3 RYLA campers and add support for 2 Interactors to go to the Presidents Retreat.
  • Mike led the group in discussing the speech contest coming in the spring.  Judges will be Charlie, Ken & Karen; Carol will be timer; and Heather and Julie will serve as tellers.  Our contest will be held January 28.  The Area 7 contest will be March 2 at 6pm at the Scotts Valley Library.  Carol will work on recruiting Jeff Almquist as a judge for that one.
  • The club unanimously adopted a minor revision in the bylaws clarifying terminology around elections.
  • Rotary International president Huang has proposed clubs to hold a Rotary Day event.  Members were asked to mull this over and we’ll come back to this topic.
8:30am            Closing
  • Raffle won by Steve Lanctot, Closing Announcements, Adjourn at 8:23am