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Wednesday 5/20/2015
7:15am
Mount Hermon Conference Center
Birch Dining Room
7:15am
- Buffet Breakfast is served
7:30am
- Call to Order Ken
- Pledge Ken for Sue
- Thought/Song Judy
- Guest Introductions Julie
7:35am Announcements and other Club Business
- Ed Jellen’s Roast & Toast is set for July 15 at Saratoga Springs
- Cheryl passed on a DVD of the District 5170 speech contest, the contenders at this level were very impressive and the DVD will be useful in working with our contestants next year.
- Ken reviewed the updated May and June calendar summary, it’s posted as a download file on our home page.
- Eric Hammer will visit the club next week to preview the Redwood Mountain Faire and our Grant Group job of Internal Traffic Control.
7:40am Detective Report & Happy Bucks Joe Griffin
7:55am Speaker Dave Mills, Executive Director of Valley Churches United Mission
Dave has been the Executive Director of the VCUM organization for about 9 months. He has developed a set of 5 measurable, achievable strategic objectives: 1) build up the volunteer net, they’re getting older and younger ones are targeted for recruiting; 2) tune operations to move beyond emergency relief, less hand-outs and more improvement outcomes; 3) put resources where they have the broadest impact for the families in need, improve meshing of operations with other outreach groups in the valley; 4) stabilize and improve the financial resources, a better investment strategy, aim for establishing an endowment; 5) build the leadership team for less reliance on a single personality.

Dave Mills
8:25am
- Raffle, Closing Announcements, Adjourn