Anchorage International Rotary Club Board of Directors Meeting Notes 2/9/21
Art Clark called meeting to order at 12:05pm. Agenda approved. Minutes approved.
Deb went through the AIRC Financial Statements and reported that the club is running in the black thru January. The club is very well on fines and happy bucks to date. All dues are paid or accounted for through installment payments. The District Conference has been cancelled so no or little cost to the club. 2nd half of District dues in essence have been returned to clubs who have paid. Others, like AIRC, will not need to send in a dues payment for the next half year. All RI dues are paid. Overall, the club is in very good financial shape.
Deb continued looking at the AIRC Charities Budget. Last meeting, the club added Children’s Lunchbox as a recipient and the $500 donation has been paid. The bill for software for the additional computers to be donated to the Alaska Native Cultural Charter School, has not come due yet and has not been paid. Deb was thanked and the Treasurers Report was approved.
AIRC Board discussion on 2nd half district dues. Art asked about the sense of the board in using 2nd half district dues, since there is nothing to refund, since the club has not dispersed AIRC 2nd half dues. Motion to roll budget item over to the charities budget. Motion removed and club will keep funds in operating account, thus leaving club with the greatest flexibility in use of the funds.
Discussion of Dictionary Project—Motion carried to give #1,000 to the South Rotary Dictionary Project.
Club In-Person meetings. Art still looking into this to see if it is a possibility. Board suggestion to have members chime in with a survey. Jay to connect with Tim Trueblood re: Survey Monkey.
President’s Report: District mid-year meeting last Saturday on a variety of topics, and Art will try to get some of the presenters to AIRC Zoom meetings as presenters. Next year’s slogan is Do more, Grow more. And Each one Bring one.
Secretary Report: Putting together something to help organize pledge/thought/speaker organization, and a variety of ideas on making Zoom meetings more active. Hope to have a first date of March 19, 2012 to send something to everyone’s home, maybe wine and cheese. All can open at the same time.
Deb: Mentioned RYLA--KIVA account contribution. Made motion for a $500 donation to this account, which was approved. Deb also connected with Andre Layal about the District App and will try to get an AIRC club presentation for a future club meeting.
PE-Ric reported working on a coding project using Python to create fun games to create a fun Zoom Rotary meeting community-oriented experience.
Wisconsin Street Cleanup is May 1st and the Clare House Feed is Feb 19th with Jay in charge and both Rick’s agreeing to help.
Kevin Fimon announced that Denise Runge had joined AIRC vocational service committee.
President Art mentioned on-line auction fundraising for the Rotary Foundation. Online does have processing fees that other clubs and club members have said are objectionable.
Adjourned at 1:05 pm.
Services as a Psychiatric Treatment Counselor in 2015. A year later, he briefly transferred to Case Manager before finding his niche in 2016 as the agency’s Recruitment Specialist in the Licensing Department. Since 2002, Allen and his wife have opened their home to young people as foster parents offering a safe and nurturing home to those in need. In 2007, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis received additional training to upgrade their home and expand their talents to provide therapeutic foster care services for children who have experienced traumatic events in their lives. They continued as Therapeutic Foster Parents until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, they continued providing foster care services for a young man who has been a member of their home for nearly seven years. 
Sue Perles has served as Executive Director of Special Olympics Alaska since 2019. Prior to that she ran the Girl Scouts Alaska organization for 8 years. Before coming to the non-profit world Ms. Perles earned a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Princeton, a MBA from Harvard and a PhD in Economics (Rhodes Scholar!) from Oxford. Among her jobs before coming to Alaska she was global head of mergers and acquisitions of the consumer products business segment for Citibank.
In Happy Buck activity Dr. Helena Wisniewski offered a unspecified amount to announce the next UAA Zoom seminar on artificial intelligence. At noon on February 17 McKinley Capitol Management will lead a discussion on the uses of AI in finance. Janine Becka was happy to see Jane Pallister was with us on Zoom. Bruce Erickson offered $20 in penance for missing several weeks while he and Becky Erickson enjoyed golfing in Phoenix. Even with a brief appearance of snow! Bruce also offered $10 in thanks for the work Dr. Helena is doing scheduling speakers for the Club. Continuing Bruce was pleased with himself for arranging for he and Becky to be on airplanes on her birthday. Becky seemed ok, or at least not surprised with that. Karl Schroeder recounted that his stage 4 renal cancer seems to have been knocked down by the treatments. He’s not feeling sick and experiencing no side effects from the treatments. Mark Cosby had $10, 5 in happiness for Karl Schroeder’s positive health report and 5 for his youngest getting out of the house skiing. The skiing thing is a bit questionable, Mark having reported several weeks ago that a 20 something son had suffered a back injury skiing. Ted Trueblood had $10 for Kodiak Rotarian Lindsay Knight’s work as weightlifting coach for Special Olympics. He needed Janine’s help to recall Lindsay’s name. Rick Goodfellow and Jan Ingram offered $15 for getting their second dose of the Moderna vaccine. Rick also reminded us that the Cook Inlet Historical Societies Zoom meeting on Thursday February 18 will have the reveal of who killed Anchorage’s first chief of police a hundred years ago. Jay Tung had $1 for the Vietnam war stories Ted Trueblood shared with him. Denise Runge had $10 in gratitude for the appearances in a UAA promotional video of Dr. Helena and Joe Zimmerman. Angie Rush had $5 in gratitude for all Janine Becka does for our club and for Jay Tung’s donation of a television to AK Child & Family. Kevin Fimon reminded us that we will be providing a meal to Clare House residents in two weeks. Finally, Jules Tileston pledged $25 in thanks for Tryg Erickson’s clarification of Jule’s Rotary seniority.
