Signature Legacy Presentation and Vote

Posted by David Holden
 
The Motion:  The Rotary Club of Calgary members hereby approve the Community Hubs Initiative presented to the Club as its next multi-year Signature Legacy Project on the basis of a $300,000 commitment per year for five (5) years commencing the 2017-2018 Rotary Year with an additional $500,000 raised no later than the end of the 2021-2022 Rotary Year subject to Board approval from time to time.
 
The motion was moved by President Sid, read to the meeting, and was seconded by Michael Broadhurst.
 
After some insightful questions and concerns, the voting took place and was recorded as follows:
 
In favour of the motion 84
Opposed to the motion 3
Abstaining 2
Unaccounted for 3
 
The motion carried.
 
Howie started with an introduction of the Signature Legacy committee.
He introduce Tim Heaton who gave an inspiring overview of some of the things we have been involved with, our club’s financial growth and several reasons for us to adopt the Community Hubs as our next Signature Legacy project.  See the full presentation.
 
Tim also outlined the process that the committee followed including their review of previous Signature Legacy submissions and of other possible projects while considering the broad direction of the club and of the recommendation of the Ignite committee and had collaborative discussions with the communication committee.
 
The need: 127,000 Calgarians are living in poverty in our city. 
The goal for this initiative is to reduce the poverty level by 50% by the year 2023.
Our investment of $2 million allows use to join a $21 million project in a partnership with The United Way and the City of Calgary, with both groups having a deep knowledge of the social issues facing Calgarians.
The Community Hubs will do three things: They will reduce the social isolation of community residents, provide access to services and programs, and support local residents to get involved and create change.
 
The committee’s conclusion: The Community Hubs initiative was the only one that the club considered that provided signature, legacy, member engagement, opportunities for new member recruitment and alignment with our current work and mission.  As such, the Community Hubs was the project put forward to the RCC Board for approval.  After review, the RCC Board approved this and this is now the basis for the multi-year pledge membership vote before us today.
Future partners:
Trevor Daroux-CPS,
Lucy Miller-United Way,  
Karen Young- City of Calgary,
Heather Cowie -United Way
 
Tim went on to describe how Rotary will be involved with the ongoing consultation process and governance and will benefit from working with two groups who understand the issues and have resources available to them.  There are six identified communities: Bowness, Sunalta, Vista Heights, Greater Forest Lawn, North of McKnight, and Village Square.
 
Lucy Millar presents the Hub concept
Tim then introduced Dr. Lucy Millar who spoke about what they and the City are trying to achieve with this program and how RCC can stand “shoulder to shoulder” with these two partners for our 5-year commitment of $2 million and about how this will make the program more sustainable and the program can make RCC more sustainable though further opportunities for engagement.
 
Many questions were entertained and support was drawn from Steve Allen, amoung others, who was involved with Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative.  The Community Hubs Initiative directly supports the accomplishments of the four goals identified the Enough For All strategy, which emerged from the CPRI consultations.  The associated metrics (50% reduction of those living in poverty by 2023) uses a Statistics Canada measure called Low Income Cut-offs and Low Income Measures.
 
 
The in-camera session began after all the guest  had left.
 
The quorum requirement for a Special meeting was to have 1/3 of our membership of 189 in attendance.  Members in attendance: 92.  Motion requirement was for 75% or more of those voting must be in favour of the motion. With the number in attendance, 69 in favour was required.