Welcome back everyone. Hope you all had a successful and fun 2 weeks. We had a good turnout at the fellowship night at Pat’s place Tuesday night.
Welcome back George and great to see Rob Guley here again. Rob Rosaia reported that Danny was doing ok and will be out of hospital soon.
We received a thankyou from CoGB for doing the BBQ at the National Ride to Work Day.
A reminder that the early bird registrations are still open for the District Conference in Hobart – they will close on Dec 15.
There is a cluster President’s meeting on Sunday. If there is anything you want bought up, contact me before Sunday.
Sergeant’s session – there were only 3 replies, so a bit difficult to determine what the member’s want regarding this session. A vote was taken at the meeting and the majority wanted the session returned. Discussion was lso had about want members wanted from the sessions.
Thank you to Mark Weregoda, Ray Carrington and Linda Barrow for volunteering to run these sessions. Bruce will add them to the roster. A decision will be made at the Board meeting regarding meeting costs.
Before Club forum, Paul Kirkpatrick provided a Rotary Knowledge snippet on attendance requirements as the attendance figures have been a bit low. A summary:
Rotarians are required to attend or make-up at least 60% of the regular weekly meetings in each half of the Rotary year.
A Rotarian may not miss or fail to make-up 4 consecutive meetings
You must be present for at least 60% of the meeting
Make-ups must take place within 14 days before or after the regular meeting. Make-up opportunities:
– attending the regular meeting of another club anywhere in the world, at Rotaract or interact Club or a Rotary Fellowship meeting.
- attend a District conference, RI convention or other approved District or RI meeting
-attend and participate in a club service project or Club sponsored community event or meeting
-attend a Board meeting
-participate through a Club website for 30 minutes
There are excused absences and members can apply for Leave of Absence. LOA needs to be discussed with a Board member and applied for in writing.
See Paul to get more info.
Club Forum Reports:
Youth Services – our involvement in the Youth Exchange program is being reviewed. Could everyone consider this program and how committed you are prepared to be. As well as host families, we need the other members to share the load by taking the students to outings, to their homes for a meal or other activities that will give the student another experience, get to know the members of the club and give the host families some support.
This will be discussed at the next Club Forum. Paul Henderson encouraged people to speak to him if you want to know more about hosting a student.
Club Service – Conor reported back on the activities of the various committees.
Fellowship Committee has been busy organising events, so keep an eye out for more details.
When people are sending their apologies in to Liz can you also cc Bruce as he is having some problems with doing the rosters.
Judy finalised the Xmas break-up at the meeting – Sun Dec 7th from 4 pm at Camp Get-Away. More details to come.
Ray reminded everyone about the cluster meeting o Nov 25th. This is a Foundation dinner meeting and all proceeds will go the Foundation. We NEED numbers Yes or No for the attendance and payment needs to be made. Follow the link in the original email.
Community Service
Busy month in Oct – seniors week, Ride to Work, Blue Ribbon Day (we raised $ 80 from the fine session). Swap Meet this month.
Planning has commenced for Australia Day.
Market Committee urgently needs at least 4 more members. Please let Rob or Judy know if you are willing to contribute. If we don’t get enough committee members there is a risk of this committee folding.
Treasurer
The finalised audt has been published. It will be put onto Club runner for all members to read. It needs to be read before the AGM.
The changes required by the new incorporation rules have been made.
Brian reminded the members who haven’t paid or are paying by instalments that a payment id required.
He also reminded everyone to send all invoices for payment through the relevant Director to sign off before going to the Treasurer.
Secretary
No nominations have been received for Board positions.
The Audit, Risk & Governance Committee are doing a review of the BBEA this month.
Very busy meeting this month and thanks to everyone for participating. Apologies to Bruce for not getting this to him sooner. Cathie
