Attendance: Steve Salerno, Keith White, Dana Fager, Steve Helwig, Elizabeth Grabę, Peggy Zalucha, Bob Johnson, Judy Steinhauer, Heidi Kopras, Mark Rooney, Gary Tree, Dave Reed, Susan Smith, Student Rotarians Ben Werger and Calvin Huynh.

When asked, "what do you do for fun?" Calvin shared about his hobby fixing older clocks. He started by buying a clock at a thrift store, developed an interest, and explored learning more using YouTube and as a member of a forum.

 

Bob’s report on turkey meal delivery. There are 93 order for meals. Meeting up at the parking lot by the post office 11:30 they will be picking up at Hi Point, 12:00 for dispatching deliveries.

 

Hi Point is preparing food. 36 addresses for delivery. Need 10 drivers, some may need 2 people per car for high density deliveries at apartment buildings.

Susan has 5 large turkeys to donate in case High Point needs more.

 

Happy Bucks: Judy is having an early Thanksgiving as her son is arriving from Nashville today. Her daughter in Madison and kids will be coming to celebrate an early Thanksgiving.

Keith’s dad is coming for Thanksgiving and celebrating his birthday the same day as he holiday.

Peggy (sad buck): Dixie is in the hospital and we encouraged to reach out to her. Jim hopes she will be back home soon, and we are encouraged to give her a call.

 

Saturday 11/30 the trailer will be parked at the bus garage so we can work on updating the inventory. Event starts at 11:00 a.m.

Interact students bought supplies Saturday for stocking stuffers and Christmas boxes.
Monday morning Interact students are packing and wrapping Christmas boxes at the high school in the library media center at 7:30.

Friday after Thanksgiving the interact students will be going to JoAnn Fabrics to get supplies to make blankets for the Children's Hospital at 9:30 and a trip to Starbucks afterwards.

 

Keith made a short presentation about our budget for our committees. 

Some discussion about scholarships, making decisions about how many scholarships will be given out, and amounts awarded. Also discussed was balances for grants, and the amount of funds available versus our budget, revenue, and some of the expenditures. We are raising more revenue with a smaller club.

 

Gary brought up EREY obligations to clubs, metrics of grant reporting by clubs, and Rotary International goals for Global grant opportunities. Rotary International has a new policy for monies allocated to global grants, and ways the district can increase matching funding from the Rotary Foundation for global grants (>$30k) The district will be having a meeting on grants, and he’s excited about projects teed up for Guatemala. Within 2 weeks we will be closer to zeroing in on grant projects. Erin Lukken may come to the club to present to us information to get a better understanding for our club members. Some discussion followed about timelines for local grants (MARC center).

 

November is Rotary International Foundation Month. Donations can be forwarded to Peggy, or online at https://my.rotary.org/en/rotary-direct go to the blue “Donate” button.

 

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!