Meeting Notes July 21, 2015

Mountain View Rotary Club

Ring Bell & Music: We are Family!

President’s Greeting:  

Good Afternoon & welcome to the Rotary Club of Mtn. View: We’re More Than A Club…We’re a Family!!! 

My name is Twana Karney, I’m your president for 2015-2016.

Today is ___Tuesday_July 21_________     Week _3___:

Our International call to action for 2015-2016 is to “Be a Gift to the World”

 Our club’s call to action is “Fun Through Service,  This year’s club focus is “Being the Best We Can Be.”  Thank you all for joining us today.

• Thanks to Jim Cunningham for providing dessert today.

•  Directory: If you were here last week, you know that we are updating our directory. I’m going to pass around both the directory pages and the sign up sheet again. Put a check on the page if you have looked at it, even if you haven’t made corrections. I think it is also true that things are just not making it around.

• President’s Club
•             Thanks to our three newest members to join the President’s Club, last week, my heartfelt thanks: Monique Kane, Dave Cole and Frank Davila.  They join select company, Alan Goodman, Tom Myers and Bert Raphael, who joined the first week. My heartfelt thanks to you for getting the President’s Club, and consequently the club, off to a strong start. You too could become a member of this select club, all you need to do is give the word!

• Donation for Chance to Win Gift Basket:  Our speaker’s company today, Harrell Remodeling, appreciates the work that we do in the community and has donated a gift basket today for us to raffle off to raise funds for our charities account. We are going to raffle off this gift basket for $5.00 a ticket, all the proceeds of which will go to our Charities Account. As an added benefit, if you join the President’s Club today, you will be entered into the raffle for free.  Those who have already joined the President’s Club are automatically entered as well.   Our speaker, Sara Jorgensen, will be picking the winners before she begins speaking today.

• The speaker program committee will meet on Wed. July 22, at 7 pm at Twana’s house. If you are a Monthly Speaker Chair, please be sure to join us and if you have some great contacts and ideas for speakers, please do join us.

• Club invoices: Sheila has reported that sending out our club invoices by email has been a great success so far. She has already received payment for 50% of the invoices sent out. FYI, If you weren’t’ here last week, we are no longer sending out invoices by snail mail, check your email inboxes. You may pay Sheila directly or pay by mail by printing out your invoice and mailing it.

• This month, Tuesday, July 28^th, we will be dark and we will NOT have an evening social, due to heavy vacation schedules.

• Our next evening social will be Tuesday, August 25, at my home in MV. More info to come on that.

• Membership Workshop on Saturday, August 22, from 9 to 11 in Milpitas. See Twana.

• Public Image Workshop to be held in September in the evening – See Twana if interested.

• Rotary Business Networking: Palo Alto – Rotary Means Business – details

• Next Board Meeting Thursday, August 20, 5:00 pm at CHAC.

• Tuesday, September 1, will be the meeting with our District Governor Susan Valenta. The board will meet with her before the meeting at 10:30.  This is a week before Labor Day, which falls on Monday, September 7 this year, so there isn’t a conflict. I look forward to all attending.