For our Club Assembly on Membership today, JIM KLUSMAN and PHIL TUCKER reminded us of or Strategic Plan and the two objectives related to membership. They also gave us the results of the survey taken March 12th, which were: Make our regular meetings more attractive for all current and potential members; Provide more networking opportunities; and Provide more service opportunities.
JIM had slides taken from a program called “Our Members are our Customers” showing that between July 2003 and June 2010 Rotary: 1.1 Million new members inducted into Rotary clubs world wide; 2,552 new Rotary clubs formed; Net increase in Rotary membership worldwide: 226 members! In North America, the net loss was 28,000 since July 2007. Discouraging statistics, indeed.
JIM and PHIL took turns leading us through a series of “Yes” and “No” questions and two questions related to an item that you wouldn’t mind skipping during regular Tuesday meetings.
PHIL led members in a group discussion, where several ideas were put forward. All of the ideas and survey questions will be tabulated and reported to the Board.
MEETING FUNCTIONS:
Money Collectors: RENEE ROAMES and VICKI GREGORY; Greeters: JOHN SANDERSON and BOB VERPLANK; Invocation: FRED KUIPERS; Piano: RAY PEETERS; Song Leader: ARVID OLSON; Help with attendance and facilitating a smooth meeting: JO WADE and JANE SMITH. Webmaster: LARRY HUGGINS
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
“A proper function of government is to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.” Jimmie Carter
JANE'S CORNER:
• Resignations were accepted from Nate Hedrick, Alan Rebar, Wes Shook, Norbert Welch and David Williams.
• A minor change was made to the policy regarding President Elect’s Guidelines.
• A policy covering the Nominating process will be presented soon.
• The Campership Committee presented recommendations for awards.
• There will be no Tuesday luncheon on December 24th and December 31st.
• The Board thanked directors whose terms are expiring: CAROL GALBRAITH, DON GENTRY and GREG KAPP. Past President TIM LUZADER and President TERRY WEST received thanks for their service. TERRY becomes the Past President in a few weeks and remains on the Board.
• The 2013/2014 Budget was approved.