Minutes for the meeting of January 21
Charlotte Shelburne Rotary Club
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Club Assembly-Annual Meeting
Trinity Episcopal Church Community Room
President Richard Fox led the pledge and Doris Sage gave the devotional.
Richard introduced visitors and guests:
Eric Denu of the Middlebury Rotary Club, Next year’s District Governor,
David Denu
Bent Olman of the Tupper Lake Rotary Club
Upcoming events:
January 28th Katie Langrock, Small Business talk, Commando Underwear
January 31st, District Membership Training Seminar, Dartmouth Hitchcock
February 4th, Tentative scheduling of the Club Level Rotary Speech Contest
February 7th, District Membership Training Seminar, South Burlington High School 9-1
February 11th, Committee Meeting
Announcements:
Rick Flood- Car Raffle Date October 23rd at the Coach Barn
Richard Fox – Halloween Parade October 25th
Carol Obuchowski – Colchester-Milton Rotary Club is having a Calcutta February 13th at the Inn at Essex “The Essex” 6Pm dinner, 7PM Calcutta $125
Lara Keenan- Social Group Meeting “Crafts” meeting 3PM Friday at Shelburne Library
Lara Keenan – Tuesday Night will be Chess Night social group meeting at the library
Roz Graham – Winterfest this Saturday at Shelburne Farms
Sergeant at Arms - Even Webster - thinking of deflated footballs
Judy Christensen – Happy? on her return from an Island off the coast of Belize
Roz Graham- missed a meeting- happy to have attended a summit on the housing crisis in Burlington- suggested our club might get them down as a speaker
Ric Flood – A cold!
Sam Feitelberg- To Our Health
Rick Benson- Happy to have attended a great Fire and Rescue Party in Charlotte
Lara Keenan – Happy
Denny Bowen- Happy to have X country skied at the Trapp Family Lodge
John DuPee – Happy for Mike’s new phone
Tod Whitaker - Happy
Steve Dates – Happy
John Hammer - Deflating Foot?
Howard Seaver – Birthday Fine
Linda Gilbert – Happy it was a False Alarm at CVU
Mike Clapp – Happy not parking cars this Saturday
Bill Root – Not parking cars Happy, Visit to Toronto Happy, After 42 years he is retiring March 2 Very Happy
Richard Fox- Deflated Footballs Go Pats
Carol Obuchowski – Had to retrieve her grand daughter from day Care Monday as she was non stop crying
Phil Denu – Happy to have family here today
Eric Denu – Happy to visit with father and brother
David – Glad to be in Vermont
Lucky draw – 50/50 pot $92.50 - Phil Denu’s ticket was drawn. He drew the 6 of clubs. – Roll Over
Annual Meeting:
First Order of business: Elections
President Richard requested nominations from the floor for Vice President for 2015-2016. In keeping with the By-Laws nominations were requested last month and VP remained open. Lara Keenan was nominated and accepted the nomination.
The complete Slate of Officers for 2015-2016
Trafton Crandall – President
Judy Christensen – President Elect
Lara Keenan – Vice President
John Beal - Secretary
Russell Blodgett – Treasurer
was put to the club for vote. The club voted and approved the slate as presented.
Note: The Treasurer will be open for the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
Second order of business: By-Laws
The Board proposed to amend the By-Laws to add as committee requirement: “committees are responsible for developing and implementing guidelines for their committees.”
All such Guidelines shall be published for transparency.
Specific to these Guidelines it is proposed that the Finance Committee add a guideline regarding memorial donations: suggested that any such proposed memorial shall (unless otherwise voted by the club) be a donation made to an entity/organization in the name of the deceased.
The proposed language shall be published to the Club not less than ten days in advance of the vote.
Third order of business:
Report from Steve Clayton Ad Hoc Committee – Linda Gilbert reported that a donation of $500 has been donated in Steve’s name to the Cancer Support entity of the family’s choice. The path to a permanent memorial is full of logistical and monetary obstacles and the committee is disbanding.
Fourth order of business:
Memorial for Charlotte-Shelburne Rotarian Elaine Dates – The finance committee and Board have recognition of Elaine Dates in fine focus. Steve Dates, present at the meeting, was asked respectfully by Richard for ideas of where to donate that might please both Elaine and Steve.
Meeting Adjourned: 8:25