Year of Gary: August 19. 2008

8th Meeting of President Gary

Thank you last week’s speaker, Dr. Allen Bohl and his talk on family values.

I hope everyone made it through Topical Storm Fay OK. For me, Woody Boynton, Rick Leary, Quinn Romay and Mike Patterson it was an extremely busy week managing the issues related to Fay. She was slow to arrive and slow to leave. Than k to Vice President/Past President Skip for filling in for me at Tuesday’s Club meeting.

At the August 19 Board meeting many items were discussed and decided:

Committee Reports

Last year and this year’s Blood Screening Committee Co-chairs will be meeting to exchange ideas and get ready for our upcoming Blood Screening project. I am excited to here their ideas for making this year’s Blood Screening Projects one of the best.
Foundation – A draft plan was presented and approved for educating our members on Rotary Foundation.
2008 – 2009 Club Goals & Objectives were approved with adjustments. Revised version will be posted on Club web within next couple weeks.
By-Laws Committee submitted concept to develop a Club Operating Manual, which would be a how-to/step-by-step manual for each of our Clubs Standing Committees and Sub-Committees. The concept was approved and Past District Governor Bob is working with the various Committee Chairs to facilitate this task.
T.K Watson, nominee for the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference in Washington, DC January 17-21, 2009 attended the Board meeting and presented her efforts to defray her costs for attending the Conference and Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. The Board considered her credentials and benefits of assisting T.K. in her trip to Washington, DC. We wish T.K. all the best and we look forward to hear from her after her attendance at the President’s Inauguration.
Interact Club Sponsor Stipend. Upon recommendation of the Interact Committee, the Board voted to raise the stipend for the Palatka High School Interact sponsor to $1,000. Mr. Michael Everett, Fine Arts teacher at Palatka High School will be the Interact Club Sponsor. Michael has attended our Club meetings.
Holiday Schedule was discussed and it was approved there would not be any Club meetings on December 23rd and 30th.
Club Bulletin – The discussed matters related to the Club weekly bulletin. There have been concerns mentioned to various Board members pertaining to the new format of the weekly bulletin. We will consider any objective input on how the improve our Club’s bulletin. I will be appointing an ad-hoc Committee to review our current bulletin and make recommendations to the Board for any improvements.

Most of all, thank you to Doug Webb, Joe Maltby, (meeting room set-up), Robert Fields (Greeter), Nadine Long (Program Chair for August), Harvey Campbell (Pledge), ) Bob Webb (Invocation), Jeannie Brown (music), Russ Castleberry (Sgt-at arms), Peggy White (internet & bulletin), Rusty Starr (bulletin), Derek Hembree (Secretary), Wayne McClain (Treasurer). And, a big thanks to Skip for running the meeting at the last minute. You made my job easy.