Meeting: 

    

  This week's Meeting was a Board meeting, open to all members. The meeting was       held on Wednesday 9 October at 1:30 pm, by Zoom, there was no Tuesday             October 8 meeting at 7:30 AM.

 

Pauli opened the meeting with a request for update on the October 6  Calendar Fundraiser rollout. Andy reported that 69 calendars were sold, story below.

 

Pam recommended that our December Calendar Raffle project, which requires solicitation of prizes to be done in October, become a March Calendar Raffle this year to avoid overlap. A motion was made to change the Raffle Month and approved.

 

October 17 ~ Club sponsored Red Cross Blood Drive at the Lions' club, volunteers needed 1-6, contact Sue  about when you can be there.

 

Kittery community Center Volunteer Fair, October 16 5-6:30 PM. Andy reports we will have a table, several members expect to be there, including Andy, Pam, Bob G,  & Pauli. Handouts, Powerpoint, the calendar, and information on the Community Champion and Pints for Polio events will be available.

 

Sunday October 20th ~ we will have a booth at the community market 10am-2pm, to promote and sell calendars, volunteers are needed to staff the booth.

 

Pints for Polio at the Tributary Brewery, October 24th, ~ promote as widely as possible, $1 will be donated  to the fight to end polio for each drink sold. Friends and family are encouraged to join us.

 

A motion was made not to participate in this year's October 25th evening "Trunk-or-Treat" event at the Community Center, the motion was voted and passed. Too many commitments already for October.

 

Community Champion(s) recognition, Tuesday October 29 we have the room at the Community Center reserved 4:30 -7:30, the event will be from 5-7 pm, setting up sound system and the room will be as early as we can. Keith will act as the moderator, Marie has the certificates, Andy has ordered pins. We will have platters of food (members donations helpful), tea, coffee, and water.

 

Table of Plenty Support ~ Thursday, October 31~ We will follow up on available support and event confirmation at the October 15 meeting.

 

Hurricane support, The District had forwarded a notice of a special relief fund for Districts 33 and 34 for Hurricane Helene relief, to all District Rotarians. The Florida area of those effected are in the process of being hit again by another hurricane. A  motion was made and approved to make a Club donation out of savings of $500  to support the emergency fund.

 

Both Bob Guay and Andy had computers to donate to Computers4vets which we heard about last week, and Andy has volunteered to deliver .

 

Bob G initiated a discussion about speakers talking about projects or causes and club responses. Pauli mentioned that speakers are told ahead of time not to expect club financial support as a result of appearing before the club, as it is a small club with a small annual budget. Dave G commented that depending upon the subject , members may want to individually respond, but there are times when the Club may want to consider a vote to provide unbudgeted or contingent funds as a club contribution, and agreed with Bob's comment that discussion of a the type of club response, if any, to prior speakers, should be a board agenda item at a meeting subsequent to the presentation.

 

Pauli reminded everyone that the club had decided to make the Tuesday November 5th (election day) meeting, a zoom meeting. 

 

Pam discussed the fact that District president-Elect training session are starting and a majority of the District Clubs have president elects already. In other words, it would be appropriate the Club's 2025-2026 Rotary year president as soon as possible.

 

Dave G talked about the Club Student Exchange Counselor position and getting a second individual trained and approved to to support. To be approved the individual has too complete the online quiz and background check. The is an upcoming interview with the Matty's  based upon Makili's application for a long term exchange , that the District Exchange Chair will do with Dave and hopefully a second approved Club representative .

 

 The Traip Interact Club has a November clothing drive planned at Traip for a Saturday the end of November  and that looks like a good date to have and after the event pizza party for the Interact club