Mid-Term Report by President Zerby

Last week’s program was the club’s mid-year assembly. As you know, we pause in our programming each year to assess where we as a club have gone for the first half of the year. As is customary, the meeting was led by the club president.

 

President Scott talked of three initiatives made by our club. First was the “Flex and Innovative Membership” program made available by RI. Our club is experimenting (now with official approval) with such ideas as corporate memberships, husband-wife joint memberships, and we may be leading the way for an international change in the membership program. Our second initiative is a visionary program, having our club as a unit describe where we are headed by setting goals and objectives (aka five year plan). The first steps have been taken to renew and define our club’s direction. And the third initiative is to define and hold a “Big Event” – some (probably) social event that will be the hallmark of our year.

 

Scott listed 7 causes we have supported, but was reminded by the members of 5 others already this year, and more to come.

 

Lastly, Treasurer (and our President-elect) Randy Schumacher gave a synopsis of the club’s financial situation, and spent some time gmong over “The Org Chart”. There still seems to be some confusion over the three entities involved in our club’s organization, and Randy outlined the who and why of the three corporations: Rotary Club of Excelsior, the Rotary club of Excelsior’s Foundation, and Rotary International and its foundation (which grants the Paul Harris Fellows).