Rotary Club of Edmonds

PO Box 115

Edmonds, WA 98020

Minutes of the Board of Directors meeting of January 19, 2005.

  In attendance were Elizabeth Crouch, Mike Kealy, Vern Chase, Mike Meeks, Don Henderson, Kathy Dahlstrom, Joan Longstaff and Karen Wiggins

Approval of the minutes from the 12/15/2004 meeting was tabled pending recovery of a sound file of the meeting.

Meeting was called to order at 7:30 am by President Elizabeth Crouch.

Treasurer Mike Meeks gave an update on the state of the finances.  Outstanding accounts receivable was discussed.  Mike wrote off past due dues of persons that were dropped from membership in November. 

Elizabeth reported that total money raised for Tsunami relief was approximately $19,000 right now.  Her goal is to raise additional funds to $20,000 before were are through.

The Pat Shields scholarship for Guardian ad Litem kids funded by his company’s free printing of the Backwash was discussed.  Elizabeth reported that it was being organized under Community Service.

Vocational Service: 

Middle School Career Fairs:  Training was this morning. The first event if 02-11-2005

Washington Business Week: Our dollars are going to go to the kids strictly.  March 21 to March 25 are the dates. College credits will be earned by the kids who participate.  Edmonds Scholl District hopes to send 120 students from all high schools including Scriber Lake and some “at-risk” kids.

Business Exchange meetings are scheduled for March 22.

Picnic is scheduled tentatively for August 9, 2005.

International Service:

The Charoen Nakorn Rotary club is hosting Carol & Meena in their exploratory trip to find out where our Tsunami relief money can be spent.  Vern has had good results getting good PR on the Royal Palm restaurant and Rotary Club of Edmonds.  He has alerted the media about their trip to Thailand.

Community Service:

Pat & Rod are working on the formation of the Guardian ad litem scholarship program. Vern mentioned that a simple definition of Guardian ad litem should be included in the description of the program to aid understanding of what we are doing.

Club Service:

The next fireside meeting is on 01/26/2005 with the subject of our annual auction.

Membership:

Joan commented that District 5030 has not done anything to promote membership this year.  Cynthia Nygren was approved by the board for potential membership sponsored by Scott Springer. 

Michael Kealy mentioned that Rosemary Aragorn is going to be membership chair for the Zone next year so the membership focus might heat up knowing Rosemary.

Waterfront Festival:

Next Waterfront Festival meeting is on 02/01/2005.  It was decided that we are going back to Craig to arrange the entertainment.  It is not working to arrange it ourselves.  Larry is going to draw a new design for the festival grounds with some changes as specified by Karen and Vern.  Michael has headed up designing a brochure with Pat Thorpe ‘s son for sale of sponsorships.  Michael established four levels of sponsorship. 

Vern and Karen are going to have a meeting with the Port regarding Touch-a-Truck and also cash participation since the Port is specifying exhibits without rental. 

There have been problems with deposits and check disbursements for the festival in the past.  It was agreed that Karen will talk to Brent about improvement.

Old Business:

The Port commission has some issues with design of the Babe Bucklin Memorial weather station.  They are going to readdress the issue. 

Meeting was adjourned at 9:05am