Next Club Meeting: October 7 9-30-2021 Zoom Club Meeting [recording] Jeff Ugoretz opened the meeting at 12:05 p.m. with the ringing of our bell, the recorded singing (by Lee Greenwood) of “My country ‘tis of Thee”, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Four-way Test, and an inspiring invocation delivered by John Brown.
Guests: Stacy Ward introduced Morgan Kemp, joining virtually. Morgan is a 2008 Corning East grad, and received her MA in Accounting from Alfred University. She is a Marine Corp veteran and owns Morgan Kemp Accounting. Morgan is interested in becoming a Rotarian and participating in our community service opportunities!Club Service:
- Invocation: John Brown
- Photos: Dick Perry [see more photos]
- COGS: Ted Goldwyn
Announcements and Member News:
- President Jeff Ugoretz welcomed everyone and began by thanking all who participated in the Cherry Blossom planting event on September 21 and 22. Mayor Bill Boland said the City crew was impressed by Rot
ary's showing. - The District Governor meeting has been rescheduled to a October 28 lunch meeting.
- Stu Sammis provided an update on our committee participation: Andy Rochester has a Clubrunner system that will be finished by October 9. He has a video overview of the system and will be working with committee chairs to help them update their members. But first, Andy has one more closing meeting with Dale and Stu - covering a few standing committee types. Send Andy an email to be added as things get finalized.
- Next Board meeting: Monday, October 4, 6pm on Zoom. This will be followed by an additional meeting, if needed, in two weeks.
- Stu Sammis announced that this Sunday, October 3 is the annual Wineglass Marathon. Stu was looking for a few more volunteers to help with the setup and pickup of signs on Sunday morning at 5:30 am. Rotary gets a nice donation from the Wineglass Marathon organization for our service each year.
- This week we continued hosting in-person meetings at the Radisson.
- Please order using the link provided on our Rotary Home Page ASAP, as the selections need to be made a week ahead of time; however, they are giving us some leeway this time.
- The online ordering system [labelled PayPal] lets you use your Visa/Mastercard.
- Andy has included a lunch choice "if you want to attend but not order food". This helps the hotel have enough space for us!
- Ask Andy if you have any issues with this and he will make sure you get the meal you want and you can pay next Thursday. If you order through Andy, please bring cash to pay for your meal.
- Part of cost of lunch includes the use of the room.
- Postcards were sent out out to members in an attempt to make sure all our members know about this process.
- Please be patient with this
new meeting process as well as the proposed attempt to do a hybrid meeting via Zoom. - Jan is requesting feedback in regards to next week’s meals so we can continue to improve the process.
- EVENT RESCHEDULED to 10-28-21: lunch meeting at the Radisson with a Zoom visit from District Governor, Janet Tenreiro.
- If you haven't paid your dues - pay them! Or contact Ernie to make other arrangements.
- Thank you to Andy Rochester for implementing the Radisson lunch meeting system - Radisson is thinking of employing it for all meetings!
- John Brown reminded us that with 80 members, we are still a strong and active Club, and we have a lot to be proud of.
ROGRAM Dale Wexell, who led the bylaws committee with participants Ernie Danforth and Jan Harvey, walked us through the changes, and his presentation can be viewed here.
The vote on approving bylaws will take place at the Club meeting of October 14. We will need a quorum of 27 people at that meeting. The revised proposed bylaws are available to review on ClubRunner. Dale Wexell is paying for the meals of those that attend in person. He'll refund your meal purchase price at the meeting; just order as you normally do at our lunch order website.
No 50/50 today