Board Highlights - December 10, 2013
Posted by Billi Dray
on Dec 20, 2013
Here are the minutes from the December 10 board meeting:
The Lima Rotary Board of Directors met on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at Shawnee Country Club. Here are a few highlights from that meeting:
- By-Law Revision Special Committee Chair Dick Schroeder Schroeder shared some history of the change in President Election process in order to develop a planned and deliberate succession of officers. Officers of the club would serve an extra year on the Board as they moved to Past President. The Special Committee, chaired by Dick proposed to the Board clarifying language that the President will have served as President-Elect the year prior and the President-Elect will have served as Vice President the year prior. Each incoming class of Board Members would have one of their number elected as Vice President to eventually succeed to President of the Club. The club elects the members of the board and the board elects the officers. Cindy Wood made the motion to bring the By-Law wording changes to the Annual Meeting. Esther Baldridge seconded the motion. J. Osmon offered a friendly amendment that we should add electronic forms of communication in addition to regular mail for ballots to be sent to nominate board of directors. Esther and Cindy accepted the friendly amendment to the original motion. The amendment to the motion passed unanimously. The amended motion then passed unanimously
- President Schoenhofer continues to evaluate and redefine the Club dashboard before presenting to the Club Membership.
- The board approved the annual Christmas gift for the Milano’s ladies who serve lunch each week.
- The board accepted the resignation of current Club Secretary Billi Dray and the proposed new Club Secretary Rita Brown. Brown will assume responsibilities as the Club Secretary on January 1, 2014 while Dray will be on hand to help train Brown through the month of January and as needed in February as approved by the Board.
- The Board also approved an idea to do a Whiskey Tasting with Greta Murray as a fundraiser for Polio Plus.
- The Centennial Committee discussed a project in cooperation with another county will draw more funding sources and may need to move the Annual Meeting into March because Grant applications are due by the end of March.
- New Member Applications approved by the Board were Jacqi Bradley and transfer member John Ficorilli.
- Resignations passed by the Board were Billi Dray(effective December 31, 2013), Greg Wannamaker, Rosanne Christian and Cory Melvin.
- 11 Rotarians are past due more than one quarter of dues and will be followed up with by President Schoenhofer.
- Shelter Box collection will be promoted to the club and the remaining $1000 will come from the President’s fund. Motion passed.
- Rotarians are encouraged to host Australian Rotarian during the Group Study Exchange Program April 24-May 23, 2014.
- The Board’s next meeting will be a joint meeting with the Rotary Foundation Board on January 14, 2014 at the Meeting Place on Market.