Our Greeter today was Jerry Frank and he did a marvelous job.
President Amir Famili rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting and welcomed all. Then Jerry Frank gave a very nice invocation.
Secretary John Scott. began the meeting having the members recite The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag. Then he led us in reciting the Four Way Test. John then announced the August member birthdays and Join dates. We sang Happy Birthday.
GUESTS:
Maeve and Fiona, granddaughters of Gwenn and Gary.
HEALTH CHECK #2:
Gwenn Carr distributed a summary of the Membership discussion ideas. See separate article.
MEMBER RECRUITING INCENTIVE:
Gwenn announced that there now are four donors each of $100 to provide incentives to induct new members by December 31, 2019.
NEW MEMBERS BEING INDUCTED:
Pres Amir said that Laurie Grube will be transferring to AWRC from WRWRC.
Mustafa Jaffer announced that his brother Murtaza will be returning to AWRC.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
This great group still depends on cash donations from AW Rotarians. And volunteering for the produce pick-up and distribution on Saturday mornings is a very satisfying thing.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
August 22 at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M. is our next meeting. Amir will discuss the new budget, AND the dream of a Satellite.
A meeting of the Purple Pinkie Committee will follow.
NEXT MORNING MEETING:
Is August 21st with Carrie Ballek as our Greeter.
Pres. Amir points out that on August 21st Dr. Akbar Keshodkar of Moravian College Dept. of Anthropology will speak on Connecting East Africa to the broader Indian Ocean world in a new era of South-South prosperity. Please invite your friends to join us. It will be special.
Pres. Amir introduced Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The door prize donated by Jerry Frank was won by Len Salines.
The $21 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Ernie Boll’s ticket being drawn followed by a white marble. Many marbles will be back next week.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
John Scott says his “vacation” month is over.
Jeff Kistler happily donated a dollar for EACH of the 50 years of marriage to Barbara.
Fiona, the granddaughter, is happy not being in school yet.
Bill Palmer is happy that his granddaughter, Shaina< visited with him yesterday.
Diana Dunn is happy to report that all of the paperwork for the Sierra Leone Hospital Grant application is complete and approved.
Len Salines is happy to report that he is not old; he’s just been young a long time.
Amir Famili is happy that the over 4,000 Lehigh Valley Muslim gathering at Coca Cola Park last Sunday was so successful.
Sue Weber is happy to acknowledge the Kistlers’ 50th anniversary, and Marlene Heller’s birthday coming soon.
Bill Weber is mighty happy to be a Rotarian. He said that programs such as the Friendship Exchange have let them travel all over the world. He thanks everyone.
Amir extended thanks to all for participating in our new budgeting process.
PROGRAM:
The program today was a Presentation of the AWRC 2019-2020 Budget approved by the board. Gary Englehardt showed a slide listing the proposed projects and their weighted support indices. The support level ranged from a high of 4.94 to a low of 1.92. Also there are 4 projects already approved that carried over from last year.
Treasurer Chris Blechschmidt using slides described our somewhat complicated score-keeping system. We maintain 4 separate account: Operations, Foundation, Northwestern Snack Packing, and Parkland Snack Packing.
The funds available include Carryover from last year and the net from Tempting Tastes 5. Some donated funds are pre-committed for a specific use by the donors. There are carryover funds in both Snack Packing accounts, and these will be used for this RY, not new funds.
We have about $19,400 of unrestricted funds plus carryover for a total of about $25,000 to budget. The board agreed to set aside $2,000 as a cushion to be used during the year as new opportunities come in.
Chris described the list of projects that now are approved and their respective amounts. There still is about $13,000 to use, but the $9,000 annual scholarship program is not yet decided. Pres. Amir asks one of us to agree to work with Barbara Kistler to establish an appropriate plan. There were questions and answers on much of the items.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Gary Englehardt now is the AWRC Vice President. Thanks, Gary.
Sue Weber noted that Bill Palmer has paid for the balance of the Picnic costs, Applause.
CLOSING:
Pres. Amir suggested that we continue to pray for our Rotary family.
He closed our meeting by our reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
Good photos are by Gary Heller
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