Meeting Minutes March 3, 2016

Attendees (9): Liz Sherlock, Margreta Hjorth-Vlasic, Danny Schoenfeld, Shannon Tilly, Laurie Summers-Pisani,  Jennie Ferguson, Chris Casper, Stephanie Chard, and Susan Marks.

The meeting was chaired by Danny Schoenfeld. Meeting held at Café Madrid.

Guests: Dean and Marlys Jackson from Utah County, members of Provo Rotary. He is a former District Governor. She works in Real Estate in Salt Lake City and they are considering joining a club near where she works in Holladay.

Cesar Diaz, former member, says his schedule has changed and he wants to join back up.

Max Calleja, Rotary exchange student, now staying with Shannon Tilley.

“Sam,” baby boy accompanied Shannon Tilley as her assistant.

The Four Way test was recited.

Rotary moment: Cesar Diaz recently returned from a trip to Ecuador and visited the Rotary club there. He described his service to the club there.

Shannon Tilley said her father is volunteering in Africa for 3 weeks.

Max wants to raise funds for a Rotary trip to Mexico which costs $800-900. The April social at Shannon’s house will be a combination social and fund raiser, “Max Party,” for his trip. It will be held April 3^rd, a Sunday at 4:30. Suggested donation is $25.00. Max will dance and teach. Stephanie volunteered her house.

Committees:

Social: Those who attended the ski social at Solitude described a great time.

March 17^th will be cheese tasting at Caputo’s in Holladay.  $25.00 plus $15 if you want wine. Jennie will send has sent an evite. Please indicate if you want the wine option. Please RSVP by the 7^th.

The Wine into Water Committee: Laurie Summers-Pisani has secured “The Mill” at Tracy Aviary for a reasonable price. However, it does mean the event will be held on a Sunday. The date will be September 11^th.

Membership: Shannon is working on a membership event possibly in May.  Some dates were discussed, possibly May 26^th.

Foundation Committee: Susan stated she met with Tim Nicholaysen. He will present at the board meeting next week. We need to look at the “giving” side of Rotary. We could meet our goals by the end of the year.

Intergenerational Committee: Jim not present.

Community Service Committee: Margareta stated that on March 24^th, the club will volunteer at the Food Bank at 6:30 p.m. The Rotaracters agreed to come. Need RSVPs. She also mentioned that the Sunnyvale Olympics is planned for March 19^th 10-noon. They could use some help.

Susan announced that the District Assembly is on April 9^th. Danny will provide more info at the next meeting.

Dean Jackson also said that on October 27-29^th at the Marriott Hotel the Zone Institute will be held. This is a combination of many different meetings, not usually held in Utah. It is bigger than a District Conference and about 500-600 people usually attend.

Next meeting, March 10th, Café Madrid.

March 10^th, business meeting plus board meeting.

March 17^th, social at Caputo’s.

March 24^st: service project at Food bank.

April 3^rd, April Social hosted by Shannon.

Meeting adjourned.