Minutes of our Business meeting with our Interactors at City Academy

Business Meeting

January 26, 2017

City Academy, Salt Lake City

Attendees: Jayne Barnett, Rose Defa, Jennie Ferguson, Margareta Hjorth-Vlasic, Anita Miner, Danny Schoenfeld, Laurie Summers-Pisani, Shannon Tilly, Judy Zone

Guests: 11 Interactors from City Academy

Meeting began at 3: 40 pm

1.      Call to Order, Four-Way Test, and Guest Introductions – Margareta Hjorth-Vlasic

2.      Introduction: Members and Interactors

3.      Local Service Update: Judy talked about the refugee projects and highlighted the DWS refugee tutoring at SLCC. She suggested it might of interest to Inteactors; she invited them to help tutor. One of the City Academy teachers talked about the student who are teaching English to refugees at the Utah Islamic Center.

4.      Social Update: Laurie Summers and Danny Schoenfeld. The social will be organized to help members with Auto Pay for the third or fourth Thursday in February.

5.      Rotary Spotlight – Jayne Barnett. Jayne was born here in Salt Lake. She joined Rotary in October excited about the club and the people. She has worked for The Group (a real estate company) for 30 years. She has two children, 17 and 21. She volunteered while they were growing up but now wants to do more in the way of service.

6.      Interact/Rotaract/Rotary – Mustafa Celebi. Mustafa emphasized that Rotary is about people who get together to enjoy each other’s company and to do local and international service projects. He talked about the advantages of Rotary for doing good deeds, making friends, and increasing your network. Rotarians not only want to mentor young people, but want them to “bug” them, meaning, ask them for help.

7.      Pizza party followed the meeting where members interacted with the students.

Upcoming Key Events

1.      January 28 to March 4 – Saturday computer mentoring

2.      February 6 – Board Meeting, Laurie Summers home

3.      February 2 – Business Meeting, Cottonwood Club

4.      February 9 – Business Meeting, Cottonwood Club. Speaker, Gerald Brown, Director of Refugee Services, Dept of Workforce Services

5.      February Social 24 (tentative)  “Rotary – Get Connected.” Members will work on their profiles on RI and the online payment system.