May 10, 2012 - Meeting Minutes

Remember our service work is this Saturday, May 19, from 9-12 at New Roots Garden - 3060 S Lester Street (3100 Redwood Road)


PLEASE RSVP TO LAURIE PISANI FOR OUR RETREAT ON JUNE 7

Attending:  Sarah Grant with guest Carrie Martinez, Sonia Woodbury, Shannon Tilly, Jerika Michel (rotaract), Laurie Summers-Pisani, Annie Nielson, Miriam Kramer, Bev Christy, Marlin R Clark, Marty Gelman, Derick Loyola (Park City Sunrise Club), Susan Marks, Ken Klingler, Jennie Ferguson, Pablo Fiesta, Kim Williams Rothwell, Bill Kille.

President Laurie officiated the meeting.  Agenda items:

• 1-We read the 4 way test as a unit
• 2-Display of the flag given to us representing this year's theme-PEACE
• 3-We need a president elect if anyone is interested
• 4-Guests from Rotaract: Jerika, Courtney, John.  They are $1,000 short on their funds for the trip to Mexico so they are holding a service auction on May 17^th at 6:00 on Westminster Campus HWAC special events room.  They will be auctioning off services (yard work, dog walking, etc).  Please come and spread the word.  Call Jerika with questions 801-884-2615.  May 19^th from 9-12 the New Roots Garden Service Project is taking place at 3060 S Lester St (3100 Redwood Rd) Please bring gloves and tools. 
• 5-Ken presented the current financial report, details are still getting worked out
• 6-Derick spoke about innovative fundraiser idea called Reverse Opportunity:  they sold (actually requested donations for each ticket) 200 tickets at $100 each.  Then they had a dinner with free food and beer.  During the dinner they pulled names from the lot and the last name in the barrel wins ½ the pot, $10,000.  The other ½ is what has been raised.  People could buy out the names of people whose name was not picked yet.  The names that were drawn went into another barrel  to win donated prizes.
• 7-Kim spoke about the visioning retreat.  Space is being looked for.  It will be June 7^th at the normal meeting time 5:15, but lasting 3 hours.  Dinner will be provided.  We filled out scaled questions to help prepare for the meeting according to people’s priorities. 
• 8-There are pins for every year, and this year's pins are being obtained.  They have a rainbow on them.
• 9-Happy dollars:  Pablo Fiesta gave $20 Happy Dollars for earning his Blue Belt along with his children and their exchange student.

Meeting adjourned.

May 3 Meeting Minutes

In attendance: Julie Bateman, Linda Book, Sandra Clark, Jennie Ferguson, Bill Kille, Miriam Kramer, Susan Marks, Annie Nielsen, Laurie Summers-Pisani, Ladd Tanner, Sonia Woodbury, John Zone, Judy Zone. Guests: Bob Book and Morgan Ware.

1.      President Elect Laurie Summers-Pisani led our meeting, announcing that Megan Dunn has resigned due to personal reasons. We wish her the best. Laurie is now our President!

2.      Morgan Ware, a Heber Valley Rotarian, was our guest and discussed District Conference June 1 & 2 at Zermatt. Go to www.urdc.com for more information and to register. You can attend both days or only one day. Room rates at Zermatt for Conference attendees are reduced to $119/night.

3.      Judy Zone gave an overview of District Grant applications that can be used for local or international service projects. Deadline of application submission is July 1. Since our club does not have a lot of cash reserve, those interested in submitting a grant will either have to make that tax deductible contribution ($500 - $1,000) themselves, enlist club members and/or other Rotary Clubs in the project. If you have an idea for a District Grant, please email Judy judy@youthlinc.org

4.      Sonia Woodbury mentioned that one of our Interactors from City Academy has raised the necessary funds to go on the District Interact Mexico trip June 9-17. Another student needs more financial support.

5.      Miriam Kramer updated us on our ‘informal’ Exchange student visiting Jan-March 2013. Karlita is the 17 year old daughter of Carlos Acosta, an Iquitos, Peru Rotarian who is the Youthlinc Peru in-country coordinator. Paul Halliday will host her at his home, Sonia has agreed to have her on a temporary basis at City Academy, and we all will need to be entertaining her in some way during her stay. If you have ideas, email Miriam at miriam@youthlinc.org

6.      Club members discussed the idea of a wine tasting party as a fundraiser this summer. We do need a venue, and we might have guests bring two bottles of wine as part of their entrance: one for tasting and one for the ‘kitty’. In an opportunity drawing, guests could win the ‘kitty’ wine. Another idea is to sell only 100 tickets for $100, and use a portion of the cash as the opportunity drawing prize, with members bringing the wine that will be tasted. We could use this event to raise money for District Grants, or a community project like a bench at the Millcreek Library. Bill Kille will look into the bench. Miriam will look into appliances for the Bhutanese refugee community.

7.      Reminders:

·        Gardening with our Rotaract and Interact Club: Saturday, May 19 9-12pm at the New Roots Garden. Contact Miriam for more info miriam@youthlinc.org

·        Club community service retreat, June 7 and discussion of meeting space. We still need a venue, possibly the Cottonwood Club.

·        Youthlinc Benefit is our social for May.

8.      Happy Dollars:

·        Laurie’s daughter has graduated from Westminster and has a job teaching 1^st grade at Dilworth Elementary. $10 contribution

·        Linda Book’s daughter’s family has been living with them while their new home is remodeled. $10 contribution.

·        Susan Marks spent a week with her 87 year old mom who is as spry as ever. Please BILL her for her $10 contribution.

·        Jennie Ferguson has her house under contract. $10 contribution.

·        John Zone will be going to dinner with his son who will be in town, and whom he hasn’t seen since Christmas. $10 contribution.

See you all next Thursday, May 10, 5:15pm at Café Madrid!

Save the Date - June 7, 2012

The votes are in and our Rotary Club of Millcreek Retreat will be on Thursday, June 7, from 5:15 - 10:00pm.  Please join us as we set the vision for our Club.  More information and details to come.

Report on the Doings of our Interact Club

1. Our City Academy Interactors hosted a Roteract project by Dana Kirkpatrick in our school kitchen to make dog treats for a huge fundraiser she was working on for a dog adoption event.

2. The students are promoting working at the New Roots refugee garden on Saturdays. They plan to be involved with that.

3. We have 2 students registered to go to Mexico with the Utah Rotary District trip of Interactors and Rotaracters and Rotarians statewide.

4. One of the Interact projects is to be part of World Book Night. They are going to be giving away books on April 23.

Some of our City Academy Interactors with Principal (and Millcreek Rotarian) Sonia Woodbury to the left and their advisor to the right.

April 12, 2012 - Meeting Minutes

We had another great meeting at our new location, Cafe Madrid. Meeting notes follow:

PLEASE THINK GOOD THOUGHTS FOR OUR PRESIDENT, MEGAN DUNN, WHO HAS BEEN VERY ILL. WE WISH HER A SPEEDY RECOVERY.

Welcome and Introduction of guests - we had 22 attendees this week with two guests that may join our Club. We welcomed two new members - Bill Kille and Shannon Tilley and are pleased to see our club growing.

April Social - Annie announced that our social will be on Thursday, April 26 at 6:15pm at Cafe Madrid. Watch for an eVite.

Upcoming Community Projects - Miriam gave a great update. Please add these dates/events to your calendar:

April 21 - 4-6pm - tutoring Bhutanese refugees

May 19 Refugee community gardening - this is a date change due to Memorial Day Weekend

June 16 - World Refugee Day

Hosting Rotarian from Peru's daughter- The RCMC agreed to host Carlos' daughter, Carlita (16 years old) from January to March, 2013. She will stay with Pablo Fiesta's family and RCMC members will help entertain throughout her stay.

Rotary Learning - Susan Marks - Susan encouraged each of us to buy the book, "A Century of Service" to learn the history of Rotary. You can find it through the Rotary website or on Amazon for $15. Read on.

Register for Rotary District Conference on June 1-2 at Zermatt Resort. You can go both days, or one day. Visit the website to register and for details - www.urdc2012.com. Megan Dunn is a featured speaker on Saturday morning. Let's support her.

Be sure to complete the survey sent yesterday by Judy on the Parks project. Survey due Monday.

Sergeant at Arms - John Zone. John put a positive spin on the night by wrapping up with RCMC members sharing good things that had happened to them and adding to the kitty by sharing good karma. The group earned over $100 by sharing what a lucky group of people we are and how many good things are going on in our lives!

See you tutoring next Saturday!

April 5 Meeting Minutes - Cafe Madrid (our new location)

Our new location for business meetings is Cafe Madrid - the food and service were impeccable.

We started the meeting by welcoming two guests. 17 members attended.

Meeting agenda:

Agenda Item 1: Parks Grant discussion - Laurie Pisani brought up the Parks Grant and a good discussion started on whether to work with other rotaries to place a bench on the Jordan River Parkway. A financial contribution is the focus for this project, plus a day of service.

RCMC asked for other options. Laurie shared an idea to create a small biking area for children – an area where they can ride and learn traffic signals.

Other options include creating a park for handicapped children.

Judy thought we should ask members to vote via e-mail. Our first decision is whether we want to do a project on our own or whether we want to join other rotaries like option 1 above. The second decision is deciding on the project. All in attendance agreed to ensure we get everyone to vote so we represent our club and what the majority wants to do for a Park Grant project.

Action required by you: Megan will send an e-mail and blog vote – watch for this. This is your club, please participate.
Agenda Item 2: Community service projects – Miriam updated on last weeks’ meeting. We will be sending out a doodle for you to vote when you can attend a vision and strategy retreat session for Rotary Club of Millcreek.

Meeting Minutes - March 29, 2012 and March 15, 2012

18 Rotary Club of Millcreek members met to discuss our service projects and ensure the group came to consensus on where we wanted our focus to be going forward.

In attendance: Christine Casper, Miriam Kramer, Laurie Summers-Pisani, Jason Collier, Peter Ingle, Mustafa C. Celebi, Annie Nielsen, Julie Bateman, Sarah Grant, Margareta Vlasic, Ladd Tanner, Kim Rothwell, Linda Book, Jenna Ferguson, Marlin Clark, and Sandra Clark.

Miriam Kramer facilitated the meeting and opened by setting objectives. She asked for input on volunteerism and where we should focus. The following members had ideas and shared with the group:

• Peter Ingle - discussed articles on blog from March 27. Suggested a focus on sustainability and ensuring the club defines the value/benefits of chosen projects.



• Susan Marks - Reviewed requirements for Presidential Citation. All in attendance felt we should strive to receive this award next year and need a volunteer to keep running track of the requirements we have met.



• Miriam Kramer - presented information on World Refugee Day on June 16. Rotary Club of Millcreek can work with Bhutanese refugees to have a booth, etc.



• Ladd Tanner - gave an update on Interact kids and their desire to help with our projects.



• Margereta Vlasic - suggested we check in with Millcreek Community to ensure our club is aligned with community projects and needs



• Marty Gelman -shared success he experienced with bringing in meals for homeless families through a Methodist Church Program. Marty will work with Mark Cantor to bring information to an upcoming meeting.



• Linda Book - identified a need for families staying at Ronald McDonald House to have support and a friend to help them feel welcome, navigate the city, spend time with their kids that are not sick (Ladd thought this might be a great program for Interact kids)



• Chris Casper - shared experience at Alliance House tutoring schizophrenics to get their GED



• Martin Clark - stressed importance of literacy and possible alignment with America Reads



• There were many other ideas and suggestions made for our focus in 2012/13 and beyond.

After all the brainstorming the group agreed we need to define a vision for who we are and what we want to do before we commit to a focus and long-term project. The group agreed to have a retreat in May to work on vision and a long-term plan/project list for service. Kim Rothwell volunteered to facilitate the session. Once vision, mission and goals are set, the club will determine our long-term volunteer plan.

Our 90 Day Plan is to continue with our quick hit projects such as: US Citizenship tutoring with Bhutanese refugees, etc. In April, our focus will be literacy and looking to help out on Autism Month and tutoring. For May, we will focus on the garden and food to sustain those in need. In June, we will create a booth for World Refugee Day on June 16.

Actions Needed by You:

• Review meeting notes and provide additional ideas or research on projects you have suggested to Miriam and Megan.



• If you have a cabin/home/office etc to volunteer for a day for our retreat, please let Miriam know. We are trying to do the retreat in May and are looking at a Saturday for 4-6 hours. Our club has 30 members with an average of 15 attendees at each meeting.



• A survey link will be sent to vote for a preferred date - please respond.



• The Rotaract mentoring program e-mail was re-sent. If you haven't volunteered to be a mentor, take a look at the e-mail and student profiles and respond to Laura.

Our next meeting will be Thursday, April 5, at 5:15pm at Cafe Madrid. See you then!

Meeting Minutes - March 15, 2012

15 members in attendance

Welcomed guest: Shannon Tilly, Rick Cambra District Gov.

Introduced new members: Sandra Clark and Kim Williams. Presented pins to new members.

Rotaractor, Jerika, told about fundraiser and passed order form for 1/2 cases of oranges ($20) $ put toward the MEXICO TRIP (note: oranges arrived at March 29 meeting and are delicious)

Rotaractor, Dana, told about Adopt Me Society Fun Walk--April 7 @ Liberty Park 9:30-12:00 Adopt Me Society is a local non-profit organization run by volunteers with a mission to rescue animals.

Laurie Summers-Pisani reported on the money from the Sorenson Grant for parks and rec.