October 8, 2015 West Bay Rotary Meeting

October 8, 2015

West Bay Rotary

Club Assembly

 

Karen Hansen – Camden Rotary

Midcoast Interact Club - Advisor

Harper Gordon - President Interact

Molly Mann – VP Interact

Kathryn Snyder

 

Current Interact Project

Service trip to Safe Passage in Guatemala – Feb 26 – March 6

Hanley Denning Created Safe Passage to help families who live off of the city dump.

 

Week of Kindness – Fundraising effort to support this project.

Facebook Page Like the page as a pledge to support and do something kind for someone in the community. https://www.facebook.com/weekofkindness?fref=ts

 

Sign-up sheet for the Walk for Polio

Christmas by the Sea parade

The charitable Foundation of West Bay Rotary – to write checks for support of the Interact project – Memo: Interact or safe passage

 

Strategic Planning for the club

Gary Walker

Sandy Cox

Tim Dresser

Lisa Sjoka

Peter Burke

Mick Mickelson

Mary Sargent

 

Strategic Planning Process

Strengths – what do we do & what do we do well?  The club is a well-oiled machine.  Goal is not to change things – but we need to anticipate the issues that can confront a club in the future.  Want this to go back to the committees to see what we can do better.  First week in December – the committees will provide the strategic planning committee with plans for the future.  Present to the club during club assembly in January.  Tim will forward presentation with details of this process and what the focus will be.

 

Goals

Build a 3-5 Year plan for improvement

Preview ideas with the Strategic Plan Committee – early December

Present to the club during January Assembly

 

 

 

Q & A

Where does our membership stand?  Is this size appropriate or is the target different?

87 current members

More hands make light work

Intent should be to grown to ensure long term sustainability

 

Importance of Fellowship?

At this level Fellowship is very important so that folks can connect.  It is important for folks to participate in these events.

 

Does each committee need to have a plan by Dec?

Yes – 1^st second week in December - before club assembly in January

 

Is there a PR Committee?

Yes

Sarah & Jen

 

Should we be doing more educational PR?

More info in the community is always helpful

 

Can we review the strategic plan once a year?

Sure

 

SWOT Analysis – did it include external review?  Should it?

No external involvement

It wouldn’t hurt to expand reach a little

 

Jane LaFleur Charitable Foundation Update – follow up email sent about charitable contribution requests.

 

Polio Walk – October 17

4 Clubs involved – pledge sheet if you can’t walk.

 

Habitat Event – November 7

4 hour shifts, in the morning and afternoon

 

Program Next Week

Jessica Kent classification talk