Board Meeting Minutes — 21 June 2010

X  President: Bob Herrmann	X Dir-10: Joel Gray	X Dir-12: KarinTuthill
X Pres-Elect: Joe Fusco	X Dir-10: PP Glen Bahr	¨ Dir-13: Glen Bahr
¨ VP: Missy Graves	¨ Dir-10: Grace Bottini	¨ Dir-13: Grace Bottini
¨ Past Pres: Ron Townsend	X  Dir-11: Carol Mooney	¨ Dir-13: Joel Gray
x CoSecy: PP Debbie Adamo	X Dir-11: Clark Speicher	¨ VP-Elect: Bob Bird
¨ CoSecy: PP Greg Mattacola	¨ Dir-11: Bill Wolf	X Other: Bruce Melnick
x Treasurer: Sandie Latimer	X Dir-12: :Bill Tuthill	¨ Other:
¨ Membership: Open	X Dir-12: Dave Kobernuss	¨ Other:

þ = Present; (E) = Excused

Call to Order & Roll Call (Quorum = 7): President Herrmann called the meeting to order at 5:20pm .

Previous Minutes (Herrmann): The minutes of the last meeting were approved by Glen Bahr, Dave K, seconded passed unanimously.

President’s Report (Herrmann):

· Membership Chair Opening- hasn’t been filled as of yet

· Roses For the Living Award-postponed slow start

· New Exchange Student :girl from Thailand Patcharin”Kwan Petcharat age 16.9 , we have two host families line up

· Interact Club dinner results: 1,000 raised from the dinner and $400-$500 from cd’s all proceeds went to the Lost Boys School in Africa

· Teacher of the Year great Results: pres Bob went to the presentation that our recipient, Len Gratch had done. He had bought books for the students all but 2 families came, it was a great presentation.

· International Students Day: Ron Cantor ahs done a great job. He has a great administrative asst who has set up a face book site about the event.

Secretary’s Report:

· Member proposals. Ellie Dombrowski she was proposed by Dave K, he made a motion, seconded by Sandi Latimer, motion passed

· Leaves of absence. None

· Resignations. June Sperlik

· Rocco Versace Letter – Joe Fusco made the motion to approve Rocco V to qualify under the article 9 of the Rotary Constitution, Dave K seconded motion approved.

Treasurer’s Report (Latimer): The Treasurer’s Report was received and duly recorded.

Proposed 2010-2011 budget- we reviewed the budget and per Dave K 2 meetings were held to go over the proposed numbers and we will approve the budget at next months meeting.

Area Reports:

· Membership still open looking for a chair, someone had mentioned possible Tara Baker.

· Public Relations (Corbett). No report

· Club Administration (Graves).

Club Projects (Fusco).

► Interact Club at RFA (Fusco/Neiley N).

► YE Student Information Update (Fusco/Neiley N). we are looking for host families

► Rotary Reader Program Update (Fusco/Packer).over for this year

· Canal fest update (Kobernuss). We gained $4500 in major sponsors

· The Rotary Foundation (Tuthill). $4123 in sustaining membership dollars, $617.12 from the pigs and they will be coming back in the fall.

· Other Old Business:

· Other New Business:

Grant Request –$100 Rome Sports Hall of Fame, was from Mike Occhipinti per Dave K is has already been put in the budget this is for the Rome Bowl.

Grant Request $2500- Rome Sports Hall of Fame Bill Tuthill made a motion and was seconded by Clark Speicher to send a letter stating this request is not within the realm of what Rotary does. Motion passed.

Grant Request, unspecified, VIPS-in recognition for assistance with security at Canal fest, Carol Mooney made a motion seconded by Karin Tuthill for a uniform upgrade to give the VIPS $500.00, motion passed

Honor America Days Dave K made a motion and was seconded by Debbie A to give Honor America Days $1000, Motion Passed

Parade- Ron Townsend is getting the flag a sign up sheet will be passed around for Rotarians to sign up.

We received 2 simplified grants that thanks to Joyce Midland and Karin Tuthill ONE WILL BE FOR Jervis Library and their summer reading program we received $1000.00 and the other is for $1700.00 for Children’s wardrobe passed on suggestions from teachers.

June 30^th a fundraising seminar will be held at the Common Council Chambers held by the State of New York.

Adjourn:

The meeting was adjourned at 6:24 . The next regular meeting of the Board will be on July 19, 2010 at the Savoy, 5:15 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Greg Mattacola/Debbie Adamo
Rome Rotary Club Secretary