- Good afternoon. Welcome to the Bloomington Rotary Club's weekly celebration of service. I'm Steve Wicks,
- and I'm dumbfounded as to why you picked me as your president this year. What in the world were you thinking?
- Yes, as Rex says, not too late to change your minds. No. All these people, you're all here for a club
- assembly, so you must have a death wish.
- But we're two months in, you're here, I'm here, we're doing fine. So on a more serious note, I'm honored
- to serve as your president this year. Please silence your electronic devices. This day in history,
- on this day, September 2nd, Labor Day 1935, a Category 5 hurricane made landfall in Florida, the strongest
- and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S.
- 432 people died from this hurricane. Hurricanes were not named until 1953. So in honor of the Labor
- Day holiday, please stand if you are able and we'll recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance
- to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
- indivisible,
- with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. So Sally Gaskell and Connie Chicales will provide us with
- special music to celebrate Labor Day. Come on, Connie. We are having a sing-along. Does anybody else
- need a copy of the words? I have two left. There's a couple on your...
- No one's raising your hands? Connie wants it. OK. So Steve, in fact, asked us to provide some special
- music today to celebrate Labor Day. As you probably know, Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894
- to honor the nation's workers and their contributions to the well-being of our country.
- One of the routes dates back to the 1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago, which was in fact a demonstration
- for the eight hour workday. Yesterday, I was at the demonstration at the courthouse square and I saw
- Sylvia McNair carrying a sign that said, unions, the folks that brought you weekends. So in honor of
- Labor Day, please join Connie and me in singing
- If I had a hammer, this is a Pete Seeger song from 1949. Tyler's going to cue up a very fast version
- of this piece. So I hope you all sing along. Feel free to stand if you feel like it. Keep up the tempo,
- because it's going to be really fast. OK. And we want to hear you on Zoom, so unmute yourselves. OK.
- Jim Harvey will share a reflection about service today. Steve asked me last week when I came in if I
- were willing to do the reflection today, and he said, would you please talk about service? What is service?
- Service above self.
- is a familiar phrase for us Rotarians. It was maybe providential that Steve asked me to do this,
- but it also was somewhat ironic, be given our speaker last week talked about gratitude. Is gratitude
- another word for kindness? Is kindness another word for service?
- Like kindness, service costs you nothing. I joined some other Rotarians, some in this room, at Hoosier
- Hills Food Bank this summer to pack boxes. And it was one of those bloody hot days. And I asked myself,
- what in the hell am I doing here? But I looked across the room and realized that Winston and Sue
- were there. And because of our coffee group, I know Winston is older than I am. And I said, so if they
- can do this, I can do this. And I'm glad I did. I have belonged to the Methodist Church on and off most
- of my life. And one of the ministers that I got to know is a person that many of you know, Joe Emerson.
- And at the time,
- I was involved in the schools and I didn't have the time. And Joe said, well, what are you doing on
- Wednesday mornings? What do you mean Wednesday mornings? And he said, at six o'clock. It turns out Joe
- managed to collect all the goodings, ingredients for scrambled eggs at Shalom Center. So,
- As I said yes to Steve, I said yes to Joe. And so that started two years worth of cooking breakfast
- every once a month on Wednesday mornings at Shalom. And when I finished what I was doing with the schools,
- Joe said, well, now it's time for you to come on the board. And so I spent several years. Tracy,
- you need to pay attention so that you learn to say no sometimes.
- In reality, all you're doing is postponing saying yes. Service is humbling and it should be just like
- gratitude. Service reminds you that other people need your help. And Sally has encouraged me to be kinder.
- Some of you've known me a long time know that
- I may not be kind now, but I was worse when I was younger. Kindness comes from saying yes. Saying yes
- to opportunities that present themselves, whether it's cooking at Shalom or volunteering at Hoosier
- Hills Food Bank or ringing a bell at Salvation Army.
- Service is gratitude. So maybe, just maybe, kindness is happiness. Maybe the saying for us Rotarians
- should be, instead of saying, see something, say something, maybe for us it should be, see something,
- do something. Thank you, Jim.
- We have these wonderful weekly programs, but at our core, we are a service club. And so it's always
- good to remind ourselves, you know, service, service, service. Jim Shea will introduce our guests today. Well,
- hello, everybody. I am delighted to introduce four guests. And if you could stand or wave so we can
- acknowledge you.
- Our first guest is Ellen Stroman, who is a guest of Ruth Boschkoff. Welcome. Next, we have Jen Eugenia,
- who is a Rotaract student from the Philippines, and he's a guest of Katie Cernik. Welcome.
- Next, we have Krishna Pillani, who is a guest of Sarah Laughlin, also a RotorX student. Welcome.
- And last but not least, we have Luke Lubring, who is a guest of Peyton Flynn, and he is a chemical engineer.
- Welcome. And we're delighted to have you all here. If you have questions about Rotary, just ask anybody
- at your table.
- Welcome. Thank you, Jim. Leslie, do we have any guests online today? We do not. Lots of birthdays to
- celebrate today. Today, Laurie Garrity has a birthday. Tomorrow, Don Hossler, Marilyn Wood on the 5th,
- Jim Shea on the 6th, John Diltz, Aaron Davis on the 7th, Andrea
- De La Rosa D on the seventh, and John Weichart on the eighth. Lots of birthdays. Two anniversaries tomorrow.
- Diana Hoffman and Leanne Radcliffe, both celebrating their first anniversary with a club. Both of them
- have become very active.
- Announcements. I'll start. We had Tim Jessen brought a guest last week, a birch, and I can't remember
- his last name, who was looking for a job. I want to remind the group that Tyler here is also looking
- for employment. So if you have anything, please seek him out. He's very interested. There's a sign-up
- sheet in yellow right there, an old-fashioned sign-up sheet, the things we used to use before Sign Up Genius.
- And our club has accepted the law school's invitation to co-sponsor their Constitution Day luncheon
- program on Wednesday, September 17th. And this will be a separate event from our weekly meeting on the 16th.
- And our obligation as a sponsor will be for up to 50 of us to show up and eat pizza and listen to the
- program on the Constitution. Parking will be half a block away at the Henderson Street Garage.
- You'll need to pay for that.
- Those of our members who have drivers, if you go around to the north side of the law school,
- you'll be able to be dropped off and you can get down the hall up an elevator and to the event.
- So it is handicapped accessible. So sign up sheet is in yellow right there. If we don't think that our
- club can get 50, then we probably will reach out to the other rotary clubs in town to see if they have
- an interest. So if you plan to attend, please sign up immediately.
- I mentioned this last week. I'll say it again. The Pillar Arts Alliance will celebrate the grand opening
- from 68 PM on Saturday, September 6. They'd like to know how many planned to attend. So see Tracy, see me.
- There are other people associated with the event in the audience if you want more details. And like I said,
- we have a lot of club members who are involved with this organization. The IU Rotor Act
- has invited members of our club to join them for their meeting on September 9th in Woodburn Hall, 7 p.m.
- Parking. We haven't experienced big time problems yet this year, but on weeks when the lots fill up
- here at the IMU, the two lots, you can also park at the Atwater or Henderson garage
- And we have special tickets, so go ahead and go in the garage, take your ticket there, and then come here,
- and we'll give you a special ticket. And there's kind of an involved process to get out. Sally Gaskell
- said she probably did it 12 times and badly, but she's got it now. So anyway, just so you know,
- there are options where parking is concerned. Special treat today, we have a new member induction ceremony. Tracy?
- I am not the new member, but I'd like to invite Peyton Flynn to come up and Erin and Martha to come up.
- Join us. This is a special day. We love to get new members. And Peyton, hopefully you've met quite a
- few people because I know you've been to at least three or four meetings and she's coming in permanently.
- So we're excited.
- And while you're coming up, I'll tell you all a little bit about Peyton. She is in her final year of
- law school at IU Maher School of Law and set to graduate in May next year. Fun fact, since her sophomore
- year of college, Peyton has always had at least one job during her studies and has often worked two
- jobs during her classes. She and her partner, Lucas Lovering, are both Bloomington area natives and
- will be celebrating their second anniversary this Labor Day. Luke is a chemical engineer at SMPDRA and
- Peyton's an intern at the
- Elmer Entrepreneurship Law Clinic and a Senior Transactional Law Clerk at Glendening, Johnson & Bohr, PC.
- Peyton and Luke have no children but have rescued Simey's cat named Toothbrush. I have no idea where
- that name came from.
- But I suspect she's clean, the cat. Peyton went to study epidemiology at IU Purdue University, Indianapolis,
- back when it was actually called that, and graduated with honors on the dean's list and as a chancellor's
- scholar. She worked at the Indiana Department of Health for two years, tracking outbreaks of enteric disease.
- She was frustrated with tracking outbreaks on tedious PDF interview forms, so she taught herself how
- to program on RedCap and built a patient interview interface with over 1,000 custom entries and conditional
- formatting throughout.
- in a month that the state Department of Health still uses to track outbreaks to this day and it has
- been dubbed a game changer by the current outbreak investigation team. You really have a broad skill
- broad set of skills you hope Peyton hopes to stay in Bloomington area upon graduation and get more involved
- in Rotary service opportunities when possible. So we love that. So with that for the formal induction Peyton.
- On behalf of the board and membership of the Bloomington Rotary Club, it is a great pleasure to welcome
- you as the newest, oops, sorry, I started on the wrong side. You have been chosen. No, I was right.
- I'm not used to printing it this way, because Lori, for those of you who know, I didn't do membership
- committee for like a year, because I was doing president and Lori changed the formatting and it threw me.
- So let's just try again. Sometimes we make mistakes.
- We look forward to the fellowship that we will share as well as your participation in the club projects
- that make our club, community, country, and world a better place. Though Rotary is not a political
- organization, Rotarians are vitally concerned with good citizenship and the election of effective leaders
- to public office. While Rotary is not a religious organization, it is built on those highest principles
- that have served as a moral compass for people throughout the ages. Rotary is an organization of business,
- professional and community leaders pledge to uphold the highest ethical and moral standards. Rotarians
- believe that worldwide fellowship and peace can be achieved when people work together and uphold the
- Rotary motto of Service Above Self. Rotary activities exemplify the partnership, respect, and generosity
- that one would expect from people who believe they have a responsibility to help others.
- Peyton, you've been chosen for membership in the Bloomington Club because your fellow members believe
- you to be a leader in our community and because you possess the qualities to champion the message and
- principles of Rotary. You are representative of your vocation and talents within our club and community.
- You are now becoming an ambassador of Bloomington Rotary and will be carrying the ideals of service
- to all within your sphere of influence.
- Our community will know and judge Rotary by your character and service. We will also look to you for
- inspiration as we strive to become better Rotarians. We will now pin you with your distinguishing badge
- of a Rotarian, your Rotary pin. Oh, they're magnets now. Oh, that's so much better.
- All right, we ask that you wear your rotary pin with pride in your many endeavors and as a symbol of
- our recognition of your contribution towards a better world through rotary membership. Fellow Rotarians,
- please rise if you are able and welcome our newest Rotarian, Peyton Flynn.
- Well, that was a feel-good moment. Tyler, can you put up the mystery rotarian? OK, first clue. Remember,
- if you know the answer, put up your hand. Don't shout it out. Those of you online, if you know the answer,
- raise your electronic hand.
- Don't type it in so that everybody can see it. All right, first clue. This Rotarian is a dedicated basketball
- fan who spent 25 years keeping the score book for Shelbyville High School and today is a regular attendee
- at IU Women's Basketball Games. Okay, I see three or four, okay. All right. Second clue.
- a retired educator. This Rotarian taught physics, chemistry, and math, starting at Connorsville High School,
- Rushville High School, Shelbyville High School, and Franklin College. Put up your hands if you know. OK,
- a few more. Third clue, a Rotarian for 46 years. This club member is a Paul Harris Fellow, a past
- treasure and past president of the Shelbyville club. All right put up your hands if you know.
- We've quite a few. And the answer is Bill Murphy. And bill is online there.
- So as a member of our club, for almost 20 years, he's attended several district conventions,
- served on the scholarship and membership committees. And as it worked out, the two of us were paired
- together to ring Salvation Army bells here about two years ago. And that's really one of the nice things
- about service projects. You get to know people that you might not know otherwise. Bill and his wife, Vera,
- they retired here about almost 20 years ago.
- Steve Moberly was his sponsor in this club. Bill taught calculus at Shelbyville High School and Franklin
- College for 37 years. An interesting fact, Bill's great-grandmother was a first cousin to aviators Wilbur
- and Orville Wright. I will say for those of you who do go to women's basketball games, Bill sits typically
- at the level when you enter through the north
- entrance. There's an area above the north basket stands. People with walkers and wheelchairs are there.
- If you try to say hello to them before the game, the ushers won't let you go in. But if you go at halftime,
- you can usually get in there and say hello to Bill. So anyway, Bill Murphy, congratulations.
- Oh, and I saw Jim Bright, Steve Moberly, who is a sponsor. I saw Steve. And maybe one more knew it right away.
- Leslie, did anyone online get it right, besides Bill? I was going to say Bill. We have no. OK. All right.
- I think Bill was our first Zoomer for the Mystery Rotarian. OK, not a lot on Rotary International today,
- but I will say we've turned the calendar. We're in a new month. So September is Basic Education and
- Literacy Month. And besides our club and lots of other clubs, there are all sorts of special interest
- groups in Rotary. There's one Literacy Rotary Action Group.
- Worldwide network of Rotarians with a special interest in alleviating illiteracy. Excuse me.
- And then there's the, yeah. There are efforts in the world to take down literacy rates. OK.
- I think I've spoken enough, so we're ready for our first speaker.
- Christopher MG from the Chamber of Commerce will take a few minutes and explain the relationship between
- our club and the Chamber and what this relationship means to all of you. Thank you, Steve. I only had
- a hammer here. I don't know if anybody else butchered it as badly as I did today, but the Natalie Merchant
- version I was familiar with was a lot slower.
- I am, as Steve mentioned, Chris Turnergy from the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce.
- We're a 110-year-old civic organization. We are mutual members. So what we've long held is an event
- in November, what she's used to call Business Outlook, which is now called Futurecast that we have at
- the convention center, where we have
- what the economy is doing, what to look forward to, and how much lower your 401K is going to be.
- So has anybody been to that event? Very good event. Phil Powell's a big fan of his from the Kelly School.
- So I was asking around at the offices, what does the Rotarian membership to these fellow Rotarians mean?
- And they were like, we haven't really
- talked about that yet, which was very interesting here. But one of the things I'm going to encourage
- all of you to do is our business after hours, which is on the third Wednesday of every month.
- I want everyone to at least come to one before the end of the year. I said third Thursday. Excuse me.
- I said Wednesday. Third Thursday of every month. So it'll be at Old National Bank downtown on the 18th.
- So write down that calendar. And let me know if you want to get on our other events. If you need to
- get on our mailing list, we do a lot of different things. We do have our annual meeting on the 11th
- of this month, but it is sold out as of today. But we also do, I do the success school, which works
- for financial and career literacy. I see Marcy back there, a fine success school volunteer with the
- reality store and a bunch of other things we do, which is a lot of fun. We have a women's in leadership.
- We have a young professionals group. So there's a lot we do in the chamber that we want to get the Rotarians
- more involved in. You have any more questions? But we do want to see you at a business after hours,
- third Thursday of the month we were at, Hard Truth, I guess two weeks ago, and that was a lot of fun.
- So I want to thank Steve for giving me five minutes here. But any questions, I'll be here a little bit
- after on the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce. Thank you.
- Thank you. Alan Barker is this year's Bloomington Rotary Foundation president. Don't forget, there are
- two foundations that are important in our Rotary lives. Many of us get them confused. I occasionally
- get them confused. The Rotary International Foundation fights polio, engages in other causes around the world,
- and funds our district grant. Then there's the Bloomington Rotary Foundation,
- which provides the bulk of funds for our club scholarships and focuses on local issues. And remember,
- as a member of this club, you are also a member of the Bloomington Rotary Foundation. And then Elan
- wears multiple hats. He also serves as our communications committee chairperson. And after he brings
- us up to date regarding the Bloomington Rotary Foundation, he'll inform us about developments in the
- world of club communications. Elan?
- Thanks very much, President Steve. And before I get in, hi everybody. It's great to see you all.
- And everybody online, it's wonderful to see you, especially happy to see Charlotte Zietlow is with us today.
- So Charlotte, it's great to have you. And even more wonderful to know that you're back in home. So that's
- good to see. She's not, oh, she isn't. Okay, well, it's great to have you with us, Charlotte. So let's see.
- Yes, I'm gonna start talking to you about the,
- The Bloomington Rotary Foundation and thanks to Sally who put these slides together and I've adjusted them.
- We're going to use a slide deck that Sally presented to us in the general meeting a few weeks ago,
- but I want to make I want to suggest that it's actually really easy to remember that the Bloomington
- Rotary Foundation.
- provides funding for scholarships and community engagement. Those are the two things that are really
- the most important things that we do. And it's wonderful to know that the Bloomington Rotary Club itself
- has a foundation to support its good work. So that's what I'm going to be talking to you about right now.
- It is what we call a 501C3, which means that the funds that it receives are eligible for tax
- tax savings, tax savings and tax deductions as we go along. As I said, its purpose is specifically to
- support the charitable work of the Bloomington Rotary Club, but we also serve, as I will be mentioning,
- the other two clubs in Bloomington in fiscal sponsorship of their activities. We have a board of directors
- made up of you, and the board of directors is made up of Ron Barnes, who's gonna be president next year,
- Sally Gaskell, thank you for your support
- and your leadership last year. Sarah Laughlin, who's our secretary. John Zodi, treasurer, who's been
- doing a fabulous amount of work just recently to get things up to speed. Amy Osojima.
- So those are the individuals involved in steering the organization through the year. If you have any
- questions or thoughts about the Bloomington Rotary Foundation, please make sure that you speak to one of them.
- OK, so as Sally mentioned a few weeks ago, I just wanted to remind us all, we were founded in 1986.
- So that's a good while ago. And luckily, that was when women were, it must be something about women
- taking charge and doing something meaningful in our organization. We've been working on this for a long time.
- We've been super active all the way through helping establish Teachers' Warehouse. In 1998, we decided
- that we had enough funds to invest in an endowment, which over time gives us funding to be able to do
- what we want to do. And we began receiving toast funds 10 years ago now in 2015. It's amazing,
- 10 years of extraordinary toast work. Thanks to Jim Bright, who's the visionary behind it all,
- Jim is with us today, so congratulations, Jim. And then we have the Fountain of Youth campaign that
- I'm going to be talking to you about as well. And that was something that Lauren Snyder had in his vision
- for what we could be doing. So that's basically what we are. The 80-20 Fund, it's a little obtuse.
- What is an 80-20 Fund? Does anybody know what the 80-20 Fund is? Hold up your hands if you know what it is.
- Basically, it's an opportunity to give money to the foundation four times a year in $20 amounts. So
- it's basically a commitment of giving the foundation $80 a year
- $20 each quarter. And so what I would love to see honestly from all of us as a sort of a foundational part of,
- as a basic part of what we do as individuals in our club, is to make a commitment to supporting the
- foundation through the 80-20 program. So if you're not part of it, please go ahead and join up and we
- can talk to you about how to make that happen.
- Yes, you can give all the money at once. You can give $80 at the beginning of the year if you'd prefer.
- That would be great, or more. OK, so here's some good news. Our endowment has been growing over time.
- And currently, our endowment is around $152,000, which is really quite extraordinary. So congratulations
- to you all. That's really fantastic. OK, yes, yes, give yourselves an applaud. So the endowment.
- The endowment distributions only support scholarships. So that's something that I want you to remember
- is that the endowment really is a program to be able to support indefinitely scholarship work of the
- Bloomington Rotary Club.
- The Fountain of Youth program is a visionary program. It's an aspiration for us to get to 200,000 by 2030.
- I honestly think that we could do it sooner, and maybe we'd even be able to do it by the end of this year.
- Our current amount that we've raised, as I mentioned, is around 150,000. Outstanding pledges that we
- have from members of this club are about 26, which means that we have about $176,000 towards that $200,000
- goal, which is
- Totally fantastic. 100% of the distributions from the endowment go to scholarships.
- So I just wanted to mention that. So our annual scholarships, as you all know, high school scholarships
- to Bloomington students who are preparing for their university training. And then we also have scholarships
- for Ivy Tech students. So those are the two that we currently run. And more about that will be shared
- with you as we go through the year. OK, so the next thing that we do is we are basically the receiving
- organization for support of community
- engaged activity, community grants. And through the toast and through individual contributions,
- we've been able to accumulate a certain amount of money, which we're very grateful for. And this year,
- we are launching a new project called the Community Grant through the Community Services Committee.
- And it's a $10,000 amount that we're offering to the Community Services Committee to run their granting
- program. In addition to that, we provide matching funds for the district
- grant. So the district grant is received and as an agreement with the district we put in $3,000 a year
- or however much it is and the foundation provides those funds.
- We also provide financial services to the Bloomington North Rotary. They have money with us in cash.
- The Bloomington Sunrise Rotary likewise. We are the fiscal agent for the Bloomington Rotary Toast.
- And then we hold separate funds for the international projects that we run as a club and also the refugee
- program. So if you have ideas of what you would like to do in support of any of these programs,
- please let us know. We'd love to be able to hear from you.
- Okay, so how to support in general? There's the 80-20 fund that I was talking to you about, $80 a year
- that you can sign up for and just do every year as a way of helping the organization. Supporting scholarships
- in the form of cash donations as well as money towards the endowment, the Fountain of Youth campaign.
- you can make a bequest to the Bloomington Rotary Foundation as you prepare your finances. And then also
- we have an opportunity for honoring members of our club through memorial funds. So those basically are
- the four ways that you can contribute to the Bloomington Rotary Foundation. Any questions while I move? Yeah,
- go ahead. That's correct. I'm sorry. I should have mentioned that. Yeah.
- So the Bloomington Monroe County Foundation is our investing entity that enables us to do what we do. Yeah.
- Thank you very much. Good. Any other comments?
- Okay, so there's a new invoice system that was established last year where we're all getting a much
- better read on exactly what our expenses are in the club. And if you are doing this 80-20 program,
- you will actually see that on your invoice. And if you don't see it on your invoice and you would like
- to be involved, please let us know. So thank you. Okay, so moving along now, I'm going to move to
- How many minutes do I have? Like three minutes or something? Two minutes. OK. That's OK. We are all
- great communicators. I just want to mention that there's going to be a PowerPoint presentation here.
- Caleb Poore designed this for us a while back. Really, really beautiful. Please go ahead and use these.
- There are many of them at the table here as a way of spreading the word about our wonderful club. OK, good.
- So we have our communications. These are the members of the communications committee. Myself, Charles Pierce,
- Lexi Walters, Mark Peterson, Caleb Poor, Jim Bright, Wilson Chetandi, Joy Harder, Greer Carson,
- and Charlotte Zietlow. We invite you to get more and more involved in communicating about our club.
- Familiarize yourself with the website. If you want to know how to get to DACDB, for instance,
- you can simply go to BloomingtonRotary.org, which is a very easy thing to remember, and we
- and right at the top of the page there's a link to your DACDB profile. So that's something to remember
- is bloomingtonrotary.org. You also have access to your Rotary International pathway as well.
- We have the printed brochure and over the past few years we've become a lot more active on social media.
- We have a very vibrant Facebook page which is a public page. We also have a Facebook
- group. And it's important that you know about both of them. And we invite all of you to like both.
- If you would like to simply send a message to members of the club on Facebook about something that interests
- you or some messaging that you would like to share from Rotary International or what's happening in
- the community, you can always go to the Rotary
- Facebook group and just share that with anybody, okay? So you don't have to worry about somebody else
- putting up those messages for you. You can go to the Facebook group and share that yourself. We're also
- on Instagram and then LinkedIn. How many of you have a LinkedIn profile? Okay, if you have a LinkedIn profile,
- please join the Bloomington Rotary LinkedIn page and then share our messages with your friends.
- And I think that's it. Thank you. Thank you very much.
- Thank you, Alan. Tracy Yovanovich will take a few minutes to bring us up to date regarding this year's
- Rotary Toast. All right. And I just want to compliment Sally and Connie, because if I had a hammer,
- works with the toast. Does anybody know why? Why does that work? Anyone? Habitat, bingo.
- Our sponsor this year, our charity of choice, as you all know, hopefully, Pat Wilson is who our honoree
- is going to be. And her charity of choice is Habitat for Humanity Bloomington High School North Club.
- And so a hammer is a good thing to have when that is the case. So I wanted to give you guys an update.
- We're super, super excited. We have some awesome speakers. We have Shelly Yoder is going to be emceeing.
- We have Mayor Thompson as a toaster. These are toasters, not roasters, just to be clear. We have Pat's
- daughter, Kelly Wallace will be toasting, Dr. Brant Ludlow will be toasting, and then Tri-North's principal,
- Taji Gibson. So it's going to be a great, great group. In addition, we will have the Bloomington High
- School North Jazz Quartet playing, and they are fantastic. So we're including students, rotary, and youth.
- Then we will also have the students from the Habitat
- Club at North helping to facilitate the event. So it's really going to be a great celebration for all
- the things that Rotary stands for and a person who absolutely exemplifies all that Rotary stands for.
- Just some quick numbers. And the reason this is important, I think everyone is aware, Alon talked about
- it with the Bloomington Rotary Foundation. The funds, the proceeds, we split from the toast.
- We split 50% goes to the charity of choice, which in this case is the Habitat. The other 50% is split
- three ways between the three clubs. And then each of the three clubs leverages those funds to do charitable
- service above self works throughout. And so far,
- Our goal is to sell 350 tickets. November 7th is the date of the event at Shreve Hall, again, leveraging
- Ivy Tech, one of our Rotary members. We have currently 190 tickets that have been purchased of the 350.
- We have another 54 on top of that that are verbal commitments, just waiting for them to come in. So,
- so far we've got about 244. We need another roughly 100. And I will just say thank you to
- First Insurance, Jim Breik, Gar Properties, Sarah, our family, and then MCCSC with Dr. Winston for buying
- tables. There's quite a few out there. And Andrea for the tables. And then we have 35 Bloomington Rotarians
- who have already signed up with family members. So the more we can get, the more support and love that
- we show to Pat, who has influenced. Personally, my brother was very positively influenced, and that was
- I'm 63. So that was a long time ago. So she's influenced a lot of people. Um, and I know we've all been
- touched by her in some ways. So the more support we can give her, that would be great. Thank you. Thank you,
- Tracy. Tyler, could you put the slides up? So now it's my turn to share a little bit about club finances
- and Natalie's departure.
- This is a simplified view of cash flow. $125,000 a year goes through our books each year. $38,000 roughly,
- the club budget. Meals come in, come out. We lose a little bit of money on meals, and I'll talk about
- that another slide. The money that goes to Rotary International goes through our books. Same with the
- district. Rotary International Foundation.
- Loomington Rotary Foundation, district grant, different events, and then happy dollars. So this is money
- that comes in and goes out. Here's what we have, very simple, just assets. And this is from our statements
- last three months, July, August, and September. And you can see it varies a little bit, but somewhere between
- 12,000 and 22,000. And so roughly, we're keeping about a month, two months of cash. So we're not cash rich.
- Receivables. We have a few members who have actually paid for the entire year. God bless them.
- That's wonderful. Had I printed this on the 31st of August,
- all these past two, 31 to 60, would have been current. So unfortunately, I printed it on the 1st. But we have,
- yeah. The one thing that I will mention, we're about a year into the new software system, and we still
- have a few members who are having difficulty getting their invoices and statements. And we're kind of
- working through those one at a time. And so over time,
- The past you 91 plus I expect that to go down I will say that if you are struggling and there are people
- in this community people in this club who are struggling to pay your club bill Please see me or see
- our treasurer John Zoti Okay, the club itself simplified budget talked about 38,000 you know money coming
- in is almost overwhelming me through club dues and
- We have budgeted a little bit of a profit from the holiday party. And then you can see, once again,
- these are broad categories, the money going out with the biggie being salaries and consulting fees.
- So this is the budget that we have for this year. The one thing that really represents a program is
- the last item, RILA, that's us sending
- for students to the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy. But everything else is very much administrative
- in nature. The meeting room, 3,000 last year was closer to five or six, and so we made the change to
- move to the Georgian room most of the time with an occasional solarium or frangipani. The meals,
- remember that we have speakers who eat meals every week.
- Members who are under the age of 35 get a discount. We love to have our rotor actors join us, but we're
- losing money on every meal that they eat. But that's part of our duty. I see it. So when all is said and done,
- we lose a little bit of meals. So anyway, very lean budget, a doable budget, but not much room to maneuver.
- So Natalie's departure.
- came as a surprise when after her daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren moved to Nashville, Tennessee,
- I expected that Natalie would start to think about opportunities there, but it happened much faster
- than I expected. But it gives us an opportunity to take a deep dive regarding on what we can do more
- efficiently, an opportunity to review what we do ourselves and what we pay someone to do,
- And if we do more ourselves, that translates into more money for charity and or lower or no club dues
- increases. But if we hire someone to handle certain club tasks, but it may translate into,
- so if we hire someone to do things, then maybe we have more time to do service work. So these are decisions
- that we have to make.
- But with Natalie's departure, now is the perfect time to look at those things and say, OK, what do we
- want to pay someone to do? We all make choices. Some of us cut our own grass. Others hire someone to
- cut the lawn. Some of us prepare meals at home. Others go out to eat. We all make those decisions,
- and they're fine. So anyway, so it's an opportunity, not an opportunity that, frankly, I wanted to have.
- But here it is.
- And so roughly at this point, I mean, Natalie was roughly working 20 hours a week. About half of that
- consisted of being here for the club meetings and going to the monthly board meeting. So we've actually,
- she's at this point, she's helping us for about 10 hours a week now. And we have an agreement
- of understanding that she'll continue to do that. Hopefully it'll go down over time and then
- When we actually hire someone, then she'll spend time helping train that person. So we're all good with
- Natalie. So now interactive part. And I'm going to switch gears. Well, actually, I'll stay with Natalie.
- So I'd like people to raise your hand. You're not making a lifetime commitment. But just for us thinking, OK,
- what do we have the new Natalie do?
- So once again, I talked about the staffing the front desk is a big part of what Natalie did. Do we have
- people here who would be interested in being part of a group of volunteers who would staff the front
- desk before, during, and shortly after meetings? Okay. All right. And I'm not gonna remember your
- hands but please let me know or send me an email okay okay go ahead and put up your hands again if you
- would and John Zoddy will take notes the front desk yep ah and Alan is actually taking a video good for him
- Oh, and yes. And Sarah Lofton, who else? Jim, I got Jim. Sally. Hi, Sarah Lofton. I got Sarah. Connie, Marcy,
- Andrea, Sam, Judy, Jim, Shay, Sarah. Julie Trotter.
- All right. Okay. And I want to thank Diane. I have two online. And we have more online. Gerono. Okay.
- I want to mention that also that Sarah
- Glenda, Amy have stepped up. Judy and Sally are signed up to help for September. So that's good to know.
- The second, and this, and I don't think we'll have very many, but this, but does anyone have an interest
- in keeping our books using the Bloomington, the Rotary DAC DB software program? Do we have any bookkeepers
- in the group? Okay. Anyone online?
- OK, that's what I expected. That's fine. OK, then we'll switch gears a little bit. Hoosiers Outrun Cancer
- 10-4. The Bloomington North Club is doing a fundraiser to celebrate the life of the recently deceased
- Mark Dayton. Bloomington Sunrise has signed up to staff a water station. The Bloomington Rotorack Club
- is signed up, they're going to actually be doing childcare at the event. And I'd love to see our club
- do something. But it shouldn't fall on the leadership of our community services group. I mean,
- they're doing project after project after project. We really need people to step up, to volunteer,
- to coordinate,
- specific projects. So is anyone willing to be the foreman or the supervisor or whatever, the volunteer
- coordinator for our club for Hoosiers Outrun Cancer? October the 4th. Anyone interested either in the
- room or online?
- Okay, last idea. And Tracy might need your help for this one. Club fundraising. You know, we talked
- about the Rotary Toast. Any other ideas on things we should be doing as a club to raise funds?
- And so just to kind of check on, so this year I'm doing the Toast because typically,
- Jean Dayton and Jody Hoagland have done the toast for the last 10 years. And this year, and sorry for
- positing, it's just such an awkward situation with Mark. But this year, Jean and Mark's son is getting
- married November 1st. So they needed to step down. So I stepped in to fill. We do not have anyone that
- I know of to do the toast next year.
- That's not to say one of the other clubs may not have somebody who's going to run it, but that is a
- big question mark out there. And as I said earlier, that is our big fundraising effort that we have out there.
- So in talking to some of the other clubs, I know Franklin certainly does a pig roast and they make,
- I want to say it was $80,000, which is shocking to me. And they have a really good time.
- I don't want to, the toast is fantastic. I'd like to keep it going. I hope we keep it going, but should
- we also be considering other, and maybe we do both, maybe you do the toast and with the other clubs
- continue and then do something different. So we thought it'd be a good idea to just bounce and we may
- not have answers now, but it's good for discussion as a team because it is an important part.
- The fundraising, it's a, we need a big project. Does that help Steve? Yeah. So do you want,
- Do you want anyone to answer now, Tracy? Tom Gallagher had his hand up. This is something I've been
- thinking about, and my sister's involved with the Bedford Rotary, and they're doing their Mums right now.
- Mums is a very common thing that people do to raise money. But I was noticing another group that sells
- bags of pecans and usually
- You know, you go out to your friends, your family, and then their friends and their family, and it kind
- of mushrooms out like that. And I even went so far as to look at it online. I mean, it's a very, I mean,
- they taste good and people use them and you sell them in time for the holidays. And I think it would
- be very well received. OK, thank you.
- Those of you who are interested in the Constitution program at the law school on the 17th, if you haven't
- done so already, really old-fashioned sign-up sheet. So please sign that on the way out. I want to thank
- today's volunteers, Katie Cerniak, Jim Shea. We had Sally Gaskell, Connie Schakalis, Leslie Kutsenko,
- Jim Harvey,
- Glenda Murray, Tracy Ivanovich, Elan Barker, Sarah Laughlin, Michael Shermus, and then our Zoom and
- audio producer, Tyler Martin Nichols. Also like to thank today's speakers, Christopher M.G., Elan Barker,
- Tracy Ivanovich. Our next meeting, back to a regular type meeting, September 9th in the French panty room,
- Lola Nichols from the Raptorize Rehabilitation Center will talk about the work they do at their center.
- Okay, Bloomington Rotary Foundation Board meeting right after this at one o'clock. Art? Okay. Okay,
- so there may be Raptors present next week. I do want to make mention of those of your concern. We inducted
- a new member. Some of you may have noticed her hitting the door at 1255. That's not a bad omen.
- She's a law student. She has a class at one.
- So Tyler, if you would please share. What's that? Then she signed. Yeah, she signed. She's going to
- Constitution Day. Tyler, please share the graphic for the four-way test. And please rise if you're able.
- Of the things we think, say, or do, first, is it the truth? Second, is it fair to all concern? Third,
- will it build goodwill and better friendships?
- Fourth will be beneficial to all concerned. And fifth, is it fun?