On the final day of the month our club had 200 Active Members. All membership information is pulled from ClubRunner statistics. Attendance for November’s meetings was 44% (up 7% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 87 members and 20 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 60% (up 1% from last month).

November’s membership saw two terminations and two new members inducted. New members included Mary Sutton and Kim Soo Eaker. Terminations included Virginia Leone (disinterest) and Alex Hammerslough (moved).

Our club financial highlights include Foundation total assets of $3,135,107.43, and Club operating cash balance of $80,038.68.

CSA Payments

• CSAs are now overdue. If you have not paid, please do so before December 31^st.

Incoming Board Members

• The new incoming board members have been officially “welcomed” and have been invited to join the board meetings starting in January.

Promoting International President

• RI President Urchick will be speaking at the Rotary Round Up on January 28 (6:30-7:30pm). She will speak about things that are happening at the International level
• The focus will be to reengage the people who have left Rotary; however, the entire club can attend.
• Sharna Hatcher is working on a flyer and will be part of the program to focus on the District level.
• Joyce will be making an announcement from the podium and will add an article in The Rotarian.

 Promoting Rotary Leadership Program

• Informational session on January 9^th at 6pm.
• This will be a combination of online and in-person classes. The District has a number of on-line courses that can be taken. Each course is 30 minutes or under.
  • Managing Club Business, Public Relations, Leading Effective Clubs, etc. are samples of what’s available on-line
• In-person speakers will cover things like budget, storytelling and management. Bill McPherson
• Joyce has reached out to a number of people already. She will speak more about it at the podium and invite anyone to sign up.

 Assist members in recruiting

• Joyce met with Meghan Armstrong to create a template on how to encourage membership to recruit at least one new member per person. This template will include an elevator speech on how to sell Rotary.
• The membership committee is working on engagement checklists and also retention of current members.

Service Above Self

• Don Deatrick is resigning from this committee effective December 31. We need to recruit a new chair. If you are interested, please contact Joanne Pierson.

Unused electronic equipment

• Dan provided a list of electronic equipment that the History and Archives committee has created (the items are sitting in Mark Foster’s office).
• A suggestion was made to list the items in The Rotarian and offer it up to anyone who would like them – otherwise, they will be disposed of.

Communicating about our Committees

• The board discussed the fact that our members don’t really understand our committees: who, what, and how they can be involved. Efforts are being made through the committee audit and ideas to increase awareness at weekly meetings.

Club Publications Policy

• The policy was updated largely due to the fact that there were too many emails being sent, and many committees were posting items that fell out of our normal guidelines.
• Dan has offered to have each committee post a relevant article once a month. He will continue to approve these articles.
• The board approved the revised Publications Policy. The revised policy is located here: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/1404/Documents/en-us/2d1a071d-4a64-4ce7-8d08-c0662a8cd838/1/