Bulletin - December 15, 2011

CHAIRPERSON

Frank was ‘keeping things under control’ this morning.  Frank shared Victor Robinson’s quote “There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”  Just as inspiring this week as it was last (wink).

VISITORS

None.

GUESTS

Maritta Webb (Pat) and Josh Cormier (Ove) have been consistently joining us for the past few weeks.

MAKE-UPS

None.

BIRTHDAYS/ANNIVERSARIES

I think we bi-passed this altogether…I don’t have any notes on it, so I’m going to say that there were no birthdays or anniversaries this week.  And if there were…apologies.

PIN PAL

Pam H. decided to purchase a couple of chairs with her recent $500 winnings… Her daughter found her some on Kijiji and when Pam called, the sellers were Rotarians, Mike and Francine Walsh, who actually shared a Rotary experience abroad with Pam.  Cool story.

50/50 DRAW

Marita wins $12.00.  Just in time for Christmas!

HAPPY DOLLARS

Marita is happy she won…She is also playing host to daughter’s friend over the holidays.

Mary won the Las Vegas trip through The Snow Drifters draw.  Awesome!  (Mary – been there – talk to me).

Sue P. is also entertaining company over the holidays: Russell Tildon.

These ladies have very mischievous looks on their faces! 

Gayle attended Live Bait over the weekend and loved it!  Awesome!!

Wynn announced a PSA about the Middle Sackville Baptist Church and their upcoming Cantata concert on Dec. 17 & 18 @ 7:00 pm.

Dianne also attended Live Bait and thought it was excellent.

Ove and Pat are leaving for the Laurentians on Saturday.  Merry Christmas, Ove.

Frank wished everyone a Merry Christmas!!

NEXT

Club Assembly

COMMITTEE REPORTS

No updates at this time.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Legacy Committee to meet after this morning’s breakfast.

PRESIDENT’S TIME

President Ken thanked Laing and Joyce for the hospitality while hosting this year’s Christmas party.  Many thanks were given to the organizers.

Sackville’s Mayor approached Ken with an interesting concept with regards to Sustainable Sackville.  It will be a 3-prong approach.  Ken will provide more details at a later time.

“Everyone wants to be Santa…Now we can.”  Thanks to Pam H. we all donned our Santa hats for a group photo.  We look awesome!

GUEST SPEAKER

Pat introduced our own Rotarian as retired from Atlantic Wholesalers turned carpenter ‘extraordinaire’.  Here’s Darrell – to share with us our club’s budget.

Darrell opened with, “So.  What do you want to know?”

Each Committee has a budget with 50% of the revenue going towards the RYE program.

The Profit & Loss versus Actual was explained in detail with the following breakdown:  General Fund $16,000; Giving $ 3,500; Receipt Gifts $4,700; Wine Tasting $14,000 (with $5,000 in expenses which are covered by other things such as the basket raffle, 50/50).  For a total of $27,000.

Expenses come to $10,344 and include: Christmas Party, Breakfasts, and RYE.

The following monies are those we’ve given out:  Other charities $3,965; Overhead $9,000; Community $6,000; International $3,300 from our income of about $55,000.  These numbers include our dues to District and International.

Although Darrell doesn’t have any worries about our finances he is concerned that our breakfast meetings are at the break-even point.

The next set of numbers shown was the Balance Sheet – Own versus Owe which showed that we are holding onto about $36,000 in cash and $5,000 in food cards.  Some members felt that we should not be sitting on that much money.

Former Treasurer Brian explained that the surplus has been built up over the past few years and that there should be some surplus anyways.  Our events require us to spend money before we make money.  We need enough to cover our expenses.  Brian felt this was not an astronomical surplus.

It was felt that the Treasurer is required to handle a lot of cash.  We now have a debit card to do deposits which will not show a balance.  Brian asked how do you control cash?  There’s no easy answer.  You look for control and distribution of workload.  Ultimately, we need to trust those dealing with the cash.

Brian thanked Darrell for not only bringing us up-to-date, but for allowing him to be the ‘former’ Treasurer.

Condolences were given to Darren and the passing of his grandmother.

President Ken adjourned our meeting with the stating of the 4-Way Test.