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OS Rotary Meeting 1/6/16

Pledge: Pres. Kathy

Prayer: Gerri (special thoughts for Sharon Tiezzi)

Song: Rick

Brents Card Game Winner: Pete

Sergeants Report: Joe Arcari

Raffle Winners: Sam, Charlie R, Rick

Happy Bucks: Joe was happy to learn that for the first time in its history, West Point has a woman commandant, Joe was also happy for the good attendance today, Charlie and Jan were happy they haven’t broken their new year’s resolutions yet, Bill was $5 happy for his upcoming vacation to FLA, his meeting with the substance abuse folks in Old Lyme, the Wine Tasting, and the great day, our newest member Raeleen was also $5 happy and sorry for being late, there were bucks for Sharon and hopes for a speedy recovery

Announcements

Meals on Wheels: Marty
Marty will send the club membership the link to the MOW page - please pick out the date(s) you can do. We will fill in the gaps later

Pres Kathy passed around many letters of appreciation from 3rd graders who received dictionaries. Great job Charlie for heading this up and the members who distributed them.

Gerri: Please get to work on the Wine Tasting - sell tickets, get auction items and sponsors. This is a club effort in order to make this important fundraiser a success.

Program: Business Meeting

For the past several months, Pete and Kathy have been implementing the accounting software Quickbooks. By using QB, the budgeting and expenditure tracking will be much improved. Pete passed around copies of the budget and P&L statement which is up to date as of Dec. 31, 2015. Some things still need to be sorted out and detail on some of the line items such as the Outreach Program, the "miscellaneous category (NOC)" and Scholarships have to be entered but most of the work is done. Great job Pete and Kathy - this was a big job!

Five Way Test of the things we think, say, or do
    1) Is it the truth?
    2) Is it fair to all concerned?
    3) Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
    4) Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
    5) Is it fun? (This one is unofficial but we put it in anyway)


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