New Member Committee Meeting Minutes October 8, 2010

Friday, October 4, 2010, four members of the committee and Club Community Service Director, Lucie Osborn, met at the Egg & I. 

Community Grant:

The New Members Committee will again be offering a $1,000 grant to a community organization this fall.  The grant application is attached.  Please spread the word about this grant far and wide.  After the grant closes, I will send you the applications that meet our fairly-loose criteria.  We will plan to meet in December to decide how to award the grant.

Texas Roadhouse Fundraiser:

The committee is interested in working with Texas Roadhouse to raise money for the local Rotary Foundation.  This fundraiser is pretty simple.  All we do is pick a day after the first of the year, sell tickets to a Texas Roadhouse luncheon, and find 15 volunteers to serve lunch and work in the kitchen.  We would make between $10 and $12 on each ticket we sold.  If you are interested in helping to plan this event, please let me know.  A group of 4-6 planners should be able to pull this event off fairly easily.  That group will ask for volunteers to help work the tables and kitchen as the event approaches – so all of us will have the opportunity to help out.

Volunteer Opportunity:

Tim Ellis is looking for volunteers to serve on the Teacher of the Month Committee.  This committee is very well organized and is primarily looking for volunteers who are able to go to one school each month to help present the award.  Members also help decide on the teacher of the year award that is presented each spring.  Contact Tim if you are interested: Tim_Ellis@wyb.uscourts.gov or tim.wagonmaster@gmail.com.

Club Visioning:

Lucie Osborn shared information about the Club Visioning process that began last year.  The data collection portion of the process is complete and many action items have been created.  Lucie said that members can expect to learn more about future plans in the coming months. 

Red Badge and Orientation:

Don’t forget to keep working on getting your red badge off your name tag.  Our Club Secretary, Teresa Moore (tmoore@cheyennecity.org), will send you another form if you misplaced your own.  Watch your email and the COG for the date and time of the next orientation.

If you are not involved on a Rotary committee or project and would like to volunteer your time, please let me know!  The Club Directors are always looking for volunteers.  Let me also know if you have any questions or if you are interested in serving on the Texas Roadhouse fundraiser committee.

Jamie Markus

Co-chair, New Members Committee