President Marsh called the meeting to order at 7:30am.  Evan led us in the Flag Salute, Art the Invocation and Chris in Auld Lang Syne.  There were two guests, Dave Witt, the new Director of the Woodinville Chamber of Commerce and visiting Rotarian Norm Noble from the Sun Lakes Arizona Club.

Andrea had a great Christmas, moved to her next host family, the Abbotts, and said goodbye and thanks to the Alex Racz family.

The next item on the meeting agenda was the election of officers for the 2010-11 year. The proposed slate of candidates were:

President:     Erv DeSmet

VP:          Truglio

President Elect:  Tana Baumler

Secretary:  Julian Denes

Treasurer:     Mike Visse

Past President:    Al Marsh

Evan made a motion that the Club, by voice vote, unanimously approve the above slate of candidates.  The motion passed and the vote for approval unanimous.

We were privileged this morning to have two classification talks from Tana Baumler and Erv DeSmet.

Tana, born in Montana, 5 brothers, an outdoors gal, developed skills and values from family and community, moved to Seattle, went to college, met Günter, traveled the world for a year, married Günter, two daughters in 1983 and 1986, purchased the Maltby Café in 1988, and with hard work made it a great success, and has a 3 year old granddaughter with more coming.

    

Erv,  oldest of 4 children, worked on family farm in Santa Clara Valley, attended Stanford, exchange student to France, married Jeannie 38 years ago, two sons, 4 grandkids, and a highlight of his life was being sponsored by Chris for Rotary and looks forward to being Rotary President and exalted ruler during the next Club administration.

 

Joe and Greg reviewed the four avenues of Club Service and Rotary International Foundation, respectively.

The four avenues of Club Service, Chairs and Budget amounts for 2010-11 are:

Service	Chair	Budget($000)
Community	Joe Truglio	$44.5
Scholarships	Steve Dolan & Ken Kirkpatrick	$60.4
Vocational	Alex Hopkins	$15.4
International	John Abbott	$15.0
	Total (incl. $3k discretionary)	$138.2

Beneficiaries budgeted include summer reading programs at Kokanee and Woodmoor, Hopelink, Rotary First Harvest, Boy Scouts of America, Northshore YMCA, Woodinville Heritage Society Museum (new program), Operation Warm Coat, Scholarships, and Dictionaries for 3^rd Graders.

The meeting was running late because of the day’s full agenda so Greg was allocated 3 minutes on Rotary International Foundation and touched briefly on three items:  sponsors programs, recognition opportunity – Paul Harris Fellow, and the Gates Challenge Grant.

The Sergeant of Arms segment was deferred to next week.   However, there was time for the raffle with Tana failing to draw the white marble, and fitting items won by Max, a bottle of wine and Jay an electric nose trimmer.

The meeting closed about 10 minutes late, much was accomplished and a good time was had by all.

               The Distinguished Maltby Reporter.

 

                                                                                                                                            

                                                          Maltby Bill Schink

                                                          Rotary Reporter For The Day