Bulletin 20 Oct 2016

Greeter: Roger – for John    Door Duty: Roger    Sarge:  Ian – for Leta

Meeting   started @6:30p.m.

 National anthem – Roger,    Invocation- Dan

Guests: speaker Katie Coard was introduced.

 

Oct 27-- Open House  meeting – bring a potential member  to  introduce them to the club. 

Nov.  1—Joint meeting with Royal Oak Club ---white elephant  evening  good time to make a foundation donation (bring a wrapped  gift- which will be auctioned off )  Event is at the Howard Johnson Inn (Elk Lake Drive)  6 p.m. –please advise  Donna ASAP of your attendance. (Nov. 3 meeting will be cancelled)

Victoria Hospital Society – (RJH & VGH) offered tour of a facility and/or a speaker. Cosmo will follow up.

RYLA North- Dan met with counsellor at Stelly’s Secondary and Ms. Iris Gao was picked to attend wknd.

Financials: Fall fair funds have been transferred to the Community funds and Gaming funds- cheques have been written to  Sea Cadets and Sidney by the Sea  RC.

B.C. Soc Act Transition - A regional action plan apparently organized by  ADG D.  Mercer will be looked into.  Our Club’s registered constitution and bylaws will be requested by Ian from the registrar.

Carolyn proposed a Xmas dinner for Thursday Dec 15 @ Jazzeniah Cafe in Sidney or alternatively at Mary WInspear.    Invitations will be offered to Brentwood and Royal Oak to join in.

 

Katie Coard was introduced by President Jack G with the request that her talk pull him into the 21 century for Website design.  Katie described web sites for their benefits – Treat them as A modern day business card that interested people can introduce themselves to Sidney Rotary with.  If we are advertising ourselves they are a link to more information 

They are :

Katie showed us some examples of RC of Tucson before and after website retooling.  Discussed  home pages  on sites need to be interactive- showing members  having fun, with a  message of  who we are , mission statement (what) , where  we meet,  and how to  get a hold of us.  Showed   Sidney RC club runner web site--- is well positioned on Google, however, our site is full of links (some of which do not work) and is lacking in imagery. Web searchers   struggle to find out what is Rotary.   Need to refine a section to describe the club. Keep only up to date info i.e. schedule of events.  Contact sheet needs to be more accessible- Not clear how to join the club.  Katie feels that need to reduce non essential information on the homepage move to the member section – i.e.  meeting minutes . Website hits can be tracked using an analytical add on.  Katie then showed the District web site and  Saanich  Rotary Clubs  new sites . Pres Jack G thanked the speaker and a flower bouquet from Jack M’s garden was given as a thank you.

 

Motion made to have Katie spend 4 hours @$35/hour to revamp Sidney RC website---carried.

Insufficient time was available after the speaker to discuss the   meeting place, time options outlined in last week’s bulletin.  Note: club did not meet its minimum attendance tonight for Glen Meadows.  Time will be made available at the Nov 10 meeting.

 

Sgt at arms:  ( Ian)

Jack G  for having box of Roger’s chocolates on street, Roger for wearing shorts, Donna for her holiday, Jack M --no flowers for Ian,    Dan? , Cosmo – happy buck for not being fined.

 

  50/50 -Draw - Dan won the ticket  draw but did not  win the  marble draw.Prize is presently  $33

 

Duties next week:          Greeter: Donna G         Door duty: John J                 Sarge:  Tara