Bulletin  Sept 29 2016

Greeter: Cosmo Pessoa

Door Duty: Roger H

Sergeant at Arms: Roger H

Meeting called to order by President Jack Gallop

National Anthem led by Roger H

Invocation by Dan Rippin

GUEST:   Anne   Moskow     Speaker     

The President reminded the club of the White Elephant Sale. This year it could be comprised of The Sidney Club, Royal Oak Club and possible Brentwood Bay Club.  It will be held at the Howard Johnson's inn @ 4670 Elk Lake Drive, Victoria, BC V8Z 5M2 CA Saanich     slated for Nov 24^th 2016   5.30 pm.  Auctioneer will be Jim Parker

  Rotary Club of Sidney is being asked by Gig Harbor Rotary to participate in the GLP project (Guatemala Literacy Project) . Gig Harbor Rotary and 120 other Rotary Clubs and Districts throughout the United States, Canada, and the Cayman Islands is in a Global Grant to support the work of the Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP).  The GLP founded in 1997 is the largest grassroots, multi-club, multi-district project in Rotary.

Our club agreed to support the project, one thousand dollars was suggested by our President as the clubs donation to the GLP project for this year. The participating members voted in favour of the proposal.  The proposal will be submitted to the board for approval at our upcoming   Business meeting on the 13 Oct 2016

 Solar lighting appears feasible and can now be incorporated in the bus shelter project, Thanks to John Joynt’s resilience in its procurement.

  Anne   Moskow  laid out before the club the dilemma now impending.  The rotary Club of Sidney is currently operating under 2 sets of constitutions and numerous  by laws  (A) The RI   and  (B)     BC Societies act and they have now ran afoul of each other and there is no way of reconciling both. The Societies Act new legislation passed in the spring of 2015 will come into effect on November 28, 2016. This will cause our club to be inoperable at that point in time if left its current format.  Ann pointed out various approaches to navigate around these complexities presently confronting the club.

The President thanked Ann for a job well done

Roger charges Cosmo and jack G  , Jack Gallop gave a happy dollar, he and his wife will be in  Calgary  this week end visiting  their daughter. Jack MacAulay gave a happy dollar for the information he garnered from Ann’s talk

 Ticket 1718 was the winner   Dan Rippin drew a white marble

 Greeter and note taker: J MacAulay

Door Duty:                     Cosmo

Sergeant at Arms:        Donna

Speaker:  Program for Next week will be: Michael Mc Queen – DVD Membership and its challenges