The Club was not anticipating having a Club Workshop today, but our speaker on Recycling in Fort Dodge was detained by a last minute emergency. Therefore, our President was well prepared for such an emergency and distributed four folders on which various groups worked for future goals and objectives. A brief summary follows:
Programs: Our club is known for having excellent weekly programs, but securing them is not always east. Therefore, perhaps the major goal is to 1) put aside a meeting every several months for the purpose of a Club Assembly. This communication is needed to better inform and engage members in our various projects; and 2) to engage more than the one person per month scheduled to find programs. Perhaps a several person committee should be engaged for each month. The monthly chairs need to be advertised to the membership (similar to what we do for the Invocation Prayer) through the website so program suggestions can be brought into the system by members.
Projects: We do much with the following projects: scholarships, scholarship dinner, park clean-ups, India Wells, assorted issues as they arise, and miscellaneous contributions for a variety of purposes if they primarily benefit youth. But, we can not be available to all needs. Several members suggested that we need to re-engage the first of the month visit by four Seniors from Senior High and four from Saint Edmond. President Stanek reported that Cheryl O'Hern was working on this goal, but several major hurdles are in the way.
Club Fellowship: The Committee is working to establish a series of by-monthly or quarterly family type social outings. Suggestions are for Shiny Top, Christmas partnership with Daybreak at Fort Frenzie, Soldier Creek Winery, and others. Within the immediate future should be a picnic in Snell Crawford Park yet this fall with Laurie Branderhorst invited as our guest to discuss issues.
Membership: The Committee identified sixteen current Rotarians that have not attended in recent memory, or have very poor attendance. The President should identify those names at a future meeting and ask for volunteers to contact them. The key question is "Why are they not attending?" The quickest way to improve attendance is work from within. As to future recruitment a partnership with the Club Fellowship Committee is suggested in which Club Members bring prospective members to our social functions. Finally, the Committee discussed and will be processing two new membership types: Corporate Memberships in which a member can assign a fellow worker to attend from time to time in their place; and Family Membership in which a spouse can attend in the member can not.
The above is not a total and accurate summary of all discussion, but attempts to fill-in those members not in attendance.
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