October 9, 2007 Minutes

Attending: Michelle, Gabrielle, Cedrick, Jeff, Cheryl, Tim, Cory, Kathleen, Darrell, Jacqueline, Brock

Guests: Miranda, Dale Tiedman, Matt Walace, Kendra ??, Caroline Johnson, Jen and Rebecca Villevrun, Ashley MacDonald, Swan City Past Pres. Dave Dunsworth, Swan City Pres. Ken Laudin
(Such a big turnout we almost ran out of room in the BIG room)


Agenda:
Kathleen motion adoption, Gabrielle second - pass


Minutes of Sept. 25 meeting:
Cory motion acceptance, Jacqueline second - pass
(Jeff motions for acceptance of Words of Wisdom, he missed the comforting knowledge they bring)


1. Dues
Dues are due, pay up! Contact Treasurer Kathleen if you need a receipt. First year's dues are $60, second year and every year after dues are $30. Please bring money to next meeting if you haven't paid.


2. Summer Market
Michelle bring proposal back to club for discussion. Proposal was for Rotaract Club to try and partner with Curling Club to host a summer 'flea market at the club. Idea was a great potential money maker for club, but Pres. Michelle and the executive worried that club not yet ready for such a large project at the same time as the Duck Race, club doesn't have enough members to support both projects.
Cedrick - motion: Club should revisit proposal in Fall of 2008 to see if it is viable at that time - Kathleen second - motion passes.


3. GPRC Presentation
Pres. Michelle spoke to business admin. students at GPRC, telling them about Rotaract and what a swell bunch of guys and gals we all are. Despite tales of wonder and amazement none of the students were brave enough to come and join us for our social Glow-Ball golfing aka glofing event.
Event not a total loss, Michelle to follow up with Prof. who is a member of Swan City.


4. Media Survey
Final tally of money paid to club for running a media survey for Wave Media. Club paid $925 into general account - Yaaaa, we're a little less poor. Congrats to everyone who volunteered, good job.


5. Job Find
Wave Media, again, offer club donated space at upcoming Northern Alberta Job Find job fair for self promotion. Event is Nov. 5, all shifts are taken care of, but any one else who can/wants to help is welcome as it means more people at the booth, so far only a skeleton shift on duty.
Michelle, Jacqueline and Cheryl to follow up and prepare some promotional material for the event.


6. Duck Race
Not only is club incorporated, we now have press seal stamp unit, we can stamp things (club attempts to hide its glee at idea of stamping things).
Duck Race committee has met is starting to form ranks once again, soon our army of ducks will.... oops... sorry... wrong meeting... disregard past comments....
Committee will proceed soon with organization.


7. Coats for Kids
Program is looking for volunteers to help man the distribution station on Saturdays until early November. Contact Jacqueline at Volunteer Services Bureau if you can help.


8. New Member orientation
Jacqueline volunteered as new director of membership.
Will discuss idea of new membership packages with executive, including getting a better skills inventory from existing members.


9. Rotaract Edmonton Charter
New Rotaract Club chartering in Edmonton.
Michelle to draw up official congratulations note from our club to there and express post it to Edmonton in time for their charter meeting.


10. Social Event
Glofing, aka glow-ball golfing, seen as great fun. Rotaract club swarmed the Wee Links Pitchin' Putt evening of Oct. 2. In pitch black we whacked some balls around the course, made fun of ourselves, laughed at each other and we weren't even drinking.
Next social event Nov. 6. Information to come.


11. Merchandise
For the low, low sum of only 99-99-99 you too can own a snazzy piece of Rotaract gear. It comes in a wide range of fancy colours, shapes and sizes.
Merchandise, where the real money from the movies is made (who knows what movie that line is from?).
Michelle investigating options for the club and will bring some samples to the next meeting.


12. Signs at city entrances
City putting up new signs at three entrances to city promoting the various service clubs in Grande Prairie. Cost of signs is quite high for our club.
Michelle to discuss Rotary options at Quad-city president's meeting.


13. Box of Culture
We have our very own box of culture coming to use from a Rotaract club in Nigeria (we think, don't us where in Nigeria, we'll find out soon enough). Part of a Rotaract cultural exchange program. We will fill a box with Grande Prairie culture and ship to Nigeria. Club worried about the cost of freight for sending a F350 raised on a six-inch lift kit... (insert your own GP joke here).


14. Round Table
Michelle - more coats needed for Coats for Kids program, especially infant and toddler sizes. Deadline was Oct. 15 for donations.
Dale - Come dance your cowboys boots right off at the DeBolt Harvester Festival, Nov. 3 in support of STARS Air Ambulance. Call 830-7000 for information.
Cory - GPRC Business students pub crawl, Nov. 23, come get drunk with the co-eds, contact Cory for more information.
Kathleen - Fall Assembly kicked ass, congrats to club for great turnout.
Ken Laudin - Invites Rotaractors to come to Hammerheads (now The Shark Club) every Wednesday night for informal beers, ideas, discussion and some more beers (it's not just Rotaractors that drink it turns out). Starts at 5 p.m. and goes until whenever.