Meeting Minutes - June 8, 2010

Greetings!

It's that time again ... Rotaract Meeting Minutes!

1. Intro of Members & Guests
Members: Darrell, Dale, Miranda, Amanda
Guests: Ashley Tiedemann from Canadian Red Cross, GP Chapter

2. Approval of Last Meeting's Minutes - this has been passed to the next meeting as we did not have them to approve, nor did we have quarum.
3. Approval of Meeting Agenda - no additions

4. Canadian Red Cross Presentation
The Red Cross is promoting their organization and raising local awareness and to change people's perception of what the Red Cross really is and what it does in our community.

* HELP - Health Equipment Loans Program - lend medical equipment to post surgery patients when they are returning home, free of charge. They take donations specific to this program as well.
* Disaster Management Program - municipal response in the case of large catastrophes ann individual response.
* The Grande Prairie chapter goes north to the NWT, west to the BC border, south to Grande Cache and east to High Prairie/Slave Lake.
* They have 10-12 regular volunteers
* 5-7% of funds go to admin costs, the rest to the organizations programs.
* An individual must train with the Red Cross to become a delegate in order to go to international disasters on behalf of the Red Cross.
* The summer focus this year will be Youth Engagement (12-25 years of age). Refugee Day Camps. They will be looking for volunteers in the month of August. Date to be determined.


5. Volunteer Projects

* Golden Age Centre - Sunday, June 13th - help prepare and serve lunch at the seniors dance. Darrell will forward more detailed info via email to the club.
* Bud Country - July 2nd & 3rd. Our club has been approached to take on the beer gardens for Bud Country. We would staff the beer gardens both nights for set-up, drink ticket sales and serving of the drinks. We would require approximately 20 people each night and required to be there from 5PM - 3AM. Our club would be given a $2,000 honorarium, the bottles/cans for refund as well all the volunteers would be provided with weekend passes to the shows. All volunteers would be required to take Pro Serve through the Liquor Board and we would be reimbursed the cost of the course. Can our club manage this project - can we get enough people to help out? Dale will contact the other Rotary clubs to see if they can provide a few volunteers from each club - this project could fund our club for an entire year and the money would not be controlled by gaming. More details will follow.


6. Old Business

* T-Shirts - they have been ordered and should be here soon!
* Change over - passed over to next meeting
* Exec meeting/GPRC - not discussed


7. Round Table

* Miranda - survived the CO incident in her condo and was rescued by Red Cross - they were put up for the night at the Sandman.
* Dale - is renting a mini van and taking 4 teenaged girls to Edmonton for the weekend to a conference. We look forward to hearing more about this Dale!!


This meeting was very casual due to the low number of attendance. It was discussed that Dale's first meeting in July will be taken on the road in form of a FIELD TRIP!!!! More info from Gabrielle will follow. Who doesn't love going on a field trip?!

That is all.

Meeting adjourned ... sometime close to 9:00 PM.

Next meeting - Tuesday, June 22nd, 7:30 PM. Be there!