There were no shortage of activities during October, with two club meetings, a RIMERN Warehouse working bee, preparations for the Paul Harris Breakfast, three Bunnings sausage sizzles and an afternoon tea.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to one or more of these activities.
I would especially like to thank Neville John and Peter Duras for coordinating the three Bunnings sausage sizzles and for Nicholas Oei who implemented an alternative electronic method for customers to pay at Bunnings Port Melbourne when the square failed.
I would also like to share my key takeaways from the October Board meeting:
- We agreed the schedule of meetings during November, December and January, which I have emailed to members.
- We agreed to engage a Third Party to conduct an anonymous membership survey to provide guidance for our future decisions.
- Our Rotary Foundation grant applications for the Sleeping Bag Appeal ($3k) and Silk Miller Scholarship ($3k) have been approved.
- We agreed to use $4k from the Jacobs Bequest to partially fund two students to attend the National Youth Science Forum at the University of Queensland in January.
I am now looking forward to a successful 33rd Paul Harris Breakfast and reviewing the results of the membership survey.