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Rotary Central Melbourne Zoom morning meeting Tuesday 9th July 2024 Reporter: Neville Taylor Photographer: Roger Thornton Chair: Tom Callander Chair Tom Callander and President Rhys Williams opened the meeting with the traditional toast to Rotary International, acknowledgement of country and traditional owners of the many lands from which guests were currently zooming in from. Guest Speaker: Jo Garrety – Rotary Central Melbourne – Member Profession Presentation Jo is a proud member of Rotary Central Melbourne and was introduced as the of Managing Director of SALT3, Australia’s leading traffic, waste & environmental sustainability consultancy, which coincidentally just celebrated its 10th birthday. Backed by a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and MBA, Jo has 23 years of experience in the field. SALT3 was born from her passion about engineering, helping others, making positive change, leadership, inspiring people and communities. Following stints in small and large firms, the most recent having 6,000 employees, Jo now leads SALT3, a progressive and nimble team of 17 with diverse skills in engineering and science. Interestingly the only single team member Jo highlighted was her Mum, Michelle, managing the accounts. The vision is to be recognised by clients as the transportation, waste management and environment engineering professionals of choice. This certainly seems to be succeeding with SALT3 now working with all layers of government and the private sector in providing services with contracts across many areas of Australia. Jo gave a fascinating array of former and current projects involving investigations, road safety audits, reports and problem solving. Of particular interest was the way in which SALT3 is engaged in meeting the requirements of ‘Plan Victoria’ which generated many questions from members. Jo’s presentation is available for anyone interested. Please contact Reporter, Nev2, at neville.taylor5@bigpond.com. General Announcements RIMERN: members can support this project by volunteering in the warehouse during the 2nd half of the year, donation of goods (white goods/ small electrical items), Can Deposit Scheme, admin support or client host duties. Please enquire with Rohan Williams or Roger Thornton. 5 Rings over Paris Night social event on 25th July. Peter Duras reminded members to book in for an entertaining and interesting night of social fun. Rsvp to Peter Duras on Mob: 0413 599121 Phillip Island Tree Planting on Saturday 3rd August. Rsvp Roger Thornton on Mob: 0400 999203.
President’s Announcements Rhys reminded members of the upcoming 5th Tuesday of the month social night at the Emerald Hotel South Melbourne on 30th July. Recommended to consider the 5 Rings night first if you’re not up to two nights’ out in a week!! NGSE inbound visitor Julia OGAS - Anyone who can support with home hosting 23 August to 15 October to contact Elias Lebbos on Mob: 0411 721744 Rhys attended a meeting by Gary Goldsmith, Regionalisation Community Group A and highlighted a focus on an upcoming Pilot of inter club sharing of projects. Gary will speak at Central Melbourne in due course. The Board meeting next week will finalise budget and projects for the 2024-2025 year. Rhys thanked our guest speaker Jo and likened the SALT3 vision of transforming the lives of engineers as akin to the RI theme of The Magic of Rotary……… |
