Regrettably, your Editor was "herding grandkids" in Melbourne and thus unable to be present. Based on feedback from President Joanne, this is a summary:
2018 Vision:
- More involvement from more people - everyone gets a chance to be involved
- Improve - modernise image of the club
- Get the word out in the community
- Make Surfers Sunrise a place people want to join and belong - you'd be proud to invite your friends
- Choose our service projects- 1 local and one international
- Smaller board - more working parties
- Design and implement a Club fundraiser we can run again and again
- Set and achieve some goals - Rotary's and ours too.
Just a minute was allocated to outline the principal Goal Areas of Rotary, and two minutes to discuss the Rotary Citations for 2018-19 (you can download it, see Download Section on the right). Updates from the Treasury, Club Admin, Club PR, Club Membership, The Rotary Foundation, Service Projects got a generous 5 minutes each... (in case you are new to this: Surfers Sunrise's Committee Meetings and Club Assemblies are always snappy and to the point!)
Then, Jo introduced the "your turn" segment. Here is from her notes to the Editor:
"We did two little exercises also,
- Everyone had to write on a post it note one word that summed up our club for them. The words were: fellowship, friendly, mateship, unique, fun, conservative, performers, family, comraderie, co-operative, friendly, disorganised. Fellowship came up 5 times
- We had 3 pieces of butchers paper with the headings Stop, Start and Carry on and members could move between the three and put anything they wanted on the relevant one. The results were:-
- STOP - Banner, Sergeant's session, Flags, Queen, lectern, logo lady
- START - Marco Polo sessions, easter bonnet parade, posh pooch parade service dogs, coat of arms update banners
- CARRY ON - Sergeants session, youth projects, speakers program, fellowship events
- We have agreed to lose the paraphernalia and also to look to change the banner to a new more contemporary image which reflects our Club better. Simon is going to design a coat of arms and work with Rosie on a pull up banner for us to use at meetings. Ray is going to be the Liaison officer with the Surf Club, but more about getting involved in their events and vice versa and is also going the Ramble debrief.
- We have decided a new format for the meetings where we say fellowship etc as you please but the meeting starts at 7.30am with the Speaker coming on first.
All in all it was extremely useful and a good session in which everyone was very supportive. Best Club Assembly ever was used a couple of times so I was one very relieved President. Gus is organising 'Guess who's coming to dinner' for the end of October I think.