A.M. Meeting Minutes, 03/19/2015

Lions Present: – Ray, Walt, Phil, Don, Bill, Al, Dagi, John S, Eli, Herb, John N, Ron, and Charlie.

Dates to Remember

–  March 28th, Charter Night Dinner, Blue Pheasant Restaurant, 22100 Stevens Creek   Blvd, Cupertino

–  April 20th, 5:30 pm, Bingo, American Legion Hall, 2120 Walsh Ave, S.C., Lions Steve Ratner and Jill Eliason.

–  June 13th, DeAnza Lions Charity Golf Tournament

Tail Twister

Tail Twister Lion Herb went around the room collecting Happy Dollars. Most notably were those donated for the return of Lion Ray who has been touring in SE Asia for the last three weeks.

Board Meeting Review

Crab feed

We are looking at ways to cut costs and still provide a high quality service next year.

Discussed whether we wanted to buy top tier, restaurant quality crab or go for lower quality. Most preferred to stick with restaurant quality crab.

Looking to see if we could save some money by cleaning the crab ourselves.

It was suggested we look into taking pre orders for surplus crab so we will not have to give any away next year.

Lion Al passed around a spreadsheet showing the increased profitability if we had raised the price to $50 or $55 this year.

Small online survey showed current crab feeds going for between $45 and $60.

Tabled price decision until next month.

Charter Night

48 people are signed up including 9 children.

5 Leos are signed up to watch children. We need their names for   nametags.

We will present Leos with 5-year patch.

New member, Gerald Tammi will be officially welcomed into club.

Golf Tournament

Need golfers.

Meeting scheduled before next PM meeting.

Good of the Order

Special Requests

  • Board approved $200 to support Monte Vista Chest Club invitation to World Youth Chess Tournament in Ohio.
  • Silicon Valley-Monterey Bay Boy Scouts of American $275.
  • Ear of the Lion – Our candidate Margaret Taylor approved for hearing aides. Cost DeAnza Lions $300.

Santa Clara County Election Couriers

  • 12 people signed up to be couriers for the June 2nd election. Training information will be forthcoming. If you are interested, contact Lion Walt.

Thank You letters received

  • Hospice of the Valley
  • Santa Clara Valley Blind Center

Camp Via

  • Looking for a window of time when we can work up there.
  • Lion Bill will check for us.

Fish A Thon

  • Usually scheduled early May
  • Lion Ray will check with Jim Isaacson

Flag Day

  • No response from Trace Elementary School as yet.
  • Sutter Elementary School completed earlier this month.

Opportunity Drawing – Congratulations to our winner, Lion Charlie.

Lion Walt

Secretary