AM Meeting Minutes, 02/11/2016

Lions Present: Ray, Walt, Steve, Bill, Don, Al, Dagi, Eli, Herb, Kent, John N, Ron, and Charlie.

Dates to Remember

–      Feb 16th, Board Meeting, TBA

–      Mar 19th, Charter Night, Blue Pheasant, 22100 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

–      June 18th, De Anza Lions Golf Fundraiser, Moffett Field

Tail Twister – Lion Herb went around the room collecting happy dollars. Several were given for a successful Student Speaker Contest. Lion Ron was happy to fill his car up with $1.99 gas.

Student Speaker Contest

The contest was held last Thursday night at the Odd Fellows Hall. There were three contestants from Cupertino, Homestead, and Monta Vista high schools. All did well. The winner was Shankara Srinkantan, a junior at Cupertino HS. Date and location of the Zone level contest has not been announced. Thanks to all who volunteered to help and especially Lion Don for allowing us to use the Odd Fellows Hall.

Charter Night

Event will be held on March 19th at the Blue Pheasant in Cupertino.  Menu will be the same as last year. Lion Ray wants to get some longer term Lions to speak about how the perspective of our group has changed over the years. He plans to get out more information this week.

Crab Feed

Lion Al said all the bills are in except for the credit card customers. Looks like we will net around $7,000. Our club will need to decide whether we want to continue to partner with Sunnyvale Sunrise Rotary Club or find some other organization. One possibility would be Cupertino Host Lions. This is something we can discuss at the board meeting next week. There will be a committee meeting with Sunnyvale Sunrise sometime after the board meeting.

Golf Tournament

We are waiting for Lion Amy to set up the first golf tournament meeting. Last year there were too many people talking to the golf course people at Moffett Field. This year we should channel information through one or two. Need to discuss with Moffett Field whether we can bring our own beer and just pay them a fee or if they insist on providing all the beer.

Good of the Order

Bicycle Fundraiser: Lion Ken will be meeting with the Diabetes Association on Tuesday. They are very interested in partnering with us if we decide to sponsor a bicycle fundraising event.

Correspondence:

1) A thank you letter was received from the YWCA for our cash donation on behalf of the Golden Gate Street Machine Club. The motorcycle club had made a cash donation to our food drive.

2) Canine Companions send us some raffle tickets for their fundraiser drawing. See Lion Al if you want to buy one. Otherwise our club will purchase the tickets.

3) Edge sent us a thank you note for our $400 donation to sponsor two students to their EDGE seminar 2016. Google will match our donation.

Opportunity Drawing

Congratulations to our winner: Lion Eli, again!

Lion Walt

Secretary