AM Meeting Minutes 4/19/2017

Lions Present: Lion’s Ray, Ron, Phil, Don, Bill, Steve, Al, Mort, Eli, Herb, John, Kent, and Charlie.

Dates to Remember –

– April 24th Board Meeting 6:30 PM @ Lion Al’s home
– May 5th Volunteer Event Cupertino City Hall
– May 16th – 20th 4C6 Convention San Ramon
– May 18th & 19th Via West work Dates
– June 2nd & 5th Voter Registration Volunteers
– June 16th Lions Charity Golf Tournament
– June 29th LCI International Convention Las Vegas
– September 8, 2018 Ride4Diabetes

Tail Twister – Lion Steve gave a Happy dollar praying Lion Carl’s boat motor works. Lion Ray gave a Happy dollar for making it safely back from his vacation in New York.

4C-6 Convention – Lion Al read off the names of the club members who will be voting at the convention in San Ramon, Ca. Lion’s Ray, Ron, John, and Kent will be attending.

Golf Tournament – Lion Steve said he and Ellen have sent out 82 donation requests so far and has received $1,174 worth of donations back so far. Lion Eli said the Vallco representative Sandy James said they would be a Silver sponsor for the tournament. Lion Steve said he would have a work/packing party on June14, at 5:30 PM. Lion Steve said we have sufficient goody bags, golf balls and bagels for the golf tournament. We still need more golfers, sponsors and tee sponsors so let’s get out there and get them.

Via West – Lion Ray said it looks like May19th is the date for the Via West work party. Lion Bill Reed said we need to be there on May 18th at 1-2 PM to get prep work done for the 19th. On the 19th the work party will start at 9 AM to set the posts for the expansion of the vegetable garden.

Club Officers – Lion Al read the slate of new Officers and Board Members to the club for members to approve. If the slate of officers is approved he will submit the acclamation by May 3rd, 2018.

Cupertino Volunteer Day – Lion John Noone said he has 4 volunteers to work the booth. The event will go from 11-3 on May 5, 2018. Lion John said he needs the Lion Tent to set up in the space. He asked Lion Steve for copies of the golf tournament flyers so he could pass them out. He also asked for the Brag Board and Lion Ray said he had it.

Good of the Order –

Discussions went on about needing a new storage area, various Lions said they would check out storage units around Cupertino.

Lion Al said he presented his Son-in-Law Brian with his Melvin Jones award and he was speechless and very grateful. Brian has helped our Lion’s Club in several work parties and other events.

Lion Kent said a new program for registration called Race Roster has been implemented for the Ride4Diabetes event. Testing is currently going on to make sure everything works properly.

Lion Ray said the he received a plaque from the American Legion for our participation in the “Wreaths Across America” event. He will give it to Lion Al.

Opportunity Drawing – Congratulations to Lion Mort who won.

Respectfully submitted by,
Lion Ron Ahearn