A.M. meeting minutes for 1/10/2019

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

Dates to Remember –

– Student Speaker Contest January 31, 2019 at the Odd Fellows
Hall.
– February 9, 2019 Crab Feed
– Charter Night March 16, 2019 Blue Pheasant Restaurant
– Ride4Diabetes May 5, 2019
– Golf Tournament June 22, 2019

Tail Twister – Lion Tail Twister Herb collected many happy dollars for Clemson winning the National College football championship. Ray rolled the dice for his birthday and rolled a four and donated four dollars to the club fund.

P.M. Review –

Charter Night 2019 – 50 Years of De Anza Lionism! Lion Prez Jeff is looking at asking Past District Governor Liz Crook to be the guest speaker.

Student Speaker Contest 2019 – January 31st, Lion Dagi and Lion Ellen have speakers lined up. The contest will be at the Odd-Fellows Hall in Cupertino at 6:30 PM.

City of Cupertino Chamber of Commerce Mixers – Good opportunity to network. Lion Phil used to go to the mixers on a monthly basis. Lion Joan had mentioned it too for connection. The club is a member of the chamber in good standing, but you do have to RSVP if you want to attend. The next meeting is January 16, 2019 in the Cupertino City community hall.

New Club Member – Ms. Sashi Begur, sponsored by Lion Muni Madhdipatla.

New Community Leos Club – Richard Cao, Prez; Lion Liang, Sponsor – HOORAY! He has 15 members of the Leo club as of now. Lion Liang is going to be the sponsor, and any young person from middle through high school can be a part.

MD-04 Convention 2019 – Any interested Lions? February 8-10 in Sacramento. Let Lion Prez Jeff or Lion Secretary Jill, know if you want to attend, because Jill has to fill out paperwork for you as a delegate, if you want to vote on the issues and to register.

Crab Feed 2019 – Lion Carl: one more meeting before the crab feed. The price is 13.00 a lb. which is a little high? We are going to need to pick up the crab on February 8th, back up in South SF, not shucking, but do need to drive the Refer truck up there. Bar issues: both bar leads are going to have surgical procedures this month, so we will need to help them out. Look for the sign up sheet for the different slots of need. There will be no Buchser prep because we get into the church at 11:00. Someone should get in touch with Zerkel so they don’t show up. You must sign up on Carl’s form even if you always do the same job, because when people don’t we end up having multiple people who plan to do the same job as usual, please sign up so there isn’t crossover. We need Leos for Crab Feed! The bar should have the card machine and …? We are going to have someone walking around selling wine, for cash or to go run the card, and some bottles being sold at the front as people walk in. Jenni is going to do a storage run for supplies, and Ray and Ron will do an inventory so we can buy what we need. We need a point person for pizzas for the Leos in the middle-Lion Liang volunteered. Steve has all the lemons, but you need pickers on Wednesday, February 6th during the day. Thursday, at 5:30, on the 7th is the work party at Steve’s. He will send out an email for an RSVP. Tomorrow we get to test out the dishwasher! We have to buy tomatoes and salad on Friday. The alcohol has to be delivered to the church on Friday, which is a cash buy and we need a place to store it. Whoever is picking up the wine, will need a copy of the permit.

Crab Feed- Lion Al said we are close to being sold out of the first seating and the second seating is doing well. Lion Al said he was working with Lion Andrea Harris for possibly two tables for the new club members. Lion Carl will be sending out a signup sheet for the various volunteer requirements for the crab feed. Lion Carl received some questions about the crab feed from the county health department that need to be addressed. Lion Steve said they are working on the dishwasher and should have it completed he is going to test it out today at 1 PM. There was a discussion about the loudness of the band in years past for those tables sitting upfront next to the band. Lion Steve said the speaker system is turned all the way down when the band is playing but he will look into it. Lion Steve said there will be lemon picking at his house on February 6, 2019 at 1:30 PM for the crab feed.

Charter Night – Lion Ray said there will be a Charter night celebration at the Blue Pheasant restaurant on March 16, 2019 for our 50th club anniversary. Lion Ray said he talked to the Blue Pheasant to check on the room capacity and it is around 100 so we should not have a problem. Lion Ray suggested that we try to get some of the original/older members of the club to attend the 50th birthday celebration of our club. Also would like some of the long time club members to talk about how the club has evolved. Lion Prez Jeff is asking Past District Governor Liz Crook if she would speak at Charter Night.

Golf Tournament – Lion Ray met with Gary Pearce of Moffett Field golf course concerning the golf tournament. Moffett would like us to start the tournament at 9 AM instead of the usual 11 AM. Lion Ray said he would discuss it with the board and Moffett to see if we can maybe start at 9:30 or 10 AM. Lion Ray said we could discuss it further at the PM meeting. Also the golf course is raising the price of the golfers to $70 up from $65 Lion Ray said he sent a message to the board about raising the price for participants to $125 to cover the increase in price.

Student Speaker Contest – Lion Ray asked Lion members to attend so they could see the future of our country. The high school speakers are tremendous.

Good of the Order – None

Respectfully submitted by,
Lion Ron Ahearn