A.M. Meeting minutes for 3/18/2021

Lions Present at Zoom Video Conference: Lion’s Ray, Ron, Al, Steve, Joan, Dagi, Eli, Mort, Don, Kent, Herb, and Phil.

Dates to Remember –

– Charity Crab Feed 2021 On Line Donations thru
March
– Charter Day at Camp Via West April 24
11:00 AM til 3:00 PM
– Annual Golf Tournament June 26, 2021 ?
– Ride4Diabetes will be scheduled in 2021 ?

Board Meeting Review –
Lion Al said discussions were held about the upcoming positions for the club that need to be filled, they are President and Secretary, anyone interested in applying for these positions please contact a current Board member. Lion Prez Jeff will be at the end of his term June 30, 2021 as President.
Lion Ray talked about the Hunger at Home volunteer program that seven Lion members worked on March 13th which was a great success. Lion Ray said Lion Claire talked about setting up another volunteer day in May so wait for an announcement. Lion Ray said this would be a good hands on community service for the club.
The Charter Day celebration is scheduled for April 24th from 11 AM til 3PM at Camp Via West in the amphitheater so there is plenty of space to social distance. Lion Steve will send out a reminder and ask those who would like to attend to let him know.
Lion Al said that the Perpetual fund committee is being formed and anyone that would like to participate in it to let a Board member know. Currently the committee has three members, Lion Eli, Lion Claire, and Lion VJ. They would like to have a couple of more committee members to help in advising how to manage and invest are fund to make it prosper. Currently we have approximately $14,300 in the fund.

Camp Via West Garden/Train – Lion Joan said that currently there is not a lot going on at the Camp Garden area because of the weather. Lion Joan said Lion Steve set up the temperature controllers for the fans in the green house and that she adjusted them a little as the green house temperature was a little warm. Lion Joan said most of the areas are automated as for as outside and in the green house watering. Lion Joan said that she has a volunteer and the volunteers cousin coming and working in the garden area quite often which is a big help. Lion Dagi has been doing a lot of weeding around the garden area since the rain has made them pop up. Lion Joan mentioned that Rick is doing a lot of grass mowing around the camp again and that maybe we could get a work party together to help him out. Lion Joan said Camp Via West currently plans to open the camp for limited access for the kids with help from a private school sometime in September.

Golf Tournament – Lion Ray said he sent an email to several Super Almaden Lions members to see how they set up their
miniature golf tournament, he has not heard back from them yet. He is going to call them to see if he can get that information.

Good of the Order –

Lion Ray and Lion Dagi wanted to thank Lion Claire for setting up the Hunger at Home volunteer day saying it was very impressive and rewarding.
Lion Dagi took Maria to her eye appointment in San Francisco on Wednesday. Lion Dagi said the doctors and Maria were disappointed in the progress in her eyesight. Her operation was healing well but they were hoping for better results.
Lion Al said he was going to send out statements and a white paper explaining what our dues are used for both in the club and the Lions Clubs International. Some of the dues are in arears of up to $200 hoping that we can maintain the members in our club.
Lion Joan said that the Cupertino compost area will be opening up again starting March 26th and 27th. She would like to get some more compost for the garden area at Camp Via West, we will need a couple of pickups to haul the compost up to the camp which is only a couple of miles away from the compost area.

Lion Ron Ahearn