AM Meeting Minutes, 3/23/2017

Lions Present: – Ray, Walt, Phil, Don, Bill, Steve, Al, Dagi, Herb, Kent, John, Vijay, and Charlie.

Guests/Visitors – 2nd VDG Candidate Lion Melinda Blaza and David Martin

Dates to Remember

–        March 25, 8 am till 11 am, Pancake Breakfast, Odd Fellows Lodge, 20589 W Homestead Rd, Cupertino

–        April 1st, 5 pm, Charter Night, Blue Pheasant Restaurant, 22100 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

–        June 17, Charity Golf Tournament, Moffett Field Golf Course, 1080 Lockheed Martin Way, Sunnyvale.

–        Aug 26, 7 am, LCIF/ADA Bike Ride, De Anza College, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino.

Tail Twister

Lion Tail Twister Herb went around the room collecting “Happy Dollars”. Most notable was from Lion Don who was celebrating his birthday. Lion Don rolled the dice and made a donation to the club. Happy Birthday, Lion Don!

Melinda Blaza Visitation

Lion Melinda Blaza announced she is running for 2nd Vice District Governor. She said she has had lots of leadership classes and wants to take the District to the next level. She also mentioned a little about her past. When she was 10 her dad left home about the time her mom died. She ended up looking after her two younger siblings. We thanked her for visiting our club and wish her well in the election.

Board Meeting

Kudos to Lions Dagi and John for their efforts to redo our website. The Board approved $1,100 toward the building of a new club website. Lion Al said 20% of the funds would come from the club budget, and 80% from the foundation budget.

Lion Al has agreed to rewrite our club’s bylaws.

The first announcement (PU-101) of our 2017-2018 Board of Directors was made. The slate of directors are…Pres: Jeff Ludlum, 1st Vice Pres: Amy Brindos, 2nd Vice Pres: Charles Ice, 3rd Vice Pres: Ray Lancon, Sec: Jill Eliason, Treas: Vijay Caveripakkam, Membership: John Noone, Directors: Carl Erickson and Al Knox. We thank all the members for their willingness to again serve.

Charter Night

The 48th anniversary of our club will be held on Saturday, April 1st at the Blue Pheasant Restaurant in Cupertino. Cocktails at 5 pm and Call to Order at 6:20 pm. Cost of the dinner is $40 for adults. 38 people are signed up to come plus one new PM member.

If you have not already done so, please contact Lion Ray as to whether you are coming, how may people you are bringing, and menu choices. If you have already replied, please check the spreadsheet Lion Ray has sent out to verify he has your correct menu order.

Lion Kent has put in a request for 3 Leos to help watch the 10 children who will be attending.

Annual Charity Golf Classic

Lion Amy has sent out a request for volunteers. If you have not yet responded please do so at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jE7Fgn99aTggkZ3a-tovDA1bmhczxk2E42N1cv5G06Y/edit?usp=sharing.

Lion Vijay will talk with Google to see if he can negotiate a preferred rate for the golf course.

Lion Steve reported we now have $1,297 in donations. In addition Willow Street is donating 120 pizzas and Main Street burgers.

LCIF/ADA Bike Ride – Lion Kent

The event has received the endorsement of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. This is significant because they are a lobbying group, which will send out information to 400 of their corporate members.

The corporate world is very interested in the event because of the opportunity for them to make use of the AJ Robinson Diabetes Screening Van. Bottom line for them is that early screening will help lower cost of health care. This represents a change in marketing for corporations, which are use to a top down rather than bottom up means of doing business.

Lion Kent stressed that our club is behind in our marketing attempts. All Lions need to email their corporate contact information to Lion Jeff or Lion Kent now. Dealing with corporations requires a long lead-time. We cannot wait until after the Golf Tournament to get started.

For more information on the Bike Ride please see: http://www.ride4diabetes.org.

Good of the Order

The 10th Annual Odd Fellows Pancake Breakfast in memory of Herman De Ville will be this Saturday, March 25th at the Odd Fellows Lodge #70, 20589 West Homestead Road, Cupertino from 8 am to 11 am. All donations go to the City of Hope for cancer. Please help them out if you can. The Odd Fellows lodge has been very generous to our club in allowing us use of their facility for our Food Drive, Project Linus, and Student Speaker Contest.

OPPORTUNITY DRAWING

Congratulations to our winner, Lion Phil.

Minutes prepared by: Lion Walt