PM Meeting Minutes: March 2020

Cupertino De Anza Lions: PM Meeting Minutes/Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
· Sat. 14 March, 2020 – Charter Night “51”
· Sat. 18 April, 2020 – Earth Day Cupertino
· Fri. 8 May, 2020 – Club Field Trip to CCI Graduation Day
· Sat. 20 June, 2020 – Charity Golf Classic
Lions Present: Eli, Mort, JIll, Al, Phil, Ray, Steve, Jeff, Claire, Jen, Jenni, Carl, Charles, Ron
Esteemed Guests: Barb, Ellen, children of all ages.
Call to Order – Lion Jeff: 6:34 start.
1) Flag Salute – “Lions-to-Be”, Tailtwister, Happy Dollars
2) Crab Feed 2020: successful event, 13,890.01+ for charity. Anticipating that goes up a little more. Carl would like to see if we can partner with someone and/or offer some incentive for another club to help us out for the purpose of getting more volunteers. Reaching out to other high schools, outside of Leos, for high school volunteers. Putting word out to other Lions clubs for volunteers. The date is in question because the church has something on the 30th : so it has to be Superbowl Saturday or Jan. 23rd. January 23rd is the date which will work. The raffle had fewer items, but people spent more on the items, so it was a success. Jenni and Carl rock!!
3) SCC Registrar, Lions Civic Project, Win-Win for the club corp: the operation systems worked well and it was smooth for the volunteers. The money we bring into the club is about $2,000.
4) Via West Services, April Visit (tentative): there may be a visit from Via West coming up in April meeting.
5) Board Meeting Highlights: 6th Bomb Association facilitation in their 501-3C approved. Charter night we are going to vote on the bylaws, if we have a quorum. See email from Claire for bylaws. Perpetual Fund: money put into a fund for a cause, place, or organization that they feel strongly about. Then, the club is entitled to spend the interest, but not the principle. The board is in the process of figuring out how to make stock donations work as the Ratners would like to donate that to the Perpetual Fund. The discussion needs to continue at the board about how to handle it and which broker to use.
6) Board Members Needed! 2020-2021. We have to submit our officer and board names in April. We have a couple board members who want to take a break, so please offer up your time if you want to be on the board to Jeff!
7) Golf Committee Chair: we need a Golf Committee Chairperson for this year.
8) Charter Night 2020 – voting the By-Laws, enjoying the fellowship, Club’s 51st birthday, sign up on the sheet Ray/Claire sent out for meals by this Friday, the 6th!
9) Regional Student Speaker contest: Email Lion Ray to volunteer. Thursday, the 26th of March at Oddfellows in the evening
10) Sponsors for Club Members-get them to attend meetings! Lion Eli said that the PM meeting attendance is not great. If you are a sponsor of a Lion that doesn’t attend, ask them to come to the meetings. We desperately need attendance from the people involved in the Ride for Diabetes committee.
11) Lion Leslye: thank you Claire for sending out the visit email and Leslye was thankful for the support.