Regular PM Meeting Minutes, 01/05/2011

De Anza Lions PM Minutes Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Lions Attending: Jill, Scott, Pete, Mike M., Ray, Charlie, Leslye, Jim, Yvonne, Dan, Carl, Jeff, Ron, Steve, Al, Eli,Vijay, Howie, Mort, Eli, and new member, Maria, and Mike Ringer.
The Best Guests: Ellen, Barb, Sydnie, Sophia. *Special thanks for Ellen Ratner’s art table-it’s a hit (as is she!).
Mike Martin led us in the flag salute and the meeting started at 6:40. General poll shows that this new Campbell RT location gets a thumb ups!
Tailtwister: fined a phone going off, and then proceeded to collect many Happy Dollars-lots for Pete and Rene, Sydnie and her new doll, the New Year, and for Charlie’s new granddaughter, Stanford’s big win!
Induction of New Member: Welcome, Maria Rivera! Al led the ceremony, assisted by Steve Ratner. Maria lives in San Jose, works as a dental assistant, was introduced through Ellen and Steve. Maria is also taking an eyeglass box to help us with eyeglass collection.
Crab Feed 2011: Steve said that there are $ 8,600. 00 in donation money. We have sold 270 tickets to the first seating, DAL have sold out the tickets we have, Rotary still has some. We have sold 180 tickets to the second seating. Put the word out and the flyer to get the second seating filled. Al is asking Jim to get a hold of the Rotarians for a $400.00 dollar donation. Jeff is asking why we don’t use Craig’s List, if necessary. Put it on Facebook, send it to your email friends, get the word out, get the money, and give them a ticket. Carl will get the sign-up sheet on Google docs tonight. ALL hands on deck-all the work assignments are on there, including parking people. Leos will also be involved. The 20th of January, Thursday, at the Ratner’s is the ticket tearing and the preparation of the raffle items. The 21st early Friday, is the Crab cracking party. The Saturday morning prep crew will be at Buchser Middle School again, in the same room. Then, there will need to be a crew for the Sunday AM clean up. Donuts and coffee will be available at Ellen and Steve Ratner’s , and the clean-up crew will be located in their driveway. The band is 90% in. We are still looking for an emcee for the evening. Saturday we can get into the church at 2:00. Board approval asked for by Jim to get a coffee maker to melt butter in for $25.00.
Charter Night 2011: The celebration of our club’s birthday is to take place on March 19th at the Blue Pheasant. There will be a choice of fish, chicken, and beef. The price is going to be the same as last year. Good time, food, and company-and the presentations and emceeing by John Smith.
Lion Flag Day 2011:
Lions give a flag day presentation, but it can be done any time during the school year. We need a chair and co-chair for this part of our club. The chair and co-chair contact and go out to the schools, and give a presentation to the students and flags.    Mort will chair the committee and Yvonne and Leslye will help her present.
*Check the bullet points for tidbits and reminders at the top of the notes, especially Liz Crooke visits up and coming.
Good of the Order:
    Installation dinner (organized by Yvonne) which will be in Milpitas at the Big Dog Winery on June 25th , there will be a band, food, etc.
 Website-Carl says small changes are that the public calendar closely mimics the private calendar. Kent wants a list of what we do and Carl suggested we use Twitter for that (events, glasses, pull tabs). If you want to add a tweet-send it to Ron, Carl, or Jeff 140 characters or language.
    Carl Erickson’s parents sent a check for $150.00 in the name of the Erickson, Eliason, Ludlum Lion’s Club.
Adjourned at 7:55.