As is the custom of our club, the Past President, Margie Booyens introduced those Rotarians who have volunteered to serve on the Board and Executive for the 2021-2022 Rotary Year.
They will be inducted in late June, to take off for July 1 but those people introduced today were.
Past President - Mark Sorenson
President - Terry Partis
President Elect - Melanie Harty
Secretary - Doug Fleming
Treasurer - Gail Halderman
Directors at Large
Terry Cooper
Mike Christie
Peter Mueller
Dave Panabaker
Past President Margie advised that their are two spots available as Directors, should anyone wish to volunteer. Not having enough Directors will hinder some of our service efforts, as four can't cover the work of six.
Terry Partis thanked Margie for all her work over the past three years in the President stream, and Margie thanked outgoing Director Glen Presley for his service over the past four years.
The second half of our AGM was a review of the Year end 2020 Financials with Treasurer Gail Halderman, who advised on our current financial position and how our reserves are sitting.
Gail spoke about the large spending in the previous year, related to the Rotary Centennial Trail along South Boundary Road. All those expenditures were run through our club books, so some pretty big numbers accumulated in the Community Service column. Gail advised that the club has approximately $30,000 of unrestricted funds in the bank, after the completion of transfers to the Music Festival for last year and may need some of that money to fill in for our Club 1000 raffle if it doesn't sell out. As well, our commitment to the "Dunmore Park" tree planting will use up some of those funds as well.
Several other projects, such as signage on Rotary Centennial Trail and other Service Projects will be affected by the availability of District Grants and a restoration of bingo. It appears we will not have a casino in this Rotary year, so our funding will be tight.
Alternative methods of fundraising are being discussed by the incoming Executive and the Community Service team. More information on that to come.