Minutes of Meeting for September 14, 2017
1. Call to Order: Bill E. called the meeting to order, led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of God Bless America. He then turned it over to Barb and Susan for introductions. Then back to Bill and he told a great joke from Richard!
2. Hostesses: Barb L. and Susan D. Barb counted 43 folks in attendance today. Val R. asked that all new members stay after to have their picture taken for our “Who’s Who” book.
3. Vice President: Debi S. reports 117 members!
4. Secretary: Kristi G.: The minutes for the September 7th meeting were approved. Thanks so much Debi for doing them for me! 😊
5. Treasurer: Walt R.: He reports a total of $2,130.77 with $16.65 of that total in petty cash. Walt says we have enough money in the bank to help Texas and Florida hurricane victims. We had enough folks for a quorum so we all voted to send $300.00 to Texas Hunger Relief and $300.00 to Florida Hunger Relief. Walt will let us know when that has been completed.
Let’s try to remember to put our money in the pot for coffee “and”. It’s $2.00 for a cup of coffee which includes all refills; $1.00 for sweets. Thanks much.
6. Coordinators’ Reports:
o Sunshine: Dorie Z.: We are now up to 10 weeks without anyone being sick that we know of people, that’s super!! Please be sure to let Dorie know if you know of anyone that is not feeling well or needs a little sunshine from us. Dorie reports that Gladys had her eye surgery and it went well, so well in fact that Gladys was with us today! So happy for her that the surgery is over and she is on the road to recovery. George S. is doing better from his surgery. Time and patience and lots of prayers for you both.
o Historian: Magda Q.: No Magda, so no report. ☹
o Philanthropy: John Z.: No report but the holidays are coming so John asked that we check our pantries for items we can bring in for the food bank. The need will be even more so with the holidays.
o Hiking: Jim A.: No report as the hiking is over until fall
o Activities: See activities list below.
7. Group Concerns/Good of the Group
Larry L. brought up about the scammers again and how these jerks get into our computers. You might see a pop-up on the computer that says “Stop - your computer has been compromised and we can fix it for you and just call this number and they say they are Microsoft but they aren’t. Microsoft WILL NOT contact you this way ever. DO NOT OPEN this message ever. That’s how they get in to your computer and steal all your information. Bill E. also talked about the Experian credit bureau breech and we all need to be wary of that one as well. You can freeze your credit cards so that no one can get that information. Bill has sent out various ways of contacting the different credit bureaus to do this. We are still looking for an Activities Coordinator as well as folks for our nominating committee. The nominating committee is usually made up of about 3-4 folks who will take nominations from the group as to who they would like to see on the Board in the next year. The nominating committee in turn will present those names to the Board and we will all need to vote on them in October. We have two members who have volunteered so far so hopefully by next meeting we will have the nominating committee in place. We’d sure like to get some of our new members involved, hint, hint, hint 😊 We were again reminded by (sorry, I forgot who) that Cortaro and Ina will both be torn up at the same time although the Cortaro project will hopefully be completed by December. Hello Twin Peaks! Val R. asked for folks to help with the Christmas decorations for our annual party on the 19thof December. We will meet at Val and Richard’s to make the decorations. More info to follow as time draws nearer. Marie came up and introduced the birthday folks and she brought a yummy chocolate birthday cake for all to share.
8. Thought of the Day: Sandy P. had a very good heartwarming thought for the day and a cute joke.
9. Adjournment: Bill E. ended the meeting at 10:27 AM.
