COMMITTEE REPORTS - updated

--Filed Under “Old Business"/Charitable Committee:   A Matching District Grant for 2016-17 which our club's charitable committee budgeted $1,500 for was never submitted by our partnering applicant, The Chariho Club.  This was a very recent revelation.  Therefore, the Charitable Committee had a $1,500 surplus in its budget and took steps to use the money for our local needs.  The five organizations proposed to receiving $300 were:  Welcome House, Jonnycake, Habitat for Humanity, Galilee Mission, & Domestic Violence Resource Center.  Club membership voted to approve Charitable Committee's proposal to donate the monies to these 5 worthy organizations in our community.
 
--Meeting Time Committee: This committee submitted a report on a membership survey ranking meeting time options for our club's regular meetings. See attached:  Meeting Survey. With this new information, the process to change regular meeting times will be as follows:
  • on Monday, July 31st – the board will consider and take a vote on meeting times
  • on Monday, Aug. 7 - the board's decision will be voted on by membership
  • during the week of Oct. 9th – the new meeting time will be implemented
 
Rationale for starting the new schedule in October: 1-District Governor visit on Oct. 2 was first in August, then Oct. 30—don't want to mess with it again; 2- our great guest speakers committee (Jim Blackerby, Sandy Cutting, Fran Alexalos. Elizabeth Candas) have booked a couple months ahead--they're set until September.
 
 
--follow up on Narragansett Art Festival : (note:  the following are the written details from Art Fest Co-chair Ed McLaughin)  
Many thanks to all club members for their assistance at the Narragansett Art Festival this past weekend.  After a bit of rain on Saturday morning, all was good when the sun showed up.

Thanks to Jay Shartenberg and team for the Friday layout; Ben Bardo for the PR efforts; Linda Hennessey for organizing the Rotarian volunteers; Beth Leconte for handling all the registration efforts and site layout; and a big Rotary thank you to Herk Herchenroether and Sandy Cutting for stepping up as our new co-chairs.

Final numbers still being work on, however, looks like at least $13,000 raised to support scholarships and club projects.