HEALTHY DISCUSSION AT CLUB FORUM

 
The last club meeting was devoted to having an open discussion about any issues that members wanted to raise.
 
President Rob set the agenda by reinforcing some of the major items raised in the club survey. These included:
  • More social events
  • Focus on local community projects
  • Informative club meetings where members hear:
    • Interesting stories and projects from RI and District 9800
    • Regular reports from committee chairs about their projects
  • Research some alternative meeting venues
  • More vocational visits
  • Increased membership
Some of the matters raised by members during the session were:
  • Prepare a list of vocations that could be used to prompt members to seek out people in the community who could become potential members.
  • The structure and delivery of the meetings needs to improve to make them vibrant and more attractive to potential members:
    • Present a regular 3-minute good-news story using material from RI based on the theme of "Serving Humanity".
    • Regular updates about what's happening in the area of Rotary Foundation.
    • Improve the ambience at the Italian Social Club when we occupy the large room e.g. display more banners, bring the tables closer together, re-position the head table and have better lighting.
  • Are we doing too many BBQ's in the community? It is good for our publicity but, in many cases, they are not fund-raisers and we are finding it harder and harder to get sufficient volunteers.