19 members in attendance meeting minutes from 05/05/2011

Called to order at 6:35PM by  President Augie Christopher

Secretary report approved-1st Steve Pomahac 2nd Josh Brown

Treasurer report –approved 1st-Scott Wallace 2nd-Mike Peavy

Rockton Lions Club
Treasurer's Report 05/05/2011
Lions Club
Admin:				929.25
Wimpy's				16,433.21
Fundraising				43,868.09
					61230.55
Charities Accounts
Athletic Fields				1,144.95
General/Ice Rink				8,512.01
					9656.96
Community Development Foundation
Rockton Lions Scholarship				11,275.70
Dr Loomis Scholarship				14,140.21
					25415.91
	Total All Accounts:				96303.42
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Fundraising Activity:
4/29/2011	Community Development Foundation				(1,065.00)
4/29/2011	Food Booths/Vendor Booth/Sponsor				1,175.00
4/29/2011	50/50 (meeting & kick off party)				437.00
4/29/2011	Sight & Sound Golf Sponsorship				125.00
4/29/2011	Northwest Quarterly OSD				(877.50)
5/4/2011	OSD Food Booth				551.00
5/4/2011	Eventbrite Ticket Sales				3,690.28

 

Visitor-  Fredd Buggs from the Stateline Boys and Girls Club thanked the club for the donation from last year and expressed that there is still a need for donations. Last year they serviced 1600 kids from the area and 75 of those children were from Rockton.  Motion approved to donate $500.00 1st-Dick 22nd-Dale Adams

Theresa Sekula- Walkathon for CAC (Champions for Children) Requesting a donation and possibly to tie the walk into OSD.  Discussion regarding the actual walk in conjunction with OSD. It was decided there was not enough time this year to put this into place. Can revisit the request next year.  Motion Passed for $500.00 donation 1st-Kerri Wallace 2nd-Josh Brown.

OSD update- there is a new band secured for Sunday night so at this point the Festival is covered for music. VIP sponsorship is wrapping up all sponsorships need to be back by Tuesday May 16th.

Correspondence: 
Requests:

1. Canine Companions for Independence-Motion passed for $250.00 1st-Mike Peavy 2nd-Scott Wallace
2. Talcott Free Library, Summer Reading Program-Motion passed not to exceed $500.00, however in the past we’ve covered the entire bill, and if it goes over $500 we will bring it back to the club to vote on the additional funds. Last year the bill was $400. 1st-Scott Wallace 2nd-Dan Bellich
3. American Cancer Society- Neutrogena has a promotion that will double an donation we make. Motion passed $100.00 1st-Mike Peavy 2nd-Josh Brown
4. Rockton Chamber of Commerce Hole Sponsorship for Golf June 27, 2011.  Motion passed for $180.00 sponsorship 1st-Ron Nelson 2nd-Josh brown

 

Thank Yous:

1. Rockton Chamber of Commerce for attending the annual Gala

2. Sight and Sound thank you for 7 bags of eyeglasses

**Side note** Kim Peavy advised there are multiple items that can now be recycled there is a listing posted on the Rockton Lions facebook page. Cellular phones are now accepted Mike Peavy has 3 boxes of phones that he will take over to Jerry Wallace to turn in.

 

 

Old/New Business:

1. District Governor Ron Fruit will be visiting us on May 19th.
2. The Rockton Lions club will not be having a booth at “The Concert” at the Rockford Speedway this year.  Due to mis-information regarding the booth being free to the club.
3. Walk For Sight-Kim Peavy presented the club with the information regarding Walk For Sight as an opportunity to do something in the summer months while we are not in session to keep The Lions Club in the forefront.  There is very little work by club members for this, the idea is that the club members fill out potential people, businesses, etc on a form and turn into the Walk For Sight leaders who contact those entities for sponsorship.  The Rockton Lions Club will receive a check for 40% of the dollars generated and the remaining 60% will go to Lions Foundation for Sight programs.  We are able to set our own date and time and place.  The idea was brought up to do the 3 mile walk on the Bikepath in conjunction with OSD.  It was asked for this to be tabled until the next meeting at which time Kim Peavy will provide a more detailed presentation to the club.
4. Kerri Wallace provided a list of eye glass recycle centers in the area. Kim will provide to Marianne Mueller and will put on facebook… First National Bank-Rockton, Stillman Valley Bank- Roscoe, McCorkal Funeral home-Rockton, Jacks Tire- South Beloit, Rogers Barber Shop, Shirland School-Shirland, Forest City Therapy-Rockford, American Legion-Rockton, Walmart-Rockton, Illinois Central Bus Company, Cyndys Country Cottage-Rockton .
5. There was a question brought up regarding if Walmarts Vision center would provide a discount to those who donate their old eyeglasses  (Who was going to check into this? I think it was Josh)
6. Dale Adams brought the information regarding the annual cruise there currently are 6 cabins booked and we would really like to see a good showing from The Rockton Lions Club this year. The pricing information will be sent on an email to all club members.
7. Raffle License Kerri Wallace discussed the license. 52 raffles per year up to a max of $5K per raffle and $250K per year. Motion passed for Kerri Wallace to complete all the paperwork and submit for the license 1st-kim Peavy 2nd-Josh brown.   We will need to set some guidelines regarding other entities “borrowing” or using our license for their raffle.  It was asked that the requests would be able to be handled by the Raffle committee and then brought to the club for a vote.  Potential raffle committee Kerri Wallace (Treasurer)- Raffle Manager,  Andy Honkamp (TailTwister), Ron Nelson.
8. Ben Compagnoni’s wife passed away-Is there something we can do for the family- In lieu of flowers they asked for donations to the Talcott library. This was tabled until next meeting. Please be thinking for a discussion
9. Dale Adams-Rockin For Rockton has been approved. There is a Facebook page to follow the progress. We will discuss in more detail at the next meeting.

 

Meeting adjourned at 7:30 motion passed 1st-Scott Wallace 2nd-Kerri Wallace