Joe’s Jitters
Joe Shadroui provided our invocation today. After acknowledging his first-time jitters, Joe shared a heartfelt thanks for our health, good works and company. Nice job, Joe!
Bruce’s Baubles
With no club or other anniversaries to celebrate, Bruce shared a few historical baubles with members. The great singing cowboy, Gene Autry, was born on this day in Texas in 1907, and in 1988, the first woman American, Stacy Allison, scaled Mount Everest.
Club Assembly Hijacked by Fines
The last meeting of each month is reserved for Club Assembly. This is an opportunity for Rotarians to share updates on projects, suggest new ideas, and focus on Club development.
Caroline made a valiant effort to direct the Club’s attention to data showing our membership trend over the past few years (down seven members the last two years), and the age and gender composition of our Club.
The members were not ready for serious discussion, however, and the Assembly was quickly hijacked by a barrage of fines from feisty members exercising their prerogative under “Robert’s Rules” to fill our basket to overflowing.
Joe Shadroui started the trend by fining himself $1 for not RSVP’s timing for the luncheon. Gaining steam, Tom Babic next proposed another $1 fine on Bob for fining himself. This effort was seconded by the Rules arbiter himself, Bob Pope. President Tony passed the gavel to Acting President Karl and offered a tepid defense of Joe.
Succumbing to the mood of the Club, Caroline set aside her gravitas and offered an amendment of 1 and 9 on all members who were not wearing their
badges. No one objected to this fine as unrelated to the original Motion (Robert’s Rules, indeed!), but this original Amendment as seconded by Nicole failed as a result of a dubious ruling by AP Karl. Sliding into further disrepute, AP Karl then ruled the original Motion despite a resounding voice vote in favor. With President Tony back in possession of the gavel, order was only briefly restored. Nicole proposed a fine of 1 and 9 upon Karl for his audacious disregard of the will of the Club in his prior rulings. Second by Joe Shadroui, Bob Pope proposed an amendment to fine Nicole for failing to rise when making her motion. Tom second this shocking disregard for club etiquette, and the amendment and fine passed.
The fines continued, too numerous to recount….
Moving on to Happy…
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Karl shared that the Art Splash had raised $10,000 for the artists, and $34,923 for the Club. He thanked all those who worked so diligently and noted that the Splash would not be repeated for the summer of 2022
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