Minutes of the Board Meeting, July 2011

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Lion Ken
MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGOF THE JOHNSON CITY LIONS CLUB
HELD AT THE JOHNSON CITY COUNTRY CLUB ON July 14th, 2011  
A Regular Board Meeting was called to order at 12:21 p.m. on this date by King Lion Steve Campbell
The Board Members who have a “P” after their names were in attendance:    
 
 PRESIDENT DR. STEVE CAMPBELL-P
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT – KEN GOUGH-
1ST VICE PRESIDENT JOHN MERRISS-P
2ND VICE PRESIDENT PAUL EASLIC-P
SECRETARY JOHN MERRISS-P
PROJECTS TREASURER ED GIBBONS-P
ADMINISTRATIVE TREASURER DEBBIE SHIPLEY-P
TAIL TWISTER STERLING WINN-P
LION TAMER CB WILLIS-P
MEMBERSHIP CHAIR JOHN MERRISS-P
 DIRECTORS:
(2nd year of Two Year term) Director ANN VANDREUMEL-P
(2nd year of Two Year) SPECIAL TWO YEAR DIRECTOR JOHN VANDREUMEL-P
SPECIAL TWO YEAR DIRECTOR DR. GEORGE WINTON-
ONE YEAR DIRECTOR LION DEBBIE MERRITT- 
 
 Also in attendance were Lions Jerry Lonon, Sam Messimer and PDG Dennis Powell   
Minutes of Business Meeting: 
1.  The minutes from the last Board meeting held June 9th, were read and approved. 
2. Administrative Treasurer, Lion Debbie Shipley: June income $688.27, Expenses $485.74, profit $202.53 and a $2389.36 checkbook balance 
3. Projects Treasurer; Lion Eddie Gibbons:  income for 6/9/11 through 7/14/11, $927.88, expenses $1638.00, Loss $710.12 and total Liabilities and Equity of $25,104.48. 
4. As required in Article VI in the Club’s constitution the secretary reported that the following active Lions have missed four consecutive meetings or more as of and including the first April regular meeting.                         James Lonon               Mark Fox                      Janice McClanahan                     
5. As required by Article VI in the Club’s constitution Membership Director Lion Steve Campbell reported that three Lions   who are  in arrears in obligations owing to the Club as of the end of the month of March:             None! 
6. Committee Reports: 
Public Relations: No report 
Website: The web site is www.johnsoncity.tnlions.org but to get to it you’ll need to type http://johnsoncity.tnlions.org/about/ 
Eyeglasses recycling:  No report.   
 LVBI: Lion Don Raines reported that the VBI building recently constructed for the new call center here in JC is90% ready for occupancy. Supervisors are being trained even as we speak. Over $1,000,000.00 was donated by individual members and civic minded citizens, club donations ($10,000.00 from our club) and grants. A contract is already in place for taking reservations for resorts in Myrtle Beach and others are being lined up which will keep many local sight impaired citizens employed for years to come.   
Membership and Retention:  No report. 
Programs: No report 
Sight Conservation:  No report  
Budget and Finance:  No report 
Turtle Derby:  King Lion Dr. Campbell said the 60th JC Turtle Derby will be held Friday, October 14th at brooks Gym on the ETSU campus at 7PM. It was agreed that because of the early date the TD campaign will have to be underway much earlier than last year. That means the kick off meeting will be Thursday, August 4th, the first regular meeting in August. Seems early but it still only gives us 9 weeks to sell sponsorships. Start making plans now; each active Lion needs to sell 20 turtle sponsorships for us to hit this year’s goal of 600. Oh yes we can! 
Zone Meeting: No report. 
Lions Signs:  No report. 
New Member Training:  No report. 
Health and Welfare:  No report. 
Newcomers Outreach:  No report. 
Nuts and Bolts Committee:  No report. 
Conventions:  No report 
Vision Screening: In coordination with the Washington County Health Council and IHN of Greater Johnson City  this club will provide eye screenings on Saturday, July 16th from 7AM to noon at the Farmers Market, 500 South Roan Street. Volunteer Lions are sorely needed. Lion Willis will help but he cannot stay until noon.  If you can, please come and bring a lawn chair, coffee, duct tape, a magic marker and some hot coffee. 
  Little League:  No report 
Pecans: Lion CB Wills said we can start taking orders in August for pecans even though they won’t be ripe enough to be delivered until later in the year. So if you want your friends to get their share of those big, fat, juicy pecans better find out how many bags they’ll be needing. 
Disaster Relief: PDG Lion Denis Powell reported that there was good attendance from our club and others in the area for the distribution of food, cleaning supplies and mattresses last month. He estimated that what was not distributed during the two day effort would be through the continuing effort of Lions in the three counties being helped and the local churches and community organizations supporting them (us).   
LCIF:  Officers can now create their own user name and password to log onto the LCIF web site. Just go to www.lionsclubs.org and follow the simple instructions (simple if you enjoy writing computer programs on your lunch hour). You’ll need our present user name, 1400351, and a little time to do this. If you have any trouble call 630-468-6901 and ask for help.    
 
 
  1. Old Business:  No report. 
  2.  New Business: No report.
King Lion Campbell adjourned the meeting at 1:01 PM and the room was empty at 1:01:02   
 
NEXT REGULAR MEETING:  Next Thursday, July 21, 2011.   
/s/______________________
           John J. Merriss 
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