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Make Up Opportunities 
 
AM CLUB Hybrid meetings at Venue 31 - Meetings at 7:30 on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.
 
FALCONER — Meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 AM at the Falconer Fire Department Exempt Hall located at 1 Coleson Drive Falconer NY, 14733.
 
WESTFIELD / MAYVILLE — Currently meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 5pm via ZOOM. Contact Janese Berkhouse at 716-397-8801 for Zoom details.
 
FREDONIA/DUNKIRK
Meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM - Zoom Teleconference Meetings - Effective until further notice - Fredonia, NY 14063
 
 
 
Committee meetings or social events can also be used as make-ups.
 
 
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April 3, 2023 - Noon Rotary Meeting
 
Today’s Chairperson: President-Elect Ruth Lundin with the salute to the flag, singing of the national anthem, and recitation of the Rotary four-way test. 
 
Invocation: Walt Pickut
 
Visiting Rotarians and Guests: None  
 
Announcements:
 

Ruth announced that the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee would be meeting on Tuesday, April 4 at noon via Zoom. The Vision committee meeting will be held on Thursday, April 6, at noon via Zoom 

The district Rotary conference will be held on Saturday, April 15, to be attended by representatives from about 70 clubs across Western New York and Southern Ontario. The gathering will include business reports and demonstrations of community service projects presented by many of the clubs attending, and will include a flag parade presented by exchange students from across the district. Rotary club members are encouraged to attend. A ride home for our exchange student would be appreciated by any member willing to volunteer for an opportunity to get to know our student better. 

Members have been given tickets to sell for the Jamestown Rotary spring fundraiser, “Books for Bibs,” to benefit new mothers and their babies at UPMC. The tickets will sell for $25 per ticket or 3 for $60. This is part of a national campaign to encourage parents to read to their children as early as possible in life.

On May 8, the District Governor, Lisa Bishop, will be visiting the Jamestown Rotary Club and providing the program. Members are especially encouraged attend.

The Dragon Boat Race will be returning to Chautauqua Lake this summer and Rotary will once again participate.  Members are asked to let President John Healy know if they would be interested in organizing Dragon Boat teams. 

The Rotary Club of St. Catherine's, Ontario has raised 100% of the funds for phase two of their orphan school project The Rotary Club of Jamestown will provide $100 toward that ongoing goal. This is a multi-year community service project involving a Rotary club in Uganda.

 
Birthday Table - Joni Blackman then proceeded to congratulate and lead the club in singing Happy Birthday to the club’s “Spring Flowers,” the April birthday members.
 
Sergeant at Arms - Mike Roberts performed the Sergeant at Arms duty and who determined that the Happy Bucks quiz would be performed “Las Vegas Style,” since he had just returned from an International Security conference in that City. He indicated that if the person or table answered his question correctly, Mike would donate the dollar, whereas if it was answered incorrectly the individual or table would contribute the dollar. It was soon discovered that the mystery theme was Mike's Alma mater, Ohio State, and the remainder of happy bucks proceeded as normally in spite of his famous fandom. 
 
Happy Bucks - Additional references to the NCAA championship conference games now underway garnered more bucks. A special happy buck was contributed by Dan Heitzenrater related to the Cummins engine companies upcoming $452 million investment in the Jamestown plant upgrade. Joni Blackman contributed a dollar for announcing the upcoming “Dining in the Dark" dinner on April 21 at the Harbor Hotel. The goal is to detect and correct vision problems for 3- to 6-year-olds. She also contributed a dollar to request volunteers to help those diners who will be eating their dinner with their blindfold on.
 
Stories
Club Survey Results

The day's program was then led off by Ruth Lundin, who along with Marion Beckerink and Kirk Young, had conducted a club-wide survey in which more than half of the club participated. The purpose of the survey was to identify key factors in membership satisfaction and in goal setting as members of the Jamestown Rotary Club. Key findings indicated that service to the community and an opportunity to connect with other local businesses ranked highest in motivations for joining Rotary, and that the speaker and opportunities to socialize with colleagues were the most important reason for attending meetings.

Considering the preferred frequency of meetings, staying with the current weekly schedule was the most popular but by only a slim margin over meeting bi-monthly or meeting weekly with one of them being a special organizational meeting. Meeting once per month was the least popular choice. Suggestions for meeting improvements were roughly divided between enhancing the meal quality and an undefined category called “Other” with only minor suggestions of improving the speakers or location.

Concerning attendance, by far the most important reason for missing meetings was based on work schedule conflicts. The most popular avenues of service included Highway Cleanup, reading and conducting mock interviews with students, and the annual Christmas Red Kettle campaign. Satisfaction with leadership and willingness to cooperate with future leadership decisions was very high. The most popular choices for fundraising events included a gala event, a raffle, and an auction in which most members would be eager to sell tickets, volunteer at the event, and bring guests. Concerning Rotary’s top areas of focus, opinion was nearly uniform in favoring basic education and economic development, only slightly ahead of advocating for peace, disease prevention, water and sanitation, and maternal and child health. 

Concerning the top three strategies to help the club grow, the leading candidate was to increase the impact of projects within the community, followed by a campaign to increase membership, and to promote employer-sponsored membership. Preferred partnerships and collaborations for the Rotary included collaboration with other Rotary clubs followed closely by partnering with the YMCA, Chautauqua Works, and the Chamber of Commerce.

An answer to the question of what the membership hopes to accomplish in the next three years included the top suggestions of including local citizens in achieving goals not addressed or addressable by local public services, decreasing the average age of members, and fundraising that would bring the community into the program as donors and volunteers.

Following a review of the survey statistics, Kirk Young spoke about the importance of raising civic engagement within the community. In particular, the concept of the Servant-Leader and leadership-through-service should represent Rotary’s goal for community leadership. By making the needs of people Rotary’s highest priority, the club will echo a key component in the Rotary’s 4-way test: Service above Self.

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