Members in Attendance (9):  Roberto Martinez, Jim Leyhane, Debbie Brown, Pat Bailey, Peter Brown, Kenin Leyhane, Terry Brewer, Dick Drumm, Andy Leyhane.

By Zoom: none

Guests:  DG Whitney Pangborn, Asst DG Marisa Multari

President Brown called the meeting to order. 

Theme for the Year:  “Building Community”

MEETING NOTES

Speakers:  Next Thursday, October 19, Jim Leyhane will help us develop our personal “elevator speech” about why we are Rotarians.

The following Thursday, October 26, Our speaker will be John Eberle, CEO of The Community Foundation. He will continue our conversation on social capital.

Next Meeting: Thursday, October 12th, dinner at 6:00 pm at Moscatiello’s Italian Family Restaurant, Route 4, North Greenbush. Also, you can join the by Zoom using the link on the websites calendar page. Jim Leyhane will present his Rotary Elevator Speech.

District 7190 will merge with two other districts in the year 2024 to become Central New York Rotary District.  AS DGN, Whitney spent the year asking Rotarians across the district the following question: “Why do we care?”  Among the strongest responses were “Its our world”,   the value of various humanitarian projects which people felt “make a difference”   

Whitney outlined 3 objectives for her presidency as we prepare for this transition. 

1.Collaborating:  How can we share resources between clubs, including Interact and Rotaract?   Many clubs have dwindling membership, and such sharing could allow smaller clubs to do even greater things together.

2.Cultivation:  How can we encourage new leaders and new ideas? 

3.  Communication:  Promote the future of Rotary in our region.  CNY will be 115 clubs and approximately 3000 members.  Make use of the wide variety of communication tools/platforms to reach a more diverse potential membership.

At the District Conference in 2024, when this merger/creation of the new CNY district, Lizzy Martin will be named the President of the CNY Board.  She is a third generation Rotarian and hails from Baldwinsville. She will assume her duties in July 2024.  Bob Balk will follow Lizzy in July 2025.