Posted by Laurie M. Murphy on Nov 29, 2022
Rotary Minutes Nov. 29, 2022
President Dave Dominick opened the meeting.  Bill Collins was Introducer and Happy Dollars for the meeting, Laurie Murphy was scribe, Michael jon Pease did the Inspirational Minute, Jonah Yang was the greeter, Matt Majors did technology, and Dr. Ellen Kennedy was the on-line greeter.   John Chandler presented the St Paul Rotary Foundation report.  It is the “little foundation that could”!  We had a good year, even with the treat of Covid.  We folded in the St. Paul Sunrise Club into our foundation.  What’s next? 1. Manage our assets better, 2. Become better tracking our gifts to foundation, 3. Strengthening our foundation.  Jerry Falleti took over and explained our finances: contributions were up, investment income was up , admin expense was up: $23,000.  Grants were up some, net assets had a decrease of 170,000.  Dr. Dale Quigley is a new member. Linda Mulhern gave a wrap-up of the exchange program. Past President Todd gave a highlighting of our signature programs. For 2023: there was $5000 for new projects, Cherish the Children funding increase, the Coffee bean project from the Valasques received some funding,  and the water project form Sunrise received some funding.  In Happy dollars we learned
That Sarah Kolar is retiring and TAMARA, a new member of Rotary, is buying the business form her.
Submitted by Laurie Murphy