Official Minutes from Annual Meeting
Brainerd Area Sertoma Club
Annual Meeting
May13, 2009
Bonanza Restaurant
Members Present: 71
First Annual Membership Meeting was called to order
at 12 PM
At Large Directors: Six positions need to be filled
for the 2009 – 2010 Board of Directors. The top
three names with the most votes will have two-year
terms and next three names will have one-year terms.
The names of the people running for At Large
Directors were presented to the membership and
included: Karen Owen, Scott Fisher, Dale Bolt, Tad
Hoskins, Carole Paulson, Laura Beilke, Steve “Gus”
Augustinack, Darren Larson and Sandra Ehrich.
The written ballot results were:
Scott Fisher, Karen Owen and Sandra Ehrich –
two-year terms
Darren Larson, Dale Bolt and Carole Paulson –
one-year terms
A “blind” show of hands vote was taken on a run off
between Carole Paulson and Tad Hoskins who tied for
the sixth position.
Third VP Position: Two names were on the ballot to
fill the 3rd VP position: Jim Mayne and Jeff Fitch.
Each candidate made remarks about their goals and
focuses and both candidates are very qualified.
Ballots were counted and Jeff Fitch was elected to
fill the position of 3rd VP.
Articles of Incorporation: John Raboin reviewed the
changes made to the Articles of Incorporation and
noted that many of the items were moved to the
By-Laws. He mentioned that when the Articles were
created in 1979 they were very detailed. The changes
made will make them more streamlined.
A motion was made by Darren Larson to approve, 2nd
by Scott Fisher, there was no discussion and the
motion passed with no objections.
The revised Non-Profit Articles of Incorporation of
Brainerd Area Sertoma Club, Inc. Will now be sent to
the state of Minnesota.
A motion was made by Bryan Jelinski, 2nd by LoAnn
Reponen, motion carried and the meeting adjourned at
1:50 PM.
Respectfully submitted by Cathe Picek, Secretary
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Thanks Pam Sachs for taking notes. |
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| Announcements |
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Cathe Picek is updating the database.
If you do not attend one of the next few
meetings, expect an updating email
requesting your information. Please respond
even if your details have not changed since
merging data bases eliminated some vital
information. |
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 Grant
application for Winter Wonderland
Sponsorship are available online at the
Sertoma site. They are also linked to the
Winter Wonderland Site. Encourage applicants
to go and get a copy to fill out. These will
be officially completed by late April or
early May. |
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Brainerd Area
Sertoma Club Calendar
Got a big event coming up—want to let everyone know?
Please send to Pam Sachs and it will be posted.
eglponys@brainerd.net |
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| Pipe and
Drape Schedule |
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| Ceiling Dates |
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Blue
Ticket Winner |
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Brian Kirkpatrick for the Dog Pound |
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| Pot-O-Gold
Winner |
| Darren Larson |
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| Attendance |
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Guests: Charles Thorn who is outside sales at General Rental
and Aaron Hautala from Red House Media |
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| *Everyone is encouraged to bring potential
members to a Sertoma meeting with the Club picking up the cost.
However, you will be billed $9.50 for any other guests. |
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| Greeter
Schedule |
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As greeter you have several duties. You need to arrive about 10
minutes early. It is your job to greet people, help them find
their badges and sell them a ticket if they wish to participate.
The money collected must be divided by the Greeters equally--half
goes to the Current Club Treasurer for the social committee and
half goes to the Club President along with the bucket of tickets.
Be there by 11:45 and call somebody to substitute for you if you
can't be there. |
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| May 20 |
Bill Mitsch, Joyce Mikesh,Keith Kolstad |
| May 27 |
Karen Munsterteiger, Ron Morris, Yvonne
Zappa |
| June 4 |
Kathi Nagorski, Sarah Nelson, Nathan Eckman |
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| Sertoman of the Day |
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Of
Note |
 Welcome
back Rod Converse, it was good to have our founding fathers
voting on the new Articles of Incorporation.Tad is still in
the hospital. He did have surgery to remove part of his infected
colon. Keep him in your prayers.
Congratulations to Pam Sachs and the newsletter crew. Our
newsletter was District winner and runner up for Region Honors.
Thanks to John Raboin and his committee for all the hard work
they did to get us up to date and legal again!
Charlie Bartels is recovering from pneumonia.
Bill Mitsch finally made it back to Sertoma after three weeks
of staying home with his wife who had double knee replacement. |
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Business Notes |
Local Companies combine efforts to offer Solutions
Seminar entitled “How Secure is Your Company’s
Information?” On Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, Deerwood
Technologies and its partners – Generator Power Systems
and Midwest Security & Fire - will host an informational
meeting at Prairie Bay on Hwy 371 N in Baxter. The
seminar is entitled “How Secure is Your Company’s
Information’?” A continental breakfast will be served at
8:30 AM with the meeting to commence at 9:00 AM and last
through 11:30 AM. Topics to be discussed include, “What
you need to know about security at your company”,
“Understanding threats to, vulnerabilities of and the
effect on your systems, processes and employees” and
“What is expected of you based on the size and nature of
my business”. Attendees will learn, among other things;
“How to create and implement a security policy”; “How to
deal with incidents” and “How to improve processes and
systems”.Speakers will include industry experts, Jim
Mayne - President of Deerwood Technologies, Harry
Brodmarkle - President of Midwest Security & Fire and
Jesse Grant - Vice President of Jim’s Electric.The cost
of the seminar is $19.95. Advance registration is
recommended as seating is limited. For additional
information and to register for this and future
Solutions Seminars call 218-534-5357 or visit
www.SolutionsSeminars.com.
You are invited to attend The College of St.
Scholastica's FREE Business Education Forum entitled
"The Many Colors of Ethics - Including Shades Of Gray".
Participants will increase their knowledge of various
practice Standards when serving vulnerable populations,
universal unethical Choices, critical areas of "risk
management", identification of an "ethical dilemma"
versus a "problem", and how to utilize practical
Decision-making models for healthy resolutions. Case
examples will be Explored in this lively problem solving
experience.
Ernie's on Gull invites you to their anniversary party
on May 15th! |
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Rumor Corner
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- It was big fish story time at the Dog Pound table--mostly
seemed to be catching crappy tales.
- Brian Kirkpatrick was "finding himself" today and it looked
really kinky since he was patting his anatomy in the process.
- Kari Satre was sad today--it was her first day driving after
her broken leg and she had to leave her tall dark handsome
chauffeur at home.
- Hi from Anna Gorecky who is still working with the film
people in New York City.
- Aww we had to change our official address from Harold's Club
to John Raboin's office. John was tempted to leave it in for
lawsuits--they'd have a heck of a time finding us.
- Anita Traveca is a behind closed shades kind of
girl--actually she needed the shades closed to cut down on the
bald head glare from the Dog Pound.
- Our Prez was apologizing for the lack of printed
ballots--but hey we didn't have candidates last week. Besides we
all had to "put our heads down on the table" and vote in the
Board runoff contest between Carole Paulson and Tad Hoskins.
Steve Mau would have made a great kindergarten teacher, he got
cooperation!!!! Brian suggested the put your head on the table
and vote process to determine our Minnesota Senator!!
- Mike Boen got a license to exercise his chauvinism today big
time. He fined all the illegals in Sertoma--the women first of
course. And then he was talking about Squaw Sertoma when the
separate organization used to be La Sertoma.
- No senior discount at General Rental no business from the
old farts was Brian's sergeant message to the big guy.
- Jeff Fitch and Carol Winegar got inhaling and shooting
fines-not drug related of course.
- President Korte was trying to promote a delegation to go to
the hospital and set up Pipe and Drape around Tad's bed!!
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 Click
on the Sertoma Sign to see Pam's Fun Fotos from the Ditch
Pick. Great food catered from Cub, lots of garbage bags filled
and a whole lot of flag work done by a fun crew!!
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Photo's |
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Photos
Photos Everywhere New photos go up almost every week on our new
Sertoma Photo Gallery.
http://sertomaphotos.brainerd.com |
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Notes from your President |
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Westgate Mall Community Service/non-profit days are being held
April 25th, June 20th and November 7th. This is a perfect time
for community non profits to get their message out to the
community. Booths are free. I am looking for someone who would
be in charge of this project and see that we had a suitable
booth and people to staff it. If interested, please contact Mark
immediately. We are already a bit late in reserving a booth for
the first event. |
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If you are not receiving the newsletter notification or the
emails announcing special events, please contact Pam Sachs
either at 218-821-1130 or
eglponys@brainerd.net. |
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Andi Holmes
(jholmes@brainerd.net) is in charge of the Sertoman of the Day schedule. Contact her to take advantage of
this great opportunity to share your story and get some free
advertising (and no fines for the day). The form is also
available here on our website.
Kari Barnes is the go-to person
for Pipe and Drape information.
Need awards? Did you lose your pin? Bonnie Cumberland
(bcumberland@mailstation.com) is the person
in charge of awards and meeting paraphernalia. |
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