Dave R opened the meeting at the Lake Mills EMS building at 12:20pm and led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance followed with the Four-Way Test.
Guests
Carol Heimstreet, Ken's son Jeff, Megan from Summit
Happy Bucks
Dean - had supper with Ed
Janine - bought Glassels building
Gerard - glad summer is here
Ed - supper with Dean
Karen - Bill and Erna camping in door county, concession stand with Dave R
Eli - 8 years in rotary, Dixie brought him to his first meeting
Jenn - Meghann needs major foot surgery
Tom - Get your ask in gear (dixie)
Ann - Lots of car travel to Louisville
Dave R - concession with Karen R, May 21st was his hip surgery, and he was able to golf last weekend
Ann - son on all star baseball team to play at mallards stadium
Mick - 1st at golf outing with his officers for k9 fundraiser
Brian B - family weekend in lake mills
Greg - Roscoe book store in illinois today
Ken - golf outing, family over to his house
Becky - Harley played in an all star football game on saturday
Brian W - Took a train to Montana
Tom - back from vacation
Dave R - moved son/girlfriend into first condo
Committee Reports and Announcements
TY notes form Cooper B., Zoe Q., and Ian B.
Paul Harris Award - Mitch Evelund
Amy distributed a list of potential projects for rotary to donate to
Janine - we need guest speakers
Cheese/Chocolate/Wine needs volunteers to sign up
PROGRAM
Farm Tech Days - July 23-25. It is a celebration of agriculture. Lavern Georgson the executive director spoke about the event at the Walter Farm this year. They expect 40,000 attendees
Jeff Amundson spoke about ranked choice voting. Instead of voting for one candidate, you rank the candidates 1-4. After a process of elimination, all candidates end up winning with a majority of votes. It allows people to run outside a party line without "taking away" from a party candidates votes. This has been implemented in Maine recently and has been the voting process in Australia for some time. Fairvote.org for more information.
