[Rotary] Subject: Notes of Meeting of 2/5/26

[Donna Schuler]

Thank you, Jeff. Margaret sent a great flyer on this week's Music Festival
speaker my way and I posted on our Rotary Facebook page. I also posted
photos of John Cottle with the Interact club kids preparing last Saturday
for their fundraising bike-a-thon in May and we are getting attention.

LaDonna and Brandt, I will be sending you a budget update for youth
services.

To all who volunteered for the scholarship committee, thank you. I will be
reaching out to you in a separate email. Reviews and interviews happen
after March 30th.
Donna

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM Jeffry Stubbs via Rotary <
rotary at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> Dear Rotarians,
>
> We had an excellent meeting Board meeting last week, under the leadership
> of our fearless President LaDonna McDonald and our Treasurer Brandt
> Stickel.
>
> Persons present included LaDonna, Brandt, Gary, Toby, Gary, John, Donna,
> and Jeff, a total of 8.
>
> We discussed the emerging deficits in our budgets on both the
> Administration and Activities Accounts and the decrease in our Activities
> Account balance which has occurred over the last several years. We
> identified places in both the Activities and the Admin budget where we
> could limit our expenses and last but far from least we discussed possible
> ways to generate funds the rest of this year and next.
>
> Underlying our financial difficulties is the limited number of persons we
> have in the club and attending meetings. With a normal attendance of only
> 10-12 persons we have not been able to cover the cost of meetings. If our
> meetings were larger, we could do much better.
>
> The Board decided to do the following:
>
> 1) Stop the draw down of our activities account this year if possible, and
> begin to replenish it asap.
>
> 2) Limit expenses on both admin and activities accounts to those that are
> absolutely necessary.
>
> 3) Discontinue serving lunches, except on special occasions.
>
> 4) Generate more revenues for admin expenses, by increasing the meeting
> fee to $10 per meeting in place of the present $5 per meeting.
>
> 5) Since Gary's free time is limited, he will take PETS this year online.
>
>
> 6) To improve our revenues, consider sponsoring "Dine Out" events
> pioneered by Leona for other organizations but now discontinued in which we
> would mobilize meetings in various restaurants for a share of the gross.
>
> 7) Aim for a "Bingo Bash" as a third major fund raiser in October next
> year.
>
> 8) Budget more realistically next year. Amongst others, develop a limited
> expense budget based upon generating only "assured revenues".
>
> Those in charge of projects in various categories--Disaster Relief,
> Community Service, Youth, International Service, Club Service and other
> Admin expenses, will please review their planned expenditures and let
> LaDonna and Brandt know where these can be cut back.
>
> LaDonna will talk with Hill House, which will reopen in May, with the aim
> that we might be able to hold our meetings there.
>
> On Thursday we will have a presentation by the Mendocino Film Festival
> which is preparing for the 40th anniversary, of that iconic event, and the
> impact it has on our community. Lets get as many of us as possible in this
> meeting, and bring a friend to learn what one can do to enjoy and help out
> with the event.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff Stubbs Executive Secretary
> P.O. Box 1360 Mendocino, CA 95460
> Home phone 707-593-1409
> I phone 707-536-6190
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