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Chairman’s Report
The first 100 days in the role as Eastern Region
Chair have been exciting and rewarding. I would
like to congratulate and thank the team from D9675
for putting on a wonderful meeting in Kiama on the
weekend of the 5th and 6th August 2017. A great
selection of speakers at a great venue. I would like
to thank the Pink Umbrella Foundation for their
awards of $1000 to six different projects again.
These awards are having a huge effect on the
attendance at our quarterly meetings, as well as
helping our Project Managers achieve their goals.
The very special Len Avard award was this year
awarded to Miriam Jacka DIK Manager for RAWCS
Eastern Region. Miriam was very moved when this
award was made and it was so well deserved. Miri-
am has dedicated much of her time to RAWCS and
Donations in Kind. Our thanks to Miriam for the
great work she has done over many years.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS –
The positions listed below were to be filled by election at
this Annual General Meeting to serve in the Rotary Year
2018/2019. The indicated Nominations are the only ones
received and these all have the endorsement of the Gov-
ernor Elect of the nominee's District.
It was Moved by Brian Goldstraw, and accepted, that
these persons be elected to the positions named
Executive Committee 2018-19:
Chairman - PDG Adrian Roach
Secretary - PP Brian Goldstraw
Treasurer - Rtn Janis Harvey
Immediate Past Chairman - PP John Roberson
Vice Chairman - Brian Coffey
Project Volunteer Manager - PP David Waterhouse
Project Registration Coordinator - PP Sue O’Neill
Project Report Coordinator - John Bennetts
Benevolent Society Coordinator - PP Alan Chesworth
DIK Coordinator - position vacant
RAM Coordinator - PP John Macpherson
Training Coordinator - PP John Roberson
Newsletter & Promotions Coordinator - PP Sue O’Neill
Webmaster - Joan Redmond
Taxable Contributions:
New policy to charge 2.5% on all donations from 1 st
July 2017 and that Rotarians and Rotary Clubs no
longer have the benefit of not being charged on
their donations. This is necessary to cover the costs
of running the RAWCS program.
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FUTURE GENERAL
MEETINGS
I am looking for-
ward to our next
meeting on 18th
and 19th Novem-
ber 2017 at The
Entrance hosted
by D9685 ar-
ranged by Jan
Pryor and her
team. Note the General Meeting will start
at 8:30am on the Sunday 19 th . This will al-
low the Management Meeting to be held
after the General Meeting.
Bookings to be made online using TryBook-
ing. Follow this link:
https://goo.gl/forms/zO5JKaYOIiEyJFjK2
Management Meeting
Sunday 19th November - The next Manage-
ment Meeting will be held after the General
Meeting. (There will not be a Management
Meeting between the August and November
General Meetings)
Next Meetings:
Dates of following General Meetings to be
arranged by appropriate Districts:
D9650 (February 2018),
D9700 (May 2018) and
D9710 (August 2018).
I will be at a Rotary Foundation Million Dol-
lar Dinner in Port Macquarie on the Satur-
day 18 th November so I will be an apology
for the Saturday meeting. I will however be
at The Entrance on Sunday morning at
8.30am to Chair the General Meeting fol-
lowed by the Management meeting.
Special thank you to the Project Managers
for the work they do with their RAWCS Pro-
jects. Thanks also to the support people
who make these projects happen.
I look forward to seeing you at The En-
trance.
PDG Adrian Roach
Eastern Region Chair