2017/2018 Fundraisers

2018 Golf TournamenT

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President Johnette DixonPast President Jannie BryantPresident-Elect Chris KailipakaTreasurer Jim DannerSecretary Kim DavisSergeant at Arms Russ RenaudDirectors Diane Cosgrove, Ron Barbutti, Trinket Milward & Mark Howard

Hondo - D’HanisRotary Club

ServiceAbove Self

Rotarian Code of ConductAs a ROTARIAN, I will

1. Act with integrity & high ethical standards in my personal and professional life2. Deal fairly with others and treat them and their occupations with respect3. Use my professional skills through Rotary to: mentor young people, help those with special needs and improve people’s quality of life in my community and in the world4. Avoid behavior that reflects adversely on Rotary or other Rotarians5. Not seek special business or professional advantages from other Rotarians

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26 Rotarians present; guests were Brian Valenzuela and Fred Meyer, prospective members; Chris Schuchart, Medina County Judge and assistant, Brittany Mendoza

DeAnna announced that school campuses reps will collect Stuff the Bus donations Fri.Evelyne said there was an EarlyACT committee meeting Wed. night and we have spo-ken to the principal at Woolls. We may or may not be able to follow all of the Rotary District’s guidelines for the program. Start date may need to be pushed to October due to school district’s schedule for September. There are 9 things in the mission statement and if they do one per month, they should be able to complete them within a single school year. We will also utilize resources from our Interact program.Johnette’s Rotary moment was about a para-olympian who succumbed to Polio as a child, but with sheer determination, turned childhood taunts into motivation to beat the disease and its after-effects. Meeting Summary: Speaker Medina County Judge Chris Schuchart reported Texas is one of the fast-est growing states in the US. Our sales tax revenues continue to increase both at the county and at the state level. 600 people/day move to Texas; 23% of those are moving to this area. Texas is #1 state in the union for the exports – if we were a country, our economy would be the 10th largest in the world. Chris went on to share that there will be several new unfunded mandates. Additionally, he shared the issues that we are seeing proposed in Austin as they pertain to property tax and the rollback rate. Some upcoming issues for Medina County include Microsoft building here; the partnership between Vulcan & Southwest Gulf Railroad moving forward with development; addressing Chronic Wasting Disease; expansion of FM 211 from Potranco and FM 471 and subdivisions; the use of countywide election system & new equipment; and the use of a Motorola Radio System to increase in-teroperability. General fund reserves for the county are very healthy. Some of the large expenditures for the county recently include renovation & maintenance at the Courthouse to include the HVAC system, interior repairs of the floor & paint, the purchase of new election equipment, employee healthcare, repair of the court-house & jail parking lots, a new county building in Castroville, the Motorola Radio System and a new adult and juvenile probation office complex. In looking forward, Chris said we still need to address having a courthouse annex. Additionally, we need to look at jail expansion. Currently, the County pays a consid-erable amount of money each year for other entities to house our inmates. The best driver to be able to fund these initiatives are the expansion of our economic devel-opment efforts and the gomedinacounty.com efforts. One of the questions asked was does the County have a countywide recycling effort – which we do not. Ev-elyne asked for Chris to share what the Boy Scouts are doing in the coming weeks. Chris said there is a proposed Eagle Scout project to construct a covered pavilion for employees to partake in their lunch and breaks.

Get your tickets for the 50 / 50 drawing now!The pot continues to grow!!

August Birthdays 1 - Johnette Dixon 8 - Cynthia Prieto10 - Jannie Bryant13 - Mark Howard22 - Karen Brooks

MEETING HIGHLIGHTSfrom 8-17-17

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Aug. 24 - Chris Young, Boy Scouts ScoutmasterAug. 31 - Detective Justin Davis, SA Fire Dept. and his dog, KiaSept 7 - Representative Andrew Murr, RotarianSept 12 - Board MeetingSept 14 - Business MeetingSept 21 - Jeannette Westbrook, Broadway Bank, SVP Community ReinvestmentSept. 28 - Nan Fritsch, dental mission-Honduras, humanitarian mission-Ethiopia Reminder: When you have your speakers scheduled, please email their name and topic to Jim at jamesdanner@sbcglobal.net.

Upcoming Events

Member NewsBe proud that our club was a part of Broadway Bank’s Stuff the Bus

project, which benefits Hondo/D’Hanis needy students! Supplies

were distributed last Friday.

2017 / 2018 SERVICE PROJECTS

Meals on Wheels - Plastic sacks (ongoing)

You Make a Difference

Adopt a Hwy. Cleanup - quarterly

Hondo Public Library - weekly books

Four Way Test Coloring Books

Making a Difference2017-2018 Theme

Rotarians are very much more favorably disposed toward action than they are toward words.

~ Paul P. HarrisNovember 1912