1. District 7670 2016-17 Presidents Discussion

2. Why are you here? What to expect at PETS? Jack later
Best training, interaction, RI Pres and RI leaders
What are the goals/expectations for ?
Learn from each other – breaks, travel
Who is available to assist you and your club?
Tools to help you and your team

3. Unique Rotary Opportunities
100 year anniversary of The Rotary Foundation
Club visit -$26.50 instead any gift
Draft schedule out to you before PETS, conflicts?
Possible Polio will be eradicated
International Conference in our neighborhood
District Young Leaders Conference in Hickory

4. AG, PDG, DG work for you Mentors Speakers
Help find stuff and fix stuff
Recognize and mentor leaders who can do more at District levels and beyond

5. Strategic Goals Support Clubs and their goals
Pres Citation and Pink Pages a priority
Support RIP John Germ goals – our focus
Foundation and Polio– new things; grow PHS
Membership – Grow 3% -- 66
Service : Community partners: Imagination Lib
Youth – promote, involve, recognize
Hickory and Atlanta attendance – Maximize
CART – promote, $15 per capita goal
Technology – change or die

6. Operational Goals Service – Refocus on why we exist
Youth – Future, work now or die
Fellowship – Enjoy, connections
Foundation – Support, Rotary Direct, PHF/PHS
PolioPlus – Kill this evil
CART – Important bridge funding
Public Image/PR – Internal and External
Membership – 3% growth, satellites, new one, retain (Easier to give birth than to resurrect the dead)
Club Support – Our Purpose, Our Duty
Training – earlier, reduce fire hose
Administrative – Part of the process, accept it

7. Measurable Goals Foundation:Encourage $137 per capita; $300K
Polio Plus – Encourage $30 per capita and 20% DDF; $66k plus $27K = $93K
CART - $15 per capita
Membership – Encourage 3% growth!!! 66 net
Satellite clubs
Hickory Youth Conference – 100 young people
on Saturday night
Atlanta – Minimum of 220

8. Serving Humanity: why we exist
Promote hands on but ‘checks’ have place
More Rotarian involvement in projects
Recognize International Service and promote
Use DDF to assist local and international
$63k for local, including NEW scholarships
$70k for Global – reverse scholar, others
District Grants – due 15 May 2016, $2500, complete by 1 May 2017, DacDb

9. Youth Service – Regina Hartley, Bill Biggers, Lori Tyler, Glenn Barger, Jennifer Webb, Larry Hollifield
Increase Club involvement with Youth Exchange (Biggers), Interact (Barger), Rotaract (Tyler), RYLA (Webb), and RotaKids (Hollifield)
Every club has one active youth group
Promote Rotary with pre-High School age youth
Promote ‘Four Way Test’ programs
RotaKids type efforts (7-12 age groups)
RYLA – promote and perhaps do two/expand
Every club support at least one youth; District scholarships
Youth Protection plan – Paul Hoffman
Young Leaders Conference in Hickory – Angela Chapman, Jim Perry
All Interact clubs represented, Rotarians support
Service Project
Need PDG, AG and Club President support; get youth there

10. Fellowship Encourage multi-club efforts
Service projects
Rotary Day Rallies
District Young Leaders/Club Conference (Apr ‘17 Hickory) – Jim Perry and team
Get youth there, attend
Get Rotarians there or stop doing this!!
International Convention in Atlanta
Great opportunity
Clubs Subsidize travel if possible
Promote and encourage
Bus possibly – need opinion
Bob Miller leading, Jim Efland, others assist

11. Foundation – DFC Carol, team
Promote Rotary Direct
Encourage 100% Paul Harris Clubs
Encourage PHS 100 for the 100 year?
Club goals – enter and accomplish
EREY – encourage 100% EREY
Encourage ALL Sustaining Clubs
Recognize accomplishments
Annual Fund - $300k, Polio - $66k
Try something new? – regional event, public

12. PolioPlus – Kimmie Rogers
20% DDF support
$30 per member goal
PDG Ronnie Thompson promoting with Kilimanjaro Climb
Make Speakers available for clubs
Be a speaker
Kill this evil this year!

13. Public Image/Public Relations Jody Cook, Chris Geno
Internal actions
District newsletter/Club newsletter
Promote website and DacDb use – need expert NOW
Limit but use s effectively
External
Club Presidents and club speakers in community
Social Media
Promote website and DacDb use – PUBLIC

14. Membership Isaac, Yermack plus 3
Provide clubs info/links on membership ideas
Make speakers available
Promote Satellite Clubs
Contact and encourage Alumni
Encourage retention
Service participation helps retention
Recognize participation
3% growth – about 66 increase

15. Club Support/Recognition
Pink Pages and Pres Citation– David Burrell, Dennis Sanders
Helps club presidents to plan and execute
Recognizes service
RIP John Presidential Citation – all on line
Governors Distinguished Clubs
Best Club awards
Interact Citation
Rotaract Citations
Nominate Rotarians and Clubs for recognition
Club Presidents and AG input critical

16. Training – Jack McCaskill
Make more consistent – not reinvent the wheel each time
Use technology to preload info for Presidents
Keep costs low for attending Rotarians
Start in Fall, iterate not fire-hose
Available throughout the year

17. District Conference 27-30 Apr 2017

18. Atlanta – June 2017

19. Atlanta early registration
28 May until 6 June
$ registration -- $26.50 first Foundation contribution
Be alerted via near end of May
Then increase incrementally by $75 until $455
Bus, Hotel Block, promotion along with Hickory
Huge registration already for Seoul -Over 37K

20. 10-14 June 2017

21. Go to Hickory and Atlanta – see Scarlet O’Hara?