Club Bulletin September 1, 2015

 

The new normal of partly sunny, super-duper humid with a touch of breeze.

 

Chicken and beef fajitas with meat in the beans, rice, salad, chips and cookies.

 

Thanks Galen

 

Thanks Ken Stilts

 

Nope. None. Nunca. Nein.  Where is songster Sid?

 

Not today.

 

Andrea talked about the Fish Fry and the success that we had.  Next year we will be making some changes to ensure that we don’t have too much fish and hopefully have more attendees. 

 

Bill reported that we looked like we raised $3,000 at the Fish Fry, very preliminary  numbers.

 

Elsie announced that we would have a recap of the event and plan for next year on Thursday, September 3^rd at 6:00 p.m. at her house.

 

Nick was a no show at the Fish Fry but was spared from a fine.

 

Dan Costley announced that on Labor Day there will be a pancake breakfast at the Cayucos Vets Hall.

 

Heidi announced Master PRLS, Saturday, September 12^th at the Embassy Suites.

 

Mandy Palmquist, guest of Prez Carol

Ron DeCarli, speaker

John DeNunzio, speaker

 

Nope!

 

Mike Pond and President Carol were the only happy ones.

 

Judy shared a Rotary moment regarding A Rotary Exchange student. 

 

Nope.

 

**More dates upcoming**

 

Ron DeCarli and John DeNunzio from the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments provided the program and talked about 98% of their “businesses” had to do with transportation.  SLOCOG is involved with all the cities in the county and representatives from each City sit on their board.   A few of the local projects that SLOCOG has funded include the Elfin Forrest, widening S. Bay Blvd. and Twin Bridges, S. Bay Blvd. bike lanes, the Pacific Coast Bike Route and Scenic Byway Corridor Plan, Morro Bay Roundabout, Class 1 Bike Paths in Morro Bay and the Morro Bay Harbor Walk.  A new project that SLOCOG is working on is the Morro-Cayucos Connector, a path along the west side of the highway.  He also discussed a number pending projects in various states of planning including interchange connections, highway corridor project, community enhancements and transit. 

 

Funding is always an issue and there is much less funding available from the state then in prior years. Funding comes from federal, state and local sources.   Ron shared that he believed that at best status quo funding was probably the best that would occur.  Ron stated that most elected officials have “pledged” no new taxes, which makes it difficult to fund the projects that need to be funded.  SLOCOG has polled for a new 1/2 sales tax and the poll, at this still does not reflect the 67% support needed. 

 

We continued with the new process for the 50/50 pot which now sits at $402; Phillip (thank goodness it wasn’t Matt Franklin again) had the winning ticket and had a chance to draw the white poker chip and win the pot, or draw the black poker chip and have the pot continue to next week – unfortunately Phillip was a loser and the pot was a winner.