Meeting Minutes – South County Toastmasters – May 12, 2021

Meeting Minutes

South County Toastmasters (#1957)

Meeting Date:May 12, 2021
Meeting Type/Theme:Mother’s Day
Meeting Location:Sunset Hills Community Center / Zoom
Called to Order:6:00 PM
Presiding Officer: George Kiser

Officers’ Reports:        

 President: George Kiser

  • George asked if there were any changes to the minutes and hearing none, the minutes of last week’s meeting were approved as posted.

VPE: Patrick Hunt

“If you would like to give non-manual speeches, don’t feel guilty.” 

Treasurer: Prathyush Viswaroopan

VPM: Kim Bond

VPPR: Sandy Roll

Secretary: Callie Koehr

Sergeant at Arms: Keith Page

Officer at Large: Jerry Paul

Committee Reports:

  • Sean Sheehan

The Southwest Area Chamber of Commerce will be having a networking luncheon next week.

May 2021 Chamber Luncheon

LiUNA Event Center – 4532 S. Lindbergh

11:00AM-1:00PM

Lunch (served at noon) Tuesday, May 18 

You can register here.

The luncheon will serve as a good opportunity for dual networking. Individuals can network our club or themselves, (if they’re business owners.)

If you’re interested, let Sean know and he can forward you more information.

As SCTM, we are members of the Southwest Area Chamber of Commerce

  • George Kiser

We are going to have a special meeting, “Shark Tank Meeting” on June, 2nd. Please let Patrick know if you would like to give a speech.

New Business

Keith Page made a motion for the tech committee:

  • The SCTM executive board will establish a Technology committee of three people or more to review, maintain, and provide recommendations regarding technology and social media presence for South County Toastmasters. This includes, but is not limited to, the audio/visual/computational equipment, document maintenance and storage, online bill pay, social media, etc. The term of each position of the committee shall not exceed one year.
  • JD seconded the motion
  • Keith mentioned, “There are three individuals who said they would be on the committee this year. Those individuals would be Bill Collier, Debbie Young, and Rob WanWinkle. Tom Terrific has also been spoken to about an honorary chair of the committee.”
  • George announced there was a quorum and passed the motion.

Unfinished Business:

  • None

Announcements:

Patrick encouraged everyone to think about SCTM hosting an Area Joint Club Meeting.  

Patrick reasons this would be a good way to meet other clubs. 

SCTM discussed the first week of July will be a busy time of year. 

-Date TBD.

Meeting Roles: 

Toastmaster:Bill Collier
Greeter:George Kiser
Invocator / CLE:Callie Koehr
Grammarian:Sean Sheehan -word of the evening: Influence
Time Keeper:Brent Stewart 
Vote Counter:George Kiser
Ah Counter:Keith Page
Camera Operator:  Callie Koehr
Table Topics:Tom Terrific 
General Evaluator:  Liz DeCamp
Joke Master: Vic Mattison
Hot SeatSusan McConnell

Speakers and Evaluators:

 SpeakersEvaluators
1John Cleary
Speech Title: Number One
Jim Salih 
2JD Perper
Speech Title: Walking About
Susan McConnell
3Patrick Hunt
Speech Title: Taking Notes
Debbie Young

Voting:

Most Improved:Bill Day
Best Table Topics:Sean Sheehan
Best Evaluator:Jim Salih
Best SpeakerJohn Cleary

Meeting Rating:                      9.6                                                                                           

Meeting Adjourned:            7:44 PM

Attendance: 79% 

@Zoom:  Sean Sheehan, Jim Salih, Liz DeCamp, Susan McConnell, Sandy Roll, Victor Mattison, Nancy Alba and guest, Ashley Garcia

@Sunset: Bill Collier, Keith Page, Debbie Young, Tom Krauska, Bill Day,  John Cleary, George Kiser, JD Perper, Callie Koehr, Jeff Hoehn, Brent Stewart, Patrick Hunt

Submitted by Callie Koehr, Secretary

Attendance Streaks for 2021 (with 3 or more):

StreakAttendance:
9Liz DeCamp
9George Kiser
9Susan McConnell
9JD Perper
9Jim Salih
9Debbie Young
6Callie Koehr
6Sean Sheehan
4Brent, Stewart
4Tom Terrific
3John Cleary

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