Meeting Minutes August 12th, 2026

South County Toastmasters Club 1957

Meeting Location: Sunset Hills Community Center

Call to Order:  6:30 p.m.

Guests: Ricky, Elvis

Minutes: Posted

Officer Reports:

President: Amy Kelemen: Online only next week

VPE: Sylvia Awondatu: The September schedule request has been sent, so please fill in your availability.

VPM: Joseph Parks: Not present

VPPR: Colleen Flynn: Not present

Secretary: Brendan Flynn: No report

Treasurer Ed Kovarik: Dues are due by September 27th. While Toastmasters has increased its membership dues, our club dues will remain at $91 for the next six months. Payment can be made via Venmo at @Edwin-Kovarik (the last four digits of the phone number are 0080). Checks are also accepted for anyone who prefers to pay that way.

Sergeant-at-Arms: Tom Braun: No report

Unfinished Business: None

Committee Reports: None

New Business: None

Correspondence and Announcements: Jim Salih is planning a Youth Leadership Program beginning the first week of October. The program will run for six weeks and is open to teens ages 12–17. It will be free of charge and held at the Sunset Hills Community Center, with sessions lasting approximately 1.5 hours once a week.

Action Items & Follow-Ups

Monitor the technical performance of the Zoom meeting and collect feedback from remote attendees.

Plan alternative meeting arrangements for August 19th (via Zoom).

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Meeting Theme: National Vinyl Record Day

Toastmaster: Amy Kelemen

Table Topics: Brian Scarpace

General Evaluator: Sylvia Awondatu

Grammarian: JD Perper

Timer: George Kiser

Wizard of Ahs: Becky Tharp

Vote Counter: Wai He

Invocator: Adam Kutell

Jokemaster: Brendan Flynn

Speaker 1: Elani Cheny

Speaker 2: Ed Kovarik

Speaker 3: Rebeca Castillo

Speaker 4:

Evaluator 1: Bill Collier

Evaluator 2: Victor Mattison

Evaluator 3: Erin Kutell

Evaluator 4:

Word of the Day: Success (3)

Ah Counter Report: (20)

Voting Awards: 

Best Table Topics: Brent Stewart

Best Speaker: Rebeca Castillo

Best Evaluator: Victor Mattison

Most Improved: Ed Kovarik

GE Meeting Rating: 9.9

Attendance: Members=20, Guests=3, Total=23

Awondatu, Sylvia
Braun, Tom
Castillo, Rebecca
Cheney, Elani
Collier, Bill
Flynn, Brendan
He, Wai
Kelemen, Amy
Kiser, George
Kolaks, Vicky
Kutell, Adam
Kutell, Erin
Mattison, Victor
Parks, Joseph
Perper, James D
Rawal, Kritik
Salih, Jim
Stewart, Brent
Scarpace, Brian
Young, Debbie

Meeting Adjourned:  8:32

Attendance Streaks > 10 Meetings

JD Perper30
Elani Cheney22

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