President David opened the meeting at 7.33
There were 13 members present.
"We don't have a speaker so we can have a lot of speaking" David H
Apologies Max (still spending the kids' inheritance) Greg, Drew,Don, Peters,(B and D) and Ingrid
Announcements
Avis announced that members had donated $70 for the Grace Foundation (there had been an earlier donation of $50) so she had $120 to be bathroom products to augment the products that had been brought to the club meeting. The next collection will be during the first meeting in July.
Kepa Road working bee to start at Kepa Road on Saturday 10th June at 9.00 am. A good idea to have wet weather gear! Mostly we will be releasing vegetation from around the trees.
Morning tea will follow. (Henry will bring scones) Avis often kicks in too! That's this saturday folks
Peter B is calling for volunteers: Epsom Lodge is planning on moving its garden with work starting on Thursday 22nd June. Volunteers are called for.
RYLA will start on
Saturday 24th June - volunteers will be asked to run the dozen or so participants to the venue at Beachlands at some ungodly hour that morning and return many of them the following Saturday. There is the normal dinner on Friday 30th. This is often great fun. Colin is o/c so contact him if you can help.
Malcolm announced that the club Changeover dinner would be on Saturday 1st July at 6:30pm The venue is The Terraces @ St Andrews Village 207 Riddell Road, Glendowie. On-site parking is available. There will be canapes and a two course dinner at $45/head (incl $5 to the club) This can be paid to 12 3109 0110290 02
include your name or I'll get a free meal!
Drinks: Cash bar and tea and coffee will be available at the bar at your cost.
There will be no meeting on Wednesday 28th, immediately prior to the Change Over dinner on the Saturday.
Sargent:
The sargent had taken last week's speaker;'s message to heart and had bought the full range of Will and Able products. true dedication! ACG school which we support was named as the school which sends the most students to prestigious universities overseas.
Three minute speaker
Avis demonstrated that silence is golden.
Guest Speaker
There wasn't an invited speaker so general conversation ensured. This was well informed by Malcolm and Phil who told us of the serious infrastucture shortfall in Auckland. Malcolm was
particularly strong on the failures of past and current local body politicians to properly fund either maintenance of existing water pipes or augmentation to cope with densification. He suggested that rates would have to increase substantially to overcome this shortfall. Phil was able to cast wee bit of optimism on the gloom by saying that Auckland's thirty year Unitary plan had been approved by all and if implemented would address many of these issues.
Despite not have in a formal speaker President David's opening remark proved prescient.
The meeting concluded at 8.21
