03/28/2024
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
April 4th- Jon Melchi – Building Industry Association of Ohio
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- Presiding: President Warren Spangler
- Prayer: Joe Brown
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Rob Radcliff selected “Sunny Side of the Street”, “Singin’ in the Rain”
- Students: must be on break today
- Guests: John Lambert introduced Mandy Thompson, branch mgr from Atomic in Athens, moving to Lancaster branch; Lexi Heidish introduced Joe Allen, Village Administrator from South Bloomfield and Mayor, Steve Welsh from Ashville
Announcements:
- 4-way speech contest – Thank you from Tony Robinson to Warren, Bob Foster, Ellery Elick, Gary Montgomery, Tom Duvall, Bob Sneed. Great event – 11 students competed and 2 are being sent to the District competition at Deer Creek, April 19th. Our club’s winner is Crystal Candlish, Sunrise’s winner is Julia Weller.
- Women’s Products March Madness collection with the winner being announced at the District Conference! Paula and Michelle will shop for you. 2,100 items to date, which surpasses our third place win last year – but Paula is shooting for 3,000 products! She wants Warren to pick-up the trophy at District Conference!
- Fill out next year’s service forms for President-Elect, Heidi White
- Thank you: Community kitchen crew: Bob Tootle, John & Clayton Lambert, Gary & Sandy Montgomery, Bob Sneed, Chef McCrady, Warren Spangler, David & Marie Crawford
- Dues for both Rotary International and the District are going up over the next three years. There is discussion with our board on our next steps.
SAA: P3 is donating to our SAA fund so speakers for the month will have more than the usual 20 minutes
Scholarship Drawing: John Lambert was the winner of $22! The jackpot is $679 and it will continue to grow!
Program: William Murdock – Exec. Director, MidOhio Regional Planning
- MORPC serves a 15 county region – including Pickaway
- 87 member communities and organizations
- 100+ board members
- MORPC’s focus is on mobility, sustainability and local government in Central Ohio
- Central Ohio is growing – planning has been going on for the growth
- Another 700,000 people expected by 2050
- Pickaway county – 20,000 more people expected by 2050
- Pickaway is within a 60 miles radius between the Intel development to the north and the Honda expansion to the west
- Housing production remains lower than Central Ohio peer markets
- Columbus is largest community east of the Mississippi without access to mass transit – we travel to Cincinnati to pick up Amtrak. Talks are happening to connect with Cincinnati and Cleveland and Pittsburg and Fort Wayne
- Working on new trails for hiking and biking
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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services