Clent called the meeting to order at 7am. Bill lead the prayer, Christy led the song, Marine Corps Hymn, Phil lead the Pledge, Jane Anne led the 4 Way Test and Richard gave the Thought for the Day. Announcements from Linda regarding the New Member Mixer from 4:30-7 on May 20th on the rooftop of Hassayampa. Jon announced the Cleanup of the Veteran’s Memorial is this Saturday at 8:30. Clent introduced the guests from the Frontier Club, Laura & Rex. Bud announced that the Vocational Committee would be hosting a tour of C-Tech in the next 2-3 weeks if the club was interested.
Sargent was Richard in which he did some Rotary Trivia with questions: How many people attended the first Rotary meeting in 1905?, Who can you blame for introducing singing to Rotary?, What is the greatest distance from Chicago that a Rotary Banner is displayed?, First country outside of US to have a Rotary club?, Where & When did Ryla begin?, AZ is on MST time except where?
During Happy Bucks Art mentioned to eat out on May 26th at Chipotle to support the Fundraiser for the Interact Club. Linda mentioned the People of Action cards and to invite potential members to breakfast or to our New Member Mixer.
AJ introduced speaker, Harry Oberg from the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors-District #1 Yavapai County consists of 65k square miles and has 5 Supervisors in the County. Districts were established to be equal or not more than 10% different from one another. There are 2 Indian reservations within the county, the Yavapai & Apache Indians. They readjust the districts after each census. The current population project is 250k for 2021, in 1965 it was 31k. Board of Supervisors appoints the County Administrator. BOS responsibilities include Courts, Health, Internal/External Service. BOS has 65 powers. Their budget for the 2020-2021 year is $298,892.00 of which $85 million comes from COVID related funding.