House:- A survey had been undertaken of our members to establish if a majority wished us to consider a change to our weekly meeting venue. Possibly as a result of improved food recently the result of this was 18 against 10 for. We would therefore be remaining at the Kings Park Hotel, but careful watch will be maintained on the quality and choice of food and every effort made to ensure that this remains satisfactory.

We would also renew our efforts to convince the hotel of the concerns we have over the security of our items of regalia etc. If they would allow us to put in a lockable cabinet for these items this would give us more confidence in their security. Although this might mean that we would lose the luxury of the hotel putting out our items and our reception team might have to set up things before every meeting.

Attendance / Reception:- Although the publication of so called league tables of Club attendances had been rightly done away with, District still wished to collect this information and our Reception team of John Woodley and Bill Liggat would continue to collect these figures in addition to providing us with weekly teams for Reception duties.

Our Public Address System would be maintained by the present incumbents PP Richard Wallace, and PP Jim Bolton. Jim entered a plea for help with this task particularly when Richard was down under. It was hoped that if better security can be arranged then this would avoid the need to fetch and carry the equipment every week thus making this task easier.

Membership Development and Classification will as is usual be in the hands of the incoming IPP Andy Cattanach and Andy affirmed that he would be doing everything possible to increase recruitment but he would need the help of the entire Club and hoped that every member would bring a potential recruit to our usual Guest Night.

Speakers:- It was proposed and accepted, that this coming year, each club member should produce a speaker or speak himself at one of our weekly meetings. President Eddie agreed to try and co ordinate this operation and a suitable sheet would be put on our Web Site to enable members to see in advance what date they had to fill and if necessary arrange an exchange of dates with another member. Web Master Brian would keep this list up dated, but stressed that members must let him know well in advance if they were speaking themselves or producing a speaker and if so the topic.

Club Protection and Archivist:- Will continue to be provided by PP George Alston.

Web Site:- Secretary Brian would continue trying to maintain our Web Site.

Youth Activities would continue to be in the hands of PP Jim Fitzpatrick with the assistance of Bill Liggat.

Communications and Publicity:- This will continue to be handled by IPP Andy Cattanach.

Similarly Sport & Entertainment would continue to be provided by PP Phil Spence.

John also provided a written report as follows

The new International Committee intends to continue to support the various activities that have been traditionally assigned to it.

We would like to hold an "International Scholar’ Night in Feb or March on a Club night but possibly in an alternative venue from the Kings Park Hotel. It is also uncertain whether we will be able to call on

the British Council to recommend suitable scholars but we will investigate this.

In an attempt to extend the scope of the Committee and to lighten the load of others we propose organising a Quiz Night along the lines of previous years. This may be held in Cathkin GC and a change of Quizmaster is being suggested.

We wish to continue supporting various Rotary Overseas projects ie. "Water Aid", "Shelter Boxes" "Polio Plus" and -"Vision Aid". We also wish to investigate the need to collect unwanted spectacles.

Euroscholar and Rotary Week at Tesco's are also in our plans.

We recommended a donation of £200 to pupils of Castlemilk High who have arranged a trip to Uganda to assist in a schools project there. We hope to follow this up and invite some of the pupils to speak to

the Club.

If Euroschola was to be adopted this year our budget would probably be £550.

17 members of the Club as per the attendance sheet attached as Annex 1.

Present:

21 members of the Club as per the attendance sheet attached as Annex 1.

Apologies.

PP John Leslie, PP Lex Colquhoun, PP Ronnie Forrest, PP Stuart Kemp, PP Charlie McEwen, PP Phil Spence, PP David Wilson, and Barry Toshner.

Minutes of the Club AGM 17th April 2008

These had been circulated to all, primarily by publication on the Club’s Web Site and were taken as read.

President Ian Wilson.

Ian opened the meeting by reminding us of its purpose. Namely to review and seek approval of a programme for the coming year, prepared by our incoming Council. He then passed the meeting over to

President Elect Bill McIntosh to present this programme

President Elect Bill McIntosh.

Bill commenced by commenting on the excellent year of Fun and Fellowship that we had just experienced while still making a major fund raising effort.

His goal for the coming year would be to continue this good work and also to make a concerted effort to increase our membership. We need to introduce more to the enjoyment of Rotary and to enable our charitable aims to be continued. The ship of Rotary will founder if we fail to recruit and this would be a disaster for our community and ourselves. We urgently need a minimum of 3 new active members since our aging Club is more and more relying on a now small band of enthusiasts.

The success of our monthly committee meetings at our evening meal meant that these should be continued however this should not prevent us enjoying the additional occasional fellowship benefits by having meetings of committees at members homes when pressure of time provides and requires such opportunities,

Bill’s aim would be to continue with all of our regular commitments like the Abbeyfield grass cutting, the operation of our holiday flat, support for Rutherglen Carers, support for the Maggies Cancer Care operation. and the Cartlandbridge outing for the elderly. Also it was hoped that we could renew our commitment to our local youth community by resurrecting the contacts with our local schools.

Additionally this year he hoped that we might further our support for Fiona Marra’s "Let Us Shine Ghana" project by helping finalise the funding of the creation of primary 2 & 3 classrooms and the provision of a library to add to the existing Primary 1. Bill pledged to run a sponsored half marathon in September this year as part of our fundraising. Bill also hoped that we could have lots of visits to other Clubs to extend the fellowship of Rotary and if we could organise fun games nights with other Clubs this would enhance this object.

He was looking forward to his year in office and was sure that he could rely on our support for these aims and that by so doing we could have great fun and fellowship.

Vocational Service Committee PP George Alston

George advised that his committee would follow broadly the programme of his predecessors.

Barry Toshner had been tasked with organising our annual fun Quiz in October / November There would be a Fellowship weekend organised for next March at a location still to be decided and if any one had strong preferences for a venue please let George know.

It was also intended to arrange a number of fellowship visits to other Clubs throughout the year.

Suggestions were also being sought for any interesting Vocational Visits.

Vice President Andy Cattanach

The administration of the Club was heavily dependent on the work of the Club Service Committee chaired by the incoming President Elect, Andy Cattenach and Bill now asked Andy to advise the Club what this committee intended for the coming year.

Andy advised that good policing would be provided to keep all his small sub committees in line and he was the ideal man to provide this.

He, him self, would look after our creature comforts by ensuring that our hotel provided an adequate weekly supply of Chips and Peas and even consider doubling the supply of rolls as these appeared to be most popular.

Andy would also continue to develop our contact with the local press and enhance publicity for the Club.

PP Brian Cole-Hamilton would continue to operate our Club Web Site but it was emphasised that this was an editorial role not that of a reporter and it therefore relied on him being fed suitable information for inclusion. Photographs in particular were most effective and since most of us now had mobile phones incorporating cameras it should be possible for us all to photograph Club activities to publicise our Club. Reception and our Public Address system would continue to be provided by last year’s team with the addition of Donald MacLeod. Classification and Membership Development would be lead by Immediate Past President Ian. Speakers were being provided by President Bill and although Bill had already arranged speakers for the rest of this calendar year more were required and any suggestions of either speakers or subjects would be welcomed. PP George Alston would continue to look after our archives and be our Protection Officer although if we recruit any ladies he is probably the one needing protection. The youthful PP Jim Fitzpatrick will try to resurrect our schools public speaking competition, possibly mock interviews and other contact with the local schools. A process already started by PP Colin Stanfield. Sport and entertainment would continue to be looked after by PPs Phil Spence and Lex Colquhoun It was noted that our annual Golf competition for the Tod Cup was now arranged for

9^th July, at Cathkin Braes Golf Course and progress with the President’s shield golf competition was progressing slowly. The Club’s annual Bowling match for the Munn Cup was being arranged by our bowling expert IPP Ian, for 13^th August at Templeton’s Green.

Community Service Committee Chairman PP David Paul.

Bill then asked David to advise the meeting of the intentions of his committee. David then listed the members of his committee and the tasks to which they had been assigned as follows :-

PP Jim Quigley would look after the organisation of our Christmas Raffle.

PP Richard Wallace would organise some Club activity for Landimer Day

PP Nigel Allon would organise our Cartlandbridge outing for the elderly since he was approaching that age.

PP Lex Colquhoun would be asked if he was willing to continue with the maintenance of our holiday flat.

PP John Leslie would be asked if he was willing to continue with arranging guests for our holiday flat. Even although neither were members of this committee.

PP Eddie Goldberg was being tasked with organising a Silent Auction or other fundraiser.

David himself would continue to organise the cutting of the Rutherglen Abbeyfield grass.

The committee would seek the support of Council to continue the taxi service for Rutherglen Carers although this was only a financial commitment. We sadly had now lost both the Polio and Scout runs that provided us with an opportunity to physically serve our community and if anyone could suggest suitable replacements for these the committee would be more than willing to consider such.

Finally to continue the development of fellowship between our selves and indeed other neighbouring Rotary Clubs this committee would organise something like the Kittoch, nonsense but fun Scalectric night.

A budget of £1475.00 was asked for and approved.

International Service Committee Chairman PP Duncan McIntosh.

Bill then asked Duncan to advise the meeting of the intentions of his committee.

Duncan indicated that his committee would organise our regular International Student’s night at one of our regular meetings in February 2009

They would also consider the running of a Race Night to raise funds for either Fiona Marra’s "Let Us Shine Ghana" project or a similar International causes such as "Life Straws", "Shelter Boxes" or the "Leonard Cheshire charity.

They would also endeavour to support Rotary’s own Foundation charity by selling Calendars and Christmas Cards.

Treasurer David Wilson.

Bill then gave PP Colin Stanfield, standing in for our Treasurer David, an opportunity to discuss the details of his proposed Club Service budget for the coming year, details of which were circulated (A copy is attached as Annex 2) and Colin went over the figures in some detail emphasising that many of our costs were fixed and others like the cost of our Annual Dinner, Top Table and hotel staff gratuities were increasing. Additionally the reducing numbers of members increased the burden to be borne by each of us to cover these.

Colin noted that in previous years we had been running at a small loss on our Club Service Account although this was covered by our reserves. Last year we had endeavoured to break even by raising our subscription to £100 and this had been successful. The predicted budget figures now showed the potential for a small surplus in the coming year. It was therefore the recommendation of Council that our subscription be held at the same level partly in an effort not to put off potential new recruits who might be put off by the cost of a higher annual subscription.

After some further discussion PP John Lloyd proposed the acceptance of an annual subscription to remain at £100 and this was seconded by Brian Williams.

AOCB.

There was no other competent business raised

President Elect Bill then handed back the Meeting to President Ian.

Ian then drew the meeting to a close with thanks to all who had contributed.