An Easy Month?

Not a whole lot to report. Been traveling quite a bit, two trips down, two to go. By mid September I will be back at it without interruption except for my monthly business trip.

The District Strategic Plan is moving right along. The first of the goal setting surveys are done and the results are so strong we may not need a follow up. I am going to work on that right after this post, actually.

We have had a couple issues come up in the district where certain positions have requested to be compensated. I will not mention what the positions are, only that they are time consuming and both have really strong arguments with lots of upside. But the question is, if we start paying people to do their volunteer work, where do we stop? Does is become a business? How much should we pay a club president? How about an Assistant Governor? The DG and I area in agreement that this is not a precedent we can afford to set. And like I say, both have a valuable upside, but where does it stop? And should we be asking money from one Rotarian to pay another, in the form of dues or advertising sales or donations?

With that segue, perfect I might add, we have a few Rotarians that have been trying to build a district business directory, without much success to this point, but it seems to be reviving. At the same time the software company that writes the database program used by seven of the eight Districts in Florida, has come out with the same thing, called R2R (Rotarian to Rotarian). This program interfaces with our existing database and is free to members or at a reduced cost for "upgraded" advertising, and a portion of the proceeds come back to the district. The District plan is more expensive, will allow advertising by non Rotarians but will also pass some proceeds along to the clubs. At this point I am in favor of the program our software company has but the Governor is going to sit down with the DGN and me and we will talk this, and the other item to decision.