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New Chief of Police Ed
Flint –
The First 90 Days
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| President Elect Jim Hinton called
the meeting of the Santa Rosa West Rotary Club to order at 12:30:35 p.m.
Jim is getting a lot of practice at the podium this year while King
Louie is out and about, and doing a great job! |
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Coming
Up
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May 10th
Jeri Arnold will present our Student Speech Contest
(Reporter: Tom L.)
May 17th
TBD
(Reporter: Roger O.)
May 24th
Tom Robinson from the Open Space District will talk about our
county's commitment to open space preservation
(Reporter: Roger O.)
May 30th
DARK - Memorial Day
June 7th
Chris Parr will present our GSE Team
from Brazil.
June 14th
David McDonald will discuss the Workers'
Comp situation in California. How we got into this mess and what the
future holds for business.
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Crab
Feed
& Live Auction
Past
President's
Celebration
Bartley Barbecue
Bulletin
Archives
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Pledge
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| Ed Burr led the gathering in the pledge of
allegiance (Mike Moore was so moved by Ed’s recitation of the
Pledge that he couldn’t help himself - he just had to count his money
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Rotary Moment
Bob Zeni stepped in for Jeri Arnold, and in his best
stentorian tones (sans mic), gave us one of the longest and most eloquent
Rotary moments in recent memory. He encouraged us to reflect on Rotary’s
good work in the club, community, national and world levels.
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Visiting Rotarians
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The ever-effervescent Chris Parr, President
Elect-Elect, introduced the two Jacks, Healy and Levar, our
visiting Rotarians from the Downtown Club. (Only TWO?) |
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Guests
Guests were introduced from right to left; John Withers stood up
for Patti Rasmussen – a new potential club member.
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Gail Johnson presented Steve Marguette, our outbound
Rotary Exchange Student headed towards Sweden. Steve gave us a few words
about how honored he is to be involved with this great Rotary program
aimed at peace and understanding throughout the world. He also told us
how much fun it was to be at the recent gathering of inbound and
outbound Students. As he left the podium, President-Elect Jim
offered to carry his bags on the trip. Good luck and bon voyage, Steve! |
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Bob Zeni acknowledged Jan Hansen, our
long-time guest and counselor from Piner High, along with his two
students of the month, Ashley Tuft and Harrison Tsang. |
| Teri Galazzo introduced Eunice Cuminale
the recipient of this year’s Rebuilding Together Project. More on that
later in the bulletin.
Announcements:
John Meislahn made a final call for this weekend’s Fireside at
the Geysers hosted by King Louie. Twenty-eight on board so far.
May 8th is the date. Car-poolers will meet at 10 a.m. behind Los Robles,
in the Coddingtown parking lot. Lunch will be provided. See John for
last minutes sign-ups. |
Jack Levar made a final pitch for the Downtown Club's Shrimp Feed
Fundraiser coming up on the evening of May 8th. 5-9 p.m. Tickets are
only $40.00. Site: the Jockey Club at the Fairgrounds. Louie has
tickets. Sounds like more food & fun! |
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Mike Moore stood up to make a “Call for the Crew”
to begin planning for the Debunking of King Louie. Mark June 27th
on the calendar,
5- 8 p.m. at Wikiup Golf and Tennis Club to honor and roast the Cajun. |
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Jeff Ray made a call for entrants to the 8th Annual Rotary Golf
Tournament event September 10th at Bennett Valley Golf Course. Golf
Tourney: 1:30-5:30 p.m. Barbeque after - non-golfers welcome! Golf & BBQ
$50.00. BBQ and fellowship $15.00. |
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President Elect Jim pitched the District Conference June 17th –
20th. District Governor Norm Owen will host both a hoedown and a
Black Tie Affair. See Jim Hinton for tickets.
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Harry Rubins, our fantastic Foundation Chair, announced that with
the club match program we had made our of $125.00 per capita goal for
this Foundation year. Over $11,000 raised so far, 7 new Paul Harris
Fellows, 8 additional fellowships – still time to add more. See Harry. |
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| Bob Zeni was called to the podium to introduce
our final pair of Students-of–the Month from Piner High for the
2003-2004 year. President Elect Jim Hinton then presented
seniors Ashley Tufts and Harrison Tsang each with their
Student-of-the-Month plaques. Ashley is headed to BYU to major in
Political Science. She has been very active in church and youth group
projects. Her hope is to make a difference in international relations.
Harrison Tsang is looking to go to U.C. Davis to study
Bio-Tech. He has been very active in the Redwood Empire Chinese
Association, teaching martial arts to youngsters, fund-raising, and
heading the Lion Dance Team. |
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PE Jim then took the traveling mic into the crowd to acknowledge
the Rotary team involved in the Rebuilding Together Project. Eunice
Cuminales' mobile home was the object of this year’s renovation. |
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Terry Galazzo was the general in charge, with David McDonald
as her captain & go-fer. Ann Abrams led the gardening team.
Outside painting team was Ginny Pitts and Tarina Hall. Gary
Lucas led the inside painting team, including Jim Hinton, and
added his “strength” as a furniture mover when a paintbrush was not in
his hand. Eunice baked brownies and cookies for all and pronounced the
final results of the work “wonderful.” It seems like a delightful and
successful time was had by all. |
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Gary Leopold presented Acting President Jim with a
picture of “Charter Night” from 1965. Featured in the picture
were many a past-president and a past district governor in their
“youth.”
It was noted that next year, May 22nd, will be the 40th birthday of our
club coinciding with the 100th birthday year for Rotary. |
| No Time for Fines
Louie will have to come down to walk amongst the unwashed earlier next
week!
The Marbles
PEE Chris Parr had the right ticket #6213 but drew a
red-white-and-blue one. Next week's pot: $550 with only13 Marbles.
Pat Stoll got the wine. |
| Program |
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| Our Programs Chairperson, Susan Nowacki, |
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introduced Santa Rosa’s New Chief of Police Ed Flint. |
| Chief Flint has a 25-year background in law enforcement,
including being the Chief of Police for Elk Grove, Assistant Chief for
Citrus Heights, experience in the Sacramento Sheriff's Department and
the California Highway Patrol. He is also a Colonel in the U.S. Army
Reserves-Inactive. |
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Chief Flint gave us a report on his first 90 days in office.
He noted that it had been a challenging time, with two homicides and an
officer-shooting incident. His main focus has been on re-organizing the
department and traffic issues. He assessed the department as
“outstanding” even though he inherited a very young force with many
currently in their probation periods. He noted that it was tough to
recruit and train officers that could live in the city due to
affordability issues.
Chief Flint highlighted the traffic motorcycle force (half of what is
needed), homelessness, gang violence, abandoned vehicles, dilapidated
properties and an aging police force facility as the main issues needing
to be faced now. All of these issues are made more difficult to resolve
due to our budget crunch.
In his opinion the new problems and service demands coming down the
pike will be an aging population subject to criminal predators, identity
theft, auction and computer fraud. The latter three are predicted to be
a 400 billion dollar a year problem.
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Chief Flint gave us his to-do list as follows:
- Hold on to resources like the Bike Force
- Create “regionalization” to work with the Sheriff's department
- Design creative deployment strategies to focus on problem areas in
the city
- Re-energize the community’s role through neighborhood watch
groups. Here he noted a “Fear Factor” in the Latino neighborhoods with
many of their population recently arrived directly from Mexico. He
cited that this population has inherent problems because of the
language barrier, disabled and fractured families, and a 28% school
dropout rate from K-12.
To address these issues Chief Flint promotes a program consisting of
a focus on the “Three E’s” - English, Education and Economics. He says
criminals have three choices: Cleanup – Get out - or Go to prison. |
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President Elect Jim congratulated Chief Flint on
his first 90 days and thanked him on behalf of all of us for being here
in Santa Rosa to carry on a fine tradition of outstanding police chiefs. |
Your Bulletin Reporter,
Richard Standard |
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Your Bulletin Editor,
Jim Valinoti |
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| Internal
Service Recognition Roster |
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May 3 |
May 10 |
May 17 |
May 24 |
| Cashier: |
Kim |
Kim |
Kim |
Kim |
| Set-up: |
Steve W. |
Chris Y. |
Jack B. |
Chris Y. |
| Set-up: |
Steve W. |
Chris Y. |
Jack B. |
Chris Y. |
| Greeter: |
Teri G. |
Teri G. |
Teri G. |
Teri G. |
| Pledge: |
Ed B. |
Tarina H. |
Ed B. |
Brian H. |
| Ticket Sales: |
Jeri A. |
Chris P. |
Ray M. |
Harry R. |
| Moment: |
Bob Z. |
Bob F. |
Bob Z. |
TBD |
| Photographer: |
Bob Harris |
Bob Harris |
Bob Harris |
Bob Harris |
| Programs: |
Susan Nowacki |
Susan Nowacki |
Susan Nowacki |
Susan Nowacki |
| Bulletin Reporter: |
Richard S. |
Tom L. |
Roger O. |
Jeri A. |
| Bulletin Editor: |
Jim Valinoti |
Jim Valinoti |
Jim Valinoti |
Jim Valinoti |
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