Will review club financials, dues, and Ukraine Relief
August 3rd - Dr. Mark Levine | Rosie's
PRESIDING: Spence Putnam
MINUTES OF JULY 20, 2022 meeting (apologies for the delay)
Happy Birthday: (Guest speaker led birthday song with a fun finale!)
Troy Fox
David Clark
Guest for the week:
Sue Ritter
David Provost
Richard McClure
David Devine
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Group Updates:
Voting on budget will take place at Club Assembly on July 27th
Finance Committee can approve $500 or less:
Addison Allies - $500
Turning Point Center - $400
No Meeting on August 10th
August 31st - District Director, Caroline Earle ( 8/30 Social Event the night before - more information to come)
Approximately $8 million was awarded to the Maple Broadband efforts to help start construction in Sept
Bocce Tournament for CSAC happening on September 17th from 9am-1pm.
Rotarians support by cooking and serving food
Would like to have 1 or 2 teams
Cemetery Clean Up - David thanked everyone who helped!
Buzz - tracking cards will be available at meetings to indicate if you helped with other projects to track attendance and involvement
John B - Membership committee is working on a few projects and there will be a "Bring a Friend to Rotary" breakfast in October.
Classification Talk: John Barstow
John was born and raised in a small town in Connecticut and is 1 of 5 children. John's father was the local town doctor and his mother was the Dr's Wife.
As for John's career, John has worked in book/magazine editing and publishing for 30 years. He worked for 10 years with WW Norton, and a few others.
Later John started his own LLC and ended up doing a lot of fundraising work. Some of the places he helped included VT Folklife and Bridge School.
As for Rotary, once John's kids grew older and out of the house, he felt that Rotary would be an opportunity to get to know people and do great work in the community. John has helped the club with its marketing, publicity, membership and communication. John has also worked hard to support Diana Herasim from Ukraine.
John is grateful to be part of this club!
Sargent of Arms: Fines and Happy Dollars
Fines:
No fines by Ben
Happy Dollars:
Max- Happy to see his friend David Devine at the Rotary meeting
Maureen - Thank you to David for a generous $1 needed and to see her friend Sue at the Rotary meeting
T- Happy to have David Provost and Richard from Habitat here. Also, grateful for the MBAA 50th Anniversary
Paul - Happy for a successful Peasant Market Event
Jason - Happy he had breakfast with the Vergennes Club and was about to see Chris
Neil- Happy that a local coach, Kate Livesay won Coach of The Year for Women's Lacrosse
Spence - Ben missed late comers and missed some fines
GUEST SPEAKER - David Provost
David went to school at St. Mike’s and later went on to become the CEO/CFO of Dynastar Skis in Chamonix, France. This was a business world and not exactly what he wanted. He later went to work for Champlain College for 12 years where he led their strategic plans and growth. A little background, David was born in Montpelier and was 1 or 7 boys in the family. Education was very important to his family!
David later joined Middlebury College in 2017 as the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration to help oversee core functions at the college. David is very interested in the college doing more to attract and be part of the community. The areas of focus include:
Housing:
Stonecrop Lodge – add residential housing for the area focusing on workforce, affordable housing, and market housing. Currently, there are about 20% of facilities/dining staff that live in NY and the college wants to support their staff
The lodge has been unoccupied for several years and there is a lot of interest to divest to owners and rental property managers
Largest employers interested is the college and Porter Hospital
Childcare
Expand Ottercreek as it is walking distance to the college/town
The college is interested in helping to expand efforts and provide significant capital investment. They have hired an architect and working with childcare centers (they are not looking to go in the business of childcare, but rather to support it!)
Summer Programs
The college is working with local employers to invest in students and help support partners through local internships. This year there are 125 internship sponsors and it is paid through the college.
The goal is to keep students in the local area!
Master Plans
New student center in the center of campus and highlight it being the “Living Room” of the campus so everyone has a place they belong to
Focusing on recruitment and retention of staff. One area of focus is condensing the number of dining halls to make them more open and work with staff capacity
Looking to have a new museum that will support the artwork in there
Solar/Maple Broadband
Solar - Looking at South Street Extension to have a large solar area which would be the 2nd largest in VT and could possibly provide back up power to Downtown and the hospital if in case of emergency. (Hoping to produce power next year)
Maple Broadband – Middlebury College has provided Maple Broadband with a line of credit to help them purchase material and start the build in the Fall. Again, the college is not looking to go into the internet business, but want to support as they have staff working remotely and many had difficulties teaching classes online during Covid-19 as there was limited connectivity where faculty lives.
Questions/Comments:
Bill – TVT would like to partner and support transportation needs of the college
Will students continue being housed at Bread Loaf?
No, all students will be able to be on campus and the college is looking to resell the Inn on the Green back to the community
$10 million was spent on renovating Bread Loaf and the college is looking how to best utilize it moving forward
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