July 21, 2016
VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUEST
Jacob Pena husband of Ashley Harrison-Pena
Patti Burns wife of Doug Burns
Dr. Gabby Williams visiting guest of Jeremy de los Santos
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pins for the New Year are available for everyone at registration desk.
The next Board meeting will be held at Deanna’s new location.
Laurie is the Club contact for any events that to be held at the Yacht Club.
Tuesday, July 26th The Rotary Club will be hosting the Montgomery Chamber after hours at Memory Park from 5:30pm-7:30pm. Will be a great opportunity to network and talk to others about Rotary. Be on the lookout for an e-mail from Mike!
The Club’s grant project has been approved. If you would like to be on a committee please send e-mail to Audrey. November 5th is goal date.
The Board approved the membership application for Jon Carswell. Formal induction will be held on August 4th.
The new quarterly bills are out please get with Charlie if you have any questions!
FAMILY OF ROTARY –No Update
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Jan Ricketts-Service-No Update
Shannon Salsbury-Membership-No Update
David Anderson-Administration/Programs-No Update
Deanna Voitle-Public Image-Currently in the process of working on the Club website. If you are a Chair on a Committee and would like to manage the page yourself please let Kris know or if you would like her to manage the page on your behalf.
Chef Rick -New Generations-No update
Mike Berger-Polio Chair- Total cases in the world 19!
Gary Milleson-Foundation-Reminder New Year for EREY!
Kris McBride-Memory Park-Wonderful new projects are going on in the Park. Anderson Island for Dolly will be complete soon! Please come by on Tuesday to see all the other projects are going on!
GOOD NEWS
Mike announced he went to the doctor and as the nurse was taking his blood pressure announced she had to use a bigger cuff on his upper arm since he has been working out so much! The nurse even wrote in the records Beast not Obese. He also announced that he found a cute little cat if anyone is interested please let him know Carol is allergic, but will take care of all the shots for anyone that would like to take the cat.
Doris announced that Gary Milleson is in Ft.Worth visiting his new granddaughter!
Mike Landes announced he has a new addition to the family with the birth of his first great –grandson!
Warren announced he is cleared for knee surgery and to get on airplane to visit grandson in Alaska.
Pam Tiptonannounced the Lake Conroe Area Republican Women will be hosting a fundraiser or Friday, July 22nd at Lone Star Community Center at 5pm! Tickets are still available at the door! She also announced that Roz phone delivered a dining room table to her home when she was hosting 15 kids at her home! Roz saw my home when it was a disaster, but please come back now Roz house is back in order!
Christina announced last week she was a zombie, because she picked up her grandson from Hobby airport. He was late by two hours and stuck at the airport at Southwest. He got home this morning at 4am! She as just luck that their flight was not cancelled!
GUEST SPEAKER
Andrea Benson and ChipVanSteenberg spoke with the club about Montgomery 911 new changes. The Montgomery 911 is a small unit of local government they are not a part of the County. Funds are collected from the 911 fees you see on your cell phone and homeline. These funds are used to support infrastructure the service. The Montgomery 911 support call centers with addressing and mapping. There are five areas that are being updated and changed explained below.
Smart 911-All citizens of Montgomery County at no additional cost can set up a profile at smart911.com. The profile will give the first responder current information about your health and emergency contacts. The profile will allow you to list and identify everyone that lives in the household, pets, and list of medications, and allergies you may have. The profile can list as little or much information you would like. The profiles you build are private sharing and held at Rate Mobile Safety. The information will only be accessed when you call in during an emergency.
Emergency Alerts-Code Red Alerts from Montgomery County are customized automated weather warnings. The Code Red Alerts can call any landline, cell phone, or e-mail you have registered on your profile. All Emergency alerts will come through Smart 911. Between now and September 1st dual notifications will sent. You can began receiving the notificationsby building a profile. The only information you need to start building a profile is minimum; name, address, email address, and phone number.
Smart911 Facility- Similar to Smart 911, but this product is for the business, school, church, etc. This will allow business to upload floor plans, employee names, and information about the facility. This product features a geo-fence boundary of the facility therefore; if anyone makes a call with a cell phone it can populate the profile and location of the call from within the facility.
Text 911-Can you send a text to 911? The FCC is encouraging text to be sent to 911. This feature will be available in early 2017. This process takes about 6 months prior to the launch date to be implemented.
Multi-Line Telephone System-As a result of Kari’s Law that was passed any facility that has multi-lines will no longer have to dial 9-911. To ensure that when you are in an emergency you can dial Direct Access to 911.
For more information or to coordinate a test call please contact Jeanne Frey at 936-523-5911 or
info@mc911.org