Bulletins - 2006 - 10/04/2006
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Jenny Goodman
President Jensen called the meeting to order at 7:32 a.m. Gary Green provided us with an interesting invocation with a selection he probably would not have chosen if his lovely wife Karen were present. Dan Cleaves lead us in the Salute to the Flag. Rosalie Kramm and Linda Jalving lead us in a pretty good rendition of Downtown (which coincidentally was the opening song for the season opening episode of Lost this week).
Rosalie Kramm assessed a few fines this morning including one to yours truly for my seventh wedding anniversary. Dave McKee won the Chargers contest from last week. The new contest for this week is which team will get the first double play, the Padres or the Cardinals. Don't forget the new sign in or be fined policy! Rosalie needs to get tougher on us as she relies way too much on self-reporting! Ron Erbetta fined himself following his great lottery win while on the east coast.
We had numerous guests this morning including visiting Rotarians from England and Indonesia.
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Mary Engle reminded us that this next month we would be focusing on Vocational Services and hearing special reports throughout the month.
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Reminder to sign up for the Paul Harris Gala. Raffle tickets are available for $25.00 each and counts towards your Paul Harris Fellow.
Abbi Kelly and George Mullin are doing a great job on the membership committee as we welcomed two more club members into our folds. Lucy Killea comes to us from Club 33 after she realized this club is where its at and changed her membership. Gary McElroy has an extensive traveling background and a long-time affiliation with Rotary through his father. Welcome aboard Gary and Lucy.
Nancy Vaughan introduced our speaker, Nancy Graham of the Centre City Development Corporation. CCDC is a development arm of the City of San Diego and has jurisdiction over nearly 1,500 acres of property in the downtown area. Ms. Graham talked about some of the more controversial developments going on right now including the Navy/Broadway Development. This project is a bit unusual because there is a development agreement the City entered into in 1992 which restricts the CCDC from forcing a lot of changes in the project. This project is expected to open up several streets and also provide better north/south corridors. Ms. Graham recounted the CCDC's history of providing economic development in the downtown region and discussed how the CCDC was shifting its focus in the future to address quality of life issues especially in light of the fact the recently adopted Community Plan calls for an increase of population from 30,000 presently to 90,000 in year 2030. CCDC is committing nearly 21% of its annual income to low income/work force housing and is currently looking at ways to assist displaced social service providers. CCDC is responsible for much of the infrastructure in the downtown area and is currently overseeing projects for new fire stations, new police sub-stations and public parks and open space is a big priority as well. We appreciate Ms. Graham's informative update on the ever changing development landscape in downtown San Diego.
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