Board Meeting September 3, 2025
Marietta Noon Lions Board Meeting Minutes
September 3, 2025
7:00pm Lafayette Hotel
Lions in Attendance: P. Byers, B. Byers, St. Stormes, Sh. Stormes, B. Hadfield, K. Hadfield, T. Henderson, L. Peterson, J. Greene, K. Burnworth, R. Ferguson, K. Boersma, J. Schnieder and via Zoom: B. Burnjworth, B. Johnson, S. Marshall, S. Camacho
Secretary Report: Lion K. Burnworth
The minutes from the July and August board meeting were emailed to the club. Lion K. Boersma made a motion to accept both reports, Lion R. Ferguson seconded the motion and the motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Lion B. Byers
The treasurer’s figures for August were emailed prior to the board meeting with the Activity Fund at $38,603.18 & Admin Fund at $7,077.89. Lion B. Byers reminded everyone to pay their dues and said he’d be sending out a second reminder. Lion K. Burnworth made a motion to accept both the July and August treasurer’s reports. Lion J. Greene seconded the motion and the motion passed.
Service Chair Report: Lion Sh. Stormes
Lion Sh. Stormes said that she informed President P. Byers prior to the meeting that due to time constraints, she doesn’t have the time to properly commit to this role and is looking for someone to take over or help her with the position. Lion J. Greene said she’d help.
Blessing Box Donations – Lion St. Stormes will coordinate delivery of the items collections. Lion K. Burnworth will send him the details via email.
2nd VP Report: Lion St. Stormes
Bridge of Heroes Update: Lion St. Stormes said the flags will go up on Thursday at 9am and will come down around the 15th/16th of September. We’ve sold 133 flags so far compared to 165 this time last year. Corporate sponsorships made up the difference in the fundraising this year.
Rose Sale – Lion T. Davis was not present but Lion J. Greene said the details were in an email with counts being due on September 24th for an October 24th delivery. The price per dozen was also questioned—is it still $20? Lion J. Greene sent a text to Lion T. Davis to check.
1st VP Report: Lion B. Hadfield
Sight saving 9 Applications, 5 approved , 1 denied, 2 referred 1 pending. He said it’s been very busy. He was contacted about hearing aids and cataract surgery and referred those to Lilaine Fox and Mary Bumpus.
President’s Report: Lion P. Byers
Lion P. Byers said that a rep from the Theatre will be at the board meeting next month to discuss options for advertising in the program and Mayor Josh Schlicher will be the speaker on September 12th.
LCIF Coordinator: Lion O. Cartmell – not present, no report
Community & Youth: Lion B. Burnworth
STEPS 5K – Lion B. Burnworth made a motion to donate $500 to the OLPCF STEPS 5K which gets us advertised on the marketing and the tshirts and also serves as our annual donation. Lion K. Burnworth seconded the motion and the motion passed.
Lion B. Burnworth also mentioned that the Daily Bread Kitchen has advertised that they are struggling to meet the needs of their free weekly meal, as they are currently serving more than 300 meals a week. He wanted to know if we’d be interested in doing a food drive to help out. Lion J. Greene said we’d take that on as a service collection and she’ll send out an email. Their most useful staples are Green Beans, Baked Beans, Macaroni Noodles, Fruit Cocktail, Pasta Sauce, and Applesauce and they’d be looking for the very large cans located at Sam’s Club, Walmart and Kroger. Please bring donations to the Sept 26th lunch meeting or October 1st board meeting.
Membership (50) Lion G. Ingram
Lion G. Ingram said he received a resignation letter from Dave and Donna Fairchild in addition to the previous one received from Jess Greenup. Lion K. Burnworth made a motion to drop all 3 members in good standing. Lion S. Camacho seconded the motion and the motion passed. Lion G. Ingram said he’d previously mentioned inviting members who haven’t attending in a while to a lunch and asked for a budget for 10 lunches from the admin account to cover this cost. He made a motion and Lion B. Burnworth seconded it. The motion passed. Lion G. Ingram also talked about his ideas for a tri-fold flyer and Lion S. Camacho said an updated one exists and she’ll email him a copy to see if it will work or if it needs some changes. Lion G. Ingram also said we need a feeder system for younger members and talked about restarting the Leo club. Lion S. Camacho said the issue has been not having an “in” with the school because there isn’t a teacher who will take the contract to lead the club and we need one in order to have a club there. Lion K. Boersma said she’d sent a email to Lion G. Ingram explaining the history of some of the members who don’t show up anymore and the efforts they did put in when they were very involved and moved through the chairs.
Publicity: Lion S. Camacho
Old Halloween Parade Signs – Lion S. Camacho asked if there was any interest in the Ravenswood Lions Club either borrowing, purchasing, or just having our old Halloween parade signs since we no longer have our event. Lion J. Green made a motion for them to borrow the signs with an option to purchase. Lion T. Henderson seconded the motion and the motion passed.
Scholarship: Lion B. Ferguson said he has not received an updated balance on the fund yet, so no report.
Old Business:
MACC Membership – The membership is $275 for the year. Lion R. Ferguson made a motion to pay the dues. Lion J. Greene seconded the motion and the motion passed.
People’s Bank Theater Program Ad – covered under President’s Report
New Business:
Multi-Club Jeep Ride Fundraiser – Lion S. Camacho said the Gallipolis Lions Club would like to put on a multi-club, multi-zone, jeep ride fundraiser to benefit one of the eye sight foundations and said they’re wanting to know if we’d be interested in hosting a stop in Marietta and provide 1 club member to serve on the committee. There was some discussion and the consensus is that we are interested. Lion S. Camacho said she’d serve on the committee for our club and will let them know we are interested and come back to us with more details as she has them. The Jeep Ride would likely be in the Spring.
District Cheese & Sausage Sale – Lion K. Burnworth said the annual District Convention fundraiser is back and it’s the cheese and sausage sale again. This is something she usually heads up for the club but the important date deadlines and pick up at the Cabinet Meeting all fall when she’ll be laid up after surgery, so she asked if we were interested in participating again and, if so, would someone volunteer to take this over? Lion J. Greene said she’d collect orders from the club and make the pick up. Lion Sh. Stormes said she’d coordinate the teacher meat and cheese trays that usually go along with this project. Stay tuned for an email from Lion J. Greene.
Lion K. Boersma asked if any members would be interested in helping with the Halloween in the Park event and having it be a combined event with Lions and Civitan. There were some questions about when it was happening, what was needed, etc. and we did not have those details. Lion K. Boersma will reach out to Connie Grimes and gather information. We also typically donate $500 to this event but it was discussed that attendance is down there and we may want to scale back the donation. Lion R. Ferguson said we should hold off on voting on that donation until next board meeting after Lion K. Boersma has more details.
Lion B. Burnworth said he was recently at a Knights of Columbus meeting and they are looking for a partner to sell tickets with and the participating club would get a portion of the kickback. He said he’d present it to the club to see if we were interested. There was discussion that we could get these tickets on our own as our own fundraiser instead of partnering with the Knights and that the timeline also coincides with our Rose Sale and it shouldn’t compete with our own Lions fundraiser. The club is not interested and Lion B. Burnworth will let the Knights know.
We did Good of the order.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted, Secretary Lion K. Burnworth