7:00pm Lafayette Hotel

Lions in Attendance: P. Byers, B. Byers, B. Burnworth, K. Burnworth, J. Greene, Sh. Stormes, G. Ingram, L. Peterson, K. Boersma, B. Hadfield, R. Burnworth, R. Ferguson, T. Henderson via Zoom:  S. Marshall, O. Cartmell

Secretary Report: Lion K. Burnworth

The minutes from the October board meeting were emailed to the club. Lion B. Burnworth made a motion to accept, Lion R. Ferguson seconded the motion and the motion passed.

Treasurer’s Report:  Lion B. Byers

The treasurer’s figures for October were emailed prior to the board meeting with the Activity Fund at $37,341.90 & Admin Fund at $7,618.39.  Lion B. Byers said there are 7-8 people who haven’t yet paid their dues, even after a second notice.  We’ll have to have their sponsors reach out.  Lion B. Burnworth made a motion to accept, Lion G. Ingram seconded the motion and the motion passed.  Lion B. Byers also said the 990 is done and with the accountant to review/submit. 

Service Chair Report:  Lion Sh. Stormes

The final roadside cleanup will take place this Saturday, 11/8, at 9am.  Please RSVP to Lion K. Burnworth if you can attend.  We’ll start from the Broughton’s Nature Trail parking lot off 821.

2^nd VP Report:  Lion St. Stormes

Bridge of Heroes Update: Lion St. Stormes said flags will go up tomorrow, 11/6, for Veteran’s Day starting at the Lions building at 9am.  Please join us if able.  They will come down on November 13^th and expect and email reminder from Lion St. Stormes closer to that date.     

Rose Sale – Lion St. Stormes said rose delivery date is this Friday, 11/7.  The delivery time is 7am at the Lafayette hotel and volunteers to help unload the truck should arrive at 6:30am since it’s usually early.  Rose pick up for members is from 7:30am – 9:00am in the Rufus Putnam room.  Huge thank you to Lion Tonya for chairing again this year.  We look forward to hearing a final rose sale count.

Bar Crawl – Lion St. Stormes said this committee consisting of Lions Sh. Stormes, St. Stormes, J. Greene, and R. Burnworth will start meeting in January.

1^st VP Report: Lion B. Hadfield

Sight saving   2 Applications, 2 approved , 0 denied,  0 referred  0 pending.   

President’s Report: Lion P. Byers

Lion P. Byers said the zone meeting is next Thursday at 7pm in Beverly.  Please RSVP to Lion S. Camacho if you can attend. 

LCIF Coordinator: Lion O. Cartmell  said LCIF won the 2025 António Champalimaud Vision Award for its work in restoring sight and preventing blindness worldwide.  António was a very rich man from Portugal who made his money in cement and created this Foundation in his will as part of his legacy.  What we do as Lions is recognized internationally.  The world is tough right now—please consider giving to LCIF if you can.  Lion R. Ferguson added that LCIF recently granted $100,000 to Jamaica to help start rebuilding after their recent devestation.

Community & Youth:  Lion B. Burnworth  

Lion B. Burnworth said he did not receive any requests via email.  He did say that we agreed to participate in the Christmas parade which will consist of someone pulling the flag trailer with it lit up so people can see the logos and barcode as well as magnets on the truck pulling the trailer.  He does not yet know if he’ll be in town to be the one pulling it. 

Lion J. Greene made a motion to donate $500 each to the Gospel Mission and Marietta Area Food Pantry in light of ongoing SNAP benefit issues.  Lion B. Burnworth amended the motion to $1,000 each and Lion Sh. Stormes seconded the motion.  There was discussion about them getting more help this time of year around the holidays and it might be better used in Jan/Feb but it was decided that we can approve and cut the checks and they can use as they need, either now for SNAP stretching them thin or later.  The motion passed.

Lion B. Burnworth made a motion to donate $500 to the Marine Corps Coats for Kids Program.  Lion K. Burnworth seconded the motion.  There was discussion that there is a local Coats for Kids program through RSVP through the Senior Center, so the motion was amended to stick with the local organization.  Lion J. Greene will get the contact/check info to Lion B. Byers.  The motion passed.

Membership (47)   Lion G. Ingram

Lion G. Ingram said he sent out 6-7 free lunch letters to members we haven’t seen in a while and will do so again this month.  He also said that Lion J. Greene put together a nice new tri-fold flyer (and passed it around for those in attendance to see).  He’s sent it to Lion P. Byers and Lion S. Camacho and would like to get them printed up so we can hand them out.  Lion R. Burnworth said we are able to hand out flyers at the Peoples Bank Theatre Christmas Carol Show as part of our advertising with them.  Lion J. Greene will contact Marty’s Print Shop to get a quote on printing for the color tri-fold flyers so we don’t have sticker shock on 300-600 flyers and will report back so we can decide how many we want to print.

Publicity: Lion S. Camacho

Not present – no report

Scholarship: Lion B. Ferguson reported that the scholarship balance as of 9/30/2025 is $85,783.63

Old Business:

Multi-Club Jeep Ride Fundraiser – Lion S. Camacho no present, no update

District Cheese and Sausage Sale – Lion J. Greene said we have close to $800 in cheese for our club order and she’ll be picking up the cheese from the Cabinet meeting on November 15^th.  That is an updated date from the original November 8^th pick up.  We will be doing meat/cheese trays for the schools and will send out info on that later.

New Business:

Lion K. Burnworth said she’d like us to go ahead and approve our annual giving of $500 each to: Ohio Lions Foundation, Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank, Ohio Lions Eye Research Fund, Ohio Lions Pilot Dogs, Ohio Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation, LCIF, Ohio Lions Foundation Betty Coffey Fellowship Fund, OLERF – Dick Bryan Diabetes Research Fund.  That’s 8 at $500 each.  Lion B. Burnworth made a motion to pay these.  Lion R. Ferguson seconded the motion.  The motion passed.  Lion K. Burnworth will send Lion B. Byers the check info and mailing addresses.

Lion K. Boersma said that Lion B. Mannix may bring the soccer team to lunch when he has the program and wondered if we’d be paying for the player’s lunches.  Lion B. Burnworth said he’d cover the cost for any of the team members that come.  Lion J. Greene reminded that the hotel will need RSVPs, so please confer with Lion B. Mannix on numbers.

We did Good of the order.

The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted, Secretary Lion K. Burnworth