The Weekly Meeting Summary of the Rotary Club of Livermore Valley
November 11, 2025
Jeannette Albiez, Editor
OPENING THE MEETING
President Sarah Palmer called the meeting to order at 8:20 AM
Pledge of Allegiance - led by Roy Porfido
Four Way Test - Led by Cathia Walters
Song of the Day - Jerry led us in: This Land is Your Land
Thought of the Day - Make your life an exclamation point not an explanation.
VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS
Visiting Rotarian: Marty introduced Bob Tucknott from the Dublin Club
Guests: Terry De Lima introduced Sue Swift from LLNL
TODAY'S 10-SPOT
Board #82
11.11.25
Proceeds of this board will go to the Rotarian Foundation of Livermore
Paid by
Name on the Board
Amount
Reason
Jill Duerig
Dick Fields
$10
Thank you for your service
Jill Duerig
Roy Porfido
$10
Thank you for your service
Jill Duerig
Jerry Hawkins
$10
Thank you for your service
Jill Duerig
Bob Tucknott
$10
Thank you for your service
Suzanne Richards
$10
Dodgers won
Jeannette Albiez
Jeannette Albiez
$100
Daughter got married 10/18/25
Total
$150
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rotary Foundation Food Pantry Drive: Goal is to give Open Heart, Tri-Valley and City Serve $25K each. Deadline is 11/18. Please donate on this link. Your Donations will be matched by RF and Mark Hudson!
December 2 and 9 meetings will be held at Wall and Ceiling Bureau office: 5690 Sonoma Drive, Pleasanton, CA (as Beeb's is booked for holiday parties)
Check out the "Upcoming Events" listed below for complete details and sign-up information for upcoming club happenings!
Sarah honored the 4 veterans that were at today’s meeting for Veteran's Day. Roy Porfido, Jerry Hawkins, Dick Fields, and Bob Tucknott were presented with pins that Jill had brought for them. Thank you for your service!
TODAY'S PROGRAM: CLUB ASSEMBLY
We broke into groups to brainstorm our responses to the following topics:
What we do well
Fellowship – support each other
Support our local community
Social activities
Support kids and veterans well
Love the 10 spot!
Bennie has done great with membership
Jackie has been great with socials
Community outreach
Fellowship
Raise money
Welcoming
Getting members involved in projects and activities
Distributing workload
What we can do better
Joke of the day each week
Holiday Rotary float for holiday parade
Monthly series/themes, speakers. Consider:
Veterans month
Domestic violence and homelessness month
Science month
Cancer awareness month
Disability month
Environmental activities/awareness
Fire awareness
Need to do international projects - example, clean and paint houses, framing
How do we reach the 30 and 40 year olds?
Fifth week dark, maybe we go on tours?
Support the new restaurants in town financially with our club
One mixer with morning club to get to know each other
Thought of the day each weeks
Put fun stuff at beginning of meeting (old meeting format.)
Songs every week
Regularly post on social media to attract younger groups ages 30’s and 40’s
Team up with 4-H and Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
More intentional check in at meetings, self-care
Better outreach to millennials, Gen X, Gen Alpha, college age
How do we better recruit?
More public participation- advertise need for help on programs for example interact, environment in essential as many of our programs as possible
Vet holiday party have a Raffle with Prizes, gift baskets, one size fits all, bathrobe, slippers, duffel bag
Assist Rotarians who work by making it our meetings hybrid so they can attend
Events and Socials
Evening events should be standup/mingle events
Kudos to Jackie and Bennie for all the fun events Including DeBauchery, Wine and cheese at Wood, Christmas at Sarah‘s, Honeycomb, Game Night at Beth’s, Olivina olive oil
RFL – spaghetti hoedown
Walks together are great
We think we are pretty good at this
Invite community back
Discuss frequency of socials – maybe pick up trash instead or clean Park?
Idea meet at Holiday Village next month to wander together 12/5
Bring back joke and thought of the day
Invite the public to clean up day publishing Livermore, papers, and website
Plant trees
Team building (how can we each be part of the team and help out our team leaders?)
Interact- Support them with open heart kitchen, supply kits for weekends 60 bags per day, Support coin wars
Idea of a bingo card style 5 to 10 fun facts about yourself helps direct conversation and learn about each other with 2 to 5 minute talk
Feel like we are pretty good at this
Outreach and Branding
Have Interact help send messages through social media to promote Rotary goals and projects
Have posters, postcards for distribution, use social media “boost”, Share Rotary posts in our FB and Instagram feeds; share our existing posts in next-door; Make short videos of what we do and post on TikTok and other platforms to promote, and publicize Rotary better
Help struggling students at Del Valle high through: Mentorship, scholarship, career, fair, resource, fair, trade fair
Consider table or booth at a spring farmers market
Zoom meetings
Marketing
In person booths for events
Bring in younger members
What is Livermore Rotary impact? Commission a mural to depict Rotary’s impact on Livermore. Show who we donate funds to. Promote Rotary through a mural - consider the side of Peets.
Rotary sponsor teacher of the year with 333 arts
Let’s make it better - Regularly post on social media to attract younger members
