Mark Latham

State of the City 

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build good will and peace in the world.

"Doing good in the World is more than a motto.  It is our goal, our mission, and our reminder.  It expresses in the clearest terms why we have a Foundation, and it challenges us to reach as far as we can to do the most good possible with everything we have.  Our Foundation exisits to support the good that we can do through Rotary.  It expands our reach, increases our strength, and makes our service more powerful and more effective.  Because of our Foundation we can, very simple, do more of our Rotary work."

2004-2005

President Glenn Estess Sr. 

President, Maura Donnelly, opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance followed in prayer by David Peters.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Laura needs a ride this weekend to and from Edwardsville for the fun weekend.

Board meeting Thursday morning at 8am at Terra Properties. 

Katrina Hodous has been sponsored and has completed an application for membership.  Please let the board know if you have any hesitations or encouragements about Katrina.

The membership sang "Take me out to the ballgame!" today in honor of the Cardinals winning their 11th World Series in 2011!

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours, to date there are 923 hours recorded. 

Mark is attempting to finalize the details for the 11/12 trip to Joplin.  Carrie has 10 people from her church that would like to go as well. 

Members can go to the website and log your hours or email them to him directly: swconstruct@agtelco.com

There was $814 in the 50/50 with 30 cards left in the deck.  The J of Clubs was picked. 

Happy Bucks

• Angela was 3x happy today
• New book system is up and running
• Library had bid openings today for the lot & landscaping
• She heard from Logan who was shipped out with the military
• Don J was also thrice happy that
• his son-in-law Matt Jacober amde partner and was able to attend game 6
• his daughter promoted to director or marketing @ AB
• and that they will be able to support him in his old age :)

Holli fined anyone adult that did not wear a Halloween costume.

PROGRAM: Kurt Prenzler, Madison County Treasurer

Kurt Prenzler was elected in November 2010.  He is married and has three children.  The reside in Edwardsville.  He grew up in Bloomington and graduated from Univeristy of Illinois as a CPA.  Jeremy Plank also joined him for his presentation.  He is the new Chief Deputy Treasurer and lives in Wood River.

Currently the office has 12 full time employees, which is down from 20 the year prior.  Payroll has been reduced over 30%.  Recently the payroll adminstration was taken out of the treasurer's office and moved to a different office at the County building.  Prenzler stated that he does not partcipate in the county's pension program.

This pass May they mailed out 2,200 mobile home tax bills and 130,000 real estate tax bills.  He worked hard and they saved over $30,000 on these bills.  If you would like specific information on the tax cycles or tax sales, contact his office.

Kurt stated that the Treasurer's office invests over $100 million of county money.  Between November 2 (election day) and December 1st (swearing in) over $36 million of long-term bonds purchased were purchased from one Little Rock bond salesman without any competetive bids.

As of December 1st, 2010 the County's portfolio included over $41 million of long-term agency (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.) bonds with maturities between 12 to 15 years, outside the investment policy requiring maturities under 10 years.  The State's attorney hired a non-partisan securities law firm to invesitage, and per this firm's advise on June 9, the violative bonds were liquidated using 6 competiting bond selling firms.  Madison County filed suit against bond-selling firm on August 9, 2011 seeking to recover losses.  For more information on the county's portfolio or state of bonds, please contact his office.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten