The June Board meeting of the Westlake-Bay Village Rotary Club was held on June 24, 2026. The meeting was called to order by President Amy Kubacki at 7:31, and began with the invocation, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Four Way Test.
In Attendance: President Amy Kubacki, Pat Graham, Jim Strunk, Joe Hudak, Jeff Appel, Lisa Hebert, Justin Hein, John Hanna, and Andrew Mangels. A quorum was present. Also in attendance were Steve Pettyjohn, Kevin Krantz, Alyssa Damm, Brian Moran, Tim Smith, Gary Lydrickson, Shane O’Brien, and Glenn Fehribach. We also had a visitor, Jeff Trowbridge, who lives in Westlake and has a mission in Ethiopia. Jeff told us a little about himself and offered to come speak at a future meeting.
Treasurer’s Report: Jim reported that he had transferred $20k from the investment account to the Corley account and that after the transfer we still had a balance of $378k in the investment account.
Donation Committee: No new requests currently. Kevin reported that half the year has transpired but we have only used a third of our budget for donations.
Speaker Committee: We are currently booked through July.
Art Fest: The final art fest committee meeting will be held on July 6th at 6:00 pm. We will also devote our July 15 th regular meeting to discuss any last-minute planning. Brian reported that we are currently at $16,250 in sponsorship dollars.
Upcoming Events:
The RYLA Banquet is on June 25 th at Hiram College.
The Banner Exchange where Terri will be installed as District Governor will be held June 29 th at Sleepy Hollow golf course. Please plan to attend and support Terri.
New Business:
The golf outing will be held at Valley of the Eagles in Elyria on October 9 th . We have to guarantee the course 84 golfers so please start arranging your foursomes.
More details will be forthcoming.
July starts our new Rotary year and the beginning of our new by-laws regarding the Board of Directors. Any member who has been in the club for a minimum of two years and has achieved 50% attendance is automatically a director unless they choose to opt out of serving. The Board has the authority to waive the attendance requirement if the member is an active member of the club. We have two active members who fell just short of the attendance requirement. Jeff moved and Justin seconded that Pat Graham and Patty Zinn be allowed to serve despite being just short of the 50% attendance requirement.
Motion carried.
Everyone thanked Amy for her year of leadership as our president and congratulated her for bringing great enthusiasm and success to our club. As Jeff Appel prepares to take over next week, we anticipate continued success.
We then shared our happy thoughts.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:26.