Todd Lewis,
President
Keith Johnson, Vice President
Ray Baker, Secretary
Dave Johnson, Treasurer
Steve Walters, Director
Larry Haltom, Director
Jack Davis, Tail Twister
David Hardwick, Lion Tamer
Our last meeting took place on Monday, June 25th. The meeting was called to order by Treasurer Todd Lewis at 7:00 p.m. A great meal was served by the ladies of Millgrove Methodist Church. Remember that our next meeting will be held on July 22nd at Dave Johnson's.
· Old business
· 500 update- Approximately $2800 dollars was made from our 500 booth. $1000 dollars will be given to the Van Bibber Lions for their help.
· Elections- elections were held at the June meeting. The new club officers are: President- Todd Lewis Vice President- Keith Johnson Treasurer- Dave Johnson Secretary- Ray Baker Tail Twister- Jack Davis Lion Tamer- David Hardwick Directors- Steve Walters Larry Haltom Nominating Committee Steve Walters (1 year left) Keith Johnson (2 years left) Steve Wittenauer (3 years left)
· Brickyard fundraiser- The Brickyard 400 is set for August 3rd (practice) 4th (qualifications and IROC) and 5th (Brickyard 400). If you can help with the booth this year and have not yet signed up please contact Mike Buis @ 528-2524 or Ray Baker @ 795-4249.
· Lilly Endowment- We have received the matching fund from the Lilly endowment towards our eye care fund. This gives us a grand total of $10,550.
New Business
· Attendance- 29.63 % of our members attended the June meeting.
· Upcoming meetings
July- The Great American steak out at Dave Johnson's. August- Meeting on the water at Cataract Lake.
· New member- Richard Gaddis has joined our club. He was sponsored by Jack Davis.
· Recruiting- Now that our slate of officers has been set, the club should put a new thrust towards recruitment of new members.
· Funfest- The club voted to buy supplies for and staff an information booth at the Funfest.
· Guest Speaker- The guest speaker was Larry Scott, Putnam County Highway engineer and acting highway superintendent. (The new highway superintendent Roger Deck will start in July). He spoke regarding the high degree of disrepair to the Putnam County roads and bridges. There are 220 bridges and 4000 culverts (a bridge less than 20 ft long) in Putnam County. In Indiana, Putnam County ranks 5th as the county with the largest number of bridges. 119 of these bridges needs replaced now. Putnam County is number 5 on the list of counties with the worst bridges. Our lower population makes it difficult to generate the fund for bridges. It would cost 32 million dollars to replace these bridges. At the current rate of 24 cents per $100 dollars accessed or $750,000 it would take 40 years to do the needed replacements. The rates needed to replace these bridges were lowered during the depression era and never brought back to the needed levels. Without these bridges, we will all suffer. Fire protection, ambulances and other critical services depend on the bridges. Another problem involves our county roads. There are over 400 miles of county roads. A great deal of freeze thaw damage occurred this last winter. 60 million dollars worth of repairs are needed. The Putnam County allocation from the State of Indiana for these repairs has been lowered from $800,000 to $400,000. Some ways the County saves money is by making there own cold mix to repair potholes as well as in house designing of some of the bridges.
The next meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. Monday July, 22nd 2001 at the Dave Johnson's. Until next meeting Bite'em.