ROTARY CLUB OF SALINA

Thank you for allowing me to be the president of our club. It has been an honor to represent our club and an incredible experience, one I won't forget.
Going to singapore for the international convention wasn't just an experience of a lifetime, but was very educational. Although my main goal for the year as president was to get the club more active and not just gathering for lunch mondays. Attending one of the training sessions during the convention helped me understand we need to be more inclusive of all of our members when planning activities and projects. We need to understand the desires of all the members. 
I am very proud of the progress we have made and the amount of participation for everything we have done this past year. I set up 14 goals in club runner for the year and we met 13 of them. The only goal we didn't achieve was sending a student to ryla and we were really close to getting that done!
I am most proud of these accomplishments
donated pens, pencils, and cash to saline county back-to-school fair last august.
We raised money and awareness for polio plus in october.
We provided christmas presents for the children at martin luther king child development center.
We put together birthday cake kits and donated them to the salina emergency aid food bank in december. We are planning to do that again soon.
In march, we helped a group of high school students paint a map of the us at the elementary school in minneapolis.
We donated $750 towards the 2025 spring spruce up.
We adopted a little library to provide books and other reading materials to the north side of salina.
In may, we gave $1,000 scholarships to 6 deserving seniors from Ell-Saline, Salina Central, and Salina South high schools.
The future is bright for our club, especially after our participation in an initial board retreat to prepare for the 2025-26 rotary year and beyond.
Last but most important, we finished the year with more new members than we lost and are at 100 members! We initiated 7 new members this year!
Last, I want to thank some people. Our board has been awesome. Thank you for your willingness to serve in this capacity and for supporting the projects we agreed to take on! Thank you to our membership for your participation in the projects and positive support over the last year. 
two very important recognitions were missed during our dinner monday. The two individuals I missed are Doug Alt and Deborah Howard. These two are the most valuable members to our team. Doug makes sure we stay within our budget and reimburses us in a timely manner. Deb does an awesome job of sending out the communications that keep everyone informed of what is going on. Thank you, Doug and Deb, you are awesome!
Lasty, although she isn't able to join us tonight, i want to thank my wife Brandi for being my travel parnter to singapore and understanding when i had to spend time taking care of my rotary duties. 

Thank you!
Kyle smith