Meeting Notes from December 2, 2021
President Steve Brozosky opened the meeting at 7 pm by leading the Pledge of Allegiance. The club sang "My Country Tis of Thee", followed by an Invocation by Bob Mange.
Bob Mange, sitting in for Secretary Jim Padgett, introduced a visiting Rotarian.
The All Access Equipment at Lembi Park will be dedicated with a ribbon cutting on December 14 at 4 pm.
The club will be caroling at the Folsom Zoo on December 18. Henry Sundermier will be leading the singers. If you want to participate, be at the zoo at 4:45 pm.
330 WAPIs (Water Pasteurization Indicators) were shipped to Kenya on December 2. This was a project done by the Folsom High Interact Club with some help from our members.
The Club Holiday Party will be on December 16 at the Folsom Community Center. If you are going and have not signed up, go to folsomrotary.org and sign up for the event. Be sure to also sign up your guests.
If you are planning to go to the District 5180 Conference the end of April 2022 and haven't signed up, the conference discount rate expires on December 31. For more information on the conference, go to
district5180.0rg and click on the links in the top left column under "Super Heroes".
The Brian Shul event sold out. Sponsorships totaled $18,250 and the net was $42K. 10K will go to Wounded Warriors. Rotary Annes made a little over $5,700 on the silent auction. The Rotary Club of Historic Folsom will get $2K for their assistance. Steve thanked Richelle Brozosky Brooks for taking care of the people with ticket problems, specifically those who did not have vaccination cards. He also thanked his other daughter, Robin Brozosky, for securing Facebook ads for the event. Steve said that the Harris Center covered many costs that we normally would have paid to use the facility. He thanked Conni and Chuck Thompson and the Rotary volunteers for making it a very successful event.
Sue Barrett and President Steve presented a Paul Harris +7 pin to Chuck Thurman.
Our speakers were John Messner and Kate Gonzales who gave us Vocational talks.
John Messner talked about his career as a Civil Engineer.
Kate Gonzales talked about how she came to own the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Folsom.
All Access Equipment Project at Lembi Park
by Justin Raithel
The installation of All Access Equipment at Lembi Park was the Community Service Day project for the Rotary Club of Folsom although it took several days to complete. It started with Bob Blackwell excavating and grading the site and offloading the exercise equipment from the delivery truck. John Messner surveyed and helped layout the site. John, Chuck Thurman, Rich Rider, and Tim Hughes installed the forms before the first large work party.
The first work party was rebar installation on Saturday, September 18 (Community Service Day) and some of the crew worked Sunday morning to finish it. The second work party was pouring the concrete pad. A friend of the club, Steve Pektovich, and some of his colleagues did professional concrete pouring and finishing. They were happy to help and one of them came down from pouring overnight at the Tesla Plant in Reno to volunteer his time to work on our project.
The third work party was equipment installation. Chuck Thurman and Justin Raithel finished the project by tightening up bolts and installing protective covers which made it fully useable for the public.
The total project cost came in on budget at $30K. The club received a $5K grant from Rotary District 5180/Rotary Foundation and a $5K grant from Folsom's Community Service Day. The remaining $20K was contributed by the Folsom Rotary Foundation/Rotary Club of Folsom.
The equipment has two sides, one side for wheel chairs or walkers, and the other side for everyone else. The dedication/ribbon cutting ceremony will be on December 14 at 4 pm.
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