Rotary eClub One Absorbs Rotary Club of Sydney's Members
Rotary eClub One Absorbs Rotary Club of Sydney's Members
Can there be too much of a good thing? In one area of Sydney Australia where four clubs were competing for members, the answer was yes... too much Rotary. How did District 5450 get involved? Well, Rotary in the Central Business District (CBD) of Sydney was in decline because the four Rotary clubs located in the small geographic territory were competing for new members in the largely disinterested “big end of town”.
In order to strengthen Rotary in the Sydney Central Business District and give the two larger clubs more scope to recruit new members, the two smaller clubs (Rotary Club of Sydney CBD – 32 members,) will surrender it's charter and close. The other small club, the Rotary Club of Darling Harbour (15 members) will experiment as a breakfast club and an evening club, alternating meeting times week-by-week.
Most Board members of the Rotary Club of Sydney CBD wish to join Rotary eClub One and maintain their focus on projects that are their Rotary passion. They are attracted by our policy of members creating innovative service projects and delivering positive outcomes through Service Above Self. They all know PP Angus Robinson, John Cutler and PP Chris Joscelyne, and they know how Rotary eClub One operates.
They are a brilliant group of Rotarians, involved in the Alola Foundation (East Timor) with which Rotary eClub One has had an association too, literacy projects for indigenous Aboriginals in Australia, fundraising for a Salvation Army shelter for rescued trafficked women, fundraising for an AIDS research university scholar, health projects in the Pacific islands, and youth projects.
Each of the members of the Rotary Club of Sydney CBD will join as an individual member of Rotary eClub One. Each will have the identical status and participation responsibility of all our existing members. What is unique (and we believe is a world first) is that we are accepting all these members on a single new member transaction on a single day, and with the support of the Rotary District Governors of D5450 and D9675. The word 'merge' does not refer to a financial transaction, but simply to our absorption of almost the entire active membership of the Rotary Club of Sydney CBD into Rotary eClub One.
The only special request from the Rotary Club of Sydney CBD is that we adopt their two twin-clubs to preserve continuity and ongoing Rotary friendship and goodwill with the Rotary Club of Irvine and the Rotary Club of Macau.
The Rotary Club of Sydney CBD will be wound up on June 30, 2014, its charter returned to RI, financial liabilities settled and residual financial assets transferred to Rotary District 9675, as per RI protocol.
Submitted by Emmanuel Serriere (eClub One) rotarian@gwenemmanuel.us