RB Rotary Club Meeting Notes
March 30, 2023
Four Way Test
Pledge – Alan Turner
Family of Rotary
Bob is home after surgery and doing well.
Welcome back to Dan V. after surgery.
Visitors today were:
Wendy brought Jimmy Suh, but he had to leave early. Will try another day.
Fine Mistress – Athenea
$5 if you are not attending on 4/22. Joel, Diane, and Charlene
$5 found a Rotary pin – no one claimed, sold to Tom Murphy
$20 Reesa happy about 4th of July grant
$10 Jim Reid, talking next Thurs at Cont. Ed. – music
$66 Jim Summer for 66yrs of marriage
$20 Dan and Barb – Fashion Show
Vern, SDSC Final 4 after 62yrs
$10 Sandy, thank you for voting
$100 Barb – Happy Bday to her husband.
$15 Wendy for Training
Announcements
Check presentation for Spirit of 4th from Foundation for $2000
Vines and Vittles sponsorship goal $60,000 currently at $53,111 – 89% of goal – Buy your tickets online
4/2 Social @ The Winery at UTC from 4-7pm. Contact Athenea if you would like to attend
RYLA 4/14/23, we sponsored 10 students and district will send 5 alternates, they will be at our meeting on 5/1
4/22 Community Clean up at Oaks North, 8am until noon, please come if you can
4/25 Joint meeting with Sunrise club for Ukrainian speaker
4/29 NAMI walk 8am at Liberty Station, or Hats off to Volunteers (Sandy will be honored) – plan to attend one!
One seat open on Foundation, if you are interested in running contact Athenea.
We have raised over $100,000 for the foundation this year and over 1 million has been raised in the last 10 years.
3/25 Jim, Alan, Dave B, Wendy attended training
3/29 V&V Mixer at Lucia was big hit
Speaker – Joe Stuyvesent, President and CEO, Port of San Diego since February 2021.
Prior to joining the Port, Joe was the Executive Director of Navy Region Southwest in SD.
Joe expressed his appreciation to Rotary as his parents were affected by Polio when he was a child.
Of 50 miles of San Diego shoreline the Port manages 34 miles in Trust for the State and the remaining belongs to the Navy. Each area has a commissioner, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, Coronado, National City, and San Diego has 3 commissioners. There are 22parks along with several restaurants, and other attractions.
There are 2 Maritime terminals – 10th avenue where produce such as bananas come in and National City which auto mobiles come through. There is also a seized Russian Yacht that is currently parked here.
San Diego is the #1 destination for cruise ships. There are 140 ships planned to depart from San Diego in the 2022-2023 season. Each has approximately 2 million economic impact.
Some of the challenges for the Port are environmental such as air quality and noise. They are taking steps to mitigate risk by transitioning to electric as much as possible. They also provide air filters and monitor emissions in the area. The clean air strategy includes electrifying anything possible, trucks, ships, cranes, and even tugs. They are currently working on getting a grant for a haul road to take large trucks off Harbor Drive.
The Navy has 72 ships that they plug in for credit – the Port is working with them on an exchange program that has already earned the Port 5 million dollars.
Some projects they are working on are Seaport Village, which will take about 10 years to complete, Top Golf at East Harbor Island, and reinforcement of the existing sea wall that is eroding along Harbor Drive.
The Gaylord project that was started years ago was stopped due to developer challenges and rising interest rates.
The Port is not associated with the Tijuana River treatment plant, the Port did sue them and won $30 million dollars. The Port continues to look for solutions to this issue.
Next Meeting is 4/6
Speaker is Diane Doherty from Your Safe Place
