Clear Lake Lions Club Meeting Minutes – May 19, 2025
The Clear Lake Lions Club met for their monthly meeting in the cafeteria of the CLACC. Ten members recited the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag to open the meeting at 6 p.m. President Cheryl Paulson presided over the meeting. The minutes of the April Meeting were read and approved. The Treasurer’s report was read and approved.
Old Business included a recap of Milwaukee Tools Day and the Demo Derby which were held on May 10. Everything went smoothly at both events. Some of the parts of the frame of the pop-up tent broke. Gene Burns is trying to get replacement parts. If he is not able to get replacement parts, we will need to purchase a new pop-up tent. Elections were held for the officers for the upcoming two-year cycle which will begin on July 1. After discussions, the list of new officers was confirmed.
New Business included discussion of Clear Lake Days. The Lions will be working shifts June 26 through June 29. Lion Cheryl asked members to sign up for shifts and encouraged them to invite family members and friends to help. Lion Cheryl will send out the serving schedule once it is finalized. We will be grilling on site, so an extra server was added to all shifts to allow for a griller. Each shift needs to ensure that they start grilling more hot dogs/brats when the numbers get low such as 12. We will also be hauling a refrigerator to the grilling site and will need to get a combination lock for the refrigerator so we can leave extra food supplies overnight. Lion LeRoy Paulson offered the use of his four-wheeler for the runners. There was discussion about whether we should stay open on Friday and Saturday night until midnight. It was the consensus that we didn’t really want to stay open that late because the number of people served was very low last year during that shift. Lion Marian gave an update on the plastic collection. Our program does not collect greenhouse plastic or large blue shrink wrap plastic. We now have two benches that need to be placed somewhere. The CLACC has suggested two places around the CLACC and will let us know once they have board approval for us to proceed. Lions Gene Burns and Bill Peterson said they will help with the installation of the benches.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:58 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by Cheryl Paulson, President
