October 2, 2019

The meeting was called to order at 12:15 PM by Co-President Cheryl Duey with the pledge, song and a reflection by Celeste Cremin-Endes.

Guests included:

Dan Drew, Mayor of Middletown guest of Joe Marino

Craig Dennis guest of Jonathan Zuromski

Nancy Myers guest of Lois Muraro

Lynna Vo and her parents from Coginchaug Regional High School

Lyn Shofiled – guidance counselor from Coginchaug HS.

Announcements:

 Grant Presentation to Northern Middlesex YMCA of $500.00 for the replacement of the climbing wall at Camp Ingersoll in Portland – Michelle received the grant award on behalf of the Y

 Continued support to the October event – please send money in for your tickets $40.00 each to Carmela at Heritage Commons

 Student of the Month presented by Gary – Lynna Vo was awarded the honor who shared with the club her significant successes in community service, academia and student civic roles. She hopes to pursue a degree in elementary education post senior year completion.

Cards:

 High: Chris

 Low: Cliff

Raffle: No winners.

Program: Our speaker today was Mayor Dan Drew who shared with us the city’s successes in the past eight years of his civil service as Mayor of Middletown, CT. He described his challenges and rewards of the role including the demand it has been personally and on his family. He described his greatest reward was witnessing the growth in economic development, infrastructure investment, restructured police department, rebuilt the municipal legal department and decreased unemployment and increased the bond rating of the city of Middletown all the way to a triple A.

Mayor Drew provided insight to the Board of Education’s budget’s oversight, gave some information to what transportation projects remain at large and currently being worked on.

“The challenge of public service is how the path of least resistance was never an option”

The meeting was concluded at 1:25 PM with the Four-Way Test.

Respectfully submitted,

Celeste Cremin-Endes