MINUTES: MARCH 7, 2017
Posted by Wes Brooks on Mar 13, 2017
President Jaclyn Adams presided over the meeting. Thanks to Gene Owens who gave the invocation and to Kory Moore who led us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Thanks also to Sean Priebe, Steve Ramp and Philip Carter who served as our greeters today.
Wes Brooks recognized our visitor today. Phillip Pitts is a guest of Mike Ratliff.
Jaclyn asked that we remember Susan Slaughter and her family due to the loss of their husband and father, Jay Slaughter.
Jaclyn thanked Kory Moore and all the volunteers that participated in the Golf4Carey last Friday. We will give an additional $2,500.00 to be presented to Scott Hummel next week from Rotary District Grant. We are still working...
...on specifying a project for United Way for and additional Rotary Disaster Grant.
Jaclyn then announced that each Rotarian is being asked to sell four tickets at $100 per ticket for our 50/50 raffle split. We will have 350 tickets available to purchase. Additional prizes will include a browning BPS Hunter 12-gauge shotgun, an 18” white or yellow gold Mississippi Snowball necklace generously donated by Lights Jewelry, and a 24x36 custom made distressed picture frame courtesy of Ryan Kelly. We have decided to extend the drawing until June 27th. Raffle tickets will be coming soon. You will also have the option to be direct billed if so inclined.
Since February, we have completed 5 of our 7 “100 Days of Service Projects”.
This Thursday, Paula has coordinated a partnership with HAAR who will be collecting necessities for children that are served by Kids Hub. The collection will take place at their quarterly meeting at Southern Oaks from 11-12 pm. If anyone would like to contribute, items will be collected in the lobby of Southern Oaks.
Our last project will take place on Thursday April 6, at Hawkins Elementary School. The 10:30 – 11:30 and the 12:30 – 1:30 shifts are available. We will read to children from Pre-K all the way up to 2nd grade. Books will be ready for you. We need at least eight volunteers for each shift.
Jaclyn then introduced todays guest speaker, Laurie Dana. Laurie is a Public Affairs Specialist with the Small Business Administration Office of Disaster Assistance. Laurie Dana explained that after the severe storms, tornadoes and flooding on Jan. 20 and 21 in Mississippi, even though the Pearl River County emergency management director, said there was no property damage in the county, businesses can still apply for an economic injury disaster loan.
The difference between the SBA (Small Business Administration) and FEMA, is the SBA handles funding for long term recovery and FEMA handles emergency assistance grants.
What is the SBA?
The Small Business Administration (SBA) can loan money to homeowners, renters, and business owners. Homeowners may borrow up to $200,000 for disaster related home repairs. Homeowners and renters can borrow up to $40,000 to replace disaster-damaged personal property including vehicles. The SBA cannot duplicate benefits from your insurance or FEMA.
The first step is to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Once you have done that, both FEMA and SBA encourage you to apply for a low-interest disaster SBA loan to help fund your recovery and to ensure the federal disaster recovery process continues.
Physical Damage Disaster Loans
Businesses and private nonprofit organizations of any size can borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace disaster damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory and other business assets. If your SBA loan application is approved, you may be eligible to borrow additional funds to cover the cost of improvements that will protect your property against future damage.
Economic Injury Disaster Loans
SBA also offers a working capital loan to relieve the economic injury caused by the disaster. A disaster loan is available to eligible businesses as well as private nonprofits even if the property was not damaged in the storms.
Questions about SBA loans should be directed to the Small Business Administration (SBA). You can contact them at 1-800-659-2955 from 8AM - 9PM (EDT), Mon - Fri or email them at disastercustomerservice@sba.gov.
With no other business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned by Jaclyn with our motto, “Service Above Self”.