Attendees:
Bebe Kinnett – Absolute Web Design
Lonny Barnett – Edward Jones Investments
Jim Kinnett – Kinnett Consulting
Terry Hahn – Friendship Insurance
Nick Bader – First Financial Bank
Joe Alig – Bright Lion’s Club
Rick Hughes – Millennium Business Systems
Celeste Calvitto – CalComm Indiana
Guest Speaker – Randy Frye (R) – Indiana State Representative, District 67
– Unemployment was up nearly 16{7b8c989abf756bf7ce1f89de0a7bd15766f0afcab20f44905b10f83f92dee193} in Early 2020
– Indiana currently has a $2.2B cash reserve
– no current debt in the budget
– Indiana also received stimulus payment from the Federal Government in 2020 which stabilized our budget and economy
– 51{7b8c989abf756bf7ce1f89de0a7bd15766f0afcab20f44905b10f83f92dee193} of the State Budget is earmarked for Education
– $1.9B in K-12 Education Funding
– $425M in new dollars for Education
– $600M in the Teacher’s Pension
– $40,000 New Teacher Starting Salary
– current unemployment rate in Indiana is ~3.7{7b8c989abf756bf7ce1f89de0a7bd15766f0afcab20f44905b10f83f92dee193}
– State Unemployment account is in the black
– $70M for the Law Enforcement Academy
– $10M for Body Cameras
– $3M for Hi-Tek Cyber Enforcement
– $250M for Broadband/Fiber connectivity (joint effort with Broadband/Fiber suppliers)
– $60M for walking trails
– $900M for Infrastructure
– Free two-year education at Ivy Tech for Volunteer Fire Fighters ($525k spent to date / transfer credits to Purdue Global)
– Act 1032 – Safe Haven Baby Boxes
Bright Lion’s Check Presentation – Joe Alig
Minutes of last month’s meeting are posted.
Ideas for making this a better value for our members:
– meetings at 9:00
– parallel Zoom feed for meetings
– happy hours
– open houses
Golf Outing Results:
– 76 golfers
– 5 major sponsors
– 24 hole sponsors
– $16,475 gross revenue
– ~$4,500 in expenses
– $12,163 net revenue
– 2-hour delay for rain
Treasurer’s Report – Total Bank Balance for May is $19,724.87
Membership: 40 paid members
Next Guest Speakers: July – Jamie Johnson – Grasscals
August – TBD
September – Happy Hour “At the Barn Winery”
October – TBD
November – TBD
December – Christmas Breakfast
Announcements: Bebe has tickets for the Monster Truck show at the Florence Speedway (Fri-Sat-Sun) this weekend
Next month’s meeting: Friday July 9, 2021, 9:00 at the Bright Lion’s Club
Meeting Adjourned.