RRC Membership

Rockport Rotary Club - Member Financial Obligations

Member Attendance Requirements

The regular weekly meetings of this club shall be held at twelve noon - see the web site for day of week and location. Due notice of any changes in or canceling of the regular meeting shall be given to all members of the club. All members excepting an honorary member (or member excused pursuant to article 8, sections 3 and 4 of the standard Rotary club constitution) in good standing in this club, on the day of the regular meeting, will be counted as present or absent.

To get credit for attendance at events other than club meetings, please send an email to the Secretary of the club requesting a makeup credit.

• is present in person, by telephone, or online for at least 60 percent of themeeting;
• is present but called away unexpectedly and later presents to the board satisfactory evidence that leaving wasreasonable;
• participates in the regular online meeting or interactive activity posted on the club’s website within one week after its posting;or
• makes up the absence in any of the following ways within the sameyear:
  1. Attends at least 60 percent of the regular meeting of another club,a provisional club, or a satellite of anotherclub;
  2. Is present at the time and place of a regular meeting or satellite clubmeeting of another club for the purpose of attending, but that club is not meeting at that time orplace;
  3. Attends and participates in a club service project or a club-sponsored community event or meeting authorized by theboard;
  4. Attends a board meeting or, if authorized by the board, a meeting of aservice committee to which the member isassigned;
  5. Participates through a club website in an online meeting or interactive activity;
  6. Attends a regular meeting of a Rotaract or Interact club, RotaryCommunity Corps, or Rotary Fellowship or of a provisional Rotaract or Interactclub, Rotary Community Corps, or Rotary Fellowship; or
  7. Attends an RI convention, a council on legislation, an internationalassembly, a Rotary institute, any meeting convened with the approval of the RI board of directors or the RI president, a multizone conference, a meeting of an RI committee, a district conference, a district training assembly, any district meeting held at the direction of the RI board, any district committee meeting held by direction of the governor, or a regularly announced intercity meeting of clubs.

• Traveling with reasonable directness to or from one of the meetings specifiedin sub-subsection(1)(c)(7);
• Serving as an officer or member of an RI committee or as a TRFtrustee;
• Serving as the special representative of the governor in forming a newclub;
• On Rotary business in the employ ofRI;
• Directly and actively engaged in a district-sponsored, RI-sponsored, or TRF- sponsored service project in a remote area, where making up attendance is impossible; or
• Engaged in Rotary business duly authorized by the board, whichprecludes attendance at themeeting.

• The board approves it for reasons, conditions, and circumstances it considersgood and sufficient. Such excused absences shall not last longer than 12 months. However, if a leave is taken for medical reasons, follows the birth or adoption of a child, or takes place during foster care of a child, the board may extend it beyond the original 12months.
• The sum of the member’s age and years of membership in one or more clubs is85 years or more, the member has been a Rotarian for at least 20 years, the member has notified the club secretary in writing of a desire to be excused from attendance, and the board hasapproved.