"Is It Your Turn Yet?"
July 16, 2009
President's Message - YMCA Annual Meeting
Dear YMCA Family:
I am very pleased to stand before you at this time and look back on an amazing year.
As I stood before you after being elected last year, I set, as my primary goals:
To stabilize the YMCA
To find an outstanding YMCA Director
To encourage outreach of volunteerism in our YMCA so that many hands can make the workload light.
To encourage an outstanding Board to have an enthusiastic vision and execute it.
To eliminate debt that is an albatross around our neck.
I can confidently say the first four goals were accomplished extremely well because of you out there in our ‘Y’ family.
It may have been boring to accomplish everything the first year and so, in my last year, elimination of our debt will be my key focus All of you have exhibited amazing volunteerism and the staff has dealt very well with the many past and current changes that are necessary for the progress of this organization. I mostly want to thank my Executive Committee and Board. If people know me, my management style is to encourage many people to work synergistically together and for me to only get in their way when things aren’t going well or when progress is not being made.
The first few weeks were difficult, but the Board shared a common vision and we got through some very tough times and made some very hard decisions. We did run the ‘Y’ by ourselves for a while and did hire an outstanding Executive Director. The definition of success for me, is to feel that I’m not necessary. I am very pleased, a short one year later, to feel that this organization is running smoothly with very little necessary input from myself.
I would like to specifically thank Vice President Jason Brochu for an amazing job, Bill Rayfield for the incredible hard work in bringing our finances under control and Secretary, Skip McDonald, for stepping in and most importantly, for really being that “push” who organized like minded people to come to last year’s annual meeting with a positive and move forward attitude. Finally, to Erika, for joining us with vision and energy, and reinvigorating our ‘Y’ with positive progress into the future.
Sincerely,
Daniel L. Steinke, President
Dear YMCA Family:
I am very pleased to stand before you at this time and look back on an amazing year.
As I stood before you after being elected last year, I set, as my primary goals:
To stabilize the YMCA
To find an outstanding YMCA Director
To encourage outreach of volunteerism in our YMCA so that many hands can make the workload light.
To encourage an outstanding Board to have an enthusiastic vision and execute it.
To eliminate debt that is an albatross around our neck.
I can confidently say the first four goals were accomplished extremely well because of you out there in our ‘Y’ family.
It may have been boring to accomplish everything the first year and so, in my last year, elimination of our debt will be my key focus All of you have exhibited amazing volunteerism and the staff has dealt very well with the many past and current changes that are necessary for the progress of this organization. I mostly want to thank my Executive Committee and Board. If people know me, my management style is to encourage many people to work synergistically together and for me to only get in their way when things aren’t going well or when progress is not being made.
The first few weeks were difficult, but the Board shared a common vision and we got through some very tough times and made some very hard decisions. We did run the ‘Y’ by ourselves for a while and did hire an outstanding Executive Director. The definition of success for me, is to feel that I’m not necessary. I am very pleased, a short one year later, to feel that this organization is running smoothly with very little necessary input from myself.
I would like to specifically thank Vice President Jason Brochu for an amazing job, Bill Rayfield for the incredible hard work in bringing our finances under control and Secretary, Skip McDonald, for stepping in and most importantly, for really being that “push” who organized like minded people to come to last year’s annual meeting with a positive and move forward attitude. Finally, to Erika, for joining us with vision and energy, and reinvigorating our ‘Y’ with positive progress into the future.
Sincerely,
Daniel L. Steinke, President
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