Meeting Tuesday 23 November
Guests, Apologies & Prizes
Greg brought along special guests, Keith & Jan Bayliss. Keith was the guest speaker and is the Site Coordinator at Bathurst Hospital.
Guests, Apologies & Prizes
Greg brought along special guests, Keith & Jan Bayliss. Keith was the guest speaker and is the Site Coordinator at Bathurst Hospital.
Visiting Rotarian, Peter Flude was welcomed on the evening, always good to see him at our meetings.
Apologies from David W, Sally B, Adam S, Rob B & Jack A.
Heads & Tails won by Alan B.
Raffle was won by Greg S, who kindly donated the wine to our visiting Rotarian, Peter Flude. This was a well deserved present after Peter was hounded during the Sergeant session by stand in sergeant, Anthony J!
Meeting Minutes
Anthony read out some correspondence received;
- Letter from the National Boys Choir about their visit to the area, and they would be keen to do a fundraising concert if the club are interested in organising the details. The members agreed this would be a good idea, but would need to have some more discussion around it and brought up at the next board meeting.
- A sheet was sent around for everyone to update their Rotary Down Under contact details, if you weren’t there please ask Anthony for the details.
- Some more information was passed around for business owners to promote their business through Rotary, again ask Anthony if you missed out.
Meeting Minutes
Anthony read out some correspondence received;
- Letter from the National Boys Choir about their visit to the area, and they would be keen to do a fundraising concert if the club are interested in organising the details. The members agreed this would be a good idea, but would need to have some more discussion around it and brought up at the next board meeting.
- A sheet was sent around for everyone to update their Rotary Down Under contact details, if you weren’t there please ask Anthony for the details.
- Some more information was passed around for business owners to promote their business through Rotary, again ask Anthony if you missed out.
Nev D reminded everyone about the Christmas Cakes & puddings again, please put in your order soon.
Guest Speaker
Keith Bayliss was introduced to the group as the Site Coordinator for Bathurst Hospital. Keith has been an electrician for 33 years and worked in the power industry including Wallerawang and Eraring Power Stations. He has also worked as a security installer and as an electrician at the former Bathurst Base Hospital for 10 years.
Guest Speaker
Keith Bayliss was introduced to the group as the Site Coordinator for Bathurst Hospital. Keith has been an electrician for 33 years and worked in the power industry including Wallerawang and Eraring Power Stations. He has also worked as a security installer and as an electrician at the former Bathurst Base Hospital for 10 years.
He is now the Site Coordinator at the newly renovated Bathurst Hospital and works for the contracted company called Spotless. Spotless are a very large company who employ over 30,000 staff across 30 countries. Some of the larger contracts they currently have include Qantas, fencing, housing, sporting venues (they will be catering for the Rugby World Cup in NZ next year). Something which you may not know about the company is that Spotless created the steel coat hanger, and started as a small dry-cleaning business.
The current contract which Spotless have with Bathurst Hospital is for 28 years and extends to the soon to be completed Bloomfield and Orange Hospital sites. The contracts include security, porters/wards man, cleaning, maintenance and grounds. Keith is responsible for the rosters, which are worked out on a 24 hour basis, paying all staff under his supervision, and ensuring when jobs are logged in the computer system they are completed within a suitable timeframe.
It is a 24/7 job, and was very full on when the new hospital opened, but has now settled down and things seem to be running more smoothly. Keith is also involved in the refurbishment of the heritage building which will be used for training and administration purposes. This is hoped to be complete by April 2011 for the different areas to move in.
It was very sad to hear last week that Neville Barlow (Rob B father & former member of our club) had passed away.
Nev
ille was a former Bathurst Mayor and a good man. He was one of the most community minded man of his time and his passing is our loss. He was a can-do man. He was a capable and highly regarded businessman of the 80s and 90s. If something was good for Bathurst then he was always the first to put his hand up. He was one that we could all aspire to be.
His funeral will be held on Wednesday, 1st December, 2010 commencing at 11am. The cortege will leave All Saints' Anglican Cathedral, Church Street, Bathurst at the conclusion of the service for Holy Trinity Lawn Cemetery, Gilmour Street, Kelso.
ille was a former Bathurst Mayor and a good man. He was one of the most community minded man of his time and his passing is our loss. He was a can-do man. He was a capable and highly regarded businessman of the 80s and 90s. If something was good for Bathurst then he was always the first to put his hand up. He was one that we could all aspire to be.His funeral will be held on Wednesday, 1st December, 2010 commencing at 11am. The cortege will leave All Saints' Anglican Cathedral, Church Street, Bathurst at the conclusion of the service for Holy Trinity Lawn Cemetery, Gilmour Street, Kelso.
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