2020 COL Summary

REPORT TO DISTRICT 6290 ON 2020 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON RESOLUTIONS
PDG LODY ZWARENSTEYN, DISTRICT 6290 COR REPRESENTATIVE
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
 
 
Each year, Rotary’s Council on Resolutions (COL) takes up matters referred by various clubs and districts. Any club can authorize a resolution, and have it considered by the COL if the District concurs and if the resolution is submitted by June 30 of each year.  Each district is allowed one vote, by its appointed representative.
 
This year, a total of 32 items were submitted to the COL for action.  Twelve (12) were approved, and 20 were not. The following listing includes were this year’s resolutions and the percent vote for the item.  In voting for District 6290, I consulted DG Jon Catlin prior to submitting our votes, and they represented concurrence by the two of us on each proposition.
 
 
Approved items:
 
  1. Recommend that the RI Bylaws be amended to designate RI Board officers and members as non-voting representatives to the COL.  (65%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider including emphasizing the importance of “actions,” rather than “enterprise,” on RI’s ideal of service. (61%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider reintroducing professional development as a value of Rotary. (70%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to require Rotary Youth Exchange organizations, including independent participating organizations, to provide audited annual financial reports. (68%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider reviewing Rotaract’s status within existing rules and regulations for Rotary.  This follows up on prior actions to include Rotaract as an official part of RI. (87%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider ensuring that its powers do not unfairly exceed those of clubs and districts. This reacts to the stringent process/timing rules for club and district resolutions that are not shared by the RI representatives to the COL. (68%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider making the RI website and email technologies more accessible to those with visual impairments or other disabilities and extending that technology to the clubs. (73%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider reintroducing the vocational committee at the district level. (56%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider forming committees that include governors and past governors to nominate regional leader candidates to the zone director. (66%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider proposing legislation limiting the general secretary’s term to no more that ten (10) years.  (66%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to ask the RI Foundation Trustees to consider including measures for the prevention and elimination of plastic waste and residues. (56%)
 
  1. request the RI Board to ask the RI Foundation Trustees to consider allowing districts to use their own scholarship criteria, independent of the global grant process, when awarding scholarships for which no World Fund matching funds are used. (51%)
 
  
Items not approved:
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider adding environmental sustainability to the 4-W Test. 13%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider adding to the preamble to the 4-Way Test “the things we think, say, type or do.”  (11%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider requiring club bylaws to mandate inviting representatives of organizations benefiting from the club’s support within the past 3 years to attend at least one time a year. (20%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider reducing the number of members in a club sponsoring a new club from 20 to 10. (38%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider recognizing a club with children ages 6 to 12. (41%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider recognizing a club with children under age 12 and allowing districts to give them appropriate names. (27%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider publishing an annual sustainability report and facilitate cooperation with non-Rotary entities in areas with sparce Rotary presence. (46%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider the definition of “positive” peace in its area of focus. (49%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider allowing more flexibility for the definition of “political” in addressing especially climate change as opposed to partisan political natters. (37%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider changing the mandate of the Rotary Representative Network (RI’s voice in the United Nations) to be included in discussions of nuclear risk reduction.   (29%)
 
  • Request the RI Board to consider approving the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (30%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider contributing the mitigation of COVID-19. (39%)
 
  • Request the RI Board to consider designating one area of the world for COVID-19 mitigation efforts.  (20%)
 
  • Request the RI Board to consider asking the RI Foundation Coordinators to support the RI Disaster Response Fund and to create a Foundation subcommittee in east district for this purpose. (28%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider adding “senior health” to the 4th Area of Focus. (48%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider requesting the RI Foundation to change the 4th Area of Focus to include caring for mothers, children, and dependent people. (41%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider eliminating restrictions for Rotarians, Rotaractors and others in the RI community to access RI peace fellowships.  (36%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board consider asking the RI Foundation to consider making publicity a mandatory part of a global grant application.  (31%)
 
  1. Request the RI Board to consider asking the RI Foundation to adopt a more flexible grant model, removing the district obligation to use ½ of its grants for global grants and ½ for district grants. (44%)