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Meeting ID: 989 441 809
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at Noon via ZOOM
CHARLES F. (CHAZ) BILLINGTON III, Esq.
Our Youth Protection Policy
Youth Protection Committee Chair, Rotary Club of Akron
Member, Rotary District 6630
Chaz is the Chair of the Rotary Club of Akron Youth Protection Committee and a member of the District 6630 Youth Protection Committee.
Many members are aware that youth protection and safety is a high priority of Rotary International, District 6630, and all of our clubs and members. You may be less aware that Rotary International mandates youth safety protections be implemented for all Rotary related youth activities, events, and contacts.
After considerable effort, the District 6630 Youth Protection Committee, chaired by PDG John Reyes, rolled out a comprehensive Youth Protection Policy.
Chaz will be explaining this Policy and how it affects all Clubs, every member and also all non-members who participate in youth activities, events and contact.
There are few activities in the District and its Clubs that are more valuable or more important than working with youth. It is imperative that all of us do our best as Rotary International mandates to make all youth activities as safe as possible for all involved.
About Chaz:
He is a partner in the Vorys Cleveland office and a member of the labor and employment group. He has significant experience advising in-house legal counsel and HR leaders on a wide range of labor and employment matters, including: the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); collective bargaining, labor relations issues and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB); drafting and implementing employee handbooks; providing management and employee trainings; and assisting with HR related issues associated with both mergers and acquisitions.
Career Highlights:
Working as assistant general counsel at a Fortune 500 company and advising business and HR leadership regarding all aspects of labor and employment law impacting over 25,000 employees
Serving as the vice president of HR at a large financial services company
Representing domestic and international clients in the education, transportation, healthcare, power distribution, engineering, manufacturing, banking, retail, staffing, and construction industries on labor and employment matters
Leading investigations of, and responses to, NLRB unfair labor practice charges and NLRB hearings, including coordination of investigations, interviews, affidavits, and preparation of hearing briefs
Managing employment litigation for a Fortune 500 company throughout the U.S. and overseeing the work of outside counsel
Prior to joining Vorys, Chaz worked as an assistant general counsel at Parker-Hannifin Corporation. He also served as the VP of HR at a large financial services company. This experience in-house has made Chaz more pragmatic, budget sensitive and creative when addressing labor and employment related matters for clients.
Chaz is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) and the OSBA’s Labor and Employment Section.
Chaz received his J.D. summa cum laude from Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and served as a senior editor for theCleveland State Law Review. He also served as a research editor for the Cleveland State Journal of Law and Health. He received his B.S. and A.A.S cum laude from the University of Akron.
The Chili Open is only 24 days away and we are counting on your support to make this event successful!
RAFFLE TICKETS Our club members have been asked to sell a minimum of $200 in raffle tickets. The goal for ticket sales is $60,000. Many have had great success in selling tickets by sending an email solicitation to your family, friends and business colleagues asking for their help in purchasing tickets. Thank you in advance to those of you who have sold tickets and those that are still selling.
Please mail your sold raffle tickets to Akron Rotary Camp (4460 Rex Lake Drive, Akron OH 44319), no later than Friday, January 28, 2022. If you are in need of more tickets to sell, we will have them on hand as well. Tickets can also be purchased here.
SILENT AUCTION
The Silent Auction will feature a "Wheelbarrow of Good Cheer!" and an 18- bottle Wine Fridge. Help us fill the wheelbarrow and fridge with any donation of unopened bottles of spirits, mixers and wine.
ONLINE AUCTION
We are also still in need of items for our online auction, like food baskets, golf packages, or family entertainment packages.
If you know of anyone that will be able to donate something, please let us know. If you need someone to pick up any items, please call or email Amanda at Akron Rotary Camp (330.644.4512 or amandaw@akronymca.org), and we would be happy to make those arrangements.
DOOR PRIZES
Do you have any items, gifts, or maybe promotional items from your company that can be used as door prizes? Please consider donating them, as we still need some items. Our attendees love getting door prizes at the event!
Thank you in advance for your donations to help make the Chili Open a continued success to benefit Akron Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs!
Will you please help us increase raffle sales by simply using this template (just add your signature) and send it to your friends, family and business contacts? You can copy and paste the below text (links are already built in for you where text is underlined).
Chili Open Raffle Tickets Fore the Kids!
Please consider joining me in purchasing raffle tickets to support The Akron Rotary’s Chili Open!
As you may know, I am a member of the Akron Rotary Club which hosts the Chili Open Golf Classic presented by Wayne Homes, a winter golf event that benefits The Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs. Annually, Rotary Camp traditionally serves 1,800+ children and adults with disabilities and provides financial assistance to families in need of their services. The Chili Open helps to make this possible! This year, the Chili Open is celebrating its 32nd anniversary and our goal is to raise $320,000 to provide more families the opportunity to send their children to camp.
Raffle tickets are $20 per ticket, each raffle ticket includes $25 in discounts:
Purchase two entrees and receive $15 off your bill at Lala’s on the Lakes, located on Manchester Road, Akron.
Raffle ticket prizes are:
1st prize is a 2022 Kia Forte LXS, or $16,000 cash payout - Thank you to The VanDevere Bunch!
2nd prize is a Goodyear Blimp Ride for two, courtesy of Wealth Impact Advisors – Thank you Rotarian Jim Redmond!
3rd prize is a LG 55” 4k Smart LED TV, courtesy of the S Group, Inc. – Thank you Rotarian Jeff Sheeks!
Everyone who purchases five (5) tickets for $100 will automatically be entered into the SNOWMANIA drawing for a chance to win $50,000. This is in addition to the five (5) chances for the car raffle drawing. For SNOWMANIA to go live, we need 6-inches of newly fallen snow accumulation on February 19, 2022 between 12:01am and 11:59pm at the Akron-Canton Airport, Ohio as independently determined by Weather Command. The qualifying winning ticket for SNOWMANIA will be drawn on Saturday, February 5, 2022 at the Chili Open. Winner need not be present.
The Rotary Club of Akron had the privilege of listening to the Akron Public Schools’ Superintendent. View the presentation by clicking here or copy and paste the link into your browser https://youtu.be/ppeD7o29Vb8
Born and raised in Akron and educated in Akron Public Schools (APS), Superintendent Christine Fowler Mack is an experienced school district leader whose first classroom experience was in the APS system as a teacher at Robinson Elementary School from 1989 – 1995. Following that, Fowler Mack was a student dean and teacher leader for two years in APS.
Named superintendent of Akron Public Schools in 2021, Christine Fowler Mack began her leadership duties July 1, 2021.
Superintendent Fowler-Mack provided the Club some information about the school system as well as some of the goals and direction the APS system is going. With more than 4,100 teachers and staff, APS budget stands at more than $565 million. This number equates to $10,652 per student. There are 21,113 students enrolled. Of these 21,113 students 465.5% are Black, 31% are White, 9.3% are multi-race, 8.8% Asian/Pacific, and 4.3% Latino. The APS system has 48 school buildings and 4 administrative/support buildings.
APS graduated 1140 students in 2021. A total of 9,297 college credits were attained, 18,744 hours of internships and jobs were accomplished and there were 935 Industry credentials.
APS continued to embrace the Career and College Academy approach.
Fowler-Mack discussed the 4 core commitments of APS. These commitments are: 1) High Quality Instruction, 2) Health and Safety, 3) Staff Support, and 4) Adaptive and Responsive Practices. Some of the Health and Safety initiatives include mask wearing, surgical masks, handwashing, cleaning and sanitation, social distancing, transportation systems, building systems, school visitors, COVID testing, vaccination clinics, athletic and field trip engagement modifications.
Fowler-Mack discussed the Portrait of an Akron Public School Elementary Student as well as a Portrait of an Akron Public School Graduate. These portraits included 5 areas: 1) Social skills development, 2) Contributions of society, 3) Strong habits of mind, 4) Real world skills, and 5) Plan for the future.
COVID was and continues to be a challenge to the system, but Fowler-Mack emphasized the challenge also unleashed a wave of innovation that accelerated changes improving various aspects of the APS system.
Some of the Strategies for Innovation and Improvement included the following: 1) Family Resource Centers, 2) Akron Children’s Hospital Academy of Health and Human Sciences at North High School, 3) The I Promise School, 4) College and Career Academies, 5) Stay in the Game, and 6) I: World (every student has a notebook or laptop which made the virtual learning last year more of a reality than many urban schools).
Currently in draft is an “Excellence through Equity” vision statement that will be presented to the School Board in the very near future.
Superintendent Fowler-Mack entertained questions from Rotarians.
She also provided information of the Vaccination Clinics that are taking place - the next one is on January 14, 2022 3pm-7pm at North High School.
The vaccination is for student and staff boosters or second shots for students who received first shots through APS vaccination clinics.
Our College & Career Academy Partner North High School is having an in-person Career Expo Thursday January 13th from 8:30am-11am. They are looking for professionals from the area of Entrepreneurship and Marketing (they already have a small business owner and social media marketing), or something in the area of technology, whether working on an actual system or designing apps/websites, etc. to represent and talk about their company to students.
I am looking for 1-2 volunteers in any of those spaces to help give some insight into potential careers to the North students.
Please email me at josephmariomicale@gmail.com to let me know if you’re interested and able to help with this ASAP.
Our Auction, will continue to be online this year. It will open for a week beginning on January 28, 2022 6pm and will conclude on February 5th at 1:30pm.
Text chiliopen22 to 76278 to register for the auction.
Your participation in Akron Rotary’s Chili Open Golf Classic presented by Wayne Homes will help serve more than 1,800 children and adults along with their families with a wide range of developmental and physical disabilities and mental health disorders through our day, overnight and year round respite camp programs.
At Rotary Camp, campers are provided the opportunity to experience traditional camping activities, develop relationships, learn life skills and create memories that last a lifetime. When campers leave Rotary camp at the end of each session, they not only leave with lifelong memories and friends, but they often show more independence as well as a greater understanding of themselves and their abilities.
Our club members have been asked to sell a minimum of $200 in raffle tickets. The goal for ticket sales is $60,000. Many have had great success in selling tickets by sending an email solicitation to your family, friends and business colleagues asking for their help in purchasing tickets. Thank you in advance to those of you who have sold tickets and those that are still selling. 
Superintendent Fowler-Mack provided the Club some information about the school system as well as some of the goals and direction the APS system is going. With more than 4,100 teachers and staff, APS budget stands at more than $565 million. This number equates to $10,652 per student. There are 21,113 students enrolled. Of these 21,113 students 465.5% are Black, 31% are White, 9.3% are multi-race, 8.8% Asian/Pacific, and 4.3% Latino. The APS system has 48 school buildings and 4 administrative/support buildings.
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