The Council on Legislation, Rotary's “parliament,” meets every three years to deliberate and act upon all proposed enactments and resolutions submitted by clubs, district conferences, the General Council and Conference of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland, and the RI Board. The Council itself also makes proposals.

The 2010 Council has released it's Report of Action and in the summary they say:

The Council considered 220 pieces of proposed legislation. These included 128 enactments(proposals to amend the constitutional documents of RI) and 92 resolutions (proposals whichdo not seek to amend the constitutional documents of RI). Of these, the Council adopted 47enactments and 19 resolutions. The Council referred 3 pieces to the RI Board for furtherstudy. The Council rejected 101 proposals, and 50 proposals were withdrawn or considered withdrawn. Of the 66 adopted proposals, the Council adopted 51 exactly as they wereproposed, while 15 were adopted with amendments. Those adopted with amendments arenoted in the report by an asterisk (*) after the number of the proposal. You will note that,where necessitated by amendments, the titles of the proposals have been changed toaccurately reflect the final intent of the legislation.

The complete report is 51 pages and you can read it at:

http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/col10_report_of_action_en.pdf

Traffic was heavy for the last day of the Galungan break, so the drive to the airport required some diversions to miss traffic problems and took 4 hours. The Mandala flight to Surabaya was uneventful (that means good). The airport seems huge (compared to Denpasar) and the taxi ride into the city is along a toll road where the traffic moves swiftly. So welcome to a real city that seems to work.

The District Conference was in the up-market Hotel Bumi Surabaya a short distance from the city centre. We stayed in the more modest (but still very good) Hotel Cendana which was 5 minutes walk.

On December the 20^th President Robbie from the RCBL paid a visit to The Crisis Care Foundation, Kaliasem to deliver clothes for the needy in the area. The clothes were a donation from a private sponsor from Australia.

The Crisis care Foundation has been operating in Bali for 13 years now.

It started in a small room behind a restaurant in Candidasa on the east coast of Bali. Gloria is the director and the founder of this foundation.

Bill Boyd is the incoming president for 2006-2007, and he has chosen "Lead the Way" as the theme for the year. Here, from the July 2006 issue of The Rotarian, is his first message as President:

Dear Fellow Rotarians,

As we embark on a new Rotary year, we look ahead to new responsibilities, new challenges, and new opportunities.

Rotary has flourished for so long because it offers constant values to its members: fellowship, friendship, and doing good work in the world. And Rotary has been welcomed into new communities and new countries because it is not afraid to adapt and respond, to embrace different cultures, and to hold firm to its core principles of honesty, tolerance, and unselfishness.