The Duties of the Zone Chairperson are Simple:

  1. Further the Purposes of the Association
  2. Chairperson of the District Governor's Advisory Committee
  3. Report each District Governor's Advisory Committee
  4. Visit a regular meeting of each club at least once
  5. Promote the Club Excellence Process
  6. Assist with membership and leadership development within the zone
  7. Play an active role in organizing new clubs
  8. Represent each club in any problems
  9. Supervise district, multiple district and LCI projects
  10. Endeavor to have every club operating under a duly adopted club constitution and by-laws
  11. Promote representation of a full quota of delegates at all conventions

The Tools Available to support the Zone Chairperson:

  • The Zone Chairperson's Manual published by Lions Clubs International.
  • The Zone 19 B3 Handbook complied by members serving in our zone.
  • The Past Zone Chairperson and the Past Zone Secretary

What your "To Do" list may look like:

  1. Get to know who is who in the clubs in your zone.
    Your communication plan will be to know how to contact the presidents and secretaries in the clubs. You will find this in the roster. You will also have access to the membership reports on the LCI web site.

  2. Your district governor will provide you with dates for his visit to the clubs. Your visit should be the meeting before his visit.
    Contact the club presidents ASAP to confirm the dates. Your visit will include a brief program that you provide. Details of the district governors visit is provided in the library of this website.

  3. Schedule your zone meetings.
    You are required to have at least 3 zone meetings for the year, but, traditionally, our zone has at least 5 zone meetings. One for each club. Each club hosts one of the zone meetings. Asking the Leo Club to host is optional.

  4. Attend to your Zone Chair visits, District Governor visits, and Zone meetings.

  5. Do your report each month, go to meetings, and share what you know.

Your next step should be to check out this "Zone Chairperson Training – An independent study module focused on the responsibilities, challenges and resources of the zone chairperson position" Power Point presentation from Lions International. Click on this paragraph and a power point presentation will download to your computer and you can go through it at your convience.

Don't forget to let your secretary and or the current zone chairperson know that you are interested in doing it. This a a good way to find out more of what it is about before you make a commitment.

We hope that this helps to explain the Zone Chairperson position. If you have questions or would like to comment on the materal in this review, please send it to lionszone19b3@gmail.com.