Agreed, my advice for the new president is be aware of timings and scheduling and get started on that stuff WAY EARLY. So take what ever you think early is and go like a month earlier because you will inevitably run into problems and have to reschedule.
Also we could always go to one meeting per month, or even per week, but to do that I think again that we need to consider what kind of benefits people get for showing up to meetings and becoming a member. Like other organizations we could also include an induction ceremony into the club, something for people to shoot for, I dunno just throwing some of my ideas out on paper.