Arlington ABATE Meeting Minutes
Date: September 17, 2017
Location: VFW Post 6111
Meeting open: 12:10 p.m.
Pledge and Moment of Silence: Led by Rick & Pistol Bob
Secretary Report: Motion to accept minutes with corrections, seconded and approved with one abstention.
Treasurer’s Report: The Scorcher gate, 50/50, and bingo plus donations made $70.00 after tipping Ericka $50.00. Approved with one abstention.
Membership Report: NaeNae cannot issue cards right now because we cannot issue numbers.
Products Report: T-Shirts are available. Let Robin know if you want something different. She sold 5 shirts last month and still has 19.
Legislative Report:
-Jane Lundquist is TxDOT, but has nothing to do with motorcycles. Jude is concerned about Jane as well. She primarily deals with child safety issues. MRF is questioning her appointment to the committee and is still trying to be included.
-501 Funds and SB1- TX governor vetoed motorcycle funds for 2019 saying the DPS should contact legislators. Research led to contacting director of DPS – McCraw. Also sent a letter to Senator Watson.
-AMSEP – We did not get grant funding. MADD got $100,000. All funding was alcohol related. We are still moving forward.
- MRF – Rick is sending emails when he receives information from MRF. Click on the link to send letters to our legislators. Please send these emails. There are 4,000 members in the US, but only 700 are sending emails. It does not cause you to get junk mail. All of Rick’s legislative information posts are included on our website. Go to MRF.org if you want to get more information sent to your email.
Chapter Representative’s Report:
Security Report: We are secure.
Webmaster Report:
We have had 136 hits from different IP addresses this week. News and Events has been updated. The officer’s page has been updated with new email. Products page will be disabled for the time being.
Public Relations (PR) Report: No report.
Old Business:
New Business:
Date: September 17, 2017
Location: VFW Post 6111
Meeting open: 12:10 p.m.
Pledge and Moment of Silence: Led by Rick & Pistol Bob
Secretary Report: Motion to accept minutes with corrections, seconded and approved with one abstention.
Treasurer’s Report: The Scorcher gate, 50/50, and bingo plus donations made $70.00 after tipping Ericka $50.00. Approved with one abstention.
Membership Report: NaeNae cannot issue cards right now because we cannot issue numbers.
Products Report: T-Shirts are available. Let Robin know if you want something different. She sold 5 shirts last month and still has 19.
Legislative Report:
-Jane Lundquist is TxDOT, but has nothing to do with motorcycles. Jude is concerned about Jane as well. She primarily deals with child safety issues. MRF is questioning her appointment to the committee and is still trying to be included.
-501 Funds and SB1- TX governor vetoed motorcycle funds for 2019 saying the DPS should contact legislators. Research led to contacting director of DPS – McCraw. Also sent a letter to Senator Watson.
-AMSEP – We did not get grant funding. MADD got $100,000. All funding was alcohol related. We are still moving forward.
- MRF – Rick is sending emails when he receives information from MRF. Click on the link to send letters to our legislators. Please send these emails. There are 4,000 members in the US, but only 700 are sending emails. It does not cause you to get junk mail. All of Rick’s legislative information posts are included on our website. Go to MRF.org if you want to get more information sent to your email.
Chapter Representative’s Report:
- We did not have a quorum at the state rally, so we could not have a meeting.
- There were questions about “Train Wreck” from the Golden Triangle chapter.Concerns about how they are doing following the hurricane.
- Membership – NaeNae has money for memberships, but cannot give the members their numbers.The membership person at the state level is moving and is planning to resign.That has not happened as of this meeting.
It was decided that our chapter will issue our own cards with “T” for temporary followed by a number. This will be a laminated card. - Chuck Butler volunteered to be the temporary state membership officer. However, the position is not open as of this meeting.One of the state officers will get the membership records and clean them up by January.Rick will check into what happening and will submit Chuck’s name as a volunteer.
Security Report: We are secure.
Webmaster Report:
We have had 136 hits from different IP addresses this week. News and Events has been updated. The officer’s page has been updated with new email. Products page will be disabled for the time being.
Public Relations (PR) Report: No report.
Old Business:
- Yard Signs – B & B that was recommended last month does not make yard signs.D & M is local. NaeNae will check with Budget Signs at Matlock and I-20.
- Snowball Express – Kirsten reports that Buck Kern, the representative from Snowball Express will be out of town until Friday.He will set up a time to meet and discuss a project for 2018.Years ago, NaeNae put together a ride for Smitty and the proceeds went to Snowball Express.Chuck B. suggests we do something for ourselves to benefit vets.He states that the American Legion and VFW are the only organizations who help.Deb wants to make this more about ABATE helping others in our community.We have been involved in charitable works:Homeless shelter, Snowball Express.Maybe we can add VFW 6111 as one of our charities.A motion was made and seconded to table this discussion for now.The motion passed with one abstention.
- ABATE insurance – Shannon, a representative from American Income Life presented information about the insurance benefit that is a part of ABATE membership. She is currently working with Rick and Deborah to get him additional funds, since he has been a long-time member. You must sign up for this benefit to designate a beneficiary.
New Business:
- Schneider’s headstone - $1200.00 has been raised.JoAnn York is in charge of this, we don’t have new information.The headstone selected by Brenda costs $7,000.Ericka has asked for an update.Kirsten will contact her.
- Debbie brought information from TABC about the amount of alcohol we can consume and still be safe.She pointed out that many ladies are impaired after only one drink.She reminded us to be safe and to be aware of our alcohol consumption when representing ABATE.
- < >Officers -Positions are open for a November vote.Coordinator: Rick Boland, Assistant Coordinator: Kirsten,Secretary: Open, Treasurer: Shelly Crawford, Membership: NayNay, Products: Robin, Legislative Rep: Open; Chapter Rep: Donnie; Security: Q-Ball
- Welcome to our guests:Don and Pam from Illinois and Lisa from Montana.
- We still need stuff for the basket to take to Mid-South Mile.The theme is “Christmas in Texas”.A hat was passed for cash donations.Please bring any donations to the next meeting and give them to Kirsten.She is putting the basket together.
- An emergency meeting was held for the Mid-South Mile last month.Dave Mann had been in charge of maintaining the not-for-profit status. However, it had not been done since his passing.This was taken care of at the meeting. This will be the 26th year for the Mid-South Mile.
- Cody Cummings is having a special on tattoos this weekend.Palm-sized tattoo for $60.00.He is also featuring Baby Super Heroes.
- Moose is selling $10.00 discount card for his school’s athletics fundraiser.
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