16 Feb 2025
Meeting held at VFW Post 6111.
Meeting opened at 1205 with the Pledge of Allegiance and invocation.
Officers present: Rick Boland, Shelly, Doni, Nay Nay, Troy, Laurie (by phone) and Byrrd Gutierrez.
Legislative Day had a great turnout. We’re working well with CoC&I. They turned out in force for our state meeting.
Minutes accepted as posted.
Treasurer’s report: Accepted as reported.
Membership: 32 lifetime, 24 annual members total membership is 70. Nay Nay is removing bad addresses from the
system. State membership is growing with help from CoC&I.
Legislative: 4 bills that ABATE & CoC&I are working together on have been assigned bill numbers or are getting them
soon. HB1108 – profiling, HB1274 – gang database, HB2440 Internal combustion engine has 6 co-sponsors. Right to
repair is waiting for a bill number. The MRF website has Call to Action buttons for our bills. Not much to report at the
federal level.
George Guffy is our new state assistant coordinator.
Newsletter: Because ads can’t be processed quarterly we are going back to monthly publication. Deadline is the 10 th of
each month. Please submit something. Articles, pictures, road stories, etc.
Products: We still need a products officer. Nay Nay has a candidate. A chapter member has Cricket and may be able to
produce some of our products.
Security: We’re secure.
Web-site is mostly up to date.
Chapter rep: Legislative Day was a good networking opportunity. The next state meeting will be 8 Mar in Duncanville. Robin Warfield is back as state secretary. Can we post the current by-laws on our chapter website? Yes. State legislative and security positions are still open.
Old business: There are still 7 sheets of raffle tickets available. The drawing will be held at our March meeting.
New business: Report on 16 Feb officer’s meeting. 19 Apr (26 Apr rain date) scavenger hunt/poker fun run. $10 per person. 1 picture and 1 card at each stop. Start at Sparrows, end at VFW. 5 stops total. Spread the word.
Motorcycle Awareness Month bike/car show and corn hole tournament. Registration and prizes detailed. VFW will cook and sell food. 10 May from 1:00 to 6:00. Possibly a bounce house? VFW will also post on their Facebook page.
Garage sale 23 Aug from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00. We need 1 box of good stuff from each member. No clothes.
Open floor: Bikers Inside the Beltway 19 & 20 May. Meeting of the Minds in Shreveport 25 – 28 Sep. Mid-South Mile 17
– 19 Oct in Oklahoma.
Chili cook-off at Joe Pool Lake 15 Mar. We will not be a sponsor this year. St. Baldwick’s Day 22 Mar a J. Gilligan’s. We will discuss Arlington Life Shelter at the Mar meeting.
Meeting closed at 1255.
Minutes by Byrrd.
Meeting held at VFW Post 6111.
Meeting opened at 1205 with the Pledge of Allegiance and invocation.
Officers present: Rick Boland, Shelly, Doni, Nay Nay, Troy, Laurie (by phone) and Byrrd Gutierrez.
Legislative Day had a great turnout. We’re working well with CoC&I. They turned out in force for our state meeting.
Minutes accepted as posted.
Treasurer’s report: Accepted as reported.
Membership: 32 lifetime, 24 annual members total membership is 70. Nay Nay is removing bad addresses from the
system. State membership is growing with help from CoC&I.
Legislative: 4 bills that ABATE & CoC&I are working together on have been assigned bill numbers or are getting them
soon. HB1108 – profiling, HB1274 – gang database, HB2440 Internal combustion engine has 6 co-sponsors. Right to
repair is waiting for a bill number. The MRF website has Call to Action buttons for our bills. Not much to report at the
federal level.
George Guffy is our new state assistant coordinator.
Newsletter: Because ads can’t be processed quarterly we are going back to monthly publication. Deadline is the 10 th of
each month. Please submit something. Articles, pictures, road stories, etc.
Products: We still need a products officer. Nay Nay has a candidate. A chapter member has Cricket and may be able to
produce some of our products.
Security: We’re secure.
Web-site is mostly up to date.
Chapter rep: Legislative Day was a good networking opportunity. The next state meeting will be 8 Mar in Duncanville. Robin Warfield is back as state secretary. Can we post the current by-laws on our chapter website? Yes. State legislative and security positions are still open.
Old business: There are still 7 sheets of raffle tickets available. The drawing will be held at our March meeting.
New business: Report on 16 Feb officer’s meeting. 19 Apr (26 Apr rain date) scavenger hunt/poker fun run. $10 per person. 1 picture and 1 card at each stop. Start at Sparrows, end at VFW. 5 stops total. Spread the word.
Motorcycle Awareness Month bike/car show and corn hole tournament. Registration and prizes detailed. VFW will cook and sell food. 10 May from 1:00 to 6:00. Possibly a bounce house? VFW will also post on their Facebook page.
Garage sale 23 Aug from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00. We need 1 box of good stuff from each member. No clothes.
Open floor: Bikers Inside the Beltway 19 & 20 May. Meeting of the Minds in Shreveport 25 – 28 Sep. Mid-South Mile 17
– 19 Oct in Oklahoma.
Chili cook-off at Joe Pool Lake 15 Mar. We will not be a sponsor this year. St. Baldwick’s Day 22 Mar a J. Gilligan’s. We will discuss Arlington Life Shelter at the Mar meeting.
Meeting closed at 1255.
Minutes by Byrrd.
