Secretary's Page

Officers Attending:

• President: Boyd Fiebelkorn
• Vice President: Vonnie Smith
• Secretary (acting): Becky McBeth   
• Treasurer: Todd Lund
• State Rep: Deano Meehan
• Sergeant @ Arms: Mark Mertens
•                       Hives         
  

Members Present: 23
Guests Present: 4

Meeting called to order at 6:01 pm

Secretary Report~ Becky

• June meeting minutes were read and a motion to accept the minutes was made by Trevor and seconded by Kinger and passed by oral vote.

Treasurers Report~ Todd:

• General account: $
• Gambling account: no updated report
• Have the checks for 1^st Responders
• Chokio, Donnelly, Courage Cottage and the Sexual Assault Center
• Motion to accept treasurer’s report made by Kinger, seconded by Trevor and passed by oral vote.

Vice President’s report~ Vonnie

• Introduction to Vonnie and Mikes new baby girl.

State Reps Report~ Deano:

• State Rally tickets $35.00. This will be the last night that they will be this price.  They will be returned at the next BOD.
• Gambling/Raffle tickets cannot be sold out of state but can be sold in MN to people who live out of state. (State Gambling Law)
• State Rally committee signed a new 5 year contract for the Rally to be held at the Litchfield fairgrounds.
• Will be discussed at the next BOD about a “Blanket Insurance Policy” for fund raisers, events etc. (Out of chapter Accounts?)

Government Relations Liaison~ Pete

• has resigned Derek VanLuik volunteered to become the new Liaison.  Thanks Derek!

Public Relations/Historian~ need to find someone for this duty

Gambling Report~ Hives

• Not even 10 books of raffle tickets have been returned. We have 200 books to sell.  Need to get out there and sell them or this will be our last raffle.

Events Committee~ Mark

• Mark wants to retire. Still no one to replace him as of yet.

PGR Update~Vince

• ~not here

Website~ Warren

• Website is up and running.

Old Business:

• Tent for the State Rally was reserved $310.00
• Need more ideas for the distribution of Buddy Bears.

New Business:

• Need to get the First Responders together to give them the checks.
• Will be passing the hat each meeting till the Rally to defer the cost of the tent.

Open Discussion:

• Sedan Days August 16^{th are} we going to help Tony? This will be discussed at the next meeting.

 

~Motion to adjourn made by Skimmer, seconded by Trevor and passed by oral vote.

 

~Meeting Adjourned at 6:49 pm