Recap of Club Meeting Held 04/19/2007

Meeting called to order at 1810 hours, by our president.

Present: McDaniel, Richter, Monroe, Rader, Bergau.

Treasurer's Report: Cash advised the club's checking account balance was $1,298.94. He also reported that the $200 donation has been made to the East Hillsborough Law Enforcement Appreciation Association, and $61.25 was paid to the Florida Department of State for renewal of our corporation status. Cash advised he will be temporarily shutting down the club's store operation due to slow sales. Cash advised he is working on developing new sale items, including a family portrait package. Ace gave Cash a check for $70 that was received from Blue Knights International. Cash gave Ace a check for $8.10 as reimbursement for postage related to mailing membership packets to two newest members.

President's Report: Ace reported that he mailed two new member packets out to Bobrowski and Aszmann. Ace also advised that he had met with Dee Dee Gregory and given her an application for Blue Knights membership.

Richter: Big Ed initiated a discussion regarding ways to increase member participation in club events and activities. Rader said family issues and time involved cause his lack of participation and indicated that is probably the case for other members. Rader suggested that club rides should be shorter so that more people can participate. McDaniel pointed out that for the past few months the practice has been to take shorter rides that begin with breakfast. McDaniel suggested that members who have time constraints could still show up for the ride, have breakfast with the club and then go home or ride as long as they could afford before breaking off and going home. Monroe suggested that we consider doing "out and back loop rides" to allow time constrained members to participate more than is possible with traditional rides. Rader said he thinks that the members are interested in the club and want to be involved, we just need to let them know that there are ways they can participate and still meet their other obligations.

October Trip: Discussion ensued about the annual Fall Leaf Trip. Dates were discussed and it was agreed that the week of October 15th is the best week for this trip and that the date should not be adjusted. McDaniel advised he needs people to start letting him know if they intend to participate in this ride so that he can arrange for the appropriate number of hotel rooms. This must be done several months in advance. Discussion also ensued as to the best number of participants in order to keep the ride successful. It was agreed that the maximum number of bikes for this trip is ten.

Meeting adjourned at 1900 hrs.

Thanks Received for Donation to COPSRUN

The following "Thank You" note was posted on the Blue Knights International member's bulletin board system. I have highlighted our Chapter in red:

"Blue Knights COPSRUN would like to Acknowledge and Thank the following members and chapters for there very generous donations to the Blue Knights COPSRUN:

Delaware 1, Mass 6, NY 18, VA 13, Tenn 6, Conn 1, Fl 27, OK 1, Tenn 3, Ill 20, Pa 6, Alex Mavica, Carl Raymo, Lewis W. Kelly, Robert J.Black-McCormack, Chet Parker, and William Solari.

Your genreous donations will go a long way in helping the Blue Knights COPSRUN finance this years COPS Survivors Picnic.

Liz CookSecretary/Treasurer"