ABATE of Washington
Board of Director’s
Meeting Minutes
April 24th, 2010
Sergeant at Arms: Mike had to leave due to mechanical issues
Call To Order: 12:08 PM
Pledge of Allegiance
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Roll Call
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Coordinator
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Inland Empire
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Olympia
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Central Washington
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Kittitas County
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Pacific County
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Clark County
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Lewis County
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Rat City
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Columbia Gorge
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Mason County
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Sky Valley
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East Pierce County
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NE Washington
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Sno King
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Grant County
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North Kitsap
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South King County
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Grays Harbor
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North Olympic
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Southwest
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Independence Chapter
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North Snohomish
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Tacoma
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Eastside Deputy Coordinator
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Secretary
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Ambassador at Large
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Westside Deputy Coordinator
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Treasurer
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NCOM Ambassador
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Chaplains Blessing: Dinner Bell led us in prayer
Acknowledgments: Fran gave us an update on insurance, increase of AD benefits to $3500. Members should
update the beneficiary form yearly. increase in mailing response, full service company, encourages feedback.
Agenda Changes: Motion to approve agenda with modifications, MSP
Officer Reports :
Coordinator- Mick Gillispie
* Motion to Confirm Committee Chairs, Officers, and Ambassador
1) Citation Officer – Scott, MSP 2) Membership Recruiter – Vicki, MSP
3) NCOM Ambassador – Irish, MSP 4) Newsletter Editor – Ron, MSP
* Motion to seat Mike Rutter in July as Westside Deputy Coordinator, running unopposed, MSP
* Motion to seat Mick Gillispie in July as State Coordinator, running unopposed, MSP
* spoke about Chapter Event Insurance and limiting responsibility so our volunteers don’t take on so much.
Secretary – Rona Smith
* Submitting January 2010 BOD Minutes for approval, MSP
* Discussed web-cam communication for Ron Voss, instructed to address at webmaster report
* Information on new copy machine lease vs existing owned machine & maintenance, take to ECOM
Treasurer – Koeta Imhof
* Distribute Financial Reports & Quarterly Report
* suspend agenda for Fran, MSP motion to return to agenda, MSP
Eastside SR. Deputy Coordinator Report & Event Reports – Ron Voss
Spring Swap Meet – Rona gave report, Koeta gave preliminary financial report.
Freedom Rally – Ron reported on area #2’s run is on 5/21-23, t-shirts available $10-12.
Spring Opener – Mike gave update, motion to approve last years agenda with updates, MSP No Chapter advertising packs available for distribution, flyers and mini ad cards available to take. Tickets available today.
Fall Swap Meet – Rona confirmed the date is changed to October 17.
Westside Jr. Deputy Coordinator Report & Committee Reports – Dutch Phillips
Bylaws – Open, …Mike Campbell, Lyle, & Leland are part of the committee…they are updating/organizing.
Chaplin – Ranger Ric was not present, DinnerBell did not have anything new to report.
Communications/Webmaster – Mike Middleton gave thorough updates on all upgrades & changes. MSP MSP
Motion for Ron Voss to participate at ECOM meetings via web-cam, MSP Darcy brought a request by a student
Who received a grant to do a survey on biker culture. motion to include this under ‘unrelated links’ on our
website Darcy & Mike can work out the details, MSP
Citation – Scott Major
Legislative – Donnie Landsman was not present. Irish mentioned just cause the session is over our job
is not. Mike also reminded us this is an election year
Membership – Bruce Ramsey was not present. Lyle handed out the rosters & gave us the membership numbers.
* Current – 1354, Grace Period – 136, & 90 day New Member Status – 46, Total = 1536
Tacoma – 148, Lewis- 147, and EPCC – 145. If members don’t receive newsletters, they need to
update their address. New member today, Rick who came with DinnerBell. Karen spoke of new members to
SKCC who live in Idaho.
Membership Recruiter – Vicki Kosco was not present. Call her if you need a booth at an event.
Newsletter – Ron Fryer gave a general update. motion for ad team to be authorized to swap advertising, MSP
motion to pay members or chapter a 10% commission for selling newsletter ads, MSP
Parliamentarian – Darcy Mugartegui had nothing new to report, informed new coordinators of her position.
Products – Roxy Kelly things are the same, no report
Public Relations – Open
Quartermasters – Jay Frasier was not present Mike brought the message, “he has stuff”. He will eventually be
calling chapters to see if they want some of their old stuff. Also chapters need to turn in their inventory lists.
Safety & Education – Lenny Pletsch was not present
State Audit – Darcy Mugartegui is looking for 5 volunteers to do audit.
Ambassador At Large – Mike Campbell
Two areas interested in the possibility of starting chapters, Tri-Cities & Wenatchee. Just heard yesterday
about interest in the north, around Skagit area. Jerry V. knows of another interested area, will get with Mike.
NCOM Ambassador – Irish McKinney
* Thanked the Board for their confidence in him for this position
* Outlined his proposed agenda for his position, also interested in having an alternate for his position for
those times when it would be needed.
* COC Fundraiser May 1st, meet at the 48th St. Tavern, Tacoma
Unfinished Business:
None brought forward
New Business:
1) Rat City Bylaws has not been able to locate their original set, so new ones were submitted to state for
approval, motion to approve new bylaws, MSP
2) Motion for all future proposed bylaw changes to include a) the original verbiage and b) pros & cons
written by two different people for the proposed change, MSP
3) Proposed Criteria for Lifetime Membership – Bylaw 3.2.2
motion to accept, MSF motion to not award any lifetime membership’s till criteria is created, MSP
4) Proposed Guidelines for State Website – Policy 25 motion to table, MSP
5) July BOD hosting Chapter – Grant County Chapter.
6) Rat City presented a check in the amount of $171 for the legislative fund from their Scavenger Hunt Run.
ECOM Meetings 201011:AM Locations – Johnnys in Fife (except December)
May 23, June 13, August 29, September 19, November 21, December 18
BOD Meetings 2010 12:PM except October = 10AM
July 31st – Grant Co, October 3rd – Mason Co.
Scheduled Events 2010
May Freedom Rally, Olympia – June 16-20th Spring Opener, Goldendale –
October 12 Fall Swap Meet, Enumclaw – October 1-2nd STEAM/Awards Dinner, Mason Co.
Good of the Order: John Calabresse is now Chapter Rep #5. various chapter event updates, see flyers.
Jerry asked if we could put together a ‘broken bike’ fund for incidents like today with Mike’s bike.
We did pass the hat today, Thank You everyone that helped Mike.
Rona passed out our state’s RCW codes regarding gambling and chapter events.
Adjourn Time: 3:30 PM
Submitted by: Rona K. Smith, ABATE of Washington, State Secretary