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July 2015 Meeting Minutes

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July meeting started at 7:30pm and was held at the Orleans Legion.. There were 12 Members and 5 officers and 7 guests present.

The Treasurer & Secretary reports was read and excepted.

Harley Raffle
The bike has been paid for and is being displayed at GRN MTN Harley. Lorilea will make a poster display to use at the toy run in hopes to sell a few tickets.
Toy Run
Dana Lesperance will lead group from Newport to St Johnsbury. Roadie or Casey will lead the group from St Johnsbury to Barre. Clarence will tow the trail and pick it up from Donnie the night before. Discussion about whether to move location from mall to maplefields to avoid construction. Jason will check with Maplefields on Thursday and let Holly know.
Joe brought t-shirt samples . Decided to do just one color and change every year. Going with Kelly Green this year. Order from Queensboro for $8.78/tank and $4.79/t-shirt. For a total of $1474 plus a rush fee. Sell for $15 a piece.
Donnie will get trash bags to put plastic water bottles in. Mike will check on Port-a-let bill

Kingdom Thunder:
After discussion, Jeff Cota moved, Mike Burt 2nd to cancel the event. Not enough time or interest to continue.
Scholarships
5 recipients attended: Anna Leeper, Logan Harper, Megan Horseford, Natalee Deaette & Emily Lawson.
Miscellaneous:
Road moved, Ellen 2nd to make a $200 donation to Military Kids of VT.
Decided to give usual donation to Crossroads Rally to have our info on their shirts. Donnie will be cooking the pig.
Meeting adjourned at 845pm.

June 2015 Meeting Minutes

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7:05 meeting called to order

There were 3 officers and 2 members in attendance: Holly, Clarence, Joe, Donnie and Lorelei, as well as 2 scholarship recipients and their families.

Pledge of allegiance
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Guests: Caleb and Blair (scholarship recipients) and family

Presented checks –

Blare wants to be an elementary school teacher and is attending UVM

Caleb is going to school in Kentucky for broadcast journalism

Patrick – was not able to attend as he is working nights during the summer, he is majoring in Web development and attending VT Technical College

We have not heard back from several scholarship winners.

Caleb Sweeney – received check
Blair Bean – received check
Patrick Wilkins – received check
Megan Horsford – will be at July meeting
Anna Leeper?
Logan Harper?
Natalee Deaette?
Emily Lawson?

Treasurer’s report – there was a question about a Memphremagog Press check, will look into it. Clarence will start using new format for treasurer reports that will have more info so we can use them for tracking and future planning. Donnie made the motion to accept, seconded by Lorelei, all approved.

Toy Run Update

Bottomless Pit is going to be there for food. Clarence has volunteered to drive his truck and pull the trailer the day of the Toy Run. Holly will have a flag on her bike for the toy run.

We will be selling bottled water; it will be delivered to BCBS the day before. Donnie will put his big cooler in the truck and we will fill it with ice on the way. Lorelei will look into printing a poster of the bike instead of having the actual bike at the Toy Run

Texas Roadhouse is getting a new owner (that would make a nice UMV clubhouse). Hopefully the new owners will still be catering.

ETA is the band, bike is from from Green Mtn. HD , put that info on ticket.

Joe Benning will not be there, Phil Scott has not responded, neither has Luis Guzmann. We need a speaker.

We will have to take care of empty water bottles.
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Posters, flyers and magnets – we made sure to have them ready for this meeting so members could start distributing them.

we have 100 flyers, cost $55 from Staples
we have 200 magnets for $52 from VistaPrint

We will update the info on our site, Facebook and the flyers as we get more info and confirmations.

T-shirts, waiting to hear if queensboro can adapt the Santa image to print on shirt, it has too many colors to silkscreen as is and Joe has not had enough time to work on it. Queensboro did our embroidered shirts.

HD Raffle

Once we’ve bought the bike, Holly will contact Derby Press for tickets, we plan on having them for the Toy Run.

Harley has not been bought yet, Clarence, Holly and Joe are going to Green Mtn. HD on Saturday 6/6/2015 to buy one – let us know if you want to go too. The street bob is not in stock now according to their site. We discussed getting insurance so we could bring the bike to the Toy Run, but decided against trying, as we are so short handed.

No new Kingdom Thunder info

Camp Takumta – we will present a check, and check to see if we ride there ourselves or join in the group ride
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Donnie’s Pig Roast july 11

Crossroads 1 day event

Meeting ended approx.. 8:05.

Note from Joe: today is my first day off in years. This is not an exaggeration, I am expected to work 24/7/365 and those of you who know who I work for can surely appreciate this. The last day off I had would have been the day I spent in the intensive care unit at Fletcher Allen in October of 2010, as best as I can remember. I used to enjoy working and developing on the computer, it has become something that I just have to do now. I started working on a UMV newsletter back in December, after thinking about it for months, and am planning on actually sending the newsletter later today. I am trying to cut back on my hours and days at work so that I can again enjoy working on the computer and getting things done for UMV.

May 2015 Meeting Minutes

May meeting started at 7:10pm and was held at the Orleans Legion.. There were 8Members and 5 officers and 1 visitor present.

The Treasurer & Secretary reports was read and excepted.

Harley Raffle
Green Mtn Harley gave a price of $13,000 for another Street Bob. Roadie moved, Casey 2nd to purchase. Approved. Discussion on if we should purchase up front or do as in the past (pay 1/2 now, 1/2 when we pick up in the fall). Grn Mrn Harley agreed to set up and let us advertise tickets. Clarence will check to see if we can take to the Toy Run. Can order the tickets with: bike, band, date and food. Will get 2 gift certs from Tex- as Roadhouse for additional runner ups.

Toy Run
Michael Bellizzi will call Sheriffs office for police from Newport and St Johnsbury. Need a leader from Newport to StJ and then to Berlin. Mike Burt will do letters requesting other police coverage & contact Sam Hill. Kevin will contact Lamoille Sheriff. Mike confimed port-a-lets taken care of with Calkins. Discussed paying the fee to us the design from the posters for the t-shirts. Road moved, Casey 2nd– it was approved. De- cided to order 200 magnets for $36– Joe will order. Joe will get poster design to Tarin for the next meeting. Discussed bulk ice for selling water. Richard said he had a big holder to put the ice and water in. Decided to order water from VT Pure– 1 1/2 pallets for $396, sell for $100.

Kingdom Thunder:
Jeff, Jeff and Jason will wrap up a route. Scholarships
We received 19 applications– Donnie can’t do the 9th at his house, changed to Casey’s at 4pm. Discussed trying to mark 1 scholarship to those going into motorsports. Table until the next meeting– will set up a committee to rewrite the scholarship application. Plan to hand out in September with follow-ups in January.
Meeting adjourned at 835pm.

March 2015 Meeting Minutes

March meeting started at 7:00pm and was held at the Orleans Legion . There were 6 Members, 4 officers and 1 guest (Bill Morse) present

The Treasurer & Secretary reports was read and excepted.

Harley Raffle
Road Trash band called about possibility of doing HR next year. Discussion was had on moving event from the VFW. Discussion was had on a Margarita machine for the raffle item.

Toy Run
We will sell water at the toy run this year, ask Vt Heritage Spring Water. Holly asked Red Knights for help again this year. Need ideas for free membership round up.

Kingdom Thunder:
Discussion on moving KT bank to just 1 day event. Made by Kevin seconded by Jeff.

Miscellaneous
AMA has new bill about bad fuel, go to the site and make complaints.

Scholarships

Meeting adjourned at 807pm.

January 2015 Meeting Minutes

January meeting started at 7:15pm and was held at the Orleans Legion . There were 9 Members, 5 officers present

The Treasurer & Secretary reports was read and excepted.

Harley Raffle
Donnie will call Ronnie at the VFW to open the hall at 1pm. Holly confirmed that the Gift Certificates for 3rd to 5th place winners are all set. Confirmed $10 at the door for the dance and $25 for dinner and dance.

Toy Run
Will be 8/8 this year. Jeff Cota suggested offering free memberships to everyone at the toy run this year as a way to gather info. Only as a one time thing. It was discussed, Jeff Cota moved, Jeff Harper 2nd. It was passed. Would like to see Shriners at Blue Cross Blue Shield again this year. We will only order the number of shirts that we sold last year.

Kingdom Thunder:
Vendors will be able to set up for free this year. Any sponsor can set up as well. Jeff Cota will get us construction routes so we can better plan this years route. Jason might have a lead on a free tent, will try to get confirmation for next meeting. Sponsorship/ad sheets were handed out.

Miscellaneous

Scholarships

Meeting adjourned at 825pm.

UMV Meeting Minutes Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Present: Holly, Joe, Clarence, Phil, Kevin, Casey

VFW Hyde Park, VT – 7:15

Secretary’s report read by Holly – read minutes of January meeting. Kevin motion to accept, Phil seconded

Clarence gave Treasurer’s report, raffle made money, see treasurer’s report. VFW went up ~$200

We do not expect to get $100 deposit back from VFW, we do not sweep and mop the floor after the raffle. Casey made motion to accept, seconded by Phil, all approved.

Election – Kevin made motion for secretary to cast one vote for existing slate, seconded by Phil, all approved.

Officers are: President – Holly, Vice President – Jason, Secretary – Gabriel, Treasurer – Clarence, Sgt. at Arms – Joe. After consulting our rules we elected Jason and Gabriel in absentia.

Harley Raffle -Phil suggested spacing tables differently. Some people left early because VFW staff started clearing early. Band is good to listen to, not to dance to? Phil mentioned that the lead singer was sick and was probably why. Mike took the barrel home to fix the hinge.

We pay VFW bartenders 3:30 – 12:30, dance ends at midnight, last song was about 11:20.

We’ll need to discuss with VFW that they should not be clearing tables and dumping people’s drinks early. Starting to clean up gives the signal that it’s over and people start leaving because of it.

Scholoarships – need a quiet place not like Texas Roadhouse, due end of March.

Toy Run – Mike probably has everything under control. T-shirt info sent out to schools? Only order number of shirts we sold last year. Get Red Knights to do parking again. We will get bottles of water to sell.

Speakers at State House? – Phil Scott, Joe Benning…

Free memberships at Toy Run, Casey suggested we do it every couple years, not every year.

Holly wants Shriners at the BCBS parking lot. And she would rather not lead the group from Morrisville. We can get Wade, Keith or Troy to do it.

Kingdom Thunder – We have sponsor sheets, may not get big tent. Help clean up the fair grounds week before. If Gabriel and Jason do leave, we are not prepared to continue KT.

Some talk about un-organized get togethers for members – go camping somewhere and hang out for a night or weekend.

Phil made motion to adjourn, second by Kevin, all agreed. Adjourned at 8:10.

December 2014 Meeting Minutes

December meeting was held at the Hyde Park VFW and started at 715 with 8 members and 4 officers present.

Treasures report and Secretary reports were both read and accepted

Harley Raffle
Discussed $50 gift cards to Texas Roadhouse for 3-5 place prizes. Kevin moved and Troy 2nd. Holly with coordinate with Lila. We will meet the day of the Raffle at 1pm at VFW for set up. Discussion was had on putting the name of the band on the tickets next year if its know when the tickets are printed. Also discussed making up posters next year. Will do arm length of tickets for raffle item for $5.

Still had 72 tickers outs, since not everyone was there, not sure how many tickets we have left to sell. Some discussion was had on ticket price and bike size. More will be had at January meeting,

Miscellaneous
Monty discussed helmet law progress. Also discussed his efforts and results with Freeze Out. Said donations had been down. Casey moved and Jeff Cota 2nd to donate $500 toward the effort and help with food needs at Vets home in Bennington. Clarence wrote a check to Abate VT.

Donnie’s Christmas party will be 12/13 at 630 at his house.

Meeting was adjourned at 830

March 2014 Meeting Minutes

March 2014 UMV Meeting

Download / view the March 2014 Newsletter as a PDF.

March Meeting was held at the American Legion in Orleans and started at 7:10. There were 5 officers and 5 members present.

The Treasurer’s report and secretarie’s report were read and accepted with the correction of the price quoted from the Men’s Auxiliary to $1350

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