Minutes of the November 20, 2010
meeting of the Tampa Chapter SAR
President Luke Lloyd called
the meeting to order at
Members present: Marty
Miller, Cy Gamber, Paul
Farley, Luke Lloyd, Bill Floyd, Chuck Copeland, Chuck Hawley, John Sessums, Alan Bell, Ed Neugaard,
Ira Ward, Milt Alexander, Gray Reece, John Skillman, Dick Young, Robert
Koehler, Robert Yarnell, and Kevin Yarnell.
Welcome guests:
Wives:
Lissette Young, Judy Copeland, Phyllis Ward
Jack Spangler and Leo Kelly
The President asked the
members to introduce their wives.
The minutes of the October
meeting were approved.
Our Treasurer, Chuck
Copeland, reported a balance of $2,498.02.
Alan Bell, the registrar
reported that several supplementals are in various stages of approval.
Under old business
consideration of Officer and Director Liability Insurance was postponed due to
the absence of Terrell Sessums and the secretary.
(The latter arrived later, following the state Board of Management meeting in
Vice President Yarnell gave
a run down of future meetings. These can be found on the chapter website.
John Skillman reported on
the information he’d received about awards for which members are qualified. The
chapter gave him permission to purchase the medals – an expense of
approximately $130.
The nominating committee
placed into nomination their candidates for the 2011 chapter officers. John
Skillman moved that the slate be elected. The motion was seconded by John Sessums and the candidates were elected unanimously. Our
2011 officers then will be:
Luther Lloyd President
Robert Yarnell Vice
President
Kevin Yarnell Secretary
Chuck Copeland Treasurer
Allen Bell
Registrar
Robert Yarnell Historian
John Sessums Sergeant at arms
Luther Lloyd Chaplain
Allen Bell
Luke reminded the membership
of a Genealogy Workshop in February.
The meeting recessed for
lunch.
The President presented Gray
Reece with his membership certificate.
The President introduced the
Vice President who introduced our Law Enforcement Medal recipient Corporal R Haugh. Corp. Haugh is an 18 year veteran of the Pasco County Sheriffs
Department and works primarily in training new deputies. He explained the training
program to the members and noted how all law enforcement is grounded in the US
Constitution. Following a number of questions from the members, Luke presented
Deputy Haugh with the SAR Law Enforcement Medal.
Chuck Hawley won the 50/50.
He donated the money to the chapter and thus the treasury was enriched by
$16.00.
The President led the
recessional, Bob Yarnell gave the benediction, and the meeting adjourned at
1:30pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Kevin Yarnell
Chapter Secretary