District 10’s meeting was called to order on July 19 at Jud’s Bar and Grill in Knierim by District Coordinator Doug Smith. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited and we had a moment of silence to honor out lost brothers and sisters. Roll call of officers was taken with Doug, Jean, Cheryl, Ron, Larry, Scott, Sheila, Mark and DL being present. Deb, Jess and Dean were excused, Cori was not. We welcomed new members and guests Candace Scott and Ellen Tasler.

Sexy-tary’s Report: Larry Raner made a motion to accept the minutes, Matt Brown seconded; motion carried with Sue Hill and Brittany Ray opposed.

Treasurer’s Report: Sheila said three checks had been written in May; one to DL for ink, one to Harlan for trees and one to ABATE of Iowa. A deposit had been made to the general fund. There were two checks written out of the Down Biker Fund. Ron Dagner made a deposit to the Downed Biker Fund. In June a check had been written to DL for supplies for the Fun Run and no activity on Toy Run Fund or the Down Biker Fund. Larry Raner made a motion to accept Bill Gurnett seconded; motion carried.

Membership: Brittany stepped in for Deb and reported we had 30 members present and two guests. She also Gave out the Abate bucks for the period.

Events: Cheryl reminded everyone who attended the Spring Fling run to get together because we still hadn’t drawn our cards for the money. The Tin Butt Run is next weekend July 26. Registration is 9 to 11 at the Park in Algona. The August 2 dinner run will be at Pitchers in Whittemore. It was decided to have a Family picnic day again this year on September 6^th. Place to be announced at a later date. Toy Run cans need to get out ASAP. DL has cans and labels. Notify Doug, Scott or DL where you put your can so we are sure to pick them up. There is a letter to go with each can explaining exactly what the money is for and etc.

Legislative: Mark indicated they are attempting to call a special session of the legislature to address the flooding. It is possible they will try and raise money with a gas tax and since this would be a transportation issue they could attach a helmet law on. Contact your legislature telling them you are opposed to the special session. Pennsylvania reported fewer fatalities even with an increase of motorcycle registration. They also indicated that with the change in their helmet law there has been no correlation between a rise in head injuries and motorcycle accidents

MRF: No report with Jess being gone

Share The Road: DL indicated Jean Hoover, Larry Raner, Cheryl Wiley and himself gave a Share the Road presentation on July at Iowa Central College to approximately forty eight students; Doug and DL gave a presentation in Emmetsburg on June 5. No other presentations are scheduled at this time.

Webmaster: Scott indicated the Supporting business section of the website is up to date and to check it regularly. Make sure if you are at a supporting business to thank them for being a supporting business. He also indicated patches were going to be available for Mike Ruberg as soon as Becky could get them made up.

Assistant’s Report: Scott Hill wanted to thank everyone who helped at the rally during District 10’s assigned time to be there. They did a great job.

State Meeting: Doug indicated the following people are the final nominees for state offices;

Phil McCormick for State Coordinator

Doug Smith, Kent Clemens, Dave Duffy and Scott Deeter for Assistant State Coordinator

Tammy Deeter for Riders Ed director.

Voting will be at the district meetings in August.

Doug omitted from his state report that membership cost will go to 25.00 from 20.00 for a full member 20.00 from 15.00 for associate members as we voted in the May meeting. All other memberships will stay the same.

Attendance at the rally this year was 8144 people. We ended up bringing in more money in all areas but our expenses were also up so we made approximately the same as we did last year. STEAM will be held at the Best Western in Marshalltown on November 13, 14 and 15. We are again donating a steer for the Governor Steer contest. It will be judged on August 9 at 4:00 in the cattle barn at the state fair. October 4 is the day we will be putting the bikes away for the Rider’s Ed course. All help is needed to get them ready for winter. John Atchison won the bike this year from the rally. Any bike surveys you see on the web make sure you forward them to Phil, Steve or Doug. These surveys could be used in getting a helmet law passed so we want to make sure our vote is counted. A 21 year vendor of the Freedom Rally, the Holidays, and the wife is facing a diagnosis of cancer. Her monthly medication bill is over 7000.00 dollars. They are members of our district and it was decided to pass the hat at every meeting between now and our Season Ending Run with the money from the run being donated to them also. In regards to the nasty email Phil received; Phil sent a letter to the guy at the guy’s home address and he has no recanted what he said.

Old Business: None

New Business: Doug indicated that Gene Walker from the Ski Band had approached him at the Fun Run and indicated that if we renamed the run the Ed Wilson Memorial Fun/Rain Run, or anything with Ed Wilson memorial in it and they would play at the run for every year. Little made a motion to change the name of the run, Matt Brown seconded the motion; motion carried. Calvin Behrends wanted to know if there was anything that could be done about the idiots revving up their bikes in the middle of the night and keeping people awake. He has talked to numerous people who refuse to attend the rally again just for this reason. Buck told him to get a hold of security and security will tell them to shut it down. Security prefers to sleep at night also. Doug indicated he had BE AWARE bumper stickers for anyone who wanted one but just make sure you put them on a vehicle. Also we need to get the raffle tickets sold for the Toy Run. Brittany indicated that the Iowa bars have a court date for their injunction on the smoking ban. The court date is August 1. She or Kat will keep us up to date on that. She also pointed out that the Health Department excluded their parking lots from the ban. So if you want to have a cigarette, go to the Health Departments parking lot because it is legal there. Go figure. Doug indicated that it had been brought to his attention that the Humboldt County Conservation Board had indicated we had left the park in a shambles after our fun run that they had hauled out two pick up loads of garbage. Scott and Sue Hill and Brian and Melissa Morey were the last to leave and they said the park had been totally picked up and the three bags of garbage were near the garbage cans under the shelter. Doug was planning on attending the Conservation Board’s meeting on Monday to get to the bottom of what ever happened since we were not the only people using the park that weekend.

Announcements: District 15 is having their Too Broke to Go to Sturgis run on August 9 at Donahue Iowa. District 2 is having their annual Bash on August 16 at Miles, Iowa. Little and Ellen announced that they are having an open house to wish their son Private First Class Kenneth Tasler good luck on his departure to Afghanistan on August 16^th from noon on.

Harlan Thompson made a motion to adjourn; Brian Morey seconded it; motion carried with Sue Hill abstaining and Brittany Ray opposed.

Doug thanked Jud’s Bar and Grill in Knierim for hosting our meeting. He thanked the membership for attending.

Respectfully submitted

Jean Hoover

District 10’s Sexy-tary