District 10’s meeting was called to order on May 17 at The Well in Goldfield 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, Deb, Ron, Larry, Scott, Sheila and Jess being present. Cori, DL and Dean were excused. We welcomed new members and guests.

Sexy-tary’s Report: Harlan Thompson made a motion to waive the reading of the minutes, Larry Raner seconded; motion carried.

Treasurer’s Report: Sheila indicated one check had been written to DL for postage. There was a deposit to the Downed Biker Fund and three deposits to the Toy Run account. Larry Raner made a motion to accept, Jess Tepner seconded; motion carried with Sue Hill abstaining.

Membership: Deb reported we had 29 members present and three guests along with many rider from the SMX Fun Run.

Events: Cheryl reminded everyone of the June dinner run on June 7 at Unkies in Thor. For anyone interested people are going to meet at the Prowler at 4:00 and ride up to Thor together. Fun Rain Run is June 21 at Lower Sheldon Park. Registration 11:00 to 1:00; with party, band and food to follow at Sheldon Park following the run. Remember tickets are available for the Toy Run Raffle. Frontier’s Day Parade is on June 7 in Fort Dodge we will meet next to Iowa Realty on Central Avenue at 9:30 at the latest. We will be leading the parade with the CMA riders behind us. May 31^st is our work day at the park. Our July dinner run will be on July 5 at Freedom Park in Algona in Jurassic Park. Hope you all can be there.

Legislative: Jody Cain indicated that the state is trying to get each county to pass an ordinance for bicyclists who have any organized run of thirty or more bicyclists going through a county must have a permit to do so. They would obtain this permit from the county sheriff. If the sheriff turns them down they can go to the county supervisor and get a permit. If the sheriff does approve the permit a “concerned citizen” can get the permit denied. Although at present it is only bicyclists, how long before it includes any organized run. That would mean for any runs we might have for every county we go through we would need to pay for a permit to go through that county.

MRF: Jess Tepner and Jody reminded everyone that the cost of MRF membership goes up in June from $ 25.00 to $ 30.00.

Share The Road: Doug indicated Jean Hoover, Larry Raner and himself gave a Share the Road presentation on May 7 at Fort Dodge Senior High to approximately fifty students; the next presentation is Saturday May 31 at 8:00 at St Edmond High School and then at 10:00 the same day at SE Webster in Burnside; Thursday June 5 at 9:15 at the Emmetsburg High school; Saturday July 12 at 8:00 at Iowa Central College. Doug indicated everyone who can, should attend. It is fun talking with the kids and the more people who show up the bigger impact we have on the kids to watch out for motorcyclists.

Assistant’s Report: Scott Hill wanted to thank everyone who showed up and helped with the trash pickup today.

State Meeting: Doug indicated the cost to the state office for every member is 28.00 for a 20.00 membership and the Board of Directors wanted the district coordinators to talk to each of their districts about a possible membership increase. The state office would also like to do a battle of the bands with every district having a band participate and which ever band won they would play at the Rally in 2009. Nominations were made for state officers;

Stever Rector and Phil McCormick for State Coordinator with Steve declining the nomination

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

Tammy Deeter for Riders Ed Coordinator.

More nomination will be heard at the next state meeting with voting done at the September State meeting.

KDSM Fox television is running a series on Cruising America on June 15, 22 and 29. ABATE has purchased commercial time during these shows to promote the Freedom Rally.

Old Business: Doug wanted to thank DL Peterson, Ron Hoover, Mick Evans and Harlan Thompson for planting the trees in Jurassic Park on May 10.

New Business: Sue Hill made a motion to have memorial patches made for Mike Ruberg. Cheryl Wiley seconded, motion carried. Doug asked Buck if Becky would be willing to make the patches. Mary Carlson is still looking for a couple of people to help at the treasury in the evening during the Rally. Jess Tepner is looking for volunteers to help with filming the bands at the rally. Can not be drinking at the time they work because they will be up on the scaffolding filming the bands. He also needs help down in the rodeo grounds with events.

Announcements; Our work day in the park is May 31. There will be a benefit for Mike Ruberg’s family in the near future and Cheryl will give the date when she has it. Fun Rain Run June 21^st Lower Sheldon Park. Cheryl indicated that the Iowa Thunder run is June 1^st and DL would like to get a bunch of us to go. If you would like to go get a hold of DL either by phone or email. There is a run on May 24 for a scholarship fund in JJ Bonnell’s name starting at the VFW in Fort Dodge, registration from 9-11. There is a benefit run for the Lovejoy family beginning at Ernie Williams on May 24 and ending at Pee Wee’s in Fort Dodge, registration 9 to 12. Open House at Freedom Park on June 14, hotdogs and hamburgers will be served. June 7^th benefit run for Rod Gilday. June 14^th United Way Run both runs leaving Amigos in Ft Dodge. Save the Ta, Ta’s run is September 13 beginning at the City square in Fort Dodge. The money raised at this run is given directly to cancer victims in the area for things their insurance and etc doesn’t cover.

Supporting Business Owner - Mark Campbell is running for County Supervisor.

Anyone saying there is nothing to do well ….

Buck Boring made a motion to adjourn, Harlan Thompson seconded; motion carried with Sue Hill abstaining.

Doug thanked The Well in Goldfield for hosting our meeting. He thanked the membership for attending.

Respectfully submitted

Jean Hoover

District 10’s Sexy-tary