Minnesota Fop Lodge 1

February 9, 2005
Lodge 1 meeting
O`Garas, St Paul


At 1800 hrs the gambling meeting was called to order by President Rothecker. The gambling report was given by Don Bjorkman. Motion made to accept the report was made and 2nd, passed. Bjorkman gave us the budget for March, (lg1004 available for review). Total budget . Motion made to approve the budget, 2nd passed. Lawful purpose expenditures to be approved, City of St Paul $56.70 fee, City of Cottage Grove fee $30.45, Special Olympic Polar Bear Plunge $1050, and a request for the Police Unity Tour of $1000. Motion made to approve them and send on to general membership meeting for approval made and 2nd, passed. Bjorkman also told us that the sales of pull tabs is down 40% from last January. The minutes from last months meeting will be amended to show a payment of $750 to the Gambling Board for license renewal. Motion made and 2nd to approve the amendment, passed. Meeting adjourned at 1839 hrs.


1900 hrs the general membership meeting was called to order by President Rothecker. No officers reports were given. Motion made to waive reading of last months minutes, 2nd passed. R. Dalbec spoke on the membership and our use of email. More use of the email system to keep our members up to date. So far I have 101 members in the system out of 270. If you are not getting emails from our lodge please send me your email address so you can be included. (dubec@aol.com) Also , again members should be aware that the downtown ST Paul post office box is closed. Mail should be sent to PO Box 2174, Inver Grove Heights MN 55076. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Dalbec then gave the Treasurers report. Our last bank statement showed a balance. This was made available along with the checkbook for review. No large outstanding bills. R. Dalbec also advised that the new lodge lap top computer is now on line and paid for. Motion made to accept the report, 2nd passed. New business, discussion on possible locations for lodge meetings. The reason for moving the meetings between locations was an attempt to get more people involved if the meeting was held in their communities. Since that result did not happen it was decided to look for one place to hold our lodge meetings. Some discussion on this and a central location such as Gabes by the Park was suggested. President Rothecker will look into this and advise us at the next meeting. Bjorkman gave us a report on the last State Lodge meeting. The State Lodge is proposing a dues payment from each lodge of $7 per member. The reasoning is that with new lodges coming on board that the state lodge will not be able to pay the per capita fee to the national lodge for all the lodges in the state. After some discussion it was agreed that there should be some payment from the lodges to the state lodge to help cover the cost. The state lodge cannot charge the new dues without it being approved at the upcoming convention in April at Craguns. Our lodge will propose a resolution that a dues increase should charge up to $3 per member, no higher. This could be reviewed on a yearly basis and changed if need be. Motion made to approve the resolution, 2nd passed. At the state meeting there was some discussion on donating to a fund raiser for Downs Syndrome. The state lodge will donate $1500, and our lodge would donate $1500. This will be discussed at a later lodge meeting for approval. Bjorkman will be running for 1st vice president of the state lodge and R. Dalbec will be running for SSgt at arms for the state lodge. The election will be held in April at Craguns. Any lodge 1 members who want to go as a delegate should email President Rothecker. Old business, Bjorkman gave the gambling report and a motion was made and 2nd to approve it, passed. Motion made to approve the budget was made and 2nd passed. Motion made and 2nd to approve the lawful purpose expenditures as given, passed. A plaque was made for Pleasureland RV to be given to them for their support of our lodge and the Polar Bear Plunge. The plunge raised over $54,000 for Special Olympics. Golf, the annual event will be held at Oak Glen, May 31. Registration form can be downloaded from our website, www.mnfop1.org. The contract was signed and a menu was decided on. A $500 down payment will be sent to the golf course. If anyone wants to help on the golf tournament or has someone who will sponsor a hole, please let me of Jeff Rothecker know. The next meeting is set for March 9 at the So St Paul VFW. With no further business the meeting was adjourned at 2035 hrs.


Randy Dalbec

Secretary Lodge 1


April 17 - 19

Statewide Conference

Craguns Resort


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FOP Lodge 1 8th Annual Golf Tournament

May 31, 2005

Oak Glen Golf Course Stillwater


Fee $80 per player

1230 shotgun start


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