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MEETING DATE:  4 FEBRUARY 2012

Call to Order:  A regular meeting of the CVMA Chapter 33-4 was held in Monterey, CA at American Legion post 41 on 4 February 2012.  The meeting convened at 0920 hours.

Commander Malcolm “Lunchbox” Todd presiding; Vice President  Lamar “Sultan” Farhad, Treasurer Keith “Doc G” Goffin, Sergeant at Arms Michael “Dead Mac” McCarthy, Secretary James “Titan” Thompson.

Members in Attendance:  27 total; 2 members from 33-2 and 1 potential member.

Pledge of Allegiance:  Led by Malcolm “Lunchbox” Todd

OLD BUSINESS

The President began the meeting with introducing new/potential members and also introduced a member who transferred from CVMA 33-1. 

Vice President followed the president and asked for a volunteer to make and distribute a recruiting flyer.  The VP also talked about making business cards to hand out during rides.

Treasurer Report:  $340.00 in our treasury.  After paying for the CVMA chapter 33-4 website page we will have $190.00 left in our treasury.

NEW BUSINESS

Vice President:  Next meeting will be held at VFW in Marina, CA on 3 March 2012 time TBD.  Asked for a volunteer to do the riding route after the next meeting.   

John “Coolhand” Rice was nominated for Road Captain-he accepted and was voted as the Road Captain.

Proposal from Group:  One of the members brought to the group an idea to partake in “music medic.”  Music medic is where we would go to a VA hospital and talk with disabled veterans to see which type of music they like.  Pick out songs from that music, put it on an MP3 and give it to the disabled veteran.  Music medic is located in Gilroy, CA.  Website is musicmedic.org.

President:  Brought up January’s ride and Purple Heart ceremony to Palo Alto VA hospital.  Mentioned that he would like to continue doing rides like that.  The ride was both fun and heartwarming.

Vice President put out the ride route and the new Road Captain put out safety during the ride.

Meeting adjourned at 1000 hours.

Chapter Meeting scheduled for February 4th 2012 

Meeting to be held at the American Legion post 41 1110 Jefferson Street, Montery. We would Breakfast will include eggs, bacon, toast, coffee, Juice for $ 7.00

 like to invite all combat vets and their family in the Monterey County area to join our meeting. We are a non-profit Veterans Riding group and our motto is Vets Helping Vets! We are not a motorcycle club but a group that loves to ride, have a great time and help out our fellow vets!
We will be meeting at the American Legion Post 41 

Breakfast 0830 meeting at 0900 

Ride after the meeting set up by Sultan as POC, any questions he can be contacted at: sultan@cvmaofmonterey.org and if you have any questions for me (Lunchbox) email: lunchbox@cvmaofmonterey.org

See you all there!

Lunchbox

First meeting of the new year

January 7th we conducted our first meeting of the new year, starting with breakfast and some fellowship. The meeting was called to order at 0845 with the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence for our men and women stationed in harms way or who were no longer among us.

During the meeting we put out a lot of information concerning our new chapter and how we will conduct ourselves when we hold our meetings in the local VFW's and American Legion halls and so forth, instituting a Swear Jar fund (to which I the chapter commander was the first offender by using the term Hard Ass so I now owe the chapter a buck!) Keeps our meetings clean and on track and we have ladies present so it's just good manners.

We concluded the Chapter meeting at 00930 hours and immediately following we went on a Chapter ride with the intention of going around to the local bike shops in the area starting out in Seaside then riding over to Salinas and eventually stopping for lunch at the Toro Cafe right outside of Laguna Seca. Weather wise it was pretty much a perfect day, sun was bright and the temps were in the mid 60s and the roads were pretty clear most of the way.

All in all it was a great turn out and a great opportunity to meet with all the members and their wives (those that brought them) which made for a great opportunity to get to know each other better. As the Chapter Commader I would like to express my gratitude for the mass participation and hope that it continues for the future meetings going into 2012 so already the new year starts out with a bang!

Next Meeting TBA watch your email!

Lunchbox Member #219 33-4 Chapter Commander