Monthly Meeting Reminder!!

Just a reminder, the first Wednesday of the month is just a couple days away! Come check out our new location at Broadway Pizza, 2025 West River Road North, on the corner of Broadway and West River Road North. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm, but come early for the awesome pizza buffet, and pre meeting banter. With special guest, Tom Modec from Kaba Acess, specializing in E-PLEX products.

http://www.broadwaypizzaminneapolis.com/index.html

Minutes from meeting 05-06-2015        

   

Called to order by Alan Morgan

New visitor, Ryan Heilman from Minneapolis Lock and Key

The group choose to forgo the minutes from the April meeting.

Phil Babcock listed the current treasurer’s report as having a forwarded balance of $10,667.63, with a monthly income of $1,043.50; $375.00 meal income, $18.50 education fund, and $650.00 in paid membership dues.  Minus the $375.00 of expense, leaving a total monthly balance of 11,336.13.

The breakdown includes :

6,358.00 in legislative

4,657.48 in the general fund

479.00 in George Hall Scholarship Fund

225.31 in marketing

120.00 in member fund

50.00 in petty cash

29.80 in Toys for tots

-533.46 in education

Phil stated that there were deposits to be made and he and Alan should have an updated balance the week of 05/11/2015

The current membership includes 20 regular members, 9 associates, 4 lifetime, and 2 apprentices.

It was suggested by Dave Paulsrud that until there was a permanent secretary in place, the acting secretary should be reimbursed with a free meal for the meeting. Denny Luek made the motion and Dana Lee seconded it.

Dana Lee announced that the educator that he had scheduled from Alarm Lock would not make it to the meeting and there would be no education section for the meeting. See education calender for updated class listings.

Old Business discussed went over the board meeting held April 15^th; which continued the debate of switching to quarterly meetings, improving communication within the board, and with members.

The meeting was called to adjourn By Alan Morgan 

Wednesday May 6 General Meeting at BROADWAY PIZZA

Our meeting location has changed! After more than a decade, the MN chapter of ALOA is returning to: 

Broadway Pizza, 2025 West River Rd N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

Social Hour from 5:30 pm until 7:00 pm
General Meeting from 7:00 pm - 7:40 pm (approximately - meetings run +/- 15 minutes depending on material that needs to be covered)

Education immediately following the meeting; our speaker will be Susan Biggers of Napco Security Technologies

Dinner will be available in the meeting rooms, terms tbd (I bet it will be pizza). 

Come early, come late, leave early - you do not have to be a member to attend up to 2 meetings a year.

April General Meeting Highlights, Board Meeting Wednesday April 15th

First and foremost thanks to Mark Schrantz for a great presentation on Detex products. Detex has a great commitment to tried and true exit alarms and they are also no strangers to innovation. In addition to the workhorses you know and love they also have: exit hardware in several architectural finishes and lever styles, multipoint (more than 3 with a la carte hinge-side bolts!) latching devices for hard-to-secure openings, electronic access-control and plastic templates with every product for a perfect installation every time. (Plus a lot more, go to their website and look at all their products.)

New business of note:

Grumpy's is a great space, but their minimum is something like $300 (or more) and that's just a bit outside what the chapter spends every month. Even with the quarterly meeting proposal on the table, there are up to 6 more meetings scheduled for 2015 and it may well be worth moving to another, more affordable, location.  Broadway Pizza in Minneapolis and the Roasted Pear in Brooklyn Park are proposed locations which have a lower minimum purchase than Grumpy's.

In treasury news, kudos to Phil Babcock: the accounts have finally been transferred and the backlog of checks received over the past couple of months has been deposited. If you have any questions about your membership status or if you sent a check that hasn't cleared yet, contact Phil (phil@babcockandson.com).

Board meeting Wednesday April 15, 6:00 pm at the Roasted Pear, 

9690 Colorado Lane, Brooklyn Park, MN.

The agenda will feature but not be limited to:

-Quarterly meetings details

-Communication improvements made plus future targets

-New location for remaining 2015 general meetings? 

The board meeting is open for paid members in good standing to attend and observe. This is a dinner meeting (the meeting proper probably won't be convened until about 6:30 pm after folks have a chance to order).

Our next general meeting will be May 6 at Grumpy's.  If the location change somehow goes through before then, it will be published here, to the mailing list, they'll probably call everyone...

Doorknob of the Day - Suprise!

Why so worried, pretty kitty?

Board Meeting recap and April General Meeting reminder

March 18, 2015 Board meeting summary:

It was discussed that chapter meetings would become quarterly starting in 2016 and that the meetings would be the first weekends of February, May, August, and November. Board meetings could be held once or twice between general meetings, dependant upon the Board's ability to improve communication. The Board voted to procede with the intention to have a proposal for a member vote at the May meeting. 

The details are a work in progress. There was a suggestion to make the meetings weekend based was so that there could be more thorough classes. IDN Hoffman’s Tim Mathewson has offered to host at their warehouse, and Molly from Doyle will check in to whether they can host also.

Dana proposed that the February meeting would be the education weekend event also. There will be extra emphasis placed on securing instructors, and raising awareness. Input for class requests can be brought to the board, or Dana Lee.

Phil intends to complete a full treasurers report before the next meeting. Any inquiry of dues or memberships renewal can be addressed to Phil Babcock or Jim Elmwood.

Thanks to Molly, who attended the board meeting, for providing the recap info.

The next general meeting is Wednesday, April 1st at Grumpy's Roseville. Dinner and social hour in the meeting room from 5:30 until 7, meeting at 7 pm and education following the meeting.

Our speaker will be Mark Schrantz from Detex

2015 Dues are Due!

If you haven't renewed your membership for 2015, due it now!

There is a membership renewal form which you can download and print by clicking the tab "Membership Renewal Form" above.

If you have any questions about how to submit your payment, please contact our treasurer, Phil Babcock, phil(at)babcockandson.com.