The regular monthly meeting of the American Legion Palm Valley Post 233 was held on the above date in the post meeting room and called to order by Commander Don Mills at 7:00P.M.

 

Their was a quorum present.

 

The minutes of the August meeting was read and approved.

 

Roy Havekost read transfers from Post 400.

 

Post Adjutant told the members that we had exceeded our 50% membership goal mandated by Department for Sept.5th and currently stands at 53.827% and that we have already exceeded our goal for Oct 2008.

 

Roy Havekost gave a Web Site report, a detailed copy of the report is available on line and an official copy of the report is attached and made a part of these minutes.

 

Our Historian reported that the archiving of our records is ongoing and a evolving project. More to come latter on this from Rod.

 

Maury Lazenby has volunteered to be our service officer.

 

Ric Smith reported that the marker for the father of our past commander Jim Ross was approved at the May general meeting.

 

Ric also gave a report on our By-Laws.

The post is operating without any post By-Laws and could be in danger of losing our charter. A draft on proposed By-Laws were submitted twice to Department for approval and were rejected both times because of conflicts with and violations with the department of Florida constitution and the rules governing trials.

 

Ric made a commitment to take on the job of drafting new By-Laws for the post with the general membership having final authority on approval.

 

Steve Hutchinson told us that the finance report would be completed by Monday 9-8-2008. He also reported that our lounge and food sales has shown an improvement for the month of August.

 

Patty O'Callahan reported on the house committee meeting.

She gave us a review of the events planned for September and told us the committee is working on a revised incident report form. More to follow on this.

 

As their was no other business to bring before the general membership our Chaplain Bob Nagel closed our meeting with a prayer.

 

Commander Don Mills adjourned the meeting at 7:50P.M.

 

Ray Williams,  Adjutant.