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MOAA Coronado Chapter

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING Minutes of 16 Nov 2016

CALL TO ORDER: Pres Covalucci called the meeting to order at 1200 hours at the Landmark Cafe. Dep Dir Devine led the Pledge of Allegiance. Chap Day. gave the invocation. Members Present Members Absent

Others attending: Norm Patten (future Publicity Director)

AGENDA APPROVAL: Gene F./Harry B. made the motion to approve the agenda, the motion passed. MINUTES APPROVAL: Terrie G./John B.. moved that the minutes of October 2016 be approved. The motion passed. PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Pres Covalucci

The Veteran’s parade went well. There was good publicity, a good turn-out, and a nice touch with providing cake (thanks to Tom H.). Secretary to maintain a copy of the after-action report for the Parade (provided by Bob A.).

TREASURERS REPORT: Dir B. Abney reported:

The Treasurer reported that the Total Unencumbered Net Worth of the Chapter was $48,459.19. No liabilities. One scholarship was not activated, so money went back into our scholarship pool (the

pool now stands at about $21K). The Treasurer’s Report is attached to the minutes. Gene F./Harry B. moved that the Treasurer’s report be accepted, subject to audit; the motion passed.

SECRETARY’S REPORT: Secretary Puett reported:

No Report. OLD BUSINESS: Pres Covalucci.

None.

NEW BUSINESS: Pres Covalucci. The President to led a discussion of purchase of “Surviving Spouse Pins.” He did some research and

found that MOAA has a Pin that costs $4 each. We have 23 surviving spouses (shall we order 30?), Bob A./John B. made a motion passed to purchase 30. Jan C. will put together an event to award these pins.

Director: Bill Sherod -- Publicity Dep Dir: Larry Singer – TOPS Dep Dir: Vacant Webmaster Dep Dir: Paul Puttkammer-Publications Director: George Kirmse -- Membership Dep Dir: Duane Brofer–Database Mngr Dep Dir: Tom Fail - Historian Director: Jan Cole – Surviving Spouses

President: Bob Covalucci Second Vice-President: Tom Hessler Secretary: Joe Puett Treasurer Bob Abney Director: Harry Bowen - Transition Director: Gene Fenstermacher - Legislation Dep Dir Earl Devine - Cmty Liaison Director: Terrie Gent – Personal Affairs Director: John Black - Scholarships Director: Joe Britton - JROTC Chaplain: Tom Day

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Earl Devine to led a discussion regarding the DAV Christmas Program. Judy Carol asked if we were going to repeat our Xmas program. Their anticipated need is around $9K. After discussion, the group felt we should continue to support at a level equal or greater to what we did last year. Joe B./Harry B. made a motion that we donate $300 or what we donated last year (which ever is greater); the motion passed.

Bob A./Harry B. made a motion to provide $100 to servers and wait staff at PDS as an additional, Holiday gratuity; the motion passed.

BOARD/COMMITTEE REPORTS: Pres Covalucci

PAST PRES: T. Hessler reported: Programs

o Nov: Dan Standage, Director of Disability Services. Speaking about student veterans. Will also put out a survey for Programs net year, and close out nominations for new Board Members. 37 planned to be in attendance at the dinner.

Council of Chapters meeting: a) we may want to just send a bill rather than sending a request for Chapter annual renewal, b) Bob C. has a video that the CoC wants, Bob will provide that to them, c) Wanda Wright is a great speaker and we may want her back (she last spoke Jan ’16), d) there is Good study on potential effect of exempting Military Retired Pay from taxation (Report is attached to the minutes).

Dinner attendance is down, is it because we now email the Heliogram rather than print it? Do we want to rethink this? We’ll continue to monitor. Bob A. & Joe P. will look at MOAA National program for automatic payments of Dinner Reservations.

2ND VP: T. Hessler reported:

No report.

SURVIVING SPOUSE LIAISON: Dir J. Cole reported: No report .

CMTY LIAISON: Dep Dir E. Devine reported the following:

From last time, there are five community organizations nominated for Veteran Organization of the Year from Joint Services Club (they are: Country House, FH Thrift Store, Landmark Cafe, Applebees, and Outback Steakhouse). During Discussion, each was discussed and the sense of the Board was taken; the consensus of the board was that we support the nomination of Outback Steakhouse for their support of numerous fund-raising activities in support of Soldier/Ft Huachuca activities.

Work has started in constructing the Fire pit at the Cemetery,.

DATABASE: Dep Dir D.Brofer provided the following membership status:

HELIOGRAM: Deputy Director Puttkammer reported:

27 Nov is the deadline for articles for the Heliogram. Also, for the December Heliogram, please provide the menu and program for the January

dinner meeting. HISTORIAN: T. Fail reported:

No report.

CHAPTER MEMBERS AS OF 16 Nov 2016

REGULAR AUXILIARY ASSOCIATE TOTAL

180 23 6 209

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JROTC Affairs: Dir J. Britton reported: The Director emailed both programs regarding our potential support; currently, there are no

requirements for us to support until later in the year. LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS: Dir G. Fenstermacher reported:

As of Nov 15th, $948,788 has been donated for the Military Family relief fund. MEMBERSHIP: Dir G. Kirmse reported:

No Report. PERSONAL AFFAIRS: Dir T. Gent reported:

No report. PUBLICITY: Dir B. Sherod reported:

No Report. SCHOLARSHIP: Dir J. Black reported:

The Director shared that even though we didn’t have complaints about our Scholarship program this year from “Helicopter Parents” we did had have four students that had not responded to our 1 Nov deadline. Three responded after further correspondence; one failed to respond; we placed the money for that one back into our scholarship fund. Gene F./Terrie G. provided a motion to allow the Scholarship Committee to award the $10K (already approved) as the committee best sees fit (e.g. award $2K to particular recipients instead of a set $1K per recipient fi that makes the most sense); the motion passed.

TOPS: Dep Dir L. Singer reported: No report.

AZ TRANSITION LIAISON/ESGR: Dir H. Bowen reported:

Harry B./John B. made a motion to eliminate the TOPS Dep Dir position because it is really no longer needed; the motion passed.

Jobs: During this past report period, new employment opportunities were down. We were able to identify and post 25 new job opportunities; 2 within Cochise County (Sierra Vista-2) and 23 external to Cochise (Scottsdale-3, Phoenix-11, , Chandler-1, Tempe-2, Gilbert-1, Grand Canyton-1, Flagstaff-1, Prescott-1, Glendale-1, and Yuma-1). In addition, two multiple position announcements were identified and posted for Mesa. Several positions remain open from last month in Cochise County..

Expos/Career Fairs: During this period, there were 5 expos/job fairs, 1 job fair in Santa Cruz, 2 in Tucson, 1 in Chandler, and 1 at Fort Huachuca. The third annual Community Summit for Military Veterans will be hosted at the University of Arizona on 2 December, from 08:30 until 13:00 at 1303 E. University Boulevard in Tucson. For more information, see the attached flyer (attached).

Employer Support to the Guard and Reserves (ESGR): We were able to make two Patriot Awards to two supervisors with the Human Intelligence Training Branch of the Joint Center of Excellence during this report period. One of them was the site manager for the training facility in Tucson and the second one was within the J1 at the center at Fort Huachuca.

Cochise Serving Veterans (CSV) and the forthcoming Resource Fair: The CSV will host another Resource Fair on 19 August 2017. The CSV has started identifying the management team for the fair early so as to try and make the event even more rewarding to all needy veterans.

Veterans Wall of Fame: The ceremony for the Wall of Fame at Canyon Vista Medical Center was held on 11 November with 12 awardees from last year being retired and 12 new inductees being presented. The ceremony was very well received to include three of our members being recipients. The awardees were:

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SFC R William Bess JR LTC R James Chambers CPT R James Coan COL R Bob Gent Mr. Bill Hess LCPL David Lambert LTC R Norman Patten CW2 R Tom Reardon SFC R Thomas P. Stoney CMSG R Hal Thomas LTC R Janis Wheat CW4 R Tom Wisniewski

WEBMASTER: Vacant.

No report. CHAPLAIN: T. Day reported:

Regarding the Giving Tree, there is one change: it used to be that you could only donate money, but now if you call the Chaplain’s office they will provide you info for gifts for Children, the gifts must be returned by 3 Dec (call 533-4748 for more info).

Bring Food donations to Dinner and it will provided to the Chaplain’s Food Locker.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 Dec Tour of Homes 3-5 Feb Cowboy Poets Thru 15 Dec, toys donated at Firehouses Marine Corps League also collecting toys MOAA Orgs of AZ donated $49K to scholarships last year.

NEXT MEETING: 14 December 2016 DEPARTING PRAYER: Chap Day provided the closing prayer. ADJOURNMENT: Pres Covalucci adjourned the meeting at 1315 hours. Respectfully Submitted: Joe Puett, COL (R) Secretary

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