General Business Meeting of Oklahoma Master Locksmith Association
Crowne Plaza Hotel -
The general business
meeting was opened with an invocation by Frank Bellizzi.
Roll call of officers with all
present except John Ruperd and Gary Frame. For clarification
Unfinished business:
The show was a huge success again this
year with 111 meal tickets given out plus distributors and other guests
attending.
Thank you to all the distributors and
members for making this such a success!
Mary presented the minutes from the
previous meeting and asked for approval.
Motion made and seconded to approve minutes. Motion carried.
Loretta presented the financial report
and asked that it be approved. Motion
made and seconded. Motion carried.
. No old business from any other officer.
New Business:
Mike - We will be meeting in a new place
when we are in
The hotel that we will be in, is the Biltmore at 401
2010 is our 40th anniversary of OMLA and
we would like to have something special to clelbrate
this milestone. Jackie R. and Debbie H.
agreed to chair this event, so if you would like to help or have ideas please
let them know as soon as possible because it is imperative that we have all the
details set up in as little time as we can..
Nominating committee will need to be
selected at the May meeting for election of directors for the next 2 years in
at the November meeting.
Clarence - All our current vendors have
given verbal commitment for next years show and have taken contracts back with
them to complete and return, with one already signed. Please support these vendors as they have
spent a lot of time and effort to help us.
Loretta - Presented Bills for the weekend. Motion ade and seconded and passed
by membership.
Matt - All the video tapes we had for sale
were sold at the show.
Dave - We need more input from the
membership for things for the newsletter and website. We will be putting birthdays and possibly
anniversaries in the newsletter (promise to omit the year!) Anything that the membership sends to him if
possible he will try to get into the newletter - the
more the better.
The email address is
omla-editor@cox.net.
Mary - We have Several
new applications for membership and one for reinstatement. For reinstatement -
After he was sworn in Scott Minick asked that if anyone has pictures of his father
(Tommy) he would like to have them or copies of them.
Frank - None
Jerry - Opla will
meet on
Lowell - Their are no issues dealing with
Locksmiths in this legislative session at this time, but it is in our best
interests if all locksmiths keep a close eye out for any bill that deals with
title 59 as this is the one that
pertains to us. We all need to make the
public aware of our licensing and how it helps protect all of us inclulding the public.
If you are aware of a violation of licensing there is a complaint for on
the health departments website or you can go to our website
where there is a link to it
Charles - In the next 5 months there are
several meetings and trade shows that we as an organization have been asked to
take part in. We will be having a booth
at many of these manned by several members to promote us in a professional way. To this end the board of directors considered
and voted to purchase a professionally made display unit that can be used for many years
to come.
We have been asked to have a representative
of our executives as a member of The Association of Professional Executives. This is a very prestigious organization and
would afford us many opportunities to advance our organization. It was decided to table this decision till a
later time.
The State Health Department has declared
that phoney locksmiths are the #l threat to the
security industry and the public. They
will place the names of these firms in fromt of the
legislature. The Attorney General is
backing them up in this effort. There is also undercover operations going on with the help of law
enforcement.
Since we are trying to promote our
organization, etc. many ideas have been kicked around about how to do this and
the one that came to the forefront was a mascot. The police have dMcGruff, firefighters have
Spot and Smokey the Bear,
so the idea came about for a wold
named Buddy D. Lock who owns Woofing Locksmithing as
our mascot. There are no other state or
national locksmithing organizations that have a
mascot. He is a clever young pup who
will grow in
sophistication as his years advance. For right now he will be busy going to the
various trade shows and meetings promoting our interests
Buddy D. Lock was presented for allied
membership in OMLA by his sponsor - Mike McGrew, motion made and seconded to
accept his application with an overwhelming approval from the membership. Yes
his paw prints are on file!
Good of the order:
C.D.
Lipscomb - tickets for a drawing to a week long clas
at the ALOA convention in
June were given away at the ALOA booth here this weekend. And the winner is to be drawn here at the meeting. (Frank Bellizzi was
the lucky person.)
Matt - Thank you to all our vendors that
contributed prizes for tonights drawings. Several very nice items were given away to
lucky drawing winners. When you talk to
them please thank them for supporting us.
Motion
to adjourn, seconded and carried.
Next meeting will be
Respectfully submitted
Mary Osborne
Secretary