Indiana Deferred Compensation

ISPA has received several calls on who to contact to receive information on our Deferred Comp Plan.  Go to www.hoosierstart.com. and for all questions please call 1-877-728-6738 and take option #2 and this will place you in touch with an Indiana representative that will answer your questions.  Great West Retirement Services is the 3^rd party administrator of our Deferred Plan.

BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S MEETING

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

President Wayne Flick called the meeting to order at 6:44 PM.

PRESENT:     President – Wayne Flick; Vice President – Greg Oeth; Directors – Larry Schenk, Area II; Secretary Rick Dick, Area III; Shannon Spreckelmeyer, Area VI; Proxies: Brian Schnick, Area I; Brian Brunner, Area IV; and Jeffrey Coffey, Area V.

District Representatives – Brian Schnick, #13; Randy Gritten, #14; Kent Roe, #22; Rob Murray, #24; Byron Goodman, #33; Mark Tow, #35; Brian Bunner, #41; Aaron Haney, #43; Keith O’Donnell, #51; Jeffrey Coffey, #52; Richard Myers, #53; Staff – Kenney Davis, Executive Director / ASI Coordinator; Kelley Ford, Operations Manager. Member – Rick Hammer, Laboratory.

ROLL CALL:     President Flick called a roll of Directors and declared that there was a quorum for conducting Indiana State Police Alliance business.

PROXIES:     Brian Schnick for Dave Kirkham, Area I; Brian Bunner for Vance Patton, Area IV; and Jeffrey Coffey for Clint Bundy, Area V.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING:     Copies of the January 22, 2008 minutes were provided to the attendees. Motion made to accept, seconded and voted to accept.

TREASURER’S REPORT:     Kenney Davis gave the treasurer’s report. Motion made to accept, seconded and voted to accept.

BUSINESS:    

New District Representatives: President Flick welcomed the following new District Reps to the meeting and to the board: Brian Schnick, #13; Randy Gritten, #14 and Mark Tow, #35.

ISPA Office:     If you are in Indianapolis and need a place for a meeting; the Alliance office is available. We have also furnished one of the rooms with 2 beds in case a member has an early meeting in Indianapolis and would like to drive here the night before. Contact the office to schedule.

Alliance OCC Bike Raffle:     Help is needed to sell tickets for the Alliance OCC 75^th anniversary Bike. Packets have been made up for each District Rep with tickets. During the State fair the Alliance will have a booth in the EXPO Hall with the Bike on display. Tickets will be $25 each. We need members to work the booth during the fair. Contact the office and sign up. The EXPO Hall is open from 9 to 9 each day of the fair. The bike is appraised at $60,000.

Legislative matters:     We will be meeting with Governor Daniels in August. There are two main areas we will be working on this next session. One is maintenance for the pay matrix and the other is a COLA for our pension.

Question: about a statement the Superintendent made about raising our percentage reference retirement. President Flick said that the Superintendent is waiting to see what fiscal impact the new pay raise will have on the number of Troops signing up to DROP/retire.

Question: if we could do something for the civilians on the Department reference to their pay? Answer is we will do what we can but unfortunately there is little we can do as of now. The civilians are lumped together with all other civilian state employees. There is a federal law moving through the US Senate reference to collective bargaining for all State Employees. If this would pass we would possibly have to set something up like we had before. Possibly at that time we could try to put all State Police Employees together; however we will have to wait and see. This bill is something that Senator Kennedy is pushing and with his health problems it is not clear what will happen to the bill.

NTC Conference:     We will be hosting the NTC conference in Indianapolis on September 28, 29 & 30, 2008. We are still in need of sponsors so if you know of a company or individuals that would like to contribute contact the office with the information. We are having a 75^th Anniversary Video made which is 25 to 30 minutes long. Roy Tabor is paying half of the cost but we need more sponsors. There will be around 200 people in attendance. $1,000 can get a vendor a table and recognition. Some of the sponsors that have helped or are going to help are Capitol Investors, Jasper Engines, Floor to Go and Toyota. If any members need new flooring be sure to contact Floors to Go. You could possibly save a large amount of money. One member that was affected by flooding saved 50% by buying flooring through Floors to Go.

Funerals:     In the past few months we have sent members to out of State Troopers Funerals: In April Rick Dick and Frank Coleman attended the funeral of Texas Trooper James Scott Burns who was shot and killed during a traffic stop. In June Keith O’Donnell and Ray Poole attended the funeral of North Carolina Trooper David Shawn Blanton Jr. who was shot and killed during a traffic stop. In July Ann Hampton and Lori Tomes attended the funeral of New Jersey Detective Sgt First Class Dwayne Kelley who was killed in Iraq by a bomb while he was serving there in the Army Reserve.  If you are interested in going to out of state funerals contact the office.

District Reports

Several members had flood damage to their homes during the recent flooding. The Alliance helped out where ever we could.

If any member is injured and hospitalized the alliance would like to know ASAP. Either contact your District Rep or the office.

Fort Wayne: Harry Nix is back from Afghanistan. Larry Schenk presented the Alliance / Cops for Kids a plaque from Weaver Pop Corn Komets Pee Wee A Hockey Team reference to their thanks for support from Cops for Kids.

Terre Haute: Phil Snowbrick passed away 3 months ago. Superintendent had his meeting and advised that the money to build their new post had to go to purchase fuel for our commissions. The Gary Dudley / Gary Martin memorial at the site where they lost their lives has bee vandalized. Caroline Dudley discovered it.

Bloomington: Trying to get their new post up and going.

Indianapolis: Jeff Woodward was injured while changing a tire for a motorist. Another car struck them. He possibly will be back to light duty in 3 weeks. He wants to thank the ISPA.

Putnamville:  Pat Warczynski’s son is in the Hospital. Steve Hibler is back in the States.

District mechanic has had back surgery and is doing well.

On our website check out some of the things that the Alliance have been doing by clicking on Alliance at Work.

The meeting adjourned at 7:35 PM.  

BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S MEETING

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Before the meeting was called to order Superintendent Whitesell addressed the members present. He thanked everyone for the effort that is being put forth. Colonel Weigand and Major Parker were also present to answer questions. He took and answered questions:

Question had to do with having to meet mandatory goals even with several days off or on special assignment during a rating period: The Superintendent said that he does not know where that comes from. He would hope that some common sense would be used. He said that he would not want to get involved if a Troop is off for only a couple of days but when it is an extended period of time there should be some compensation. He said they would look at it.

Question on a possible way to save money would be electronic payroll statements: He advised that he is for this but that is up to the State Auditor.

A question was asked about purchasing digital cameras for all units – due to the 35 MM cameras are starting to wear out: He said that he would like to do this but right know that cars and fuel are the main financial focus. He said that when gas reaches $3.00 a gallon it is a strain on the budget. He said that fuel has to be paid for so funds from something else have to be used. He asks that units perhaps do more stationary patrol and not be used as much off duty. Deferral money could possibly be used for the purchase of cameras. He asked that a list of cameras be made so if deferral money is used to buy one that the camera would meet our standards.

Question about the interdiction program being expanded: Colonel Weigand advised that he and Lt. Petro had just gone over plans concerning this and that they will be taking this to the Superintendent soon.

Question on Comp time for specialty team training: He advised that he just does not have the funds to be paying all the comp time. That when ERT training went from 2 to 3 days he was not expecting such a raise in comp time. Money is a problem as stated before for cars and fuel. He worries about money for the Indy race details.

Question on Vacation Draw: He said his intent was so District commanders could manage shift preference and Holidays for the young troops. His vision was not to go from 1^st on the list to last on the list. For 2008 districts will do their draw on however they have it planned. This is due to some Districts having already done vacation draws for the year. He will have a committee formed of across the board units to look at this and come up with a fix for 2009.

Alternative work schedules: Superintendent advised that they are here for 2008 but will not be in 2009. There have been a lot of problems with them.

New Evaluation Process: The Superintendent had Major Parker address this. Major Parker said that a perfect Evaluation system is hard if not impossible to find. He said that the new system is about 99% complete. It will be explained to commanders at a command meeting so they can get it out to the field. There will be 3 levels: (1) Does not meet expectations, (2) Meets expectation and (3) Exceeds Expectations. The goal is to reward those that truly go out and bust their humps. So some mechanism to recognize those who excel had to put in place. If a unit meets expectation he will receive a 94% rating. If he excels the rating could go up to 100%. The baseline minimum score would be 94%. To be in rescue a unit would have to get either a does not meet expectations in one of the top 3 areas or in a total of 5 of the integrated areas. The Superintendent said that when it comes to promotions he looks a lot at the recommendations that are sent and not just at the scores. He said he has made phone calls, asked people etc. to find out who people feel is the best person for the job. He called it good business to do this.

Question about standards being set State wide: The Superintendent said that cannot be set for all 92 counties. A standard in one county will not work in another. It will be up to the District Commanders and Area Captains to set their standards. When the Executive staff meets with each District Commander each District plan will be looked at.

Question on Evaluations being done by Squad Sergeants or area Captains: Superintendent said that Squad Sergeants are the best to do this as they should know their people the best. Squad Sergeants should be out in the field working with their units, answering calls with them and riding with them. If the Superintendent is ever made aware of a Squad Sergeant that is sitting at home and not doing the above – he will not be a Squad Sergeant for very long. He is holding Area Captains more accountable for what goes on in their Area and that might be the reason that Captains are looking at things more closely, but he still wants the Lieutenants and Squad Sergeants to do the evaluations.

Question on if the retirement will ever be raised from 50%: Superintendent said that when the financial climate is right, this hopefully could happen. He said they discuss this monthly. The Pension has around $300 million in it. Our health insurance is at about $5 million. We spend $400,000 a week in medical claims and $380,000 in medications.

Question on rumor of all State Departments having to cut their budgets: This is correct but that Governor Daniels is taking care of us. He has a lot of respect for our Department and that he will not let the Department flounder.

More statements from the Superintendent: (1) He is very happy with our productivity. Last year there were 17 less fatals, 4,000 less crashes, we issued 400plus thousand UTT’s, close to 400,000 warnings, 5,000 OWI arrests. He would like to stay focused on traffic for this year and then maybe start diversifying in some areas. (2) As stated before, when gas hits $3.00 a gallon doing a little more stationary patrol would help. (3) Please wear your hats out there. He is not saying to wear it and compromise your safety but most of the time it can be worn. It is the image of our Department so please wear it. (4) The canine program is proceeding along well and we will be up to 30 canines. There will not be SUV’s bought for the canine program as there is no pursuit package available. There might be some type of non pursuit SUV or truck purchased fro MCI’s. Mustangs are coming soon. (5) Full time ERT is not dead. He would like each ERT member to meet with him one on one to discuss this. Mark Tow advised him that they would call and set up meeting times.

Colonel Weigand addressed the members: He to thanked everyone for all the hard work that is being done. He said one area that we will have to grow in is computer crime investigating.

The Superintendent, Colonel Weingand and Major Parker then left.

Tim Reidy and Andy Upchurch of Midwestern Financial Group then addressed the members: They gave an update on the alliance investments. If anyone has questions on this they can contact the Alliance Office. Tim and Andy are also offering their services to go over any members financial/retirement plans. There is no cost to the members.

Steve Bushmann the Alliance Lobbyist: SB33 is sailing through the process so far. He sees no problem with it. The bill deals with cleaning up some language in one of the bills from last year that changed the old retirement plan. He advised that property tax is the big issue in the legislature this year. January 29 is our legislative breakfast we are holding in the rotunda. A good showing of members would be appreciated. We would like to have a good showing even when we are not asking for anything.

President Wayne Flick called the meeting to order at 7:25 PM.

PRESENT:  President – Wayne Flick; Vice President – Greg Oeth; Directors – Dave Kirkham, Area I; Larry Schenk, Area II; Secretary Richard Dick, Area III; Vance Patton, Area IV; Treasurer Clint Bundy, Area V; Shannon Spreckelmeyer, Area VI; District Representatives – Michael Bailey, #13; Phil McBride #14; Kent Roe, #22; Rod Russell, #25; Chris Effner, #32; Chad Dick, #34; Jon Singleton, #35; Brian Bunner, #41; Tom Baxter, #42; Aaron Haney, #43; Josh Banet, #45; Members - Dave Bursten PIO/99, Jeffrey Coffey #52, Curt Durnil #33, Tim Miller #CID/16, Mike Nichols #16, Scott Qualls #35, Kevin Ellison #35, Wilbur Turner #45, W.W. George CID/35, Brad Cieslack CID/35, Brain Bailey CID/35, Mark Tow #35, Stu Sanders #35, George Sanders #35, Darrell Thornburg CID/25, Rick Hudson #13, Brian Wilson #43, Dale Turner #13, Bryce Harris #43, Zachariah Ruble #43, Mark French #53, Donald Gregory PIO/43, Lonie Slisher #16, Pat Warczynski #53, Ryan Miller #33, Brent Johnson Area V, Jay Nawrocki #52, Fred Martin #51, Tom Dujmovich #25, Eric Perkins #25, Shaun Armes #25, David Ellis #42, Mark True #42, David Meyer #42, Dan Goris #42, Kevin Riordan #43; Staff – Kenny Davis, Executive Director / ASI Coordinator; Kelley Ford, Operations Manager; Guest – Chaplain Dan Coffey, and two retired Louisiana Troopers.

ROLL CALL: President Wayne Flick took roll of Directors and declared a quorum for conducting Indiana State Police Alliance business.

PROXIES: No proxies were designated.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING: Copies of the October 23, 2007 minutes were provided to attendees. A motion was made to accept the minutes; seconded; carried.

TREASURER’S REPORT: Treasurer Clint Bundy gave the Treasurer’s Report. A motion was made to accept; seconded; carried.

BUSINESS:

ASI: Kenny Davis gave the report. He reported that there are jobs available. Most are paying $20.00 per hour. We are still working on getting to wear the ISP uniform. We can wear a polo type shirt now to most of our jobs. The badge is embroidered onto the shirt. No blue jeans can be worn. Contact Kenny or Kelley if you would like to work a job or have a business that would like to hire the ASI.

BY LAWS: Vice President Oeth explained about a change we would like to make to our by-laws so when a member who is in the Military gets activated we will waive their dues until they return with no loss of benefits. Motion was made; seconded; carried.

NTC: National Troopers Coalition represents State Police or Highway Patrol Departments from 45 States. The Alliance is the only organization in Indiana that can be a member. If you are a member of the alliance you are automatically a member of the NTC. We are hosting the NTC Fall Conference this year in September to coincide with the Departments 75^th anniversary. On Monday Sept 29^th we will be hosting a 75^th year banquet. If you know of any company, business or individual that would like to make a donation to help us offset the cost let the office know. Mike Nichols asked if the office could send out a letter to the Districts explaining the banquet and what benefits the donors would receive from this. President Flick said that we will do that.

75^th ANNIVERSARY MOTORCYCLE: On January 18 we received 3 photos by email from Orange County Choppers of the progress on our bike. They will be keeping us updated on the progress. Tickets for the bike are $50.00 a piece. April 1 through April 11 tickets will go on sale to members only for $40.00. Each member if they so desire can purchase one ticket at that price for themselves. April 12 the tickets will be on sale for anyone at $50.00 each. If you have a festival or function that you would like to have the bike at let President Flick or Vice President Oeth know. Member W. W. George has a contact at Toyota in Princeton and Toyota has donated a truck for us to use to move the bike around the State. Several weekends are already booked. September 1^st will be the last day for festivals. We will be having it in the Expo Hall during the State Fair. President Flick would like any member that is working the fair (or not working the fair) to donate a couple hours of their off time to assist in manning our booth. We are looking into using some of the monies from this to increase death benefits for our members, replacing of the memorial stones at the posts and possibly to do a 75^th year anniversary DVD.

MEMBERSHIP: In November of 2006 we had less than 800 members. In December of 2007 we sent out 409 letters to non members. We have received 65 positive responses. We now have over 1070 members. Remember strength is in numbers. Whenever we meet with Legislatures they want to know how many individuals of the Department we have as members. If you know of units at your Districts that are not members see if you can get them to join.

STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS: Governor Daniels invited us to sit in his section at the Capitol for his State of the State Address. He had 40 seats available and he invited us to take two of them. President Flick and Vice President Oeth were gone to a NTC conference so Executive Director Davis and Director Specekmeyer attended. Their seats were in the second row behind the Supreme Court Justices. We have a meeting coming up with the Governor the week of January 28^th. The alliance was asked to do some commercials for the Governor. We received approval from the Superintendent and President Flick, Vice President Oeth and Executive Director Davis have done some commercials. The Governor is very pleased.

RUMOR CONTROL ON OUR WEB SITE: Some things we just can not put on the site. If you want an answer call in and talk to Kenny Davis. He will answer your questions.

FOUNDATION: Vice President Oeth provided the members with information regarding the ISPA Foundation. If you have a project for the Department that needs funding and the Department approves the project you can now have companies, organizations, or individuals make donations to the foundation. There has been a link established on the ISPA website explaining the details of our new corporation.  Already these funds have played a major role in donations received toward our canine program.  Contact Kenny Davis for any questions concerning the ISPA Foundation.  

DISTRICT REPORTS: Chris Effner #32 advised that Phil Snowbrick who recently retired is in the hospital. Chris asks that we keep Phil in our prayers.

Chris also advised to contact CB Dyer about your anniversary badges. (317-634-3381)

Jon Singleton #35 advised that Jim Boling just arrested his 1000^th drunk driver. The Evansville News Media did a nice job in covering this.

ADJOURMENT: A motion was made to adjourn; seconded; carried. The Indiana State Police Alliance, Inc. Board of Director’s Meeting adjourned at 7:54 PM.         

BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S MEETING

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

President Wayne Flick called the meeting to order at 7:07 PM.

PRESENT:     President – Wayne Flick; Vice President – Greg Oeth; Directors – Larry Schenk, Area II; Secretary Rick Dick, Area III; Shannon Spreckelmeyer, Area VI; District Representatives – Chris Effner, #32; Aaron Haney, #43; Members – Rick Hammer, Dave McKalip; Staff – Kenny Davis, Executive Director / ASI Coordinator; Guests – Chaplain Coffey, Retiree John Wheeler of the Uniform House.

ROLL CALL:     President Flick called a roll of Directors and declared that there was not a quorum for conducting Indiana Sate Police Alliance business. No votes were taken on any business.

PROXIES:     No proxies were designated.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING:     Copies of the August 20, 2007 minutes were provided to the attendees.

BUSINESS:   

COPS FOR KIDS:  The ISPA Foundation for Special Projects has been receiving money. The largest amounts have been from Evansville for canines. Some money has also been received from Bremen. Letters were given to those present to take back to their districts to any persons that would like to contribute. Copies of the letter will be e-mailed to all district reps and to District Commanders.

Money for the Christmas Programs for needy children at the districts will be available again this year. Each district rep will have to request the money. There will be $1000 available to each district. The money is to be spent by the district directly, to help needy children. The money can not be given to local FOP Shop With A Cop programs. Our suggestion is to contact each county Children Services and determine families that are in need. The district reps will be responsible for sending a memo to the Alliance office showing where the funds were spent.

ASI:  In March we will again bid to get the Evansville Airport security. The present contract is up at that time.

The law has been changed reference to each member having a private detective license. ASI now has one license to cover all members that work ASI security jobs. Refund checks of $10 were sent to members who had previously paid for a license.

Retiree John Wheeler who works for the Uniform House was present to show us some shirts that ASI hopes to have available for members to purchase and wear at jobs. These are a polo type shirt.

ISPA:    

Legislative:  There are at least two matters that we will be working on this year:             1. Deadly Force – Dogs and Tasers are considered deadly force and we want that changed. 2. Blasting caps are not illegal and we want that changed.

MCI:  More MCI’s have joined as members of the Alliance. By January we want to change the by-laws so that MCI’s will have one rep on the board. We are going to attempt to get the MCI’s retirement moved in with the Excise and Conservation plan. We will have to wait until 2009, as 2008 is not a budget year with the legislature. We have had conversations with legislators on this matter.

OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS:  Our phone service will be changing to AT&T. This will cut our monthly bill by almost half. We will also be upgrading our present phone system. The new system will have voice mail capabilities among other improvements. The cost will be almost $7900. The funds will come from money that was returned to the Alliance from IUPA.

NTC:  President Flick and District #34 rep Chad Dick attended the Fall National Troopers Conference meeting held at Portland, Maine the last of September. President Flick stated that after listening to other states, they all have problems and that Indiana is looking good compared to a lot of states. At this meeting Indiana requested and was given the OK to host the Fall 2008 Meeting on September 28, 29 & 30. We have signed a contract with the OMNI in downtown Indianapolis. The out of state members will be arriving on Sunday the 28th. There will be meetings on Monday the 29^th and Tuesday the 30^th. Monday night we will host a 75^th Anniversary Banquet. At this banquet the winner of the 75^th Anniversary Motorcycle will be drawn.

We are requesting all members to let us know of any business in your area that would like to be sponsors for this event.

LEGAL ASSISTANCE:  We provided legal assistance to our member that was involved in a shooting on I-70. Once President Flick was notified of the shooting he made contact with one our attorneys and within an hour they were at the scene. We have done this in the past and will continue to provide this service to our members.

WEB SITE:  Promotions and Retirements have been added to our web site. Click on the bullets and you will be able to view the most recent members that have been promoted or have retired.

MAILING:  We are planning on a mailing to all members soon. You will receive information from two of our attorneys, Herb Segal and Roy Tabor, reference the services  they will provide to our membership at a reduced rate. You will also receive information as to AIL insurance and benefits.

WHITELAND MEMORIAL PARK:  Maribeth Alspach had contacted the office in reference to a Memorial Park in Whiteland, IN. The executive board voted at it’s meeting to purchase 3 pavers, one for the ISPA, one for Cops for Kids and one for ASI to be placed in the walkway at the park.

DISTRICT REPORTS:  Chris Effner Dist #32 advised that Phil Snowbrick has turned in his paperwork for retirement. However he had surgery and has throat cancer. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

DVD OF DAVID RICH’S FUNERAL:  Rick Hammer was present to explain the DVD of David Rich’s funeral. They took 7 hours of video and reduced it to 1.5 hours.

After the adjournment, those present viewed the DVD while Rick went through it and explained it.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:47 PM.

BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S MEETING

Tuesday, August 20, 2007

PRESENT:  President – Wayne Flick; Vice President – Greg Oeth; Directors – Dave Kirkham, Area I; Secretary Rick Dick, Area III; Clint Bundy, Area V; Shannon Spreckelmeyer, Area VI;   District Representatives – Phil McBride, #14; Kent Roe, #22; Chad Dick, #34; Jon Singleton, #35; Brian Bunner, #41; Aaron Haney, #43; Rich Myers, #53;   Members – Dave McKalip, #43;  Jeff Coffey, #52; Rick Hammer; Lab; Rick Weigand, #99;  Staff – Kelley Ford, Operations Manager.

Colonel Weigand was present to address the attendees.  He’s been in his new position for two months now and is receiving lots of support.  He considers the Superintendent to be a brilliant man and is happy to be working with him. 

Connersville and Terre Haute will be getting new posts.  Toll Road is also in the planning stages. 

HPV – 18 new mustangs will be assigned, one to each post.  The current HPV guys will not be excluded nor will they get them automatically.

The department’s goal is to keep cars below 100,000 miles.  They are building out 5 to 6 cars a week trying to get the new recruits equipped.  The Governor’s staff knows we need to get the high mileage cars off the road.  They will get back to that once they get the recruits taken care of.  Still looking at a one car fleet.

We have 25 motorcycles now, no plan to increase that.

Superintendent is working on getting light bars on all the slick tops.

The DROP changes were made because a lot of people entered in a year ago not knowing about the significant pay increase coming.  Now they can change their mind if they want to.

Base pension increases is something the Superintendent wants to look at in the future.  Next year is not a budget year. 

Cell phones are not nearly as costly now as they used to be.  If we get into a budget problem that would be something they would look at.   No problem right now.  Some of the attendees told Colonel Weigand that sometimes the cell phone is the only line of communication they have.  Either the radio has bad coverage or details like the race, you can’t hear the radio.

An SOP is being generated to cause an Honor Guard at each Area so they can be available for things that pop up. 

ASI uniform has not been decided on yet.

Discussion on e-tickets.  May have them as early as next year.  They take just a few seconds to complete.  Hopefully in the future crash reports, case reports, etc. will be done this way.

The board thanked Colonel Weigand for his time and welcomed him back anytime.

President Wayne Flick called the meeting to order at 6:50 PM.

ROLL CALL:  President Wayne Flick called a roll of Directors and declared a quorum for conducting Indiana State Police Alliance business.

PROXIES:  Kent Roe, #22, proxy for Larry Schenk, Area II.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING:  Copies of the June 2007 minutes were provided to the attendees.  A motion was made to accept the minutes; seconded; carried.

TREASURER’S REPORT:  Clint Bundy gave the Treasurer’s Report. A motion was made to accept; seconded; carried.

BUSINESS:

Cops For Kids:  We can now accept money for things like the canine program.  The department can’t accept money from miscellaneous groups but they can accept it from us.  Therefore we have set up an ISPA foundation under the umbrella of Cops for Kids.  This allows the corporations and individuals a tax deduction.

Water Damage:  The attendees were informed of the water damage that occurred several days ago.  The air conditioner dumped a bunch of water due to a stopped up drain.  Maintenance was just done on the system in June.  Hopefully the cost will be minimal.

Governor Daniels:  The Governor has requested another meeting with Kenny, Greg and Wayne.  He says it’s just the beginning.  He wants them back every 6 weeks or so to talk about what we need.  One day there was a picture of him in the paper wearing the ISPA hat and a state police shirt.  He loves the state police and genuinely cares about your welfare.

Dave Rich Funeral:  Rick Hammer had a couple of his techs take video, 8 hours worth.  He is going to edit it and make a DVD available.  The Texas troops that came for the funeral were totally impressed.  They wrote a letter to the editor of the Wabash paper and said what they saw in Indiana is what America should be. 

Garrity Rule Cards:  We are having these cards printed for our members.

Day Books:  Currently our day books are paid for by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  Tony George says everybody has to get one.  Next year we are going to do it ourselves and it will only go to members.

NTC ’08:  The NTC has two conferences a year; one in the spring and one in the fall.  In September ’08 we will be hosting the fall conference.  It will be the 75^th Anniversary of the State Police at that time so on Monday the 29^th we will have a dinner banquet to recognize this and the winning ticket for the motorcycle will be drawn.  We will also plan a trip to the 500 or a gambling boat. 

Putnamville Pistol Match:  The Alliance will again be providing a certificate for a weapon to the winner.

Motorcycle:  The Orange County Choppers are making an ISP 75^th Anniversary bike for us to be raffled off.  The tickets will be $50 each.

Lab Picnic:  Many thanks were expressed from the employees who attended the picnic.  They had a great day.

Colts Tickets:  The next four winners were drawn.  The winners were:

October 7 - Rick Brown, Peru

November 4 - Chris Martin, Connersville

November 18 - Michael Ooley, Connersville

December 2 – Aaron Haney, Seymour

ADJOURMENT:  A motion was made to adjourn; seconded; carried.  The Indiana State Police Alliance, Inc. Board of Director’s Meeting adjourned at 8:15 PM.