Southeast Chapter Masonry Meeting
Galuppi’s
March 10th, 2010 Minutes
Prepared by Sofia Silva
MAF WEB-SITE: www.floridamasonry.com

1. Meeting called to order by the President Justin Lord
A. Self introduction
B. Reading of the Statement of the Anti-Trust policy adopted by the state was waived.
C. Approvals of the minutes-Minutes were approved.

2. President’s report: Justin Lord
A. EVERYONE BRING A GUEST TO THE NEXT MEETING!!!

3. State Report:
A. Justin was asked to head a committee regarding the unlicensed activity.
B. There is a blog site up with info on how to report unlicensed activity.
C. Membership drive and renewing existing members and creating an incentive program to get members involved with increasing membership, it’s not written in stone yet but it’s in the works.

4. Foundation:
Pat McLaughlin agreed to hire someone to help Mary Jane take care of the apprenticeship for Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade County.

5. Treasurer’s Report- Pete Saunders
A. General fund has $2,100.00

6. Membership Committee:
Contact me at Sofia@cbcfl.com .
A. No new members. Incentive program in the works.

7. Program:
Enrique Gonzales – Immigration Law was our guest speaker

8. Apprenticeship Committee:
Nothing to report

9. Awards committee:
Joes Lesstino has agreed to do the chapter awards. Joe will have handouts for the next meeting.

10. Program committee:

11. Pro-Masonry committee:
A. Pro-Masonry has come really far over the past 2 ½ yrs.
B. Don Beers is downloading a data base of projects. 65% of the projects have been called. Want to do presentations for those projects that are undecided about building with masonry. 7 were done in Jan, so they are making some headway.
C. Greg Strickland has taken a major chunk of the list but he needs HELP! Volunteers are needed please contact Mike Ryan Mryan@castcrete.com or Greg Strickland GStrickland@cemexusa.com .

12. State Convention: Sept 16-19

13. Fastest Trowel
A. Competition will be May 15th at the Cemex Block Plant in Riviera
B. Shawn McGee is the committee head

14. Old Business: Unlicensed activity has been brought to states attention.

15. New Business:
A. We have a new Chapter Ocala

16. Next meeting:
A. Galuppi’s. Next meeting will be held on Wednesday April 14th, 2010.
B. Future meetings will be held the second Wednesday of every month.
C. Please do business with members.
D. MAF WEB-SITE: www.floridamasonry.com