This meeting was held on Saturday, January 18th, at the Three Little Pigs BBQ restaurant on US 49, south of Hattiesburg and north of Paul B. Johnson state park

Vice-President Stan Snodgrass called the meeting to order at 1:00 PM.

Twenty-one members and one guest were present for the Barbeque and meeting. Attendance was as follows:

MEMBERS
J. C. Blades Amite, LA
Bill Boyd Summit
Barry Cottrell Gulfport
Richard Coyle Starkville
Jim Dammon Hattiesburg
Will David Ocean Springs
Max Dean Union
Bryan Drake Gulfport
Melinda Drake Gulfport
Frank Glamser Hattiesburg
Bill Gower Hattiesburg
Ronald Grisham Jackson
Pete Henson Westwego, LA
Maria Kinney Westwego, LA
Craig Miller Hattiesburg
Lloyd Rauschkolb Gulfport
Bob Shaffer Clinton, LA
Ron Shannon Miss State
Shane Smith McComb
Stan Snodgrass Hattiesburg
Paul Vegas Folsom, LA

GUESTS
Sandy Smith McComb
OFFICERS' REPORTS:

Secretary:
1 Secretary Will David presented the December Minutes for everyone's review and approval. There was one typographical correction that did not change the content of the minutes. Barry Cottrell moved that the modified minutes be accepted. Max Dean seconded the motion. Vote and pass.

3 Will said that he plans to publish the January Newsletter within the next week. He asked for any information, anecdotes, trip reports or any articles of interest from the members to include. Santa brought Will a digital camera, so there will be more photos in the newsletter. Members are encouraged to e-mail any interesting stories or pictures they have to BMWRidersOfMS@aol.com with the people in photos identified for a caption.

Treasurer:
Barry Cottrell presented a quarterly financial statement
Balance forwarded as of 09/28/02 $7,683.45 *Misc Expenses
Income Postage $134.97
Dues Collected $420.00 $420.00 MOA Charter 15.00
Total Funds $8,103.45 Purchase checks 10.00
Expenses
Misc. Expenses* $159.97
Christmas banquet 457.36
Other 00.00 $617.33
Balance 12/31/02 $7,486.12

Barry also reported that he had received a check for $555.00 from Hattiesburg Cycles. Hattiesburg Cycles pays a one year membership for each Mississippi resident who buys a BMW from them. This check represents an additional THIRTY-SEVEN new members for our club! [If a current member buys another BMW from Hattiesburg Cycles, they get their next year's dues paid.]
Names of new members will be put in the newsletter so y'all can call them and invite them for rides.

There were no additions or corrections to the Treasurer's report. Will David moved that the report be accepted. Ron Shannon seconded the motion. Vote and pass.

OLD BUSINESS:

1 Registration and licensing the club trailer.
Our beloved President David Coles is home recovering from knee surgery. He'll get to it when he can hobble to the courthouse.[David's knee damages are not related to motorcycling...]

2 February meeting information:
Jeff Boudreaux set us up with a good venue for the next meeting.
Date: February 8th, 2003 at 12 pm.
Location: Hotel Alice (Restaurant, Bed & Breakfast) at 110 Front Street in Ellisville, MS.
If anyone in the group wants to stay at the B&B its $70.00 per night room with breakfast for members.
Phone # 601-477-9871. Ellisville is located on I-59 between Hattiesburg & Laurel.

3 Results of final logo runoff vote:
The symbol of the BMW Riders of Mississippi is the State Outline.
The votes were counted December 29, 2002 by Pres David Coles and Sec Will David.
State Outline - 52% State Flag - 38% State Flower - 10%.

NEW BUSINESS:

1 March meeting in Meridian.
We are booked for 1:00 P.M., March 8, 2003 at Montana's Bar-B-Q & Seafood Restaurant at 2106-A Front Street, Meridian, MS. Montana's is located just around the corner from Weidmann's Restaurant....where we had the last Meridian meeting. Plenty of parking.
April's meeting will be at our Dogwood Trail rally.

2 Club Logo items:
We are in communication with the BMW-USA asking for permission to use their copyrighted Motoman on our logo. This will give us a symbol of the state with a motorcyclist riding across it. Their permission is pending. Barry Cottrell is looking for a supplier. Jim Dammon said that he will get us price quotes from a military patch/pin manufacturer. We will do our best to have pins, patches and logo T-shirts for our rally in April.

Frank Glamser suggested that we provide a free pin and/or patch to all club members, and a free pin and patch to all new club members. VP Snodgrass replied that it will depend on how much the pins & patches cost. We give rally pins to all attendees at the Dogwood, but that is paid for by their rally fees. We'll probably sell the pins and patches to members at cost.

3 Rally Field Events:
We would like to do something fun and interesting for our rally games this year. Members made suggestions: Bryan Drake suggested a barrel wrap, as was done at the Swamp Scooters' rally. Materials needed are a 55 gallon barrel and a length of rope. The rider circles the barrel while the passenger wraps the barrel with rope. The event ends when 1) the rope is all wrapped around the barrel, 2) the rope touches the ground, 3) the rider/passenger put a foot down. If there is no full wrap, the contestant with the least amount of unwrapped rope is the winner. Barry Cottrell likes the slalom with tennis balls on top of the cones. The passenger picks up tennis balls on the run outbound, and replaces them on the run inbound.

4 Door Prizes & Vendors for Rally
Barry Cottrell reminded members to talk to vendors and start collecting door prizes for the rally. If any vendors want to set up at our rally, have them contact Rallymaster Duane Carpenter or Barry. We discussed a vendor fee of $100 cash or $100 value in merchandise for door prizes, but nothing was decided. This is within the oversight of the Rallymaster.

5 Helen 2 Wheels Recovering:
Shane Smith talked to Helen last week. She's still recovering from her major motorcycle accident, and is thinking about buying an RV that she can use as a traveling store. We're hoping to see her - with or without an RV filled with camping accessories - at the Dogwood Trail.

6 No Shane Smith Crawfish Boil This Year:
Shane and Sandy are taking a year off. Warm thanks to them both for hosting us in McComb for so many years.

7 Cindy Earl Crashed:
Cindy went down in the curves of Red Bluff, north of Collins. Her injuries are broken ribs and a damaged hand. She's recovering, but slowly. She totaled her K12RS. We send her happy thoughts and our wishes for a speedy and full recovery.

8 Farewell to Bryan and Mel Drake:
In service to our nation, Bryan and Mel have been reassigned to Okinawa. They are both Noncommissioned officers in the Air Force. Mel is a logistics NCO and Bryan is a flightline NCO who services aircraft with fuel (Now you know where he got the road name of FIREBALL!) Bryan's bike gets crated for shipment on Monday, January 20th. Godspeed, friends.

There being no further business, Lloyd Rauschkolb made the motion to adjourn the meeting which was seconded by Max Dean. Voted and passed.

Vice-President Snodgrass adjourned the meeting at 2:07 PM.

Respectfully submitted;

Will David, Secretary