MONTHLY MEMBERS’ MEETING

MINUTES FROM JUNE 22, 2008

I. Meeting was called to order by Emperor 3 Joseph Brumley at 2:05pm.

II. Secretary of the Board, Joe Kunkel made the motion to accept the Minutes from the May meeting as posted on the website. 2^nd by CJ Whitmer and all approved.

III. Secretary of the Board, Joe Kunkel along with Treasurer Gary Munson made the motion to accept the June Treasurer’s report as read, 2^nd by Sandy LaFrance. All approved.

IV. Old Business:

· Memorial Day Show – Gary and CJ thanked everyone that played a part in pulling this off as a great success. Empress 3 Justice Prevails read a wonderful letter from The Greyhounds of Fairfield thanking the Court for a wonderful time and the money raised.

· Investiture – PR’s Reign 2 Joseph and Regine thanked everyone for making this night a special one. E&E 3 handed out titles, awards and salutations. We want to thank Joe and Ben at the Rock, Ron Caputo and Sandy LaFrance for the wonderful food, Rev. Charlie from the Church of Hope and many others for making Investiture 3 a GREAT evening.

· Line Meeting – E&E 3 Joseph and Justice gave a recap of the Line Meeting held at Kobalt on Saturday June ____. Great ideas from the members were voiced and Reign 3 will try to do everything we can to get everyone involved in each event. We have through December planned with tentative events from January through May.

· Annual Dues – Please remember to pay Gary Munson your annual dues of either $40, 30 or $20.

· Personal Information – Please remember to see Joe Kunkel to up date your personal information so that we can get the Members’ list out to all the members for their records.

V. New Business:

· Social Calendar – E&E 3 explained that the social calendar is different than the corporate calendar and we need to remember not to get the corporation into a contract without the board’s approval or commit the Court to an event or show without the Monarch’s approval.

· Golden Wighead Awards – The court was nominated for a Best Drag Event for Coronation 3. The court won the award for Outstanding Achievement. Every 2 years the drag community goes out to the local bars and solicits votes for these awards. $1 a vote. Quite an honor for the court to receive one so early in our existence. Miss Ebony was honored with a Lifetime Achievement and inducted into the Hall of Fame.

· Flagstaff Pride – The Monarchs along with Julie, Michael, JaGi, CJ, Gary and others caravanned up to Flagstaff for Pride in the Pines. The Court shared a booth with N’Touch (our media sponsor).

· Imperial Blue Hawaiian Beach Party – Will be held on June 28 at Friends hosted by Richard and Regine. The beneficiary will be Valle del Sol.

· Scream Queen Bingo – on July 7^th at Ice Pics the Sisters and the Court will be holding/hosting this event at 8pm.

· PR Show at the Rock – CJ and JaGi will be hosting a benefit at the Rock on July 26^th. Line up will be at 8pm with the show starting promptly at 9pm.

· Drag Queen Games Committee – Jennifer and Steve will be heading up this major event in August. They will be getting a committee together to help organize this one day full event, but will need all court members to jump in and help put everything together before during and after the event. Place, time, etc. will be announced in the weeks to come.

· Empire Ball Committee – The Court along with Emperor 3 Joseph Brumley will be bringing back the Empire Ball to Phoenix. It will be held on Halloween, October 31^st. Emperor 3 Joseph will start putting a committee together to work out all the logistics, but again will need all court members to jump in and lend lots of helping hands. This is a STATE FUNCTION!!!!

· Out the Vote – The court will help get the word out via our events in the coming months to make sure that everyone knows about voting and is registered to vote come November. Julie and Michael have been involved in this project and will spearhead it for the court.

· Parliament Representative – With the elevation of CJ Whitmer to Executive Secretary of the new Parliament at Nicole the Great’s request, he moved that we offer the parliament rep position to Gaby Tako who was the 2^nd alternate behind CJ and Emperor Joseph. Gaby graciously accepted. We now need to elect a new alternate to back Gaby up for meetings, etc. Emperor Joseph and Empress Justice opened the floor to the members for nominations. Allen Hall and Jeff Muir were nominated. With no other nominations being voiced, Joe Kunkel moved that nominations cease with a 2^nd by Sandy LaFrance. The ballots will be put out via email and returned the same way. The Secretary of the Board will tabulate and then the results will be emailed and announced at the July meeting.

VI. Education Presentation:

Joe Kunkel, CEO and Secretary of the Board, presented a short educational presentation on the 2 sides that make up the Imperial Court of Arizona, Inc. The Corporate side that has to function as a non-profit corporation in the State of Arizona and maintaining our 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. He also explained about the Social side in which the Monarchs govern the Line Titles, Imperial Family and courtiers. Being a small and new court these 2 sides blend a lot, but as we grow there will become more defining lines between the social and corporate sides of the court. He stressed that we all need to do our best to recognize which side events, contracts, sponsorships, etc. fall so that we don’t get the organization into something that they can’t handle or can’t fulfill.

VII. Open Forum

Jeff Muir mentioned that he and Liz will be hosting an event on November the 15^th at the American Legion Post 105 at Thunderbird and 35^th Ave. It will be a dinner and show that will benefit PFLAG here in the greater Phoenix area.

VIII. Adjourn:

Joe Kunkel made the motion to adjourn, 2^nd by Gary Munson. All approved and the meeting adjourn for June at 3:04pm.