Message From the 1st Vice President

 Another convention has come and gone. I want to thank everyone for voting me First State Vice President. Welcome to our returning State Officers and all of the new board members also.

We were presented with a new software package that National is using called Imembersdb. National has negotiated a deal for the State and Local lodges to be able to adopt this software at no cost to us. The only costs are if we upgrade to take some additional packages that we have currently decided not to do at the State Level. I have begun working with the Imembersdb team and by the time you read this the rollout should be close to being available. For those of you who saw the presentation and also wanted to use it for the Local Lodges it should be available very soon. If you have any question please feel free to contact me.

It was quite a treat to see everyone in person this year and I want to thank all those in charge of putting on the convention. The food this year was probably some of the best we have ever had. It was nice having an evening off during convention. I was able to enjoy and evening at the Rodeo with our youth group, Financial Secretary David Lavezzari, the President of my Lodge Steve Guthrie, the ever entertaining Phil Privitera and his son Payton. Brian Watson does a great job keeping the youth busy and thank you for that.

I look forward to seeing as many of the lodges as possible in the next two years. Hope everyone stays healthy,

Sincerely,
Mark Vaona