N.A.B.B.I.

Thanks Tony! we appreciate your hard work and dedication.

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Tony
Sunset Bilingual Investigation
Private Investigator/Bail Enforcement Agent
(877) 440-5970 Office
(805) 524-4049 Fax
Oxnard, CA

Ok Gang,

Got contract from Lumiere Hotel and Casino in St Louis, MO. As mentioned earlier, it is located on the water front, that is the Mighty Mississippi River in donwtown St. Louis.

http://lumiereplace.com/home.aspx

The dates we have reserved are: March 18, 19 and 20, 2012. That is a Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

The purpose of this meetng is to formally organize the National Association of Bail Bond Investigators as a non profit 501(c)(?) industry advocacy trade group.

At the meeting we will:

1) Approve the Mission Statement, Code of Ethics and Bylaws
2) Elect the board of directors
3) Establish the membership dues
4) Set the annual meeting date or at least the time frame
5) Establish various committees
6) Set our first goals
7) ?????????

There are probably a few items I left off or haven't thought of that will need to be addressed. If anyone has other items that they think we will need to handle, please let me know.

Now, most actions will be delt with through one of the committees, so I am not going into all the fine details right now.

For those that have volunteered to help, please respond again so I can send you what ever information you will need to do your part. Let me know what you are interested in helping out on and I will put you with the others that want to work on that particular area of the organizing effort.

Ok, so here is the hotel particulars. The group room rate is $99 per night plus tax of 15% city tax.

We have a minimum food and beverage order of $1300 in order to get all our meeting space for free. If we have a Sunday reception, Monday lunch, Monday dinner and Tuesday lunch all together, we will meet that F/B minimum no problem.

We are required to have a liability insuarnce policy ( just in case Scott and Bill break something ). The audio and visual equipment is an extra cost.

When I added up all the costs based on a paid attendance of 50 people, the registration fee is going to have to be $150 each. It is more than the June Vegas meeting because at that meeting I did not add in the service charges and taxes, so I ate the difference.

The Boss was not too happy but, it was my mistake.

Anyway, we can maybe off set some of the cost if we can get sponsors or exhibitors. However that may be hard to do if we can't provide a large enough attendance to entice the sponsors or exhibitors to come.

The other issue is if we have exhibitors, we will have to make time for the attendees to talk with them.

Each attendee has to make their own hotel reservation. They must give the group code, G11307 and mention the NABBI to get the special rate.

To reserve a room, the telephone number is:
877-450-7711

The last day to get the discounted room rate is Saturday, March 3, 2012.

We are guaranteed 5 rooms for Saturday, March 17, 20 for Sun and 20 for Monday. That is the minimum we are guaranteed. Of course they will provide as many as we need as long as they have room for more.

Phill has offered to set up a website for the N.A.B.B.I. to use as the official site and for registration. That way we will not have any conflict or hard feelings from other bail related forums.

All the registration will be done through that site once it is up.

Got to go back to my day job for a bit right now. I will be back with more a later.

Tony, I will be glad to be involved in the bonding portion as it relates... specifically in my AO which of course would be Virginia.

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Bill Marx, Sr.
"FREE STATE BAIL BONDS"
"FREE STATE INVESTIGATIONS"
DCJS: 99-176979
Cell: 434-294-0222

"Endeavor to Persevere" "Lone Watie"

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that , comes from bad judgment" "Will Rogers"

Tony, when is the site going to be up and running any idea? Also anything that I can do to help let me know.

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R.F. (Bob) Rielly
434-984-0275
301-659-4610
Charlottesville VA

I will get with Phill tomorrow and work on the details for the website.

Also, I got back to work on the costs and I can reduce the meal cost and thereby reduce the registration costs.

My initial thoght was that if we had lunches together and dinner together on Monday night we could hash out ideas over meals.

But if we eliminate the group dinner, we can probably reduce the registration costs by $35 to $40 as the hotel charges 22% service charge and 9.9%tax on top of that on all meals, so a $25 dinner will cost almost $40 total.

So to eliminate the dinner, everyone would have to go out on their own our in a small group.

If we agree to that then the registration would cost between $100 and $110 each.

Any comments on that?

I think we should keep the group lunches becuase that would save time and allow us to discuss issues over lunch.

We should also keep the the Sunday night reception as a "meet and greet."

That is a good idea to not have the dinners as a group. I think it would give people the chance to network with people in thier areas of the country. I think the registration fee should be around $120 per person. This will enable N.A.B.B.I. to build up some funds or atleast cover some of the costs of the start up.

I think the way to approach vendors here to get them to come is offer them some ad space on the new website. I think like a one or two year ad should be sufficient for this. They should have a fee to pay to set up a booth or table since they are making profit off anything they sell. Make a flat rate for all vendors of like $400.00. A booth at a show somewhere easilly costs a thousand or two, so that rate would be acceptable and considered a deal. I know most vendors would like a minimum of so many people so we would have to sell them on the fact that it will keep growing each year and event. And that they would get free advertising on the new N.A.B.B.I. site. Just some thoughts.

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Best Regards,
Eric

Looking for a mentor to give me a foot in the door to this business. Prior Military-US Army- expert marksmam. BHTA training acadamy. ATFE licensed Pyrotechnician; and one hell of a guy. Give me a chance and I'll give you 150% of myself. Will travel in tri state area for this opportunity.

PM for Contact info

Sounds good, Tony! I am also willing and available to assist in whatever area you need me to.

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Randall Crew
Randall Crew & Associates
641-289-0136

I will help out. As far as Insurance goes i can add the hotel to the group of additional insured people and places. I just need the exact name of the hotel, address and number of days i need to cover. I will PM you with the amount of my policy as i do not post it on the INTERNET . I can have this done almost instantly. The only thing it will not cover is anything caused by illegal drugs. It will cover alcohol at the place of the Meetings & Motel only

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Collection Agency
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Retired Private Investigator & Bail Enforcement
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Office 260-220-3877
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NOTE: My regular computer is down! (I really need to upgrade!)

If you wish to reach me - post here on the site, PM or use my cell 323-793-3112.

I could have the site up with in the next few weeks! (or less) I will need to have the DNS (Domain Name Servers) modified to point to my servers. Will need to speak with Mr H about this...

The basic purpose of the initial site will be for attendee registration - I can also provide information and registration for vendors/advertisers.

Suggestions for the website can be posted here or possibly a new thread (topic)

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PHiLL CRoSS
Owner/Administrator
Fugitive Recovery Network
US Bail Bond Directory
Private Investigator Database

Please post questions in the "Comments or Suggestions" Forum
PM is only for private requests or comments

With Dave adding us as a rider on his insurance, that will lower the overall costs by about $1000. Then we can lower the registration even more to under a $100 most likely. I will crunch the numbers again to see what it could be.

I agree we need to have some amount for start up costs but, we also want to make it as attractive as possible to get as many people to attend. We need large numbers of members to have political power to advance legislation and protect the "profession."

Also, there will be a membership dues requirement, so that will provide funds for the operation of the association.

If anyone has contact information for potential exhibitors or vendors, please post here or PM me with that info and I will contact them. If it is someone that you personally deal with and have a relationship, you can ask them if they would like to participate as a sponsor or vendor.

That can include surety companies. We can invite them as attendees or vendors.

Phill, I will send you some photos of the hotel and basic info to use on the website.

Dave I will send hotel address, dates, expected attendance ( my best guess ), etc.

Everyone else I will be contacting you with volunteer options.

Have to run to a meeting now, will be back in a couple of hours.