Sounds like you have things under control. I am going to make you an exception to our policy.
By that I mean that I am going to approve you as a full patched member, without ever meeting you. However I do want to spend some time with you around a campsite as soon as I make it down to Texas.
As a full patched member, I am also officially assigning you to the position of District Officer for Northern Texas. That gives you permission to sanction your own chapter.
This is the first time in the history of this club, I have done this.
Please don't abuse this.
Anyway, I am sending you a link that can be used for payment of the Backpatch lease.
This is a link that you can share with others, however it is mandatory that you meet with them face to face and ride with them, talk with them and make sure that YOU trust them to be an asset to our club.
Also, we must have a physical address for the chapter, so we know where to send the patches.
The patches should be given to the member at a chapter meeting AFTER the elections are held.
They should be presented by you, as the District Officer.
We want photographs of the patches being given to the members.
That gives us an image as documented proof for our records of who has our patches.
Before we ship any patches to your chapter, we MUST have a digital copy of the members membership application, a signed copy of our bylaws, a digital copy of their signature on a lease, and the cash for the lease.
All lease payments will be made directly to American Legacies, LLC, our parent organization and we expect EVERY member to at check out their facebook group, ( an invite was already sent to you) and the website located at
www.uslegacies.com so they will at least have an idea of what and who our parent organization is and everything they do.
As a District Officer, you should learn as much as you can about Legacies so that you can answer any questions the members might have. Until that time, you can ask me or our National Secretary any questions that you might have.
I might also mention that at least 4 members of OBRC sit on the board of directors for American Legacies. Two of those men are National officers and two are former Chapter Officers, so that gives OBRC a voice with American Legacies when it comes to allocating money to OBRC for merchandise and PR events as well as advice from their attorney and other business insight.
This also protects OBRC.
Anyway, here is the link for making donations to American Legacies.
In case you need the full link,here it is: I can not type the https:// in front of the address because this forum will automatically cut it short, so that part will have to be added manually, but here is the rest of it.
paypal.me/AmericanLegaciesLLC?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
You can also copy the url from your browser. However I will be posting that link on the OBRC forum where the general public can click on it, as well as on the primary OBRC website.
This link can be used to pay for Backpatch leases and paying for other club merchandise.
By the way, we are redesigning all types of new items from banners for rallies, magnets for chase or support vehicles, t-shirts, sweat shirts, caps, skull caps, bumper stickers for cages, pens, notepads, etc.
This link can also be used for donations from private individuals as well as for the "Profits" from fund raising events, such as bike washes, car washes, poker runs, etc.
Congratulations and we are looking forward to great things coming out of North Texas.
Thank you for everything.
FTW