ASIS-HOUSTON CHAPTER MINUTES

ASIS-HOUSTON CHAPTER MINUTES

2/21/07

The luncheon meeting was = held at the Renaissance Hotel with Chapter President Posie Clinton presiding. Eighty Six (86) members and = guests attended.

Pledge: &nbs= p; &= nbsp; Posie Clinton

Prayer: = &nb= sp; Greg H. Walker, Esq., CPP, ARM

Welcome, Introduction of Guests and New Members

COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES:

Treasurer’s Repo= rt: = ; Chapter Treasurer Tom Norman, CPP, PSP announced that the Chapter presently had $ 19709.86 in the checking account and $ 6,276.18 in the savings account for a total of $ 25,986.04. H= e then discussed the details thereof.

Golf Committee: It was announced that the Platinum Sponsor would be Infrastrut Security, Inc., that Gold Sponsors to date are: AIG Corporate Security, = Securitas Security Services USA, Inc., = and Securitas Security Systems USA, and that the Silver Sponsors to date are: Ecology &am= p; Environment, Inc., IDN Acme, Inc., Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, and NICE.

Public Safety Award: We presented our 2006 Officer of the Year Award to Lt. Gary Scheibe of the Houston Police Department. Lt. Scheibe= is attached to the Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security.

Lieutenant Gary Scheibe, = a 23 year member of the Houston Police Department, who is presently assigned to = the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety & Homeland Security, is awarded t= he Public Safety & Law Enforcement Officer of the Month Award by the Houst= on Chapter of ASIS, International for his continuing exemplary work in the are= a of Homeland Security.

Lieutenant Scheibe was the Operations Chief for the In-Processing of Katrina Hurricane Mega Shelter Evacuees during which time a variety of agencies working under his umbrella= of command received, searched the persons, luggage and vehicles, seized weapon= s, triaged, registered in and assigned temporary shelter for over 65,000 peopl= e in the span of a couple of days.

Lieutenant Scheibe also b= een involved in two of Houston’s major events, the World Series and the Super-Bowl related events as the Hard Team Lieutenant handling and traffic management in the downtown central business district and maintaining the security hard perimeter at Reliant Stadium during the Super-Bowl itself.

Lieutenant Scheibe has sh= own his strong interest in Security Management by being one of the first to earn the Master of Science in Security Management degree from the University of Houst= on Downtown.

He is married to Michele = Scheibe who is a retired HPD Sergeant from the City of Houston’s Office of the Inspector General.

Greg = H. Walker, Esq., CPP, ARM presen= ted Lt. Scheibe with a special plaque as our token of appreciation for his going the extra mile and being a leader in public safety management. He was also given a gift certifica= te for $ 100.00 and a year’s membership to both ASIS International and the Houston ASIS Chapter. H= e was accompanied by his direct supervisor retired Executive Assistant Chief and = now Director of the City Of Houston’s Office of Public Safety & Homel= and Security, Dennis J. Storemski.

Sp= ecial Presentation: The Chapter presented a Roman style sword and his past Chairman’s pin to = John Brady of Conoco-Phillips for his dedicated service and leadership of the Chapter as its Chairperson during the 2006 Year.

SPEAKER:

The H= ouston Chapter’s own Brave American Warrior, Colonel William “BillR= 21; Hart, USA, Col. Hart who had just finished a tour of duty as Director Of Detention for the United States in Afghanistan and spoke on his personal dealings with al Qaeda, Taliban and other terrorist detainees, as well as t= he Afghan people and government.

Colonel Hart spoke from h= is heart, from his mind and from his experience to his friends, the members of= the Houston ASIS Chapter. <= /p>

In respect of his straight talking to our Chapter member I will not recite much of the information rel= ated to us. While Col. Ha= rt, in the highest traditions of the U.S. Military, did not impart any classified information, he spoke as he has always done, with enthusiasm, straightforwa= rd without spin, completely and truthfully.

I will relate that Col. H= art was not only extremely proud to have been called back to active duty by his country, but was even prouder of the men and women who served under his com= mand and with him. When he s= poke of these brave men and women he beamed like a parent filled with pride, res= pect and love.

Col. Hart through words and pictures related the many wonderful humanitarian things our men and women of the United States Armed Forces do during their deployments -- things that unfortunately most of the world and American media do not put on the air. Things that would make their parents even prouder than I am sure that they are and that would make almost all Americans stand up and cheer for them. These included one story of a school built by the our troops in a small village that means so much to the local people who had been deprived of education for so long by the Taliban that w= hen 30 or so Taliban with AK-47’s and rocket launchers came back to the village and was going to destroy the school, that the local people drove th= em off using the only weapons they had - sticks and stones.

Among other things, he al= so pointed out that the United States spends $ 9 a day to feed the average American soldier, but spends $ 35 a day to buy Hallal (religiously required) food for the Jihadist detainees not only in Afghanistan, but also in the special prisons at the U.S. base at Guantanamo in Cuba. Again, another fact not told= to the American people by our media.

Col. Hart also through words = and pictures related what it was like to be an Afghan, their love of their coun= try, their people and culture and their hope to be safe and free from radicals within their own religion. Col. Ha= rt brought out the difference between those of the religion of Islam that are = true followers of the religion and those that corrupt it for their own murderous purposes. He showed true resp= ect and caring for all except the radicals and he very plainly laid out what type of people the Jihadists are, what their goals are, the extent of their fevour = and devotion and the future for the Afghan and American peoples if the Jihadists are not brought to justice.

MARCH 21^ST LUNCHEON:

The next luncheon will be= March 21^st and the Speaker will be Mr. Cliff Grumbles, Manager of the Texas Private Security Bureau, who has been so gracious on so many occasion= s to come over to Houston to share his thoughts and concerns with us and answer our questions and ass= ist us in our dealings with the Bureau.

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