MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OF

THE CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE

A regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Catholic Defense League (CDL) was held, pursuant to notice, on July 20^th, 2004 in the offices of CDL, St. Paul, Minnesota. Present at the Meeting were the following Board Members: Merlyn Scroggins, Cletus Tauer, Jennifer Maas, Marlene Reid, Patrick Shannon, Val Baertlein, Richard Houck, Kelly Rowe, Stella Lundquist, Hap Corbett and Patrick Phillips. The Meeting was called to order at 4:30 p.m. and the following business ensued:

Pat Phillips brought up the suggestion that there be time allotments for each item on agendas for Board meetings so that there will be sufficient time for the Board to discuss issues concerning attacks or insults to the Church, which is the essential purpose of the CDL. Although the Board agreed with this suggestion, it was decided to discuss it later.

Next the Minutes from the meeting in June were submitted, reviewed and unanimously accepted.

Cletus Tauer next submitted the Treasurer’s report. Clet reported that we were approximately $4,000.00 down from a year ago; however there are 2 to 3 more mailings scheduled with the Defender that should help things. The report was reviewed and unanimously accepted.

There was then a discussion regarding the costs of producing and mailing out the Defender and it was hoped that costs could be reduced. Val Baertlein and Dick Houk will look into the costs that go into the Defender and report back on their findings. In addition, they will also submit ideas on Defender content.

Val next summarized the meetings of the ad hoc Governance Committee. The Committee will perform the following:

1. Determine the succession of the President.

2. Assign tasks; including enumerating projects and identifying project leaders.

3. Handle cash receipts (which will be performed by Val and Clet at the present time).

4. Produce, publish and mail out the Defender.

The Governance Committee needs to help Merlyn and free him up so he can perform other Presidential duties.

Pat Phillips volunteered to update the data base for CDL and will convert it to Access.

There was general agreement by the Board that such a governance committee needs to be formed; however, creating it will require Board approval. Val will draft a motion to be voted on by the Board at the next Meeting.

The next item of business addressed by the Board concerned the banquet speaker in 2005.Marlene Reid proposed Austin Ruse , President of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. It was unanimously approved by the Board for Stella Lundquist to tender Mr. Ruse an invitation to speak at next year’s banquet.

The issue of an honorarium was raised and the Board gave approval to offer Mr. Ruse up to $1,000.00. Marlene and Val indicated that they would look into the actual costs and expenses involved with bringing Mr. Ruse here to speak and would report back.

The CDL web site was the next item for discussion. Pat Phillips reported that revisions were underway and that he would report more fully on those revisions later.

Dick Houk noted that it would be a good idea that CDL Board members write others who publically defend the Church. It shows solidarity and might be a good way to recruit new members.

Merlyn and Dick submitted examples of recent attacks against the Church. These were discussed by the Board.

Lastly, the next Board Meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, August 17^th, 2004 commencing at 4:30 p.m.

Meeting adjourned at 6:00 p.m.

Respectfully submitted

Kelly M. Rowe, Esq.

Secretary