TEXAS LOCKSMITHS ADVISOR
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TEXAS LOCKSMITHS ADVISOR
AUGUST 2010 TEXAS LOCKSMITHS ADVISOR Professional Locksmiths Serving Texas Since 1964 2010 Board President Billy Garrett, Bridge City, TX 409-735-4424 (Fax) 409-735-4424 [email protected] 1st Vice President Troy Maynard, Austin, TX 512-933-0300 [email protected] 2nd Vice President Rick Milliorn, El Paso, TX 915-821-3212 [email protected] Secretary Mark Dawson, The Woodlands, TX 281-364-0500 (Fax) 281-292-0911 [email protected] Treasurer Laura Milliorn, El Paso, TX 915-821-3212 [email protected] Parliamentarian Don Hiser, Houston, TX 713-699-5625 (Fax) 713-692-5212 [email protected] Membership Nick Heath, Houston, TX 713-992-6066 (Fax) 713-429-1637 [email protected] Table of Contents 2 Advertisement– HL Flake 3 Table of Contents & BOD 4 President’s Message 5 Ad - Detex / IDN 6 1st VP Report 7-8 Membership / GHLA Reports 9 LASA / ALNT Reports 10-11 Licensing 12 Ad - Amarillo Road Show 13 Treasurer’s Report 14 Scholarship 15 Ad - EliteCEU / McDonald Dash 16-18 Associate Members 19 Ad - Clark Security Products Editor John C. Helweg, Houston, TX 713-467-6666 [email protected] Sergeant-At-Arms Jason Stewart, Odessa, TX 432-550-4620 [email protected] Board Of Trustees John Arnold, Carrolton, TX [email protected] TEXAS LOCKSMITHS ASSOCIATION P. O. BOX 15242 AUSTIN, TX 78761-5242 www.texaslocksmiths.org Webmaster Glenn Koons, Austin, TX 512 346 2326 - (Fax) 512 346 3871 [email protected] 3 President’s Message Billy Garrett At the time of this writing I am getting prepared for our committee meeting in Dallas on August 28. We have invited locksmiths to represent TLA, GHLA, ALNT and LASA as well as Jim Hancock of Cothron's School of Locksmithing and representatives from ALOA. We look forward to putting together a basis for locksmith education which can be adopted by the PSB and set the standard for all future education. If you have suggestions that you would like us to consider, call or email me, or contact your local locksmith association. By the way, we have been getting many questions on the 800 TLA INFO phone as of late. Most of the questions are asking how people can get their license or where they can learn profession of locksmithing. I see this as an excellent opportunity for those of us who have shops to take some of these "eager beavers" and show them what locksmithing is all about. I would rather hire someone who has the desire to work and learn than someone who just wants a paycheck. I don't know how many of you attended the ALOA convention in Orlando, but as for me it was well worth the trip. While the family went to see the sites, I was busy in the Trade Show area trying to get some new vendors for our upcoming convention in Houston. I also got a chance to talk to some locksmiths from across the country and get their perspective on different issues. The State of the State forum gave us a glimpse on the difference between our locksmithing laws and those of other states. We also found that the scammers are plentiful all over the nation, not just here in Texas Finally, prior to the membership meeting there was presentation by Jon Goldman where he asked us to look at how we are presenting our business before the public. Do we have the proper signage on our buildings and vehicles? Do we show up to a job in T-shirts or do we wear uniforms? Do we show the public we are in business to make money or is this a side line? I had to look hard at my business and found some of his ideas to be useful. If we honestly gave our businesses a strong look I think we all can find areas that need to be "spruced up". Just a thought. 4 5 1st Vice President’s Report Troy Maynard Hello Fellow TLA Members: I can’t believe it’s been a month already since my last report seems like a week ago. This really is a second full time job, but after 6 plus years of serving the membership I should know that by now!! But hey I still enjoy working for you our members. Anyway just wanted to let everyone know we just added two more vendors to the show. Shane Williams and I had a meeting this past Tuesday 8/10/10 we are about to start our second attempt at getting vendors in the show; in our meeting we have decided to remove approx. 25 booths from the floor plan due to very poor lighting at the very back of the hall. This will still give us almost 100 booths to sell, and we will be working very hard to get that done. I want to give a BIG Thank You to our president Billy Garrett, while Billy was at ALOA he made several contacts for me to help get this show filled up, and Shane and I really appreciate that!!! As of today, we are up to 37 booths, below is a list of the vendors we have to date: IDN-ACME, LSDA, CLARK SECURITY, GENERAL LOCK, HANS JOHNSEN, USCAN, H.L. FLAKE, CAL ROYAL, ADI, LUCKY LINE PRODUCTS, HATA, ROFU, SUMMIT SECURITY SALES, BIANCHI USA, HOLLON SAFE COMPANY, FARM N’ HOME INSURANCE, Allstate Insurance Co., Keyless Ride 6 Membership Director’s Report Nick Heath Happy August from your membership director, can you believe that over half of the year is already gone and your 2011 convention is just around the corner!! The convention is going to be HUGE this year with many vendors and great classes!! Your BOD is working hard to make next year’s show awesome with new classes as well as new and different vendors showing off their products at the Expo so make your plans to attend….we can’t wait to see you there. How are things going with membership for 2010 you might ask? This year has been good for your organization with membership up 10% from the previous year, below is the breakdown of the current membership: Regular Members: 348 Associate Members: 22 Life Members: 61 Honorary Member: 1 Total Active Members: 432 There is much to do for all of us to get our membership up still, just in our database alone we have over 800 people that one time or another was a member, so we ask each one of you to help your organization grow by recruiting new or inactive members to make TLA strong. We will be conducting a phone/email/mail drive in the upcoming months to encourage all to renew and rejoin the Texas Locksmiths Association! Just as a reminder your dues for 2011 is just around the corner, in order to save money on postage they will be mailed out with the convention books in the next couple of months. During the annual membership meeting this past year a resolution was presented and passed unanimously to increase the annual 7 dues. This very important resolution was adopted in order to keep your association alive and strong to fight for you rights legislatively. In addition, as a reminder, that the dues have not increased for many many years to keep up with standard operating cost, inflation etc. so an increase was necessary. As most business owners, like yourselves, have had to increase your charges to your customers over the years due to rising cost we appreciate your understanding and continued support. The current annual dues for 2011 will be ninety five dollars. Membership and participation with your association is important as well as makes our industry strong and we, your BOD, would like to thank you for your continued support of your association. GHLA President Report Don Hiser We had a great training this past weekend. The Key-Pro Auto class taught by Stacy Hetchler was held at the Hobby Auto Auction. With the exception of it being very HOT we had a great class with 17 attendees. We had a locksmith from Atlanta, Georgia and several locksmiths from Louisiana take the class. For those of you that are lacking ethics (lol) we are having a 1 hr. ethics class starting at 6:00 pm before our G.H.L.A. general meeting on September 14, 2010. The class is free for all GHLA members in good standing and $25.00 to all non-members. We also are expecting Wayne Howard with Laser Security to be at the meeting to give us a demonstration of his new 3D High Security Machine. We have a lot of education planned for the remainder of the year. I encourage you to go to the GHLA website to see classes as they become available. 8 LASA President Report Bonnie Brown Morse LOCKSMITH ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO will be 50 years old in 2011! A number of events to celebrate this landmark anniversary are being planned for 2011. The primary purpose of this association in 1961 was education and this purpose has not changed. Many other things have changed within the locksmith industry in Texas and across the entire globe but education and fellowship remain much as they were some fifty years ago. How we do education may change. What constitutes fellowship may change. But the desire to promote the common interest of Locksmithing remains. We welcome your support in joining us for any or all the events planned. More information on these events as our plans come together can be found on our website www.sanantoniolocksmiths.org or by contacting any current LASA member who received a monthly publication of the Master Pin. ALNT President Report Mark Caudill No report received at time of print. 9 Licensing I recently read a locksmith’s blog about his displeasure of locksmiths needing to be licensed/regulated by the TX DPS PSB. He compares it to socialism and “says it turned a free market enterprise into a state run bureaucracy in which the individual no longer was master of his/her destiny.” He also was unhappy with ALOA because of its legislative involvement with the “security industry” and felt that it no longer represents the individual locksmith. I suspect that there are quite a few locksmiths out there that think being regulated is a bad thing. Being involved in various trades within the security industry including the trade associations, I believe I’ve gained a broader perspective than some of my fellow tradespersons. To say regulation was a bad thing would be like saying getting a drivers license to drive a car was a bad thing. Being a motorcycle rider, I’m glad people are required to get some training and take not only a paper test, but also an actual driving test. In fact I think it should be more difficult to get a drivers license. I can not count the number of times I have had near death experiences because of poor drivers. I use a drivers license as my example because I’m sure none of us want to be involved in a vehicle accident, especially with someone that does not have vehicle insurance. The same logic holds true with locksmiths. How does your average citizen know who a skilled, respectable and honest locksmith is? I’m in the industry and have no good way of knowing who is reputable! I do not deny that there is some bureaucracy involved with getting and staying licensed. I would argue that it is a small price to pay if it keeps just a few of the criminals out there from disguising themselves as legitimate locksmiths and doing harm to Texans. I believe that anyone who can come to our door and enter as a trusted tradesperson should have experience, training, knowledge of applicable codes and laws, be insured and be background checked. The bottom line is you can not get those traits without some sort of regulation and that means licensing. We do not pay DPS just to look pretty. DPS collects fees so they can perform the administrative duties required to confirm that the licensing requirements are met every renewal period. Those fees also pay for law enforcement officers to go out and arrest the trunk slammers that do harm to our industry by not following the rules and ripping off innocent Texans. 10 I believe that much of our problem is not licensing or minimal bureaucracy, but the laziness and apathy of my fellow trades people. How are people, let alone the government, supposed to respect you and your business if you can not stop complaining about the injustices of the world instead of actually getting involved? By getting involved I mean plugging in to a trade association that has a voice and committing some time to a legislative action committee (LAC). If you expect change, you need to help make it happen. That means volunteering some of your time, getting informed and getting involved. Why are 10% of Texas locksmiths having to do 90% of the work? When was the last time you volunteered or got involved? Being an association member is a good start but not where the job ends. We have three well established regional trade associations throughout Texas. Greater Houston Locksmiths Association (GHLA), Locksmiths Association of San Antonio (LASA) and Associated Locksmiths of North Texas (ALNT). We also have the Texas Locksmiths Association (TLA) which has a lobbyist and is the recognized voice of Texas locksmiths at the Capital. Ideally our regional associations should work with TLA so we can all get better informed about our local and state needs and speak with one voice. Unfortunately problems arise when a few locksmiths do not want to play with the rest of us and try to go it alone. I am sure they mean well, but as the saying goes the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Being a lone wolf only muddies the water and gives our Representatives the ability to do nothing by saying “Come back when you guys agree.” Licensing is not going away. Embrace it and appreciate the basic standards that it affords us. We have the ability to help guide our industry through TLA and we have the legal enforcement, through DPS, to penalize those that do not follow those regulations. In an ideal world we should all be master of our universe and do what we want, how we want, when we want, but that is not freedom, it is called anarchy. True freedom is good people banning together and agreeing to work under basic regulations for the good of our industry. 11 TREASURER’S REPORT Laura Milliorn July 7- Aug 4, 2010 July 07, 2010 – August 4, 2010 Operating Account (5033) Beginning Balance $59,786.49 Ending Balance $55,850.97 Legislative Account (1570) $6,963.40 $6,964.22 Scholarship Fund (2586) $8, 591.12 $8,592.14 CD Maturity 03/10/12 $14,631.96 $14,631.96 CD from Corsican Maturity 04/30/15 Total Assets $62,079.19 $62,079.19 $152,052.16 $148,118.48 We spent money this month on: ALOA Classes from the Plano Convention Advisor Printing Membership Certificates Printing Letter Head DPS Meeting in Austin July 9, 2010 BOD Meeting in Houston July 10, 2010 President Attending ALOA Hotel Expense 7/20/10 deposit Electronic Withdrawals We had deposits totaling $1,845.04 13 $2111.06 $1192.01 $130.00 $116.91 $168.25 $873.81 $167.83 $1020.89 KRISTI LYN SUSEN 137 Sugar Cane Circle Lake Jackson, Tx. 77566 979-529-9161 8/16/2010 The Texas Locksmiths Association SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE P.O. Box 15242 Austin, Tx. 78761-5242 Dear TLA Board and Scholarship Committee: I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for choosing me as a recipient of the TLA Scholarship Award. I am very excited over this award as it will give me the opportunity to continue my education as a full time student which will enable me to begin my career in Nursing much sooner. Being chosen to receive this award means more than any other scholarship that was available to me as I have grown up with TLA and it’s members, Mom and Dad have always considered TLA as family and that makes this honor even more special. It is a difficult thing to combine school and raising small children but having some of the financial burden lifted as a result of your generosity will certainly enable me to focus on both without slighting either. Thank you again, I will keep you posted on my progress and certainly let you know when I have completed my education and get started on my career. Sincerely Yours, Kristi L. Susen 14 McDonald Locksmith Supply, Inc Quality Parts for Locksmiths The McDonald Dash Advantage 5767 East Shelby Drive Memphis, TN 38141 Toll Free (800) 238-7541 Local (901) 797-8000 FAX (901) 366-0005 Web Site: www.mcdonalddash.com McDonald Dash is a wholesale distributor of locks, locksmith supplies, and door hardware. We stock key blanks, key machines, push button locks, exit alarms, door closers, exit devices, automotive locks, residential locks, commercial locks, and may other items relating to the security industry. McDonald Dash has been serving security specialists since 1945. Our knowledgeable sales staff provides excellent customer service and technical sup- ONLINE CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR LOCKSMITHS Courses approved by the Texas PSB—Discounts provided for TLA Members Residential Locks Commercial Doors Safe Opening Techniques Master Keying Automotive Access Control 1-866-556-5512 WWW.ELITECEU.COM 15 Associate Members Access Control Resources LARRY W. PRITCHARD 407 Longfellow Rd Highland Village, TX 75077 P (972) 317-0342 F (972) 317-7042 [email protected] Clark Security Products Baron Hallford 10390 Shady Trail # 104 Dallas, TX 75220 P (800)-483-5625 F (888) 682-3329 www.clarksecurity.com [email protected] ClearStar Security Network Internet Administration 4454 Lopez Avenue Port Townsend, WA 98368-2712 www.clearstar.com Detex Corporation 302 Detex Drive New Braunfels, TX 78130 Phone: (800) 729-3839 (Toll Free) Fax: (830) 620-6711 www.detex.com Dugmore & Duncan Inc. 30 Pond Park Road Hingham, MA 02043 P (888) 384-6673 F (888) 329-3846 www.dugmore.com [email protected] EL Paso Key Fitting Co. Elite CEU 16238 Ranch Road 620 N Ste F Austin, TX 78717 P (866) 556-5512 F (512) 351-3746 www.eliteceu.com Farm N’ Home Casualty John Farris 419 Main Street Bonham, TX 75418 P (903) 583-8967 F (903) 583-7769 www.farmnhome.com [email protected] 719 Myrtle Ave. El Paso, TX 79901 P (915) 544-4433 16 Gardall Safe Corporation Box 240 Syracuse, NY 13206-0240 Main office - 315-432-9115 Main Fax- 315-434-9422 Toll Free- 800-722-7233 www,gardall.com Hans Johnsen Company Reid Hill 8901 Chancellor Row Dallas, TX 75206 P (888) 879-1500 www.hjc.com [email protected] H L Flake 5005 Gulf Freeway Houston, TX 77023-4633 P (800) 231-4105 F (888) 329-0601 [email protected] Hollon Safe Company Lauren L. Hollon 277 44th St. Corpus Christi, TX 78412 (P) 888-455-2337 (F) 866-408-7303 [email protected] Howard Sales Company Bill Uhlig 4625 Ripley Drive El Paso, TX 79922 P (915) 833-7733 (800) 456-4625 F(915) 833-7770 www.howardsales.com [email protected] IDN ACME 14020 N Welch Rd, Dallas, TX 75244 P (972) 664-1240 (800) 372-2263 F (972) 664 1252 7555 Pebble Dr, Ft. Worth, TX 76118 P (817) 284-5696 (800) 859-2263 F (817) 284-3501 www.idnacme.com IDN ACME 1308 N. First St., Houston, TX 77401 P (713) 668-0022 (800) 359-2263 F (713) 668-8050 12919 Delivery Dr, San Antonio, 78247 P (210) 545-3396 (800) 431-2263 F (210) 545-2198 www.idnacme.com Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies Security & Safety Consultants of Texas 5200 Tennyson Pkwy, Ste. 300 Plano, TX 75024 P (972) 378-1191 F (972) 378-9536 www.ingersollrand.com 17 McDonald Dash P O Box 75206 Memphis, TN 38175-2506 P (901) 797-8000 (800) 238-7541 F (901) 366-0005 www.mcdonalddash.com Security Hardware Marketing Company Tony Whitley Sr. 6700 Main Street, Ste 132 The Colony, TX 75056 P (800) 571-7462 F (214) 853-5208 www.shmc.biz [email protected] South West Architectural Sales P.o. Box 1949 Rowlett, TX 75030 P (214) 342-2400 www.sw-a-s.com ROFU International Corporation Julie Collins 10029 South Tacoma Way, Suite E-11 Lakewood, WA 98499 P (800) 255-7638 F (253) 922-1728 www.rofu.com [email protected] Sheppard-Thomas Associates Mark Austin 119 West Aurora Vista Trail Aurora, TX 76078 P (817) 489-1806 www.sheppardthomas.com [email protected] Other Contacts: Bob Thomas (972) 422-0078 Mark Hammond AHC (512) 858-1576 TimeMaster Inc. 149 Venture Court Lexington, KY 40511 P 888-798-8465 www.time-master.com U.S. Lock Corporation 77 Rodeo Drive Brentwood, NY 11717 P 631-243-3000 F 631-243-0390 (Fax) www.uslock.com ALOA www.aloa.org 18 19
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