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FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE #7
EXECUTIVE BOARD
DEAN C. ANGELO, SR.
President
RAY CASIANO, JR.
First Vice-President
Frank DiMaria Second Vice-President Daniel D. Gorman Third Vice-President Greg Bella Recording Secretary Kevin Kilmer Financial Secretary John Capparelli Treasurer
Bill Nolan Immediate Past President John Dineen Parliamentarian
Sergeants-at-Arms
Bill Burns Al Francis, Jr. Jim Jakstavich
Trustees
Robert Rutherford, Chair Dean Angelo, Jr. Mark Donahue
Pat Duckhorn Sergio Escobedo Kathleen Gahagan Michael Garza Joseph Gentile
Ken Hauser
Tom Lonergan Kevin McNulty Landry Reeves
Inez Riley
Jay Ryan
Steve Schorsch
Ron Shogren Daniel Trevino
Field Reps
Keith Carter Marlon Harvey Thomas McDonagh
Magazine Committee Members
Greg Bella, Chair Joseph Gentile Bill Burns Thomas McKenna Michael Carroll
President’s Report
The 2017 Election
By the time this month’s Lodge 7 Magazine hits your mailbox, the 2017 Election will have come to an end. Ballots were counted on March 10, the results of which will put a new board in place (sans the need for a Presidential
how quickly we sometimes perceive that those days, weeks, months and years appear to pass. Thus, the old adage, “How quickly time flies.” Yes, it does. Three years ago, Lodge 7 was unquestionably in a very unstable position, the likes of which we had never experienced. Everything that was on our original to-do list was part of an approach that never considered anything related to the Ferguson, Mis- souri, incident that occurred nearly four months to the day after we took office. From that point forward, our entire environment changed forever and our focus needed to include defending this honorable profession we call law enforcement, while main- taining our focus on how to best repair Lodge 7. Although we immediately wound up with so much more on our plate – more than any previous admin- istration – we never lost sight of what needed to be done, and we continued the uncharted post-Ferguson path.
DEAN C. ANGELO, SR.
runoff ). If no Candidate receives a 50- percent-plus-one plurality, a runoff election between the two top vote getters will determine the election to that office. This runoff election is to be held within 30 days of the original day of the election results (FOP Bylaws Arti- cle VII, A., Section 8). The induction of the new board is scheduled to take place in early April. Those individuals who are elected to represent the Lodge must quickly assume their collective roles of responsibility to support all of the members, members who perform at a level of professionalism that never ceases to amaze.
Organizationally, we were in com- plete disarray. We were also in the mid- dle of Contract negotiations. The need for a new approach within FOP Lodge 7 could not have been more obvious. Several of the key items the Angelo Administration focused on were crystal clear to us. One of our first con- cerns was to work on solidifying the fractured trust between FOP Leader- ship and the membership. We also
As One Three-Year Term Ends...
It certainly does not feel like three years have passed since the Angelo Administration took office in April of 2014. Nor does it feel as if it has been three years since our designed path- way to re-establish the Lodge as a pro- fessional and credible organization first began. But the calendar doesn’t lie. Although the calendar does accurately measure days, weeks, months and years, calendars fail when measuring
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