Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes

Feb 9, 2018 –Vinland Still and Grill
The meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. by President, Paul Kuehnl.

First order of business:
The Jan 2017 meeting minutes were read by Mike Giese.
Minutes were accepted and approved.

Treasurer’s Report (Ending 1/31/2018)
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Social / Promotions Committee
Club Vintage Event:
The club will plan to do the Wolff’s Pack Fox Valley Winter Expo again next year. President, Paul Kuehnl will put down an initial deposit to hold the venue for the first Saturday in January 2019. 

Club Raffle
The club will most likely do a raffle again in the future. However, discussions are being tabled for now until the board can put together recommendations for our next raffle.

County Director’s Report
The Winnebago County Alliance is working on getting all of the funded trails in Winnebago County mapped with a GPS unit that was purchased by the Alliance. At the time of the publishing of these minutes, almost all of the funded trails in the county have been GPS mapped. 

Trail/Grooming Committee
The trails have not opened at all this year. The groomer is ready to go in the groomer shed. Randy Wolff will be using his CAT this summer to remove the stumps from our new trail that routes through the woods by his place. At this time, the trees have been cut down and moved out of the way. Future club work will be needed to finalize this new route.

Membership and Safety Committee:
The club took in two more memberships since the last meeting. As of February 19, there have been 13 snowmobile deaths in Wisconsin since the start of the 2017/2018 season. Please ride safe. 

Old Business
Wolff’s Pack Groomer Shed work day
Mike Giese will be planning a future work date to add some rafter storage and to organize the Wolff’s Pack Toolbox. This most likely won’t happen until “Mud” season once the snowmobile season is officially over in the Midwest.

Grant Wilson is going to head up a bridge committee to evaluate the strength of the current bridge in Wolff’s woods and make future recommendations, in the event, that we plan to drive a tractor over the bridge at some point in the future.

New Business
Stacy Frakes is going to review savings account opportunities for the club that may have better interest.

The club discussed making a donation to the annual Eagle River Military Ride as well as the Vinland Fire Dept. More discussion to follow at the next meeting.

Paul Kuehnl discussed the opportunity of having a potential club ride day in the area next winter. Having the ride on Lake Winnebago will also be considered if the trails are not open.

The Board is working on planning events and will bring more information of future recommendations to our April Election meeting.

The board is also reviewing our club meeting location for next year. The March and April meetings will be held at Mikeee’s Paynes Point. Next year’s meetings may move to a new location to be discussed in more detail pending a Board recommendation.

Mike Giese brought up the topic of calling our new bridge crossing, “Stu’s Crossing” in honor of the passing of our long time club member, Stu Brazee.

8:34 P.M., Motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded – unanimously approved.

Attendance: Paul Kuehnl, Grant Wilson, Stacy Frakes, Mike Giese, Jason Ollanketo, Todd Llewellyn,
Mike Bresnyan, Scott Thoma, Dennis Kotloski