Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes
Dec 11, 2018 at the Neenah Hook and Spear Club
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by President, Paul Kuehnl.

First order of business:
The November 2018 meeting minutes were read by Jason Ollanketo.
Minutes were accepted and approved.

Treasurer’s Report (Ending 11/31/2018)
Please join our club to get a copy of the Treasurer’s report. The Treasurer’s Report was unanimously approved.

Social / Promotions Committee
Fox Valley Winter Expo:
Get ready for our second year of Expo on Saturday January 5, 2019. A volunteer signup sheet was passed around at the meeting. Please contact Paul Kuehnl at 920-915-6527 if you are interested in helping out. Trophies are on order and Paul has lined up some good sponsors for this year’s event: Team Winnebagoland, Skippy’s Salvage Yard and Ariens to name a few. A crew plans to start setting up inside the Expo center from 3-6 PM on Friday January 4th. We are hoping that volunteers can start showing up by 7:30 AM on Saturday to be ready for when sleds start showing up. We are also looking for donations to have 5 or 6 raffle baskets to give away at the show. Please drop off any items that you would like to donate at Paul Kuehnl’s house at 1653 Nelson CT, Neenah, WI 54956. He lives half a block north of Mikeee’s.

Club Raffle:
Raffle tickets are still available for sale. If everyone in the club sold tickets, we would have them gone in no time. Please contact Stacy at 920-851-3765 if you are interested in selling some. All tickets need to be turned in on Friday evening on Jan 4 to prepare for the drawing on Saturday. We will be selling tickets all day at the event as well.

County Director’s Report
No updates this month.

Trail/Grooming Committee
The trail marking is about 95% complete. A special thanks goes out to Mike Giese, Mike Bresynan, Jack Zellmer, Andy Baus, Jason Ollanketo, Paul Kuehnl and Grant Wilson for getting the job done. There is a small section that still has corn on it just west of Woodenshoe road. There are some new reroutes on our trail from the GG overpass up to highway 76. Paul Kuehnl and Grant Wilson used a tracked skid steer to smooth out some rough sections of the trail and at this point, we do not believe we will have to hire out any bulldozing this season.

Membership and Safety Committee:
We currently have 56 members on our roster. An additional 5 memberships were sent into the AWSC on December 14.
Jason Ollanketo, Andy Baus from the Wolff’s Pack and Paul Villwock from the Sno-Pioneers club taught a joint ATV/Snowmobile safety class at the Boys and Girls Brigade in Neenah, the week of Dec 3rd. Overall, we had 10 ATV graduates and 8 snowmobile graduates. Everyone passed the class. We will be teaching another class next year in December.

Old Business
Club Destination Ride: Weekend of January 25 at the Americinn in Minocqua, WI.
There have not been any rooms booked yet for our club ride in Minocqua. If no one books a room by the December 31st deadline for the $109 discounted price, the event will be canceled. Call the hotel directly to reserve a room at 715-356-3730 and state that you are with the Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club.

New Business
The board had some discussions prior to the general meeting regarding the potential purchase of a used drag to help level trails. This year was very hard on our equipment. It was a very wet fall and farmers had to wait until the ground froze up to take off their crops. We did the best we could trying to get fields disked, but our disk did take a beating and is in need of some repair during the off season. Mike Giese found a $1,000 drag near Portage, WI that has been for sale for quite some time. We are hoping to go take a look at that drag and consider using it for leveling frozen ground for years such as this one. This is something that the Drifters have been doing for the past couple of seasons.

Mike Bresynan made a motion for the club to spend up to $1,200 including gas money and trailer rental to purchase this drag, Shane Zemlock seconded and all approved.

8:19 P.M., Motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded – unanimously approved.

Attendance: Paul Kuehnl, Grant Wilson, Stacy Frakes, Mike Giese, Jason Ollanketo, Brian Reeves, Mike Thoma, Mike Bresynan, Sean Neitzel, Harvey Harrison, Tom Spierowski, Bruce Loberg, Shane Zemlock

Location: Neenah Hook and Spear Club, 1934 County HWY A, Neenah WI 54956
Next Meeting Date: Jan 5 (EXPO), Jan 8, Feb 12, Mar 12, April 9.