Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes
December 10, 2019 at Bare Bones Brewery
The meeting was called to order at 7:04 p.m. by President, Paul Kuehnl.

First order of business:
The Nov 2019 meeting minutes were read by Jason Ollanketo
Minutes were accepted and approved.

Treasurer’s Report (Ending 11/30/2019)
Please join the Wolff’s Pack to see a copy of the Treasurer’s Report.
A total of $664.05 was charged to refill our club diesel fuel barrel and 50% of our club supplemental fund check ($1,265.78) from last year was deposited.  The Treasurer’s Report was accepted and approved.

Social / Promotions Committee
Fox Valley Winter Expo:
Expo is coming up fast.  We will be doing basket raffles including a booze raffle.  We are also looking at using the Gravely to have an outside mobile selling station for drinks.  The Expo committee is looking for volunteers to help gather donations and help at this year’s event.  A signup sheet was passed out at the meeting.  Assistance is needed from 2 until 5 on Friday Jan 3^rd and again from 7 AM till 3 PM on Saturday, Jan 4, 2020.  Please contact Paul Kuehnl at turfworkspro@yahoo.com or call him at 920-915-6527 if you have donations or can help at the event.

Club Raffle:  The club will be doing a Calendar Raffle for the month
of February.  The Beehive has already
sold their first 100 tickets.  Only 500
to go.  Please contact Stacy Frakes at imholt2@aol.com if you can help sell tickets this year.

County Director’s Report
Mike Giese and Jason Ollanketo met with the Eureka snowmobile club to discuss their interest in grooming their own trails this season.  Eureka has purchased a snow drag and is planning to rent a tractor from a local farmer to groom their own trails this season. 

The 2019-2021 Winnebago
County trail map is finally completed and went out for print on December 11,
2019.  Please note that all of the trails
in the county with the exception of the state corridors were subject to name
changes.  Please throw away any old
copies of Winnebago county snowmobile maps that you may own and visit our map
ad sponsors along the trail to get a new copy of the map.

Trail/Grooming Committee
Eric Kappell gave the trail and grooming report.   Eric mentioned that he and Mike were planning on taking the tractor out to try to level some of the fields with the dirt drag at 3:00 on Wed 12/11.  Mike also found a diamond plate toolbox for sale on Craigslist for $40 that he would like to bolt on the back of the groomer.  Brian Reeves mentioned that he had a plastic toolbox that could be used instead.  The club decided not to move forward since this item was not in the budget for this season.  At the time of the meeting, 2/3 of the trail was marked.  The Tractor maintenance was complete, the dirt drag was completed and was currently being used and the snow drag was weld repaired by Mike Bresynan on Sunday 12/8.

Our annual marking day was held on Saturday Dec 7,
2019.  A special thanks goes out to the
11 club members who showed up to help including:   Andy Baus, Ben Case, Mike Giese, Eric
Kappell, Todd Llewellyn, Stephen Merfeld, Jason, Nathan and Sawyer Ollanketo,
Mike Thoma and Matt Smits.  Matt was able
to score the club the usage of a 4 passenger Polaris side by side and even got
our lunch at the Beehive covered by Team Winnebagoland.

Membership and Safety Committee:  
At the time of the meeting there were 3 membership renewals to be sent into the AWSC by December 15^th.  These memberships will bring our roster to 60 members overall. 

There will be a Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile/ATV safety class taught at the Boys and Girls Brigade in Neenah. Dec 11 and Dec 12 from 6 PM till 9 PM and Dec 14, 2019 from 8 AM till 3 PM. The class roster was at 50 students at the time of the meeting.
Instructors:  Jason Ollanketo, Andy Baus, Paul Villwock and Chase Freimark

Old Business
Budget discussions
There was a lot of heated discussion regarding the usage of our club budget.  Grant Wilson plans to have a future board meeting to help define how this tool can be better used to manage our expenses.

Happy Wolf Mascot: 
Todd Llewellyn brought proofs for the happy wolf to be discussed and decided upon at the meeting.  Todd had two different designs:  an embroidery and a screen print design.  After a lengthy discussion, it was determined that we should go with Option 1 for the screen print with the white “ghosting” around the text and remove the “Wolffspack.com” from the design for clothing.  It was also decided to keep the original embroidery design, but substitute the new Happy wolf in place of the original Angry wolf.  The club did decide to buy a dozen club t-shirts for volunteers for the upcoming Fox Valley Winter Expo.  6 XL shirts and 6 XXL shirts were to be purchased.

New Business
Trail and Grooming Committee future
Grant Wilson discussed some changes the club is hoping to make for the Trail and grooming committee.  Grant is looking to create a planning sheet to lock down potential operators earlier in the season.  Look for future Trail and Grooming Committee meetings to help manage our winter workload and better manage our volunteer staff.

8:28 PM, Motion to
adjourn the meeting, seconded – unanimously approved.

Attendance:
Paul Kuehnl, Grant Wilson, Dave and Stacy Frakes, Jason Ollanketo, Scott and Mike
Thoma, Jim
Doberstein, Eric Kappell, Mike Bresnyan, Todd Llewellyn, Matt Smits, Brian
Reeves, Sean Nitzel