Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes
Feb 14, 2017 – Mikeee’s Paynes Point
The meeting was called to order at 7:34 p.m. by President : Mike Thoma.

First order of business:
Jan 2017 meeting minutes were read by Jason Ollanketo
Minutes were unanimously approved.

Treasurer’s Report (Stacy Frakes)
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Social / Promotions Committee
Club Vintage Event:
Paul Kuehnl has done a lot of research regarding our club holding a future vintage show/swap meet event at the Sunnyview Expo center in Oshkosh. The club discussed different options and ideas to make this a successful fundraiser event. Paul got estimates for a $1,350 rental fee to reserve one wing of the expo center. We also talked about getting a temporary trail setup so people could drive snowmobiles to the event if snow was present. We talked about getting help from other club’s but decided that we would go it alone at least the first year. Scott Thoma made a motion for the club to put down a $160 deposit to reserve the event for next winter. Mike Thoma seconded and all approved.

We will be reserving one wing of the expo center and we will be capable of having both indoor and outdoor vendor’s at the event. Paul Kuehnl will be looking for business sponsorships and Stacy Frakes and Mike Thoma will both be helping to co-chair the event planning. We will be looking for additional support from our club member’s to make this a successful event.

County Director’s Report
Blue Mound, DNR passed to let trail thru park 6 to 1 vote. This was a big win for the snowmobiling community in Wisconsin. Thanks for your comments. It is very important that we send in comments when asked, as we have strength in our numbers and it only takes a few minutes. Overall the friends of Blue Mound with 79 members had 1,200 comments to keep the sleds out and the AWSC was able to generate 4,000 comments supporting snowmobiling per the park’s original master plan.

The AWSC is currently in process of writing legislation to raise the current $250/mi trail maintenance to $300/mile. Stay tuned for updates in future for us to send in comments.

Trail/Grooming Committee
The trails are closed at this time with no additional grooming since the snow event before Christmas this season. There were some additional discussions regarding the procurement of swamp mats to make a new bridge across Wiese’s ditch.

Safety Committee
No Updates.

Old Business
501c(3):
As of the meeting, Stacy Frakes reported that the Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club is now recognized as a 501c(3) by the State of Wisconsin. A special thanks goes out to Stacy for all of her hard work to make this happen.

Website:
The Wolff’s Pack club website is finally back up and running. Jason Ollanketo did spend approximately $312 between the site cloning and professional services required to get it back up and running.

New Business
AWSC Raffle Ticket:
Mike Giese talked to the club about purchasing a $100 Raffle Ticket to help support the AWSC. The club has previously won prizes twice with this raffle ticket purchase. Paul Kuehnl made a motion to purchase a ticket with Stacy Frakes seconding. All approved.

AWSC of the year awards:
Stephanie Kaul agreed to type up a nomination statement for Team Winnebagoland for the Dealer of the Year. Mike Thoma and Mike Giese agreed to provide background information for Stephanie’s write-up.

Town of Vinland Ad:
After some discussion on the topic, Mike Thoma made a motion for the club to purchase a $50 advertisement in the Town of Vinland newsletter thanking our landowner’s for supporting our club and local trails. Stacy Frakes seconded and all approved.

Nominations:
Please note that we will be looking for nominations at our March meeting for our April Elections.

8:17 P.M., Motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded – unanimously approved.

Attendance: Jason Ollanketo, Mike and Scott Thoma, Paul Kuehnl, Mike Giese, Stu Brazee, Todd Llewellyn, Stacy Frakes, Stu and Patty Hoelzel, Harv Harrison, Brian Reeves, Erik and Stephanie Kaul.

Upcoming Meetings:  March 14, 2017, April 11, 2017

Respectfully submitted,

Jason Ollanketo