Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes

Nov 14, 2017 – Mikeee’s Paynes Point

The meeting was called to order at 7:42 p.m. by President, Paul Kuehnl.

First order of business:
The Oct 2017 meeting minutes were read by Jason Ollanketo.

Minutes were accepted and approved.

Treasurer’s Report (Ending 10/30/17)                                            
Please join our club to get a copy of the Treasurer’s report.

Social / Promotions Committee
Club Vintage Event:
Stacy Frakes and Paul Kuehnl continue to work to get sponsors and vendors signed up for the event. We are still looking for about $1,000 more in sponsorships. Bud Light will be sponsoring the event and posters should be available by the end of next week. Miss Rural Winnebago will be attending our event and handing out trophies during the awards ceremony.

Paul handed out a volunteer signup sheet with four main categories that will require support.

• Vintage Show and judging: Chair: Paul Kuehnl.
• Raffles: Cash Raffle tickets and 50/50 raffles throughout the event: Chair: Stacy Frakes
• Food and Beverages: Chair: Mike Thoma
• Kid’s Activities and Safety. Chair: Jason Ollanketo 

Club Raffle
Stacy brought cash raffle tickets to the meeting and asked that everyone who was present take 10 tickets to try to sell by the next meeting. Please contact Stacy if you would like some tickets to sell. The drawing for the $2,000 top prize and 5-$100 prizes will be held at our Fox Valley Winter Expo event on January 6, 2018.

County Director’s Report
Mike Giese reported on the AWSC Directors mtg. There were a total of 504 registered attendees. Gary Eddy from the DNR spoke at the meeting. He discussed the shortage of DNR wardens throughout the state and the DNR’s effort to fill the vacant positions. The Blue Mound access lawsuit is still in the court systems and everyone is reminded to be ready to send in comments should the AWSC request our support this winter. There are new bridge requirements for state snowmobile trails including a minimum 12 foot width and a 25,000 lb capacity to reflect the usage of larger grooming equipment. As of 10-25-2017 there were 36,560 AWSC members and 1,065 commercial members throughout the state. 

Trail/Grooming Committee
Mike Giese has disked every field that can be disked at this point. So far he has billed out $1,025 towards disking. There are still some fields with corn on them. At this point, if the farmers do decide to work up the fields we will most likely have to pay to have them bull dozed. Our lake access route has changed ownership and could result in a re-route that is yet to be decided. Mike Giese, Stu Brazee and Jason Ollanketo marked trail for about 4 hours on November 11. We completed Section 8 and marked portions of Sections: 4, 6, 9 and 10. Please mark your calendars for December 2, 2017 as our club marking day. We will be meeting at the barn starting at 8 AM.

Membership and Safety Committee:
The club sent in 38 memberships to the AWSC on November 2, 2017. If you have not renewed your membership please do so before December 1^st if possible as that will be the next time we send in applications. 

Jason Ollanketo and Paul Villwock of the Sno-Pioneers will be teaching an ATV/Snowmobile class at the Boys and Girls Brigade in December. The dates and times for the class are as follows. Students must attend all three dates to graduate.

Wed Dec 6: 5:30 PM – 9 PM

Fri Dec 8: 6 PM – 9 PM

Sat Dec 9: 8 AM – 3 PM

Please visit the DNR GO Wild website to pre-register for the class. 

Old Business
AWSC Convention Hospitality Suite
The club had an excellent night at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, netting over $2,000 in profits. We had about a dozen well put together raffle baskets including a chainsaw donated by Craig and Lisa Fochs. We also had a snowblower donated by Ariens Corporation and a wheel barrow of booze that once again proved to be a big hit. A special thanks goes out to everyone who donated items and volunteered their time to support our club. The AWSC convention will be back in Appleton in October 2019 and October 2020.

Wolff’s Pack Destination Club Ride
Grant Wilson is still working on coming up with proposals for this event. Please let us know if you have any recommendations.

New Business
Board Meeting: The WP Board did meet before the general meeting to discuss future goals for the club. The board plans to have a few more meetings before bringing their future recommendations to the general meeting.

Club activities:   The club will be installing a culvert on Gary Wiese’s private land to improve a rough ditch crossing. The 16 foot long, 36” squashed culvert was on display at the meeting and will hopefully get installed on or before our marking weekend.

Mike Giese also discussed our new future trail route through the woods by Wolff’s Bridge. The trail will not be available yet for this season. Plan for a tree brushing day sometime in January or February to help open up this new route.

8:35 P.M., Motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded – unanimously approved.

Attendance: Paul Kuehnl, Grant Wilson, Stacy Frakes, Mike Giese, Jason Ollanketo, Beth Calder, Todd Llewellyn
Stu and Patty Hoelzel, Harvey Harrison,, Scott Thoma, Stu Brazee, Brian Reeves, Mike Bresnyan