Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes
November 12, 2019 at Bare Bones Brewery
The meeting was called to order at 7:09 p.m. by President, Paul Kuehnl.

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

Treasurer’s Report (Ending 10/31/2019)
Please join the Wolff’s Pack to see a copy of the Treasurer’s Report.
A deposit of $6,206.80 for Octoberfest was made on 10/5/2019.  Club insurance cost $1,218.
The Treasurer’s Report was accepted and approved.

Social / Promotions Committee
Fox Valley Winter Expo:
We will be doing basket raffles at the Fox Valley Winter Expo.  Someone donated some Milwaukee Buck’s tickets for one of the raffle baskets.  The Expo committee is looking for volunteers to help gather donations and help at this year’s event.  The group discussed bringing the groomer and/or the tractor to offer rides again.  Paul is accepting $25 vintage trophy sponsorships this year as well.  So far 5 classes have sponsorships.

Club Raffle: 
The club will be doing a Calendar Raffle for the month of February.  Stacy got 600 tickets printed for $10 each with daily drawings for $100 each day of the month.  The drawings will be held at the Beehive at 6:00 PM daily.  Tickets were available at the meeting for members to start selling.  Please contact Stacy Frakes if you can help sell tickets this year.

County Director’s Report
The AWSC Fall Workshop was held October 25-27^th at the Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton.  Mike Giese and Paul Kuehnl attended the general meeting. 

There were several topics reported on from the AWSC event.

1. There is another Blue Mound comment period that the AWSC is looking to
   have snowmobilers offer their support. 
   Look for emails on behalf of the AWSC on this topic in the near future.
2. The AWSC will be paying out 100% of supplemental this year for every
   club in the state.
3. The AWSC was able to fund 30 bridge projects with the added funds from
   the Trail Pass system.
4. The AWSC is processing requests to add 500 miles of new funded trail
   across the entire state including Winnebago County.
5. The two biggest issues that clubs are facing across the state are
   Trespassing and Noise, in that order.

Trail/Grooming Committee
Crops continue to come off and some of the trail has been disked as of the meeting date.

A special thanks goes out to the following people who helped get our grooming equipment ready for the winter:  Paul Kuehnl, Grant Wilson, Mike Giese, Mike Bresnyan, Mike Thoma, Eric Kappell and Brian Reeves.  A big crew of guys took care of getting the groomer ready to go at Paul Kuehnl’s shop and Mike Bresnyan did a spectacular job welding on the new Wolff’s Pack dirt drag at the groomer shed.  We also relocated one of the fuel barrels and will have fuel delivered to support this fall and winter activities. Great job guys! 

Please plan to attend our annual club marking day on
December 7, 2019.  We will be meeting at
the Brazee barn across Hwy 76 from the Beehive at 8 AM that morning.  If you are interested in attending please
reach out to Jason Ollanketo at 920-203-6299 or just reply to one of the
Wolff’s Pack emails.

Membership and Safety Committee:  
The November membership renewals have brought our current renewed roster to 57 members overall.  We had two new members show up at the meeting.  AWSC applications were sent in on November 15^th.  The next AWSC mailing will be on December 15^th.

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. There are already 35 students signed up for this year’s course.
Instructors:  Jason Ollanketo, Andy Baus, Paul Villwock and Chase Freimark
Please sign up for the class at www.gowild.com and look for snowmobile or atv courses in Winnebago County.  Stacy Frakes did apply for a $250 donation from Thrivent to help support this event.  We plan to purchase lunch for everyone during Saturday’s class as well as some class giveaway items.

Old Business
Land Donation requests
Stacy has sent out multiple letters throughout the Vinland area requesting possible land donations for the club to place the Beehive building. 

February Club Cookout/Club Ride:
This topic was tabled until after the Fox Valley Winter Expo.

New Business
The Happy Wolf Mascot:
Todd Llewellyn has been working with a printer to update our club logo from the “Angry Wolf” back to the original Wolff’s Pack “Happy Wolf” that used to represent our club.  Todd will continue to work with the graphics and bring another sample to next months meeting.  The club may be putting together a new clothing order in the future for anyone that is interested.  There was a motion made by Stacy Frakes and seconded by Eric Kappell for the club to begin using the Happy Wolf on future Wolff’s Pack correspondence.

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

Attendance: Paul Kuehnl, Stacy Frakes, Mike Giese, Jason Ollanketo, Scott and Mike Thoma, Stu and Patty Hoelzel, Eric Kappell, Harvey Harrison, Stephen Merfeld, Mike Bresnyan, Todd Llewellyn, Matt Smits, Ben Case