Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes
Sept 11, 2018 at the Neenah Hook and Spear Club
The meeting was called to order at 7:31 p.m. by President, Paul Kuehnl.

First order of business:
The April 2018 meeting minutes were read by Paul Kuehnl
Minutes were accepted and approved.

Treasurer’s Report (Ending 8/31/2018)     
Treasurer’s Report was unanimously approved.
Please join our club to get a copy of the Treasurer’s Report.

Social / Promotions Committee
Club Vintage Event and Club Raffle:
The Sunny view Expo Center has been reserved for Jan 5, 2019 for our second annual Fox Valley Winter Expo. The club did discuss reviewing options for a club raffle with the winning tickets to be drawn at the event. The board will present raffle options to the club at the October meeting.

County Director’s Report
Mike Giese attended the Summer Director’s meeting and reviewed the following topics.

• The AWSC will now be charging credit card fee transactions for trail pass purchases made online.
• The AWSC discussed a review of the annual membership fees. The rates have not been raised since 2003 when they went from $6 to $10. There are no active plans to increase rates at this time.
• The AWSC discussed going from two big public meetings a year to just one. Right now, they have the October workshop and then the Annual meeting in March. This would require a bylaw change before it could be done.
• The Blue Mound trail access issue is still in the court system. Please try to submit comments on this topic if the AWSC requests the help.
• The AWSC discussed making their membership follow a calendar much like sled registrations. This would be considered to only allow the purchase of WI trail passes one time during an active membership from July 1-June 30^th. There is currently a loophole that allows people to buy 2 years of trail passes on one year of an AWSC membership.
• Mike wanted to inform you that if you buy a new sled from a dealer during the year, that it would be faster to send in the new registration yourself rather than wait for your dealer to send in the information, unless you want to buy a full price trail pass instead. 

Trail/Grooming Committee
The crops are all still in the fields. Mike will start talking to landowners in the next few weeks. There will be a reroute this year on the west side of the GG/41 overpass. Mike is still finalizing the details as to where the new trail will route. There will be a groomer shed work day on October 13, 2018 from 8 till noon. Meet at the groomer shed. More details to follow at the next meeting.

Membership and Safety Committee:
Jason Ollanketo will be teaching another ATV/Snowmobile safety class in December. There are currently 60 active club memberships and 1 commercial membership for the Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club. The club took in 15 memberships for the 2018/2019 season at the meeting.

Old Business
No Old business.

New Business
Octoberfest update:
The club will be selling corn again this year on Sept 29^th at Octoberfest in the same booth as the last few years. We will be looking to sell between 150 and 175 dozen ears of corn depending on the weather forecast for the day. Please expect a call from the Octoberfest chairs to lock down volunteer support for the event.

Stacy Frakes made a motion for the club to purchase a 2019 AWSC raffle for $100. Todd Llewellyn seconded and all approved. The top prize is $10,000 in cash.

Club Destination Ride: Mike Giese and Mike Thoma won a 4 night stay at the 4 Season’s resort in Cable. They will be doing some research to see if we can plan a club ride around that hotel’s availability this winter. The Minocqua area and Marinette County are two other possible destinations. More details to be presented at the next club meeting. Right now, the last weekend in January seems to be a possible date.

Wolff’s Pack Annual Budget:
VP Grant Wilson presented a new Annual budget based on past expenditures throughout the year. The club discussed the budget which helps outline our expenses and our income throughout our fiscal year. Mike Bresnyan made a motion to pass the budget and Stu Hoelzel seconded. A copy of the annual budget is available upon request to any club member.

8:27 P.M., Motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded – unanimously approved.

Attendance: Paul Kuehnl, Grant Wilson, Dave and Stacy Frakes, Mike Giese, Jason Ollanketo, Todd Llewellyn, Mike and Scott Thoma, Harvey Harrison, Stu and Patty Hoelzel, Dan Cowling, Brian Frisch, Michelle Covill, Mike Bresnyan, Brian Reeves