Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club Meeting Minutes
September 10, 2019 at Bare Bones Brewery
The first meeting of the 2019/2020 season was called to order at 7:06 p.m. by President, Paul Kuehnl.

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

Treasurer’s Report (Ending 8/31/2019) 
Please join the Wolff’s Pack Snowmobile Club to see a copy of the Treasurer’s Report.
The club did receive a check from Winnebago County for $5,259.95 for our share of the trail mileage reimbursement from the 2018-2019 Snowmobile season as well as an $80 check from Thrivent Choice.
The Treasurer’s Report was unanimously approved.

Social / Promotions Committee
Fox Valley Winter Expo:
Paul and Stacy will continue to work on advertising for this event that is scheduled for Saturday January 4, 2020 at the Sunny View Expo Center.

Club Raffle:  No updates at the meeting. 

County Director’s Report
The AWSC Fall Workshop will be held October 25-27^th at the Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton.  Stacy Frakes made a motion for the Wolff’s Pack to fund a $100 gift basket for the Kids and Adults on Sleds (KAOS) fundraiser that will be held at the Workshop.  Scott Thoma seconded and all approved.

Mike Giese mentioned that the AWSC has been talking
about new landowner CRP programs for Monarch butterfly habitat within the state
of Wisconsin.  To be eligible for these
programs, landowners may need to agree to not let any motorized vehicles
operate on their land.  This could
potentially impact snowmobile trail access in the future.

Mike Giese, Jason Ollanketo, Matt Krueger and
several members of the Poyganaires club attended a Sept 9^th safety
meeting in Winneconne to discuss damages caused by snowmobiles in the village
over the 2018-2019 Winter Season.  
Winneconne leadership is interested in working with the local snowmobile
clubs to improve the situation for this coming season.

Trail/Grooming Committee
There will be a number of upcoming Groomer Shed work days over the next two months.  Please watch your email for invitations.  Also let Mike Giese know if you are interested in joining the Groomer Committee.  The Wolff’s Pack Annual marking day will be held this year on Saturday, Dec 7, 2019.  Please mark your calendars.

Membership and Safety Committee: 
We collected 23, 2019-2020 memberships during the month of September.  Please note that we would like all club members to renew by October 15^th this season to make sure there is no interruption of your AWSC magazine.  All AWSC memberships will now run from July 1^st through June 30^th.

Old Business
2019/2020 Wolff’s Pack Meeting Location:
Last April, the club decided that we would like to try meeting at the Beehive this season.  The new Beehive Barn and Grill is now open and is busy as ever.  Due to the new popularity of this renovated establishment, the Board discussed feasibility of running successful meetings with the owner of the Beehive.  She is OK with us not meeting there at this time.  As such, the Board did decide to have our first meeting of the season at the Bare Bones Brewery in Oshkosh.  

Eric Kappell made a motion for the club to have all
of our meetings at the Bare Bones Brewery for the 2019-2020 season.  Stacy Frakes seconded and all approved.

Bylaws Updates:
The Board reviewed the club’s bylaws given the membership status updates made by the AWSC at their Annual meeting in March.  Updates were made to revise the Wolff’s Pack membership year to coincide with the AWSC timeline.  There were also provisions added to charge more for memberships after June 1^st of a given membership year.  Mike Giese made a motion to approve the revised bylaws and Eric Kappell seconded, all approved.

New Business
Annual Budget Review:
Club Vice President, Grant Wilson put together a revised Annual budget for the 2019-2020 season.  The budget was discussed at the meeting.  Eric Kappell made a motion to approve the budget and Todd Llewellyn seconded with all approving.

Club Attendance Raffle:
Eric Kappell has generously donated $200 on behalf of his business, Dimensions Plastering, LLC.  This money will be used to draw a winner at our April 2019 election meeting.  Every meeting that you attend in person this year will give you one more chance to win.  You must be present to win at the final meeting.

Stacy Frakes also
supplied some door prizes that were handed out to a few lucky winners at the
meeting.

8:06 PM., Motion to
adjourn the meeting, seconded – unanimously approved.

Attendance:
Paul Kuehnl, Grant Wilson, Stacy Frakes, Mike Giese, Jason Ollanketo, Scott and
Mike Thoma, Eric
Kappell, Stu and Patty Hoelzel, Brian Reeves, Todd Llewellyn, Bruce and Cindy
Loberg, Harvey Harrison, Stephen
Merfeld, Casey Jost, Andy Baus,