General Meeting - Tuesday, October 13th, 2020

Minutes

Location: Online Zoom — 7PM

Present:

  • Kelly Radcliffe - President

  • Victor Jorge - Vice President

  • Ellen Layendecker - Treasurer

  • Rick Montez - Membership

  • John Ruiz - Secretary

Kelly Radcliffe called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm.

Announcements:

  • Rick will have ED4 swage for sale at the clinic. T-Shirts and Sweatshirts $25, Stickers small $3, Large $9. Patches also

  • Cal 4 Wheel has a disaster fund to help members in bad times. You can make a tax deductible donation to them

  • Cal 4 Wheel has the “Win a Jeep “ going on. Due to less events they can use the extra funds

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Membership (Rick Montez):

  • Anniversaries:

    • CJ Arneson 12 years

    • Marleen & Gary Sheigren 11years

    • Peter & Vicki Danforth 8 years

    • Michael D’Agostino 3 years

    • Archie and Brenda Overton 1 year

    • Dagmar Brone 1 year

    • Scott Beley 1 year

  • October question of the Month:

    • Most scenic trail? Moab was the most chosen.

  • Prospect members need to submit a trip report to for each event they attend. It can be a short report of where they went and what happen. This is how to get credit to join

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

  • Club finances are as follows:

    • We got money!

    • Clinic made $1300 after donating $1500 to HHORA

    • Only 2 students asked for the dinner money back

Discussions:

  • An extra $750 to HHORA was passed

  • $100 to fix the air station at the main gate was passed

  • $$ to buy a car to recover was passed. This is for the 45 th Anniversary

  • The owner of the Carson Valley Resort did a great job

  • Should we have an event there next year? Volunteer for a trail leader?

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

  • Clinic went well. No major issues. With a few small changes the tire placement will be held for everyone after lunch. Students liked doing it right off the bat.

  • Survey was great. No bad comments

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs:

  • September 12th – Clinic prerun & train the trainers

  • September 19th - Fall Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

  • October 8-11 - Oktoberfest - Markleeville -Trail Leader Ed Lorenzen. There was a big thanks to Ed for outing this on. Event went great. Everyone had a good time

Future Runs:

Club website & Facebook page has been updated. Victor has been creating Events with all the info for upcoming runs. Lots of detailed info in both places thanks to Victor

  • October 26th – Death Valley See Vidas for details

    • If you have not responded to his email you are not on the list to go

  • November - 45th Anniversary Event - Hollister - Ellen and Rick

    • The park is a soft go right now. Waiting for a firm yes. ED4 needs to submit a covid plan. The Xmas diner money can be spent on food for the event. This will be a Recovery / winching event. Unsure about camping

  • December Toys for Tots - Joanna

    • Joanna The Stuff the Bus will be held at the San Jose Historical Park

    • No purchase of tickets are needed; as, we’ll be making the toy drop-off during the day prior to the evening events

CA4WDC Report (Dennis):

With all the canceled events Cal 4 Wheel is short money. Check out the store Tickets for the raffle Jeep are for sale. Contest between clubs to sell the most. See the contest’s site. Put ED4 down to help club in contest

Next meeting is October 24th via Zoom

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

New Business:

50/50:

Cow Bell:

  • Richard O. for driving off the trail while leading a group during the safety clinic

Next BOD Meeting:

  • November 3rd, 2020

Next General Meeting:

  • November 10th, 2020

Meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm.

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