General Meeting - Tuesday, September 8th, 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:

  • Bring Cash to the Safety Clinic

  • 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 will be the clinic. You will be able to buy their swag also

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

Membership (Rick Montez):

  • Anniversaries: Kelly Radcliffe 3 years

  • September question of the Month:

    • Have you spent more or less on your rig? Most non married people did not

  • 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:

  • We got money!

    • The budget had $750 donation to HHORA. It was voted to increase this to $1500 Now also using Strip for payments

    • What is HHORA; HHORA is a cooperating nonprofit association designed to support Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area.

Discussions:

  • Clinic is sold out. Can still use help. Contact Bruce Wilford for a job assignment

  • Camping for members and volunteers only. Hollister is open for anyone camping. It is just area 5 that is restricted

  • You know someone that wants to sign up for the clinic have them send an email to Ellen to get a spot early

  • Forever Wave password is EDF17

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

  • You will have to cook for yourself

  • Going to try and run tire placement right after the classroom. There will be 4 Tire placement areas and all 4 groups will run it at once. Help is need for this

  • The pre-run will be this Saturday the 12th. Meet at 9AM at the big oak tree

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs:

  • July 18 – August 14-16 - Shaver Lake area run - Kelly Radcliffe The group was able to do Red Lake, Kaiser Pass, Mono Hot Springs and Bald Mountain

  • August 30 - September 7th - Ouray, CO, Rim Rock Trail, Red Mountain - Chris Masten No report since they were not back

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

  • September 12th – Clinic prerun & train the trainers

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

  • October 9th - Oktoberfest - Markleville Trail Leader Ed L

  • October 26th – Death Valley See Vidas for details

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

  • December Toys for Tots - Joanna

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:

  • October 6th, 2020

Next General Meeting:

  • October 13th, 2020

Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.

Reference:

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  • Another good podcast if you have time with Snail-trail-4x4

  • Mike and Max Off-road podcast here

  • To contact your California State assembly folks Click Here

    • This is a great map to find out who your state assembly person and who your state senator is...

  • Fire permit is required and can be attained here

  • Be sure to check out CJ’s web site

  • Fire permit is required and can be attained here

  • Be sure to check out CJ’s web site