General Meeting - Tuesday, June 8th, 2021

Minutes

Location: Online Zoom — 7PM

Present:

  • CJ Arnesen - President

  • Victor Jorge - Vice President

  • Ellen Layendecker - Treasurer

  • Rick Montez - Membership

  • Joanna Chen - Secretary

  • Dennis Holler - Delegate

CJ Arnesen called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm


Announcements:

  • Greg Y. has a new addition to the family

Old Business:

Membership (Rick Montez):

  • Sherry Stortroen - 31 years

  • Chris Mains - 11 years

  • Rick Montez - 9 years

  • Ryan Davis - 3 years

  • Prospective to vote on: Andrew Spyker

    • Voted in with many yes’s

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

  • We have money!

  • Budget is here: Budget2021-2022.pdf

  • Summer campout

    • $80 if you are camping with the club at Carson River Resort

    • Please pay through PayPal or mail check to Ellen

    • 11 people have paid already

  • Club dues due by 6/30/2021

    • $30 for individuals, $50 for families

    • Please pay through PayPal or mail check to Ellen

    • Ellen will take cash in person if it’s in an envelope with your name on it

  • Still working on Safety Clinic profit and loss

    • Please send receipts by email to Ellen or let Ellen know

  • Need to vote

    • Safety Clinic has a budgeted donation of $750 to HHORA

    • Jason Green makes a motion to increase the donation to $1500. Magnus seconds

      • no one opposes

    • Ellen will write a check

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

  • Things went smoothly, no breakdowns

  • Do have a few things to discuss separately

    • Will schedule a separate meeting and/or solicit individual feedback

  • Central District Membership Chair Mike from Cal4Wheel visited and gave us compliments

  • Ellen: 2 lane drive through registration worked very well, might just continue to do this in the future

Vice President (Victor Jorge [CJ sharing today]):

Past Runs

  • May 15th Spring Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

  • Many comments about how clinic went well and even club members learning new skills (i.e. how to get a driver’s attention while spotting)

  • A few potential areas of improvement were brought up

  • Friendly reminder by CJ that we have paying students camping before/after clinic and we should be professional even around the campfire

  • May 22nd - Rigs & Coffee Bass Pro San Jose parking lot - CJ

    • Good turnout - 11-13 rigs

    • Someone who attended clinic 10 years ago showed up

  • June 5th Fun Run at Hollister to invite students - Magnus

Future Runs

  • June 11-13th  - Adopt-a-trail (HWY 4)

  • Sign up here: https://forms.gle/qCCHRWYLgEWSsTPC8 

  • Quite a few trees down, will have a lot of work, have at least 3 chainsaws/chainsaw operators

  • Getting moving at 10am Friday, 8:30am Saturday - HAM 146.430

  • Ed is cooking dinner on Saturday night - pulled pork, cole slaw, beans, etc. might also be ice cream

    • Sherry got a $250 grant from Cal4Wheel to pay for dinner

  • June 26th Rigs & Coffee @8am - Stan’s Donuts!

    • Another social hangout in the parking lot

  • July 15-18th - Summer Campout - Markleevile - Eddie and friends

    • Sign up here: https://forms.gle/fP8tCv8LGHtGFtpy7

      • This is a much more detailed signup including runs, dinner, etc.

      • Check the difficulty ratings on the planned trail runs in the event agenda

    • Geocaching run

      • Use your GPS to find caches that people have hidden

      • A lot of the caches are down fire roads and might require a few hundred yards hike

      • A way of getting out and exploring an area

    • Please check and book your housing for that weekend ASAP if you are NOT planning to camp in the ED4 group camping area. It will be a busy weekend in the area with a big bike event. 

  • Aug 12-15th Sierra Trek - Cal 4 Wheel

  • September 17-19th Fall Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

  • Oktoberfest TBD - Kelly

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

  • Oceano still a hot topic

  • Cal4Wheel is working on getting Resource Consultant position filled

  • Carnegie bills are still working their way through committees

New Business:

  • Rigs and Coffee

    • Anyone can host one - just pick a date, time, and place

    • Can be anywhere in the bay area

    • Would like to have at least one a month

    • Counts as a club run

    • Sign up here to host one

    • CJ won’t end this meeting until someone signs up

  • Email discussion thread about a new meeting location and not being on zoom

    • Concept of hybrid meetings

    • Form a committee to plan meeting in person again

    • Please step up if you are passionate about this

  • Rick and CJ kicking off online presence tiger team

    • Adding other avenues to make our presence known online

    • Meeting June 16 at 6:30pm

    • More details to come in an email

Cow Bell:

  • Ole reports that a course worker was giving directions to a trail lead during clinic and was too trusting that the trail lead would follow directions, thus getting his foot run over

    • It was hard to vote on this given that the person was not named

ED4 Hero:

  • Rick nominates Magnus and Bruce for all the work they’ve done for clinic

    • CJ seconds

  • Ellen nominates Sherry for showing up at 0-dark:30 to help with clinic registration and doing all the work for paperwork

    • Magnus seconds

  • Not going to vote on this this time, everyone nominated deserves recognition


CJ shared a quick video of a recovery he helped with on his way out of Hollister Hills

Greg Y. volunteers to plan a Rigs and Coffee in July

Motion to adjourn the meeting by new member Andrew, Greg Y. seconds

Meeting adjourned at 8:09 pm

Next BOD Meeting: July 6, 2021 at 7pm

Next General Meeting: July 13, 2021 at 7pm