General Meeting - Tuesday, November 9th, 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 7:01 pm

Announcements:

  • Rigs and Coffee

    • Call for signups to host future ones

    • Have one this Saturday 11/13 at 9am

      • Homestead and Foothill, parking lot in the back

      • Ellen will have clinic business cards to hand out

  • Mike P. is selling his Jeep - coil-over TJ with all the bells and whistles

  • CJ is selling his dad’s near stock 1986 CJ7, passed smog

Old Business:

  • Bylaws amendment proposal - Rick

    • The Board would like to propose an amendment to the bylaws to make it easier for returning members to rejoin (for example, but not exclusively for, members who have moved away and then moved back and are interested in rejoining)

    • Kelly R. shared the document and some live edits were made

    • Board can also edit the document (grammar, etc.)

    • Secretary (Joanna) will send non editable PDF to club for review when edits are done, and no later than 10 days before the December general meeting

    • This will go up for a vote at the December general meeting

Membership (Rick Montez):

  • Question of the Month:

    • Which would you rather have: a winch but no recovery gear or recovery gear but no winch?

  • Anniversaries: Chris & Patty Masten-10y, Daryl Nelson-9y, Darrel Drummer-3y, Colin Nayler-2y

  • Facebook

    • BOD has been discussing how to keep our Facebook group of interest to everyone in the group and on topic

    • Over 600 people in our Facebook group now

    • BOD has come up with a set of basic rules for the Facebook group

    • Ole recommended adding something about promoting responsible vehicular use of public/private lands

    • Proposed rules

      • General
        All posts should be 4 wheeling related

      • Buying and Selling
        It's ok if you want to sell something or want to buy, but it should be 4 wheeling related

      • Respect Others
        Be respectful of others posts even if you don't agree with what they are saying.  Its ok to disagree if you do it without flaming the other person.  Members not following this rule will be warned only 1 time

      • Respect the Environment
        Promote the responsible vehicular use of public/private lands
        Posts promoting illegal off roading will not be allowed

    • Facebook group admins (Mike P., CJ, Andrew S., Victor, etc.) will be the people enforcing the rules

      • These are also the people who accept people into the group

    • Want to keep the Facebook group as a 4 wheel drive community

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

  • We have money!

  • Bills are paid up except for ~$2000 on insurance

  • Insurance process is underway

  • Donation to HHORA for safety clinic has been sent

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

  • Oct 16 - FUN RUN - Andrew & Magnus

    • Give or take 20 rigs, some prospectives from the past 2 clinics

  • Oct 23 - Rigs and Halloween Show - Tracy, CA - Andrew

Future Runs

  • Nov 12-14th - Panamint Valley Days - Dishaan

  • Nov 13th @ 9am - Rigs & Coffee - Ellen

    • Parking lot behind 2310 Homestead Rd Ste E, Los Altos, CA 94024 

  • Nov 19-20 - Adopt-a-Trail Part 2 - Jason

    • Want to get as much done as possible before it gets buried in snow this winter

    • Probably heading out 8:30/9am Friday morning to start working

    • Going up to the area Thursday night

    • Email Jason if you are interested in attending so he can coordinate times and locations

  • Nov/Dec: ??? - Pismo Beach

    • Great time of year; need Reserve America spot

    • Let Victor know if there’s any interest, even for a day run

    • Camping is going to be more of an issue

    • Best time of year to go there

  • Dec 4th @ 10:30am - Toys for Tots Stuff the Bus - Joanna

    • Holiday toy run / Jeep parade

    • One week earlier than usual!

    • Lunch afterward at Jackie’s Place on 1st St.? soul food

  • Jan 14-16 2022 - Cal4Wheel Winter Fun Fest

  • Jan 27-Feb 5th 2022 - King of the Hammers!!!

  • Jan 12-15 Winter 4x4 Jamboree (Hurricane, Utah)

    • Colin is going

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

  • Carnegie

    • Rededicated a historical state plaque

    • Ole talked to several people about the property lost

      • Still in parks possession, not SVRA; no plans right now to open it up

      • OHV division has their hands washed of the property, still some environmental mitigation needed, but won’t be OHV’s responsibility

      • OHV division is now a permanent division with these new bills

      • Personnel used to be in a separate building, now moved in with the rest of parks but spread out across 3 floors

  • Oceano still a constant fight

CA4WDC Report (Dennis):

New Business:

  • Food truck or catering for clinic?

    • Volunteer to make some phone calls to get an idea what cost might be?

    • Andrew S. volunteers

    • Headcount - 80-90 meals historically

  • CJ would like to auction off 2 hours of Gaia training as a donation to the club

    • Bidding war between Connie and John T. ended at $95 and $100 respectively

    • CJ will do one session each for both Connie and John

ED4 Hero:

  • Daryl says we should put Ellen on every hero nomination - money and paperwork guru

  • Tom nominates all the people at the Hollister fun run, called out Daryl for inviting them to join our group

    (Tom Conley wheeled with us at Hollister fun run, will be sending a membership application)

  • CJ nominates Jason for Adopt-a-Trail efforts and organizing Trail Hero trip

Other stuff:

  • Magnus was finally convinced to tell the story of what happened to him at the Hollister hills fun run

    • Magnus was trying to pass a side by side, leaves had blown over into a ditch and it looked like there was still road there, he slid into the ditch

    • Could have been worse if there hadn’t been a little tree

    • Stabilized in front by hooking a winch to vehicle in front

    • Used snatch block off another tree on the side to pull back and to the side while the line in front was released

  • December “meeting”

  • Virtual party, dress up, lights, backgrounds, bring favorite drink/beverage

  • Only 5 minutes or so of business - we do have to vote on the bylaws amendment

Magnus motions to adjourn the meeting, John T. seconds

Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm

Next BOD Meeting: Dec. 7, 2021 at 7pm
Next General Meeting (and virtual party): Dec. 14, 2021 at 7pm