General Meeting - Tuesday, December 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 7:08 pm

Announcements:

  • Rigs and Coffee

    • Looking for volunteer

Old Business:

  • Bylaws amendment vote

    • Voting on proposed amendment to make it easier for returning members to rejoin

    • 19 yes, 1 abstain - it passes

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

  • Panamint Valley - Nov 12-14 - Dishaan

    • mines run, unfortunately Dishaan got a tire slashed, Loro & Anton had some transmission problems

    • Colin also went and did 3 runs

  • Rigs & Coffee - Nov 13 - Ellen

    • secret parking lot behind Ace hardware

    • one of the Ace employees drove his Grand Cherokee over and chatted with us

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

    • fortuitous weekend, weather was great, a bit cold

    • logging company was there and logging the trail, ~100 trees down, we didn’t have to do that part of the trail

    • went to Mattley Meadow, cleared 18/19 trees, one was over 4’ diameter

    • new chainsaw was great

  • Toys for Tots Stuff the Bus - Dec 4 - Joanna

    • charity run, 16 rigs

    • we all got to the toy drop-off together

Future Runs

  • Cal4Wheel Winter Fun Fest - Jan 14-16, 2022 - Ole/Arline

  • King of the Hammers - Jan 25-Feb 5, 2022 - Jason G.

  • Cal4Wheel Convention - Feb 18-20, 2022

  • Mendocino run - Sometime in Feb - Dennis

  • Pismo maybe? Dec?

CA4WDC Report (Dennis):

New Business:

  • Feb Cal4Wheel Convention - Dennis

    • Donations? keep in mind for Jan meeting

      • Ellen will send info before Jan meeting: what is budgeted, what additional amount we usually give, and what is advisable for us to spend

    • Usually also have bylaws info, but haven’t seen them yet

  • Fun stuff

    • What are you drinking and what is something the club doesn’t know about you?

ED4 Hero:

  • Jason, CJ and everyone who went and did Adopt-a-Trail part 2

  • Dick for the hat he’s wearing right now

Special BOD Award:

  • Outstanding Contributor of the Year - anonymous donor for the chainsaw

  • CJ says check your inbox between now and the New Year, he will be sending a gift of the digital variety

    • ED4 folder for Gaia GPS

    • Club runs, overlanding runs, rock crawling runs

John T. motions to adjourn, Andy seconds 

Meeting adjourned at 8:14 pm

Next BOD Meeting: Jan 4, 2022 at 7pm
Next General Meeting: Jan 11, 2022 at 7pm