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):

• Sherry’s delegate’s report: Delegates Report, Esprit de Four, October 2, 2021.docx

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

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

  • https://cal4wheel.com/panamint-valley-days

• 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):

• Sherry’s delegate’s report: Delegates Report, Esprit de Four, October 2, 2021.docx

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

General Meeting - Tuesday, October 5th, 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 in early Nov., Ellen will pick a date

  • At new Ace Hardware store near Homestead

• 1986 CJ for sale by CJ

• Dana 25 and 23 from an MB for sale by CJ

Old Business:

• Kelly celebrated 4 years last month, was accidentally missed

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Question of the Month (for everyone this month): What navigation software would you recommend to a new 4 wheeler?

• Anniversaries: CJ Arnesen 13yrs, Gary Shelgren 12yrs, Archie & Belinda 2 yrs, Scott Beley 2yrs

• Special vote for Darrel and Kathy Kroeker

  • Long time club members in good standing a while ago, moved away and lost touch with the club, are interested in coming back

  • We don’t really have something in the bylaws for members coming back

  • Suggesting Friends of Esprit de Four because we can do that right now following the bylaws with a ⅔ vote

  • Friends of Esprit de Four does not have voting rights

  • Should we make amendment to bylaws for past members who want to return?

  • Many members have nice things to say about the Kroekers and would like to get them reinstated as full members

  • Kelly will put something together for amending the bylaws

  • Jason motions to vote the Kroekers in as Friends of Esprit de Four for now, Connie seconds

    • passes with many ayes (few abstensions)

  • We can consider them for full members later after the bylaws are amended, if desired

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

• We have money!

• Donation for HHORA

  • Jason motions $1500 donation for HHORA, seconded by Kelly R. 

  • passes

• Ellen filed our taxes

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• Turned out well, but we used every last person who was there

• Planned for finishing by 4pm and we actually finished by 4pm

• Reroute Red trail to not go through Sycamore?

• Probably don’t need to put trail markers anymore - we have people who either know the trails by heart or can use software to follow the trails

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

• Sept 17-19 Fall Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus (see above)

• Oct 1-3 Oktoberfest - Area 5 Hollister - Kelly

  • Recovery practice, poker run, raffle, campout (videos)

  • Family fun, games, competition, stuck-a-thon, recovery classes, raffle

  • If you weren’t there, you missed out

  • 10 people came out, everyone walked away with something from the raffle

• Oct 2-8 - Trail Hero - Sand Hollow Utah - CJ

  • Technically not a club run because only 2 people went

  • Kind of like Pismo + Moab + sandpaper

  • Vehicles can do what you never thought they could do and vehicles won’t do what you thought they would do

  • Something for everyone, all levels of trails, many people there but it never feels crowded because everyone is spread out

  • Put it on your calendar for next year - trail signups start about 3 months out, full campground reservations start about 5 months in advance

Future Runs

• Oct 16 - FUN RUN (Andrew S & Magnus) https://fb.me/e/5rvhg5N8c

  • 8:30am at the Oak tree

  • About 15 people signed up

• Oct 23 - Rigs and Halloween Show to Tracy, CA (Andrew S) https://fb.me/e/5zbe2lyeK

  • If there isn’t more interest in the next week, probably will cancel this as a club event so there isn’t confusion trying to meet up, so please respond on email chain or sign up on the Facebook event if you want to go

• Oct 23 is also Cleanup day at Hollister Hills

• Nov 12-14 - Panamint Valley (Dishaan)

  • https://cal4wheel.com/panamint-valley-days 

• Pismo Beach; Nov/Dec: ??? Great time of year; need Reserve America spot

  • Camping might be difficult, maybe a day run?

• Dec 11 (tentative) - Holiday toy run / Jeep parade (Joanna)

• Jan 14-16 - Winter Fun Fest (Cal4Wheel event)

  • Need to make reservations at campground ASAP if you want to camp, private work group is also camping there, so a lot of sites are already taken

• Feb 18-20 - Cal4Wheel Convention in Visalia (Dennis)

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Oceano

  • Still talking about closing it in 3 years

• State parks

  • Reorganized a few years ago, OHV used to be a 7 park district, now put into various territories with the rest of the parks

  • 21 million now being offered for Carnegie property, money supposed to go to OHV, but still have concerns that the money won’t be tracked

  • State Parks doesn’t seem to be doing enough for OHV

  • Properties will still belong to State Parks, but non-motorized

CA4WDC Report (Dennis):

• North district meeting on the 2nd

• Raffle Jeep going to lots of events, tickets are $20 each this year

• In preparation for Convention, asking for pictures/videos from trails that have been adopted

• Yet to have a Natural Resource Consultant

• Doing ok money-wise despite event cancellations

• Membership seems to be down just a little

• No bylaws changes proposed at the meeting

• Also time for elections - 2 candidates for President

• Sierra Trek made more money than 2 years ago

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:

• Ellen for clinic work

• Sherry and Ole for behind the scenes work

• Kelly R. and team for Oktoberfest recovery session

• Jason, CJ, and Kelly S. for doing the last “50 years” of clinic classroom

• Dishaan for coming to BOD meetings every month

John T. motions to adjourn the meeting, Greg O. seconds

Meeting adjourned at 8:33 pm

Next BOD Meeting: Nov. 2, 2021 at 7pm
Next General Meeting: Nov. 9, 2021 at 7pm

General Meeting - Tuesday, September 17th, 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 7:03 pm

Announcements:

• Kelly R. has a hoist for a Jeep hardtop for sale for a 6 pack of beer

• CJ has a stock 1986 CJ7 for sale

Old Business:

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Question of the Month (for everyone this time):

  • When you pack for a trip where you have to camp, what is the 1 thing you can’t live without, or in other words what do you always bring with you?

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

• We have money!

• Some donations will be going out in the near future

• $2000 for insurance to be paid in November

• Sierra Trek raffle did very well

  • Tyler L. (of My Off Road Radio) won something we donated

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• Mostly set up, could use a few more people

• Final updates Sat morning

• We have 4 groups, normally 4 activities. Since hill climb / backing down has been eliminated due to lack of volunteers, we will be splitting stairsteps and frame twister into 2 separate activities. Entire group will go together.

• Tire placement in groups before everyone goes out

• 38 vehicles, 8 double drivers

• CJ and Colin will have APRS

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

• Aug 7-8: 4WP Truckfest - San Mateo

  • Wasn’t as well attended as in the past

  • But someone from the event showed up to clinic and is interested in joining the club

• Aug 12-15: Sierra Trek - Meadow Lake, CA.

  • Lots of people from ED4 went

  • Brutal, Thurs rain made rocks slick, winching until 11pm

  • Hot

  • Lots of carnage

  • Someone was airlifted out by a CHP chopper due to low blood pressure

  • Fun, partied, wonderful day on trail, food was wonderful, band was good

  • Showers were amazing

  • Raffle did very well, beat monetary intake of last few years

  • Seemed to be more incidents than usual

  • Tyler in contact with winch hills via ham radio was amazing technology

    • Could have been what saved the guy above’s life

• Sept 4: Hollister Hills Fun Run - Trail Boss: Magnus

  • 5 people

  • Short and sweet but a lot of fun

• Sept 4: Stan’s Donuts and Rigs - Trail Boss: Colin

  • Same day as fun run by accident

  • Also about 5 people

  • Gary S. showed up to both

Future Runs

• Sept 17-19: Fall Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

• Oct 1-3: Oktoberfest - Area 5 Hollister - Kelly

  • Got lucky Hollister Hills had a cancellation so we are able to get penciled in for Area 5

  • Area 5 is booked every weekend until Christmas

  • Raffle from summer campout

  • Recovery practice

  • Poker run

  • Price is negotiable because we have a good relationship with the park, not locked in yet (as of 9/17)

  • Do we need insurance? it’s a club activity, not charging for it, so we don’t need anything special

  • Fun run / newbie run as well? no, let’s keep that as a separate event

• Oct 2-8: Trail Hero - Sand Hollow Utah - CJ

  • CJ, Jason, Chris are going, Colin will be in the area as well

  • Event promotes access for disabled veterans and special needs kids

  • 100+ vendors

• Oct 16: Fun run - Hollister Hills

• Nov 12-14: Panamint Valley - Dishaan

  • Cal4Wheel event

• Nov/Dec: Pismo Beach

  • Great time of year; need Reserve America spot

• Dec 11 (tentative date): - Holiday toy run / Jeep parade - Joanna

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Delegates Report, North District Meeting, July 17, 2021 by Sherry

New Business:

• Long standing member who has been storing stuff for us is downsizing storage

  • Also donating 2 good EZups - need someone to store

  • Has food prep equipment

    • Cooking supplies, frying pans, paper plates, etc

    • 5 big black Costco totes and a huge ice chest

  • Greg Y. can store next year after house remodel

  • Will have an email thread to find volunteers to spread things out and store things for now

  • Need to find homes for these things by November or so

ED4 Hero:

• Magnus and Bruce for clinic

• Ellen for all the behind the scenes (emails and treasury) for clinic

• Tyler L. at Sierra Trek

50/50:

• Kelly volunteered

• Collected $78

• Andrew S. won

Motion to adjourn by Jason, Magnus seconds

Meeting adjourned at 8:08 pm

Next BOD Meeting: Oct. 5, 2021 at 7pm
Next General Meeting: Oct. 12, 2021 at 7pm

General Meeting - Tuesday, August 10th, 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:

• Before the meeting ends, we need a new host for Rigs and Coffee August

Old Business:

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Prospective Question of the Month:

  • For the type of 4wheeling you do, which do you think is better, an automatic or stick shift?

• Prospectives to vote on: Dishaan Ahuja and John Trollman voted in

• Anniversaries:

  • Mike Phorn 22

  • Andy Cardenas 10

  • Vidas and Jessie Mickevicius 10

  • Greg Youree 8

  • Magnus Akerblom 6

  • Arline Abarr 5

  • Bill Hrea 4

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

• We have money!

• Do we want to make a donation for Sierra Trek?

  • Kelly R. makes a motion to donate a clinic spot (next May) for the raffle, Daryl and Greg second, motion passes

  • Jason Green motions to donate $200 cash for the raffle, Kelly seconds, motion passes

• Dues: Ellen and/or Rick will reach out to people who haven’t paid, CJ will out them at the next meeting if they are still not paid

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• Don’t know if we need Covid-19 signage, Magnus still has them if we need them

• Will most likely require masks

• Prerun - having problems with people not showing up, considering doing pre run and train the trainers on the Friday before clinic

• Considering putting experienced people as trail leaders so we don’t need to put up trail markers, will save time in setting up and picking up

• Sign up will go out in about a week

• Mark your calendars, September 18 is the date

• We have 5 places left depending on Hold-Overs

  Kelly R. makes a motion to move the September General Meeting to Friday before clinic - Sept. 17

  • Concerns about people unable to show up early enough

  • Friday or Saturday? last clinic many more people were there Friday night

  • Concern that the meeting will not be accessible for people who don’t want or aren’t comfortable meeting in person?

    • Park has wifi so we can try a hybrid meeting

    • Probably most people who attend meetings show up to clinic anyway

  • Would like to do a raffle since we weren’t able to during Summer Campout, clinic is our remaining big event

    • Will see if we can sell raffle tickets online to people who can’t make it

  • Start at 7pm, plan for 1.5-2 hr meeting

  • Darrell seconds

  • Motion passes with 14 votes for, 0 against, and 4 abstentions

  • Our next General meeting will be on Sept. 17, 2021 at 7pm at Area 5 in Hollister Hills

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

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

  • Note from the Secretary: the Tamarack Fire near Markleeville grew at a rapid rate on the afternoon/evening of 7/16 prompting evacuation of the area that night

  • Surreal experience eating a hamburger while watching a 747 come over and drop fire retardant

  • Small puff of smoke around 3pm on the way back to camp became a huge dark plume of smoke after showering

  • No idea what was going on while on Deer Valley trail, driving toward it on the way out

  • Even when a sense of urgency hit, everyone stayed and helped to make sure everyone else was ready to go

  • 8 rigs went over Ebbetts pass including trucks with trailers

  • Ham radios were incredibly important for communications

  • Takeaways from CJ

    • Should have had the satellite phone on while driving so someone at camp or elsewhere can reach the people on trail (and people should know the phone number). Phone was with the trail group so they could have called out in case of emergency, but it was not on so others were not able to call in to notify them about the fire emergency

    • More people should have mobile ham units instead of just handhelds for better range

    • Google form had all attendees’ name and phone number so someone could follow up and make sure everyone was ok and out of the area

  • Jason Green makes a motion to pay Ed for the money he’s out for food, amount is $250, Kelly R seconds, motion passes

  • Other than happenings out of our control, it was a great event

• July 24th - Rigs & Coffee @8am - Bass Pro Shop - San Jose - Greg Youree

• Aug 7-8 - 4WP Truckfest - San Mateo

  • not a lot of people in general

  • some people dropped by the booth and at least one person was invited to our meetings

Future Runs

• Weekly - Saturday Night Cruise - Andrew S.

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

  • Ellen will be working in the Bank with Sherry. Please visit. 

• Sept 4th - Adopt-a-Trail part deux - Dick/Kelly

  • Possibly Sept 5 as well

  • Finish up Mattley Ridge

  • Looking for additional chainsaw operators

  • Very generous anonymous donation of a brand new Stihl 32” bar chainsaw

  • Need at least 6 people

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

  • Complete with club raffle and General meeting (see above)

• Oct 4-8 - Trail Hero - CJ

  • Week long event in Sand Hollow, Utah

• Oktoberfest TBD - Kelly

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Delegates Report, North District Meeting, July 17, 2021 by Sherry

New Business:

• Club chainsaw (donated)

  • Darrell and Jason Green make a motion to have club buy protective equipment (e.g. chaps, helmet, face shield, ear protection), a few gallons of fuel, a gallon of bar oil, and chain, not to exceed $500, Magnus seconds, vote passes

    • Ellen suggests Jason make a shopping wish list since he is one of our chainsaw experts

  • Ed mentions we should probably put something in the club’s budget for chainsaw operation and maintenance, noted for next budget cycle, the above motion is a one time spend to happen now

  • Should write up a Standard Operating Procedure - storage location, maintenance schedule, requirements for operating the chainsaw, etc. 

• Youtube channel

  • YouTube Channel created by Andrew S.

  • Trying to reach 100 subscribers so we can get a custom URL with our club name instead of a random string of letters, please subscribe if you haven’t already

  • Online presence group will discuss mode of operation for the channel

ED4 Hero:

• Ed for not only organizing Summer Campout but making the difficult call to evacuate at the time he did

• Ed’s wife for towing the trailer and helping him cook

• Anonymous person for donating the chainsaw

• CJ’s parents for welcoming people to their cabin and cooking for them

• Everyone who wielded chainsaws for Adopt-a-Trail

Darrell volunteers Kelly R. to host a Rigs and Coffee, Kelly agrees and says it will probably be a weekday

Meeting adjourned at 8:27 pm

Next BOD Meeting: Sept. 7, 2021 at 7pm

Next General Meeting: Sept. 17, 2021 at 7pm at Area 5 in Hollister Hills

General Meeting - Tuesday, July 13th, 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:

• Archie has an aftermarket front Dana 44 diff cover he no longer needs

Old Business:

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Prospectives Question of the Month:

  • If you’re leading a trip, where would it be? If you can’t think of a specific place, what kind of trip would it be? 

• Anniversaries: 

  • Kelly & Christine Swanson - 31 years

  • Ed & Toni Lorenzen - 16 years

  • Bruce Wilford - 2 years

  • Alex Florea - 1 year

• CJ did a Zoom poll to ask if people received the July General Meeting email

  • If you did not get the email (and it’s not in your spam folder), please email CJ to let him know

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

• We have money!

• Budget is here: Budget2021-2022.pdf

• Summer Campout

  • We’ve collected $1120 for summer campout. Everyone who signed up has paid.

  • Ed has paid $1500 to the campground already

  • Originally calculated as $80 per family based on initial interest, but not everyone is actually going, so the amount is now short

• Vote on using Party Funds to reimburse Ed

  • $750 budgeted for Party Fund, would be taking $380 out for reimbursing Ed

  • No one opposed, many approve, vote passes

• Dues

  • Some people still owe dues to ED4

  • 16 people who paid last year have not yet paid this year. List will be going to Rick to follow up

  • One person still owes dues to Cal4Wheel

• Web hosting renewed

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):

Past Runs

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

  • 34+ people from ED4 and Granite Bandits

  • Many downed trees, huge downed trees, lots of hard work

  • Dinner was awesome, nice to have food ready at the end of a hard day of work - thanks Ed and Mike Cline

  • Cleared ~150 trees, some well over 4’, some that the club didn’t get to that must have been 6’ across at the bottom, worked on roughly 14mi of trail, job is not done

  • 100+mph winds earlier in the year was what brought down so many trees

  • At one point there were so many downed trees it was hard to see where the trail is

  • Corral Hollow cleared on Friday (Granite Bandits’ Adopt-a-Trail)

  • Mattley Loop cleared on Saturday

  • Mattley Ridge was attacked from 2 directions on Saturday and not fully cleared, some supporting trails also not clear

  • What to do if trees are too big? Will try to ask Forest Service for some resources

  • CJ will send a Doodle poll to see who is available during what upcoming weekends for another run to do more work

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

  • Lots of people, including a few who weren’t club members, some who have done something with the club once in the past

  • Big line for donuts

  • Form to sign up to host a future Rigs & Coffee https://forms.gle/FQXFvEfxuJSbey8x9

    • Doesn’t have to be Saturday morning. Can be weekdays or evenings. Pick a time that works for you

Future Runs

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

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

  • Ed is bring a big TV for movies at night

  • No campfires allowed in campground because of fire danger

  • Deer Valley trail is open

  • There has been an earthquake in the area, many aftershocks, dwindling down now, but we won’t know what the trails will be like

  • Bring a chainsaw if you have one just in case

  • Highways closed on Saturday because of cycling event

  • Doing a raffle, bring raffle item similar to Christmas gift exchange items

  • If wanting to do Deer Valley run and don’t meet vehicle requirements, contact Kelly R. for exceptions. There might also be right seats available - ask Kelly or CJ

• July 24th @ 8am - Rigs & Coffee - Bass Pro Shop - San Jose - Greg Y.

• August 7-8 - 4WheelParts Jeep and Truck Fest - Rick

  • Kind of short notice, let Rick know if you’re interested in helping so we can get a booth set up there

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

  • Some people are going

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

  • Eliminating backing down a hill because it takes a long time and people had to leave early because it was running long

    • Ellen says getting rid of this might not be a good idea because it can be something intimidating for new drivers and a good thing to get some experience with

    • Valid point to discuss, but moving the discussion off this meeting to keep to the agenda

  • Still not having food this September

  • Prerun and train the trainers will be one date, date has not been picked yet

  • Printing for goodie bag ends up being 8 pages if printing in color, so Magnus would like some help. If printing in black and white is ok, he can get it done at a pretty good price

  • Add hi-lift and winch training at end of day? Any volunteers to do that?

• Oktoberfest TBD - Kelly

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Sherry gave report with lots of pictures to Forest Service about Adopt-a-Trail, explained why we didn’t finish Matley Ridge

• Big thanks to Sherry, she has to deal with some archaic processes for this

New Business:

• Call for a team to identify moving meetings back to in person

  • Need a volunteer to lead this, otherwise we will keep meeting on zoom

  • Monthly? Quarterly? Special event only?

  • Dinner/no dinner?

  • All up for figuring out

Cow Bell:

• John T nominates the person who ran out of gas, but the person is a guest

• Darrell nominates Chris Mains for stealing the club’s whiskey

  • CJ dropped off 3 whiskeys with Jason and Chris Mains to hand around camp after Adopt-a-Trail. Chris put them in his trailer and took them with him when he left Saturday morning, so the club did not have whiskey at camp Saturday evening. 

  • With a landslide vote, Chris gets the cowbell this month

ED4 Hero:

• Chris Masten nominates Ole for his chainsaw work on the big trees at Adopt-a-Trail

  • CJ adds the other chainsaw operators Jason Green and Rodney

• Daryl nominates Ed for all the work he did for Summer Campout and Adopt-a-Trail

• Belinda nominates Sherry for all her work contacting the Forest Service

Ron Frey says he misses everyone. Wheeling is a bit different where he lives now. Wanted to hop on and say hello.

Meeting adjourned at 8:08 pm

Next BOD Meeting: Aug 3, 2021 at 7pm

Next General Meeting: Aug 10, 2021 at 7pm

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

General Meeting - Tuesday, May 11th, 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 7:03 pm

Announcements:

Old Business:

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Question of the Month: Knowing what you know now about 4-wheeling, what advice would you give your younger self?

• Anniversaries: 

  • Archie & Belinda - 2 years

  • Jason - 29 years

• Prospectives need to submit trip reports

• Rick has swag, sent out an email of what he has if you want to buy something

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

• We have money!

• Budget was voted on by google form - passes with 18 yes’s

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• Anyone who has one, please bring an EZ-up. The shade canopy over the picnic tables blew down

• Want everyone to fill out CDC acknowledge form for covid, but we’re not going to be taking temperatures

• We are going to wear masks

• Camping update - 50 people (spaces)

  • Google Form sign up for members to get a count, and the rest of the spaces can go to students

  • https://forms.gle/ZVhPrHGMhaWsdLgD7

• On trail for clinic?... add the tracks to your Gaia!

  • Safety Clinic 2021 Blue Trail

  • Safety Clinic 2021 Red Trail

• Ellen is still handling dropouts and waitlist

• Central district membership chair wants to visit and see how we run our clinic

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

• Train the Trainers May 1st - Hollister

  • Thanks Ellen for recording GPS tracks

• May 7-9th Summer Campout Pre-run/Scouting - Eddie & friends

  • Camping has been locked down at the resort

  • Ed did some pre-planning for the Barney Riley trail, and the group confirmed it works. CJ recorded the track

Future Runs

• May 14-16th Spring Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

• June 5th Fun Run at Hollister to invite students to (Trail lead TBD)

• June 11-12th (Confirmed date) Adopt-a-trail

  • Not much snow there anymore

  • A lot of trees down from the windstorms

  • Sherry will ask about camping and conditions when she gets in touch with the Forest Service

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

  • Co-trail-bosses needed

  • Agenda for the weekend

  • Signup form coming soon

  • Camping has been locked down at the resort. We have a total cost that will be divided among the people who attend. Plenty of space, big dirt lot. There is a steep hill and a hairpin on the road in, but club members with RVs should be able to get in. 

  • If you don’t want to camp with the club, book your lodging ASAP. Busy weekend in that area

HWY Closure details:

• Road Closures, Saturday 7/17

• 5:00 am – 7:00 am: Road closed to traffic from the Markleeville Courthouse to the junction of Highways 89 & 4 

• Monitor (Hwy 89), & Ebbetts Pass and the Pacific Grade to Lake Alpine (Hwy 4) will be closed to vehicular traffic starting at 5:00 am 

• Monitor Pass (Hwy 89) reopens to vehicular traffic at 12:00 pm 

• Ebbetts Pass/Lake Alpine (Hwy 4) reopens to vehicular traffic at 4:00 pm 

• Highway 89 from Woodfords to the Markleeville Courthouse will remain open. Please adhere to posted speed zones and early morning parking crews

Group Camping at the Carson River Resort

The Group Camp Area is a large area above the resort. Dry camp area with plenty of room for all. There are Porta Potties in this area. Restrooms are down in the main resort on the highway

 PLANNED Trail Runs

THURSDAY 7/15

• Barney Riley Trail Pre-Run [Trail Boss: Ed]

  • This is NOT for the novice driver. This will be a fast pace “Getter Done” run. I am not wanting to do spotting. If you are a person that requires spotting on Intermediate trails this is NOT the run for you.

FRIDAY 7/16

• Easy Barney Riley Trail Run [Trail Boss: John Ruiz]

• Hard Blue Lakes / Deer Valley Trail Run [Trail Boss: Kelly Radcliffe]

  • The Blue lakes Trail is NOT for Novice Drivers

SATURDAY 7/17

• Fun “Geocache Adventure” Trail Run [Trail Boss: Bill Herta]

• Intermediate Barney Riley Trail Run [Trail Boss: CJ Arnesen]

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

  • Some people from the club have already signed up

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

• Oktoberfest TBD

CA4WDC Report (Dennis):

• North district membership

  • Potentially 2 new clubs: Redding Jeep Club, Tahoe Jeepers

• President’s report

  • Win-A-Jeep winner received his keys

  • Death Valley Experience - first time event, people enjoyed it

  • Had a meeting to try to get the lobbyists and natural resources consultant going again

  • Some work on improving the Cal4Wheel office

• Treasury report

  • Seem to be doing fairly well in terms of budgeting despite events being cancelled

  • Donations have been higher

  • Win-A-Jeep raffle ticket price is changing to $20 per ticket

• Convention is going to be in Visalia

  • Asking for write-ups on trails (Adopt-a-trail, favorites, etc.)

  • If someone from the club could take some pictures, Dennis can pass them along

• Some work will be/has been done on Fordyce

  • Helping out some bypasses that have gotten ridiculously hard

  • Not touching the main trail

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Carnegie

  • Senator and assembly person both have bills trying to take the property away again

  • Governor has a 30 by 30 initiative (30% of state of CA protected by 2030), which could be fueling the bills (however Governor Newsom did veto the bill from last year)

  • Judge decided earlier this year that past environmental reports were not valid

• Also fighting Oceano closure

New Business:

• Working group to figure out what ED4’s online presence looks like

  • We have a great website

  • We have a Facebook group, how can we better utilize it?

  • Let CJ know if you would like to join the group

  • He will get this going after clinic

• Would like to come up with a positive analog to the cowbell

  • We have lots of club members who step up that we should celebrate

  • Looking for a name and/or token for this award

    • ED4 hero?

    • little matchbox Jeep?

• Club dues

  • $30 for single, $50 for family

  • Due June 30

  • Ellen will send PayPal link

  • Can also pay by Stripe if you need to, but they take an extra $5 fee

Cow Bell:

• No new nominations

Motion to adjourn by Dennis, Dick seconds
Meeting adjourned at 8:19pm

Next BOD Meeting: June 1, 2021 at 7pm
Next General Meeting: June 8, 2021 at 7pm

General Meeting - Tuesday, April 13th, 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 7:04 pm

Announcements:

• Daryl has 4 BFG KM2 33x12.5R15 tires for cheap

• Neale found a can of white gas that he will not be using (for old stoves or lamps)

Old Business:

• Kelly - changes to bylaws that we voted on a few meetings ago are in, will get it up on the website

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Question of the Month: Before going out on a trail run, what do you always check on your rig? 

• Anniversaries: Connie Wilson - 12 years

• Prospectives need to submit trip reports

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):

Club finances are as follows:

• We have money!
  

Budget

• Preliminary budget has been emailed out

• Need to keep a tight budget this year, donations will be down a little

• Added item for renewing our domain names

• Will vote on budget in May

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• Have about 23 volunteers

• Would like more volunteers, please respond to Bruce/Magnus’s email

• People who arrive on Friday can help put up signage

• Saturday morning will be parking/registration/inspection

• Trail teams will primarily be the people doing inspection in the morning

• Classroom - CJ & Jason

• Saturday afternoon will need people on obstacles

• Some cleanup after

• Pre-run and train the trainers on May 1 - need to get there early

  • Bruce/Magnus will send out an email with details

• Assignment sheet will be sent out this week

• Our permit says we will be following the same covid protocols as the past 2 clinics

• Club members and volunteers are allowed to camp Thurs/Fri/Sat night, students not yet

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

• March 20th - Hollister Hills Fun Run - John, Kelly, etc

Future Runs

• May 1st - Train the Trainers - Hollister

• May 14-16th - Spring Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

• TBD dates for Adopt-a-trail (tentative June 11-12th?)

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

  • See notes below

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

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

• TBD Oktoberfest - Kelly

Summer Campout

• Will send out google sheet with info and logistics

• Google form being drafted for signup and attendee info

• Please be aware that this will be the same weekend as the Death Ride (bicycle event), which will close some highways on Saturday

• Will need to be on the Markleeville side of Hwy 89/4 before 5am on Saturday morning or arrive via Highway 88

• Hotels will be booked up, check ASAP if not camping

• Plenty of dry camping space at the upper level at the Carson River Resort (reserved for club), lower level RV spaces are already full

• https://deathride.com/f/course

  • Road Closures, Day of Event:

  • 5:00 am – 7:00 am: Road closed to traffic from the Markleeville Courthouse to the junction of Highways 89 & 4. 

  • Monitor (Hwy 89), & Ebbetts Pass and the Pacific Grade to Lake Alpine (Hwy 4) will be closed to vehicular traffic starting at 5:00 am. 

  • Monitor Pass (Hwy 89) reopens to vehicular traffic at 12:00 pm. 

  • Ebbetts Pass/Lake Alpine (Hwy 4) reopens to vehicular traffic at 4:00 pm. 

  • Highway 89 from Woodfords to the Markleeville Courthouse will remain open. Please adhere to posted speed zones and early morning parking crews.

CA4WDC Report (Dennis):

• Next meeting is April 22

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Bills to take away property at Carnegie in the works again

  • Judge ruled earlier in the year that the environmental impact report was not good :(

• Parks got a new director, questioned about Oceano, no clear answer

• OHV division absorbed into Parks, hard to track the money now

• Peter Jones named as director of Prairie City

• California State Parks Foundation - non government charity organization that supports state parks, don’t appear to support SVRAs even though SVRAs are part of State Parks

  • They currently have a photo contest

  • Ellen suggests everyone who has a photo of OHVs at Oceano post to the contest and say how great of a park it was and it’s now closed

  • https://www.calparks.org/stories-and-victories/photo-contest

New Business:

CJ kicking off a small committee to work on club’s online presence

• See what we can do to be more relevant online

• Already have a few people, let CJ know if you are also interested

• Andrew, Dishaan, and David are in

Should the BOD meeting minutes be emailed out or just have a link?

• Poll was very close

• Executive decision was made to continue to send out BOD meeting minutes via email

Cow Bell:

• Magnus nominated Ruiz family for cow bell for their Jeep falling off a jack at the Hollister fun run

• The club voted to award them the cow bell

• Hope/Shane nominated Kelly for taking the group up a muddy, slippery trail where the above happened

Motion to adjourn by Dick, Kelly seconds

Meeting adjourned at 8:22 pm

Next BOD Meeting: May 4, 2021 at 7pm

Next General Meeting: May 11, 2021 at 7pm

General Meeting - Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

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 7:03 pm

Announcements:

• The election was held and the following people were elected. It was very close! ;-)

  • CJ Arnesen - President

  • Victor Jorge - Vice President

  • Ellen Layendecker - Treasurer

  • Rick Montez - Membership

  • Joanna Chen - Secretary

• Since the voting was done via the web. This means the club voted to change the bylaws to allow it

• Cal 4 Wheel does not send out reminders about renewing your membership. You need to check yourself Sign In (cal4wheel.org)

Membership (Rick Montez):

Anniversaries:

• None this month

Question of the Month:

• What would you drive if you could not drive your current make?

Trip Reports:

• 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 have money Yay!

• Clinic is sold out

• Greg Y. will look into having the club domain and Web site all under Square Space and all under ED4

• Ellen hopes to have the Strip app for renews in May. You renew by check or Strip. With Wi-Fi at area 5 you can pay at the camp fire.

Discussions:

• It looks like the Summer camp out will be HUUGGEEE

  • Ed needs help. You can help by signing up for one thing. Contact ED if you want to help.

    • For example:

      • Hold an Ice Cream Social

      • Hold a Whiskey tasting event

      • Set up a movie night

      • Lead a run (2 runs per day, easy & hard)

      • Organize lawn games

      • Organize spouse day at Holiday Inn Club

      • Help with one part a meal ( desert, appetizer)

      • Casino run to Carson Valley Inn

New Business (Kelly):

• The Cal 4 Wheel Convention was held via zoom

  • Highlights:

    • Shery Retained her position

    • Membership dropped about 300 from last year

    • ED4 got 3 awards; Safety, Web Site and Conservation

    • The Jeep was won by a person in North Carolina

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• It is sold out. Only 8 double drivers. It will be the same as the fall covid clinic. No Bar-b-que

• Area 5 is reserved. Not sure about camping

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs:

• Feb 25th: A Thursday at Hollister for retired people. What can you say. If you are retired and can go on a Thursday, Life is Good.

Future Club Runs:

• May 1st: Train the Trainers - Hollister

• May 14-16th: Spring Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

• June 11-12th(?): Dates for Adopt-a-trail - Trail Boss(?)

• July 15-18th: Summer Campout - Markleeville - Eddie and friends

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

• TBD: Oktoberfest - Trail Boss(?)

CA4WDC Report:

• Dennis See Dennis’s report

Land Use:

• Sherry & Ole Pismo beach and Frank Reigns are still under attack

50/50:

Cow Bell:

• No new nominations

Next BOD Meeting:

• April 6th, 2021

Next General Meeting:

• April 13th, 2021

Meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm.

Reference:

• Club flag can be purchase at Forever Wave password is EDF17

• Wheelin, Wine & Whisky Podcast for interview on Element Fire Extinguishers check it out here [For 10% off and free shipping use code: Check back later, code has expired]

• 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

• Got time Check out Matt’s Off road recovery on YouTube

• Be sure to check out CJ’s web site

• John’s eBay Seller page here

General Meeting - Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

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:

• There will be an extra meeting this month for nominations for the next election

  • The meeting will be February 23rd. Want to run for office, Contact Kelly!

• Cal 4 Wheel does not send out reminders about renewing your membership. You need to check yourself Sign In (cal4wheel.org)

• Cal 4 Wheel has the “Win a Jeep” going on. Due to less events they can use the extra funds. You can buy a shirt for to help them out

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Anniversaries:

  • Joanna Chen 3yrs

  • Victor Jorge 3yrs

  • Ellen Layendecker 29yrs

  • Joe Morris 3yrs

  • Greg Ordonez 4yrs

  • Tom Vella 15yrs

• Question of the Month:

  • Question of the Month: Most embarrassing story 4 Wheeling

• 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 become eligible to join the club

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):
Club finances are as follows:

• We got money!

• It was voted to increase the Cal 4 Wheel donation. $500 for general fund, $500 legal. Total donation to Cal 4 Wheel $2142

• Ellen hopes to have the Strip app for renews in May

  • You renew by check or Strip. With Wi-Fi at area 5 you can pay at the camp fire

Discussions:

• The owner of the Carson River Resort did a great job on last year’s Oktoberfest event. We will have an event there next year

  • Need volunteers to help out. Could be a big party with the Mad Hatters there also

• With Snow on the ground most dirt roads in the forest are closed. Even if they are covered with snow

• The Cal 4 wheel convention will be on the computer. This Saturday you can attend with Zoom. 12 noon to 9pm

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• Registration will open this month

  • 9 hold overs from previous clinics signed up. 37 people on waiting list

• Area 5 is reserved. Not sure about camping

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

• January 16th: Walker Ridge Run - Dennis

• January 30th: MET snow run - Rick

Future Club Runs

• Cal 4 Wheel Convention is still on. Feb 19-21 in Visalia

• Train the Trainers May 1st - Hollister

• May 14-16th: Spring Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

• Dates for Adopt-a-trail? (June 11-12th?)

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

  • Co-bosses needed to make this run a huge success! Please consider signing-up and start planning

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

• Octoberfest: TBD

CA4WDC Report: Dennis

• There will be 5 bylaws to vote on at next months meeting

• Need to figure out how Dennis should vote at the convention. See In gear for what will be voted on

  • Results from Survey Monkey 15 people filled it out. 1 – No, 2-Yes, 3-No, 4-Yes, 5-Yes

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Pismo beach is still under attack

New Business (Kelly):

• Reach out to Ellen to suggest donation recipients for next year's budget

• Change to bylaws to make exceptions for online voting similar to Cal4 wheel

  • By-Laws do not specifically outline how we vote: (display of hands, Yay/Nay/ballot)

  • Proposed Change: Add to Voting, Article IV, Section 2 “Allow option for electronic voting via online poll, show of hands via videoconference, E-mail or Text message for all club business. To be recorded and tallied by the club secretary”

• Officer Nomination Committee Appointment (Should have been done at January Meeting)

• Nominations to take place at Special Meeting 2/23/21

• Officer Elections to be held at next General Meeting 3/9/21

50/50:

Cow Bell:

• No new nominations

Next BOD Meeting:

• March 2nd, 2021

Next General Meeting:

• March 9th, 2021

Meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm.

Reference:

• Wheelin, Wine & Whisky Podcast for interview on Element Fire Extinguishers check it out here [For 10% off and free shipping use code WWW10]

• 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

• John’s eBay Seller page here

General Meeting - Tuesday, January 7th, 2021

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 7:00 pm.

Announcements:

• Rick has ED4 swage for sale Contact him if interested. T-Shirts and Sweatshirts $25, Stickers small $3, Large $9. Patches also

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

• You can buy a shirt for to help them out https://cal4wheel.org/store https://cal4wheel.com/win-a-jeep Pismo Beach is open for day use only

Membership (Rick Montez):

• Anniversaries:

  • Yifang Dai 4rs

  • Dennis Holler & Ava Moore 13yrs

  • Dick Orlando 4yrs

  • Loro Patterson 13yrs

  • John & Hope Ruiz 22yrs

  • Ole Stortroen 31yrs

• Question of the Month:

  • What kind of advance off-roading training class would you like to

    attend?

    • Lots of people want How to recover and how to winch.

• 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 become eligible to join the club

Treasurer (Ellen Layendecker):
Club finances are as follows:

• We got money!

• All bills have been paid

Discussions:

• We will also use the Strip app for future payments

  • It has lower fees and no membership. By June you will be able to pay for your membership via Strip.

• Insurance for the year has been paid for both clinics

Clinic (Bruce & Magnus):

• The sign-up line has started. If you know someone, they can contact the club and get on the early list. Registration will open mid February

Vice President (Victor Jorge):

Past Runs

• January 30th: MET snow run - Rick

Future Club Runs

• May 14-16th: Spring Safety Clinic - Bruce and Magnus

• Dates for Adopt-a-trail? (June 11-12th?)

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

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

• Octoberfest: TBD

CA4WDC Report: Dennis

• There will be 6 bylaws to vote on at next months meeting

• The Cal 4 Wheel Convention is still on. Feb 19-21 in Visalia

Land Use (Sherry & Ole):

• Pismo beach is still under attack

New Business:

50/50:

Cow Bell:

• No new nominations

Next BOD Meeting:

• February 2nd, 2021

Next General Meeting:

• February 9th, 2021

Meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm.

Reference:

• Wheelin, Wine & Whisky Podcast for interview on Element Fire Extinguishers check it out here [For 10% off and free shipping use code WWW10]

• 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

• John’s eBay Seller page here