| 6. COMMITTEE REPORTS: A. Trailmaster: Subsection: Trailmaster Report. Donald Roux >> >> Subsection: Administrative Update. Steve Perham MAPS: Steve showed us an example of a map he had seen when traveling on the trails. It held 45 ads. Jody Adams has GPS that could be added to our map. Cindy will check with Lincoln Press on this issue. Subsection: Maintenance Update. Dave Leck All signs have been pulled off of the poles. The signs are now next to the poles and will be left there over the summer. This will help us see if they are still in the same condition for next season. Subsection: Other Comments Update. Andy Deschambault Thinking back to a meeting where our trails 'could' go to other places and not dead-end, an idea could be to go to >> B. Membership Committee: Mike Mosher was reported we now have a new member, Brian Houde. Welcome, Brian! We have a total of 54 members. OTHER: Idea ~ Survey: Perhaps a survey should be done to ask 'why' we have so few members this year (since we have snow). This was discussed. One member advised that phone calls could be productive. C. Safety Committee: Don Allaire asked the membership if anyone would like to learn more about Safety Training. Don will be taking his updated Training Course in Lyman on August 2nd. Anyone wanting to join Don can call him for details. Be careful is Don's warning! There have been 5 deaths in one weekend. D. Activities Committee: Denise Roux. No report. Club Ride: If the weather permits, meet at the Clubhouse at 9 am sharp to ride. Watch the website crawler on the home page. E. Scholarship Committee: Denise and Scott have volunteered for the Scholarship Committee. Don Allaire has volunteered as the third member of the Scholarship Committee. They will give us their decision next meeting on the Scholarship Winner(s). F. Other Business: The bottle of Kambora (The Club won at the International Festival) would be raffled off this evening after the 50/50. |
| Southern Maine Sno-Goers Minutes of Meeting #175 March 13th, 2008 |
| 5. NEW BUSINESS: A. Bureau of Parks and Land: A letter came advising us the Grant for the bridge had been recommended. The Highway Administration needs to approve next with signatures before any expense can be incurred. Status Follows: * Permits (needed) * Historical Preservation (on hold ~ ground access permitting) * Natural Conservancy Area Program (ok) * >> B. Camp Waban Telethon: We have donated each year to this local event. Don Roux made a motion to donate $250 to the telethon. The vote was all in favor and the motion passed. |
| 7. Buy, sell or trade: Check the website link ~ CLASSIFIEDS! 8. 50/50: Don Allaire one the $7.50 prize! Congratulations! Jody Adams won the Kambora! 9. Next Meeting: Our next meeting will be held on March 27th at 7 p.m. This will be the last meeting of this season. 10. Adjournment: A motion was made by Lou at 8:45 p.m. to adjourn the meeting. It was seconded and passed. |
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| Cindy Roux ~ Secretary |
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| 4. OLD BUSINESS: (From the February 14th meeting since our last expected meeting was not held due to lack of membership attendance.) A. Raffle: We came in 2nd this year with a total ticket sale of 696, approximately 100 tickets less than the 1st place finisher. Congratulations to all of our members who helped us this year! B. Bottles and Cans: $100 was turned in this evening. This is the first year we have gone over our $500 goal. Thanks to Christi Wilson and Steph Wilson for their help on this. C. Scholarships: We have two scholarship applications. The Scholarship Committee will recommend their selection(s) to the membership at our next meeting. D. Insurance: The depreciation of our insured items is being looked into by Jim to see if any money can be saved. This has not been looked at for four years. Jim has called the insurance agent and is working on this. |
| 1. President, Jim Roux opened the meeting at 7:02 p.m. "Good evening everyone!" and we recited The Pledge of Allegiance with 13 members in attendance. 2. Secretary's Report: Cindy Roux presented the minutes from the February 14th meeting to the membership to read. A typographical error was found on line 4.B (on-gowning should be ongoing). A motion to accept the minutes as ammended was made by Bob Hanson, seconded, and passed. 3. Treasurer's Report: Lou Forni read the (attached). Jim Roux noticed on the last report a Misc. notation for $202. He asked if Lou could break down the information residing in the Misc. Category to help with the grant information process. Another question pertaining to the Charity expenses was asked. Lou explained that $250 was issued in a check for a Scholarship payment and the $100 was for Project Graduation. A motion was made by Don Allaire to accept Lou's report as read, which was seconded, accepted and passed. |
