Winnebago County Snowmobile Alliance Meeting Minutes
Dec. 27, 2016 – REVS Bowl Bar and Grill

December 2016 Alliance Minutes
The Dec. 27, 2016 meeting was called to order by President Dwight Mason at 7:30 PM at REV’s Bowl Bar and Grill. Motion to approve the minutes was made and were accepted as corrected.

Treasurer’s Report
Please attend the monthly WCSA meetings to see a copy of the Treasurer’s report.

Director’s Report
Mike Giese reported past president Ralph Calver died. He also gave an updated Blue Mound report. AWSC is changing lobbyist as they are not happy with Bob J. The AWSC will be proposing new legislation to increase the labor rate from $6.50 to $8.50 starting next year. They want the governor’s recreation council to increase the grooming rate 15 to 20%, from $250/mile to $300/mile as well bumping the cap for supplemental. The 4 year Sunset Clause is still in effect for CAP/STEP legislation.

Trail and Grooming Report
Mike reported that it was nice that everyone was in agreement on opening and closing the trails. One person from each club should contact him about closing the trails and he’ll contact Jason to update the web site and then the county parks department to have the phone message updated.

Old Business
The new maps are here and can picked up after the meeting. Each case has about 4,000 maps.

New Business
The golf course and tree nursery had snowmobiles that trespassed damaging some trees. The tree nursery made signs and put up partial fencing. They also block driveways and used a car once to do so. The Sno-Pioneers had to make a small reroute as the new property owners did not grant access. They were nice about the issue and gained two new members after discussing a new route with neighboring landowners.

The Wolff’s Park’s DNR Safety Class passed all 19 snowmobile and 16 ATV students.

There will be SNARS training classes in January. The local regional class is on Thursday January 12th at 7pm at the Steelworker’s Local 1327, 443 Scott St., Ripon. The next closest class will be in Green Bay on the 17th. Others maybe added if there is enough demand. See the DNR’s Snowmobile Trail Aids page.

8:15 PM, the motion was made and approved.

Respectfully Submitted,
Paul Villwock
WCSA Secretary