Treasurer’s Report
No new report this month. Last reported Club Balance - $xxxxx
Club Meeting Minutes, from October 24, 2007
Attendance (100% accuracy not assured):
Club Members – Bob Chase, John Deluce, Ken Fastner, Nathan Huskamp, Darrel Ion, Doug Less, Jeff Mack, Bob Maki, Doug Nienow, Greg Nelson, John Otto, Ron Palm, Mike Pohl, Ross Thompson
Prospective members –Dave Anderson (4th oops, should have voted on him by now)
· Holyoke
o Not much was done with the single-track replacement project other than some early planning.
o The Bridge – See separate section below:
· GIA – We used it all this year, so we can’t expense things between now and May 08 unless the extension that Ken filed for is granted. Ken is working on next year’s budget submission.
· 2008 Minnesota Moose Run Enduro – The NPG (National Promoter’s Group) has sent us a lot of information. The way they claim scoring will be done is with each rider using an electronic transponder. The NPG supplies the transponders and readers. Someone from the NPG will be responsible for setting up the readers at the check points and the scoring.
· Grantsburg
o The proposed schedule was discussed. At this point, we are hoping to have
§ Weekend practice the last week of March. If it goes, turnout could be big.
§ One race in April - preferably not the first weekend. That would be back-to-back weekends.
§ One race in May – May fills up fast, so there will be further discussion on back-up dates
o After the meeting, John Martin sent out to the other promoters his (reduced number of) dates along with his hope that we could do away with triples-dates. Mike Murphy replied that with our race date plan, pointing out that we were reducing our number of dates again, and agreeing with the idea of eliminating triple dates.
o The new sign-up palace construction continues. Unfortunately, the project leader, Tim Kight, broke his ankle shortly before the meeting, putting a damper on the progress. If you would like to help, contact Tim, Roy, Charlie, or Mike Murphy.
o There was some discussion about the sound rule and others and how they are often not enforced or followed by the members. Please don’t turn a blind eye when witnessing flagrant violations. Here is a copy of the latest complaint that we got from our Grantsburg neighbors on Nov 2nd. This is the third time that this guy has contacted me. Take it with a grain of salt:
· D23 Meeting – There was some discussion about penalizing clubs that “blatantly” make no effort to do sound testing. It was passed along as a rule to be voted on at the annual meeting. The penalty part was a bit vague.
Election Results (incumbents unstoppable)
Presidente – Ken “power consolidator” Fastner
Secretary – Bob “nickname-impaired” Chase
Treasurer – Roy “long-time incumbent” Fleming
Inside Ref – Mark “the nominator” Krey
Outside Ref – John “the diplomat” Otto
D23 Rep – Greg “Can’t shed the Trophy Guy label” Nelson
MX Chair – Mike “Murph” Murphy
Enduro Chair – Ken “National Trail Boss“ Fastner
Where’s that confounded bridge? by Ken Fastner (lyric-reference title by secretary)
I want to thank the 5 volunteers (well, actually 9) that helped get this project built. Jack Bondus, Mike Pohl, John Otto and myself were there on Thursday, Nov 1st. Duane Nienow, Mike Murphy and myself were there on Friday.
When we got to the site on Thursday morning, the DNR had already placed two concrete beams/pads and rebuilt/filled the creek bank on the west side and had laid a single concrete beam/pad on the east side. That implied that, when the planned Bridge got done, that there would be 2 vertical feet between Bridge deck and the ground on the east end. There was not enough fill available to make up that much height. Yikes!!
I ended up driving to a Duluth Menard's on Thursday night and bought enough material for a 14 foot long Ramp. We ended up finishing the Bridge, with the Ramp attached to the east end, on Friday afternoon. We have Mike Dahl and his crew of 3, who showed up unsolicited with beers on Friday afternoon, to thank for getting the project done before 6:00 pm on Friday. They did almost all of the hauling of fill from the west side of the bridge to the east side while Mike Murphy, Duane and I finished assembling the bridge railing structure. The DNR did borrow us an ATV dump trailer that made it easy to get the fill across the bridge as needed. For those accountants out there, we have $xxxxx of material in the Bridge and Ramp.
While we did our thing at the Bridge site, the DNR spent quite a few hours fixing up the trail that leads up to the creek from the west. We didn't have time to check out what they did but the plan was to install two culverts and fix the bottom of a ravine where there were two culverts already installed that were at risk.
Letter from a Grantsburg neighbor (who is a reasonable person)
Ken,
I am aware that you have tried to limit the noise at the Grantsburg track, but the results are somewhat lacking. Each weekend there are a number of bikes running constantly at the track that are very loud. This is very disconcerting in that we are all trying to be good neighbors and not complain, but the fact that some of these individuals keep returning and barraging the homeowners here with this irritating noise for hours on end, pretty much shows that some club members do not want to be good neighbors themselves and care very little about others. I have attached a screenshot of the sound requirement laws for Wisconsin motorcycles. As you can see the limit is 96db, and I am sure that many of the bikes at your track are well in excess of this. I believe this is also the sound limit for ATVs in Wisconsin. Please let me know what your club intends to do to assure compliance and what is being done to actually reduce the amount of noise that I and other homeowners are being subjected to. I believe that little feedback has been given to your club in the past, but other homeowners have indicated to me that they would pursue hours restrictions or legal recourse if the noise continues to be a problem. You and I had discussed sound barriers and other methods in the past to also help mitigate the sound problem. Again, I would ask for some help in this matter and would like to be kept informed as to what you are doing to make the track users into better neighbors.
Thank you for your help, Dick Devine
Member Lists
Next Probationary Members due to be voted on: Darrel Ion, December 2007