Regular club meetings are normally the first Saturday of each month at 7pm, locations change.
The news letter or meeting minutes below usually contain the meeting time and place for the next month.

 

MINUTES
OCTOBER 1, 2011

?         Secretary’s Report-was read m/s Louie/Al motion carried

?         Treasurer’s Report-was read m/s Al/Marcus motion carried, expenses-$280 for steaks and steak sauce

?         Food Sale-Louie stated that this was the highest food sale that we have ever had, we had lots of help, and he also thanked everyone

?         Christmas Party-there is some concern that the lodge will be too small, at the next meeting we will vote on who we are going to get the food from

?         Grass Drags-November 13, committee still has to meet with the Lions Club to see if it possible to have it at Karl Haible’s property.  A motion was made for the committee to do what they need to do to use this property, m/s Marcus/Jim motion carried. The committee will meet with the Lions Club on October 3. We also talked about t-shirts and beanie hats for the grass drags, Jamie Prull has been working with a company

?         Sno-X-we talked about the different committees and who is heading them

                    Track Coordinator-Reggie Reicks, Nathan Johnson, Ben Beer

                    Gate Keepers-Dean Hankins, Bill Jacobs, Jim Jones

                     Flaggers Coordinator-Reggie Reicks @ 319-213-4086

                     Advertising & Sponsorship-Nate Johnson

                     Club Trailer & T-Shirts-Reggie Reicks, Stacey Breyer       

                     Registration-Nicole Carlson, Missy Atkinson

                     Scoring-Brian Atkinson

                     Trophies-

                     Staging-Jim Smith, Marcus Opfer

                     Tech-Jim Smith, Marcus Opfer, Reggie Reicks

If there is someone I forgot or have in the wrong place please let me know.

?         Trail Maps-we are adding 55 miles of new trail this year to our trail system so we are trying to put together a new map.  There was a motion made for getting our maps through the ISSA, 1000 copies (18 x 24) for $1050 m/s Jim/Marcus motion carried. Map ads are $35 for a single which is about the size of a business card and a double $60, we would like to have the ads turned in by October 22^nd. Nate is getting info about a bar code for the maps that can be used with cell phones (the smart phone, I think).  Joe and Deb are working on getting the trail back to Coggon

?         Cedar Valley Nature Trail-we are on a one year trial period with the CVNT to ride the from mile marker 13 to the county line.  This is 13 miles of trail!!  Doesn’t seem like much but it is a start. There are some restrictions, no loud pipes, at least 6inches of snow, they have to be added to our insurance policy, I believe there is a bridge that we need to cover, and there also is a curfew.  There are a couple of guys from the club that is going to go on a tour with the conservation officer.  So please remind our friends to ride on this trail respectfully so we don’t lose it.

?         Alliance Report-our grant was approved, but they didn’t give us much for fuel.  We will receive $3000 for fuel, $500 for maintenance, $200 for storage for a total of $3700.

?         Meeting Nights-we a lot of discussion on which night of the week we should have our meeting on, there was a show of hands and Saturday night is still the best night, so our meetings will still be on Saturday nights, I think this will be the last time that we entertain this for this season

?         Membership Dues-Dues are due, if you get them in before Nov 1^st you will be put into a drawing for a trip to Pat’s Landing

?         Insurance-Insurance is due Nov 1^st, so if you have any new land owners please get them to me before Nov 1^st so I can get them added to the list

?         Snowmobile Safety Class-November 19^th at 8am to 4pm at Linn County Fish and Game Club, fee is $10 for the certificate, for more info contact Al @ 319-362-2173

?         Next meeting is at JS Power Sports, 823 Rockford Rd SW, Cedar Rapids, on November 5th.  Board meeting at 6:30 pm and the membership meeting at 7pm.

March 5, 2011

*Secretary Report-was read and approved.  

*Treasurers Report-balance $9,467.34 plus CD, expenses refund pay pal, approved 

*Land owners Dinner-Woodpecker Lodge, Louie and Teresa will prepare the food, social hour at noon and eat at 1pm 

*Alliance Report-we need 3 delegates, Brian A. said he would be one.  The next alliance meeting is on April 7^th at Scooters in Anamosa. 

*Tails-signs need to be out by April 1, Ben and Reggie will check on bridges 

*Trail meeting-April 6^th at 7pm Brogan’s in Palo. Their address is 806 1^st street.  We will be discussing the possibility of new trails and how many signs we need. 

*Food Sale-was March 5^th, profit $1397. Sold out of food by 1pm.  Since 2003 the food sale has brought in $13,711.57 into the club. 

Sno-X- Dates for next year January 14^th, January 28, February 11.  Al will get this set up with Karla at Hawkeye Downs 

*Elections‘-we add three new board members Louie Zaspal, Brian Zaspal, and Jamie Prull 

*Linn County Fish and Game Club-motion was made to donate $200 by Louie no second Motion was made to donate $100 by Jamie/Steve motion carried.  Louie opposed 

*Next meeting April 16 at Pinicon Ridge Park at 5pm at the shelter by the playground.  We will be having a weenie roast.  The club will provide the weenies and condiments.  Bring your own beverage and something to share.

FEBRUARY MINUTES
FEBRUARY 5, 2011 

·          ISSA-Jim Willey-Jim had a presentation about increasing snowmobile registration fees from $15 to $30.  This would be more money put back into the snowmobiling program.  He also sent around a petition  for everyone to sign

·         Club of the Year-Al brought the forms that need to be filled out for club of the year.  We meet most of the requirements.  They are due may 15, 2011

·         Secretary’s report- was read and accepted.  M/S Ben/Louie

·         Treasurer’s report-no report

·         Alliance report-there is a meeting February 23 at F&B Company  

·         Fun run- 53 cards were sold. $265 profit for the club.  1^st place AJ Pirkl $130, 2^nd place Zach Liercke $85, 3^rd place Steve Jones $50

·         Bean drags-A motion was made to donate $200 to the Troy Mills Ambulance. M/S Al/Ben motion carried

·         Trail report- signs need to be pulled by April 1^st

·         Land owner’s Dinner-Will be March 27^th at the Wood Pecker Lodge at Pinicon Ridge Park.  I will send out RSVP

·         Elections at the March meeting-we need 3 new board members

·         Food Sale-March 5^th at Hoges Sale Barn on Hwy 13.  Set up is at 8am

·         Sno-x-the meeting was February 17^th at the Troy Store where it was decided to cancel the race.  The track was too muddy.  We still have t-shirts available.  A suggestion was made that we have a survey on the web site for people to fill out after the next race to see what we can improve or need to change to make the next event better

·         Lobbyist Fund- A motion was made to donate $500 to the club challenge M/S Ben/Joe motion carried

·         Next Meeting March 5 at Pappy’s in Center Point at 7pm

·         Meeting adjourned

MINUTES

JANUARY 8, 2011 AMVETS-CENTRAL CITY

*Secretary’s Report- none given

*Treasurer’s Report- There was no bills presented

*Trails- Highway 13 still has utility poles on the trail.  Paris Road to Carlson’s need to be marked.  Louie said he would take care of this.

*Maps- We need maps in Urbana and Go America in Coggon

*Groomer- We got a 2008 Tucker 2000.  It was delivered to Doug and Nicole Carlson’s house. To operate the groomer you must be a certified groomer operator and a club member, per insurance

*Groomer Class- there is one in Cresco January 13 and one in Manchester January 22

*Alliance-There will be a meeting on February 2 at FB Company in Waubeek at 7pm

*Sno-X-meeting on January 15 at Troy Store, run through at the track January 16 First race January 22  second race February 19.  We also need 10 volunteers to flag CVTR race this spring/summer

*Fun Run: January 29 snow or no snow starts at the Dam Bar 9am and ends at the Dam Bar last sled in at 7pm.  13 stops.  The bar will sell the cards

*Next meeting February 5 at the Troy Store

Meeting adjourned

FROZEN FEW
SNOWMOBILE CLUB
Minutes from the September meeting 2010
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The last meeting took place at Pinicon Ridge Park on September 18. It was a cold raining evening. Meeting was called to order at 7 pm.

*Secretary’s report-was read m/s Ben/Nathan motion carried

*Treasurer’s report-was read m/s Louie/Al motion carried. Summer expense include bikes & helmets for Coggon festival and Center Point

Pork Days, and a donation for a benefit for a land owner

*Old business-food sale, Just want to thank everybody who came and worked. It was a great success. We had a good time.

*Sno-cross- committee meeting Sept 23 at Pappies in Center Point

*Groomer-still waiting, bidding was suppose to start September 1

*Trails-need a bridge between Center Point and Walker

*Insurance-renewal date in December 1, so if there is any new land owners please let me know so I can get them added to the insurance

*ISSA-we talked about magazine due dates, convention is November 19 thru 21 at Storm Lake, Iowa in an in door water park.

*membership drive-will be November 6 at JS Power Sports. The November meeting will also be at JS Power Sports at 7pm


The October 2nd meeting will be at Doug and Nicole Carlson’s at 7 pm. Their address is 2277 Hutchinson Rd, Coggon, their telephone number is 319-435-2457, if anyone needs directions.

MEETING MINUTES MARCH 6, 2010
*Treasurer’s Report-was read and approved as read m/s Jim/Ben. We had expenses of $150 door, supplies for weenie roast $76.32, and t-shirts $502.25
*Secretary’s Report-was read and approved as read m/s Doug/Ben
*Food Sale-we sold out of everything except pop by 1pm. We were back at Louie’s by 2pm to wash dishes and count the money. After expenses we had a profit of $1674.68. I think this was one of the biggest sales.
*Next food sale will be in August
*Alliance Report-we need to set a new date for the meeting
*Groomer-we need to find a place to store it. It needs to be stored inside, if you know of a place please give
Al a call at 362-2173. It might have to go back to the state if we can’t find a place to store it.
*Trails-we need a committee to take care of the trails. Ben volunteered to head this up. We passed around
a sign up sheet for anyone who was interested. Signs need to be picked up by April 1st. We will store them
in the melting point. Barrels will be placed in there to put the signs in. Might be easier to keep them all to-
gether by area that they came from.
*ISSA Report-we are next on the list for a groomer
*Nomination was made by Louie/Brian to make a $200 donation to Linn County Fish and Game Club. This is were we have the youth snowmobile safety class and they do not charge us to use this and they also let us use their projector and dvd player and their kitchen.
*Landowners Dinner-will be March 28th. Please send your rsvp’s back to Teresa Sackett by March 18th. The dinner will be at the Legion Hall in Coggon.
*Harvest Home and Pork Day’s-nomination was made by Jim/Louie to purchase 4 bikes, 2girls and 2boys
and 4 helmets, with a $400 cap. Nicole and Doug will purchase these and get them to both events.
*suggestion was made that we have a pancake breakfast as a fund raiser
*meeting adjourned
Secretary
Lorrie Redenbaugh

FEBRUARY 6, 2010 MEETING MINUTES
*TRESURER REPORT-was read and approved as read m/s Teresa/Al. A bill was also presented for t-shirts for $500 m/s Lorrie/Al
*SECRETARY REPORT– was read and approved as read m/s Teresa/Jim
*FUN RUN-was a success, we had 50 participants 40 of those were on snowmobiles, first place was won by Jim Smith $135, Second place won $95, and third place won $40. The other half of the money will go to groomer expenses.
*TRAIL REPORT-we need a bridge on the trail, Walker to Troy
*ALLIANCE REPORT-Jones county ran the groomer, now it has clutch problems, new master cylinder was ordered, it is greased and ready to be picked up. Ben will pick up the groomer
*I.S.S.A. REPORT-motion was made to donate $250 to the club challenge (to pay for lobbyists) m/s Teresa/Brian motion carried
*LAND OWNERS DINNER-will be held on March 21st. It will be held at the Legion Hall in Coggon. Louie and Teresa will make the meal. I will send out RSVP’S
*MELTING POINT-motion was made to purchase a new door not to exceed $150 m/s Louie/Jim, they also put in a different stove, the other one had a broken door
*HAWKEYE DOWNS-Al was approached by a board member of Hawkeye downs they would like to have some kind of snowmobile race on the oval track, snow cross, drag race ???? Al is going to get a hold of the person who is in charge of this to see what is what. If this comes about we will need help with this, a committee will be formed at the next meeting
*SNOW X-we had 5 club members participate and came home with 3 first place trophy's, one broken sled, and one injured rider. Reggie, Ben and Terry came home with trophy’s. Zach and Sam also raced in the event. Glad that Sam’s sled is not in too bad of shape
*FOOD SALE-the next food sale will be March 7th
*Next meeting will be March 6th at the Troy Store in Troy Mills at 7pm
*meeting adjourned
Secretary
Lorrie Redenbaugh

January 2, 2010 minutes
*Treasurer Report-was read and approved as read. Motion was made to give the Legion Hall in Coggon $100 donation for the use of the hall for the Christmas party M/S Louie/Teresa motion carried
*Sectary Report-was read and approved as read
*Fun Run January 23rd meet at Pappys at 10am the fun run starts at 10:45. There will be a bus available
*T-Shirts-We made up an order for more t-shirts for the fun run
*Trails Report-no discussion
*Alliance Report-no discussion
*I.S.S.A. Report-Snow cross is February 6th. Motion was made to sponsor a $30 trophy m/s Nicole/Reggie motion carried.
*Center Point Signs-Al will take signs to Ben and he will take them to WSA. Our approved budget for the signs is $30, so if it is more than this Ben will let us know
*Land Owners Dinner-will be March 21st at the Coggon Legion Hall. Louie and Teresa will prepare the food
*Melting Point-up and running. 2 wood donations were made, it has lights, map box, map on the wall-you are here. There was a suggestion made to store the trail signs in there in the off season. It was also suggested that we need something to hang helmets on. If any of the groomer operators go through there with the drag please lift up the drag because the electricity isnt buried yet
*motion was made for club to give new members a T-shirt with their paid membership. m/s Trent/Ben motion carried
*meeting adjourned

December '09 minutes:
Our last meeting was at the Cogon Legion Hall.
*there was a m/s by Teresa/Louie to pay for lettering on signs for Center Point
*it was brought to our attention that we need some caution ahead signs
*50/50 drawing was won by Jim Smith
*Fun run will be January 23,2010 start at Pappy's in Center Point
*next meeting will be at Amvets in Central City. It will be a chili dump, so bring your favorite chili and we will dump it all together in a big roaster, sounds gross but it is really good. If everyone can bring some kind of an appetizer or a desert

November 7, 2009 Minutes
*Secretary report-report was read m/s Teresa/Nathan motion carried
*Treasurer report-report was read m/s Teresa/Nathan motion carried
*T-shirts & stickers-Bill and Pam brought club t-shirts for purchase. They turned out very nice. Nathan also brought stickers for purchase. We will also have them available at the next meeting.
*Safety Class-was held November 7th at the North Linn Fish & Game. We had 16 kids attend the class. Ron Lane from the DNR came out and taught the law part of the class. All the kids passed the class. We also received two new members.
*Alliance report-alliance meeting was held on November 19th at Scooters.
*Website-Needs more info. If you have anything you want posted on the website contact Nathan Johnson. For those of you who need the address it is www.frozenfewsnowmobileclub.com we are also on face book if anyone wants to check it out.
*Trails-Please keep track of hours spent working on trails, where you worked at and who worked with you. We need to turn this info in with our grant paper work. There was a motion made by Nathan to buy 400 more stacks, Reggie 2nd-the motion carried. So Bill will go and buy more stacks.
*maps-The map boxes are out. Maps were brought for new club members.
*Melting point-needs painting, a stove pipe, flashing and cap Al made a motion for up to $200 to be spent on these items Louie second motion carried. Louie also found a bench to put in the grain bin.
*Christmas party-December 5th at the Legion Hall in Coggon. The club will provide the meal and the members will provide their own drink and desserts or appetizers to share. The menu is chicken, pork loin, potato, vegetable, and roll. Teresa also said she would provide table service for us. Happy hour will begin at 5pm and we will eat at 6pm, followed up by Santa. The band will start at 8pm. We would also like to put together a food basket for a needy family in the Coggon area. Nicole will be in charge of finding a family. She will call the school and see if they can hook us up. So would everyone please bring some kind of non perishable food item or toiletry item or games or toys, the club will also provide a $50 gift card (the m/s Louie/Teresa motion carried)
*Fun run-will be January 23. It will start and end at Pappy’s in Center Point. Teresa Sackett is heading this up and will bring more info to the next meeting.
*January 2nd meeting will be held at Amvets in Central City at 7pm. We will have a chili dump at this meeting. So bring your favorite kind of chili we will dump them all together and eat.
Meeting adjourned 8:15pm
Lorrie Redenbaugh, secretary

October 3,2009 minutes
*The minutes from the last meeting were read and approved m/s Teresa/Al
*The treasurers report was read and approved m/s Al/Doug
*Insurance-we need to get land owner names turned in
*Alliance Report-Grant has been approved, and the signs came in on Friday October 3rd.  Alliance meeting will be October 15th at Pappy’s @ 6:30.  Ben Beer and Ig Mendieta volunteered to be the two club delegates.
*T-shirts-a list was passed around to sign up for t-shirts. Bill will order extra t-shirts for the members that were not present and for fun runs.  Doug made a motion for this not to exceed $300 Trent second and the motion carried.
*Web site-Nathan reported back to the club $5.95 a month $72 a year for a web site m/s Louie/Reggie motion carried.  The web site address is www.frozenfewsnowmobileclub.com it is up and running.  If there is anything that needs to be added or changed please contact Nathan Johnson
*Stickers-were passed out at the last meeting.  We chose three colors black, red, and white and decided to order 100 stickers m/s Ben/Scott and the motion carried.
*Safety class-will be November 7th.  The class will be held at North Linn Fish and Game Club in Central City.  Registration will be from 8am to 9am and the class will run from 9am to 5pm.  Contact Al or Lorrie Redenbaugh at 362-2173 to sign up for the class.
*Fun Run-January 23 tentative date, contact Teresa for more info
*Trail meeting-will be held at Pappy’s in Center Point at 5:30 on October 15.
*Christmas party-December 5th at Sackett’s.  Club will pay for the meal and members will bring some kind of desert or appetizer to share and their own beverage.  They will be serving chicken and pork loin.  Santa will come and pass out presents-Lorrie will make arrangements.  I will also send rsvp’s.
*meeting adjourned

August 30, 2009 minutes
*There was no secretary’s report
*There was no treasurers’ report
*Alliance report  Each club needs 2 board members, 2 delegates, and 1 alternate.  We have 2 board members which is Al and Doug Carlson.  We need delegates from our club to represent us in the alliance.  Al thinks Ig wants to be one so we need one more volunteer.  Since I go to all the meetings with Al I can be an alternate.  Al has been told that the alliance will get a groomer  but not sure what kind or when it will come.  The grant money has been approved with the exception of gas– we were told to ask for more gas than what we think we need.  Also we need to keep track of time  and who is doing trail  and where the trail work is done at, this also reflects on part of the grant money, Bill also needs to turn this info in.

*Trails-November 8 and 14 will be trail work days.  We will be working on hwy 13 we also need to connect our trail system with the snow chasers.  We would also like to mark our signs with either a  street number or name for instance hwy 13’s signs would have 13N or 13S on them to just kind of let people know where they are.  Also a suggestion was made to have some map boxes out there saying and showing where people are at on the trail.  Nathan said that he had some Plexiglas to donate.  We also want everything to be clearly marked for the groomer operators.  We also need to figure out how to get through the fields in Prairieburg, so if anyone has any insight on that please share the info.  Bill said he will get more stakes for signs.

*Maps-we need someone to be in charge of the maps the Johnsons and the Beckers  volunteered.

*Safety coarse-we would like to have a class at the end of October or the beginning of November  we like to have it at the fish and game club in Central City I haven’t got a hold of the man in charge of  renting it out  so hopefully at the meeting we will have a date

*Food sale– took in $940 we didn’t do as well as in the past, we had a bad location

*Flag pole-Al made a motion for the club to purchase a flag pole to be used at food sales and at the warming hut when we are having a club ride, fun run, or an outing, with an estimated price of $250.  Jim Jones  m/s the motioned carried.

*T-shirts-We still need to figure out what to do about t-shirts.  Would like to have some for purchase and some for other events. 

*Web site-Nathan  Johnson thinks the club needs to have a web site, to let people know what is going on and we could also post coming attractions.  The club has a face book  account it seems like a lot of people has visited the site .  Al made a motion for Nathan to  gather info about a web site and also  how much it will cost.

*Warming hut-The club purchased a grain bin last year to use as a warming hut. It is located right on the trail as you come out of the park-right by Tim and Teresa Sacketts’ house.   I think we need to come with a name for our warming hut-Nathan also said he would make a sign, so we need to come up with something catchy .  Bill Jacobs said he would donate a wood burner for the hut.

*The next meeting will be on October 3rd at Bill and Pam Jacobs at 5pm.  We will be having a weenie roast so if everyone could bring a side dish to share, your own drinks, and table service– the club will provide the hot dogs and condiments