Meeting Minutes     November 6th 2003 Vice President’s Report: Absent. Treasurer’s Report: 448.42 with no activity. Bill from United 4WD. Money from Gareth and garage sale $30. Ron has money also. $182.85. Secretary’s Report: Mike-no report and no one took notes last month. Delegate’s Report: Del absent. Membership Report: Guests here. Ron told them what was required for membership. $40 first year dues and then $30 per year thereafter. Contribute to United 4wd and Blue Ribbon. See website for by-laws. Richard wants to deal with people present who want to join. Mike & Sally Mole moved and second-unanimously voted in. Correspondence: Got a new sticker from BRC. Ron will put one up here. Pete says he will put one up too if we can get one. BRC Magazine. Invite to Hatfield & McCoy in Virginia. Cal4wd tickets for jeep raffle. BRC accomplishments and reopen Lake Powell, DMV rules re: motorcycle conversions. Snowmobile ban in Yellowstone & Grand Teton Parks filoed lawsuit. Other suits to prevent closing Sand Mtn, Nevada. Looking for more funds. Rodney Stolden-Placerville Ranger District El Dorado National Forest-Elkin Flat OHV plan 112/15-contact Ron Hancock. Judy Yandell Silverlake, Squaw Ridge, etc. want us to stay on Designated routes. 600# of trash gathered at Moke River clean-up article in paper. Our name was listed first because we had the most members there. Emails from Richard: Foothill Conservancy. Read press release confining wheeled vehicles to designated routes. Wanted to know if we wanted to send a joint letter with them. Board of Supervisors oppose the order because it would eliminate logging. Thinks it is an unreasonable restriction. Richard read his response. Would not be able to respond because questions re: road closures and until we read the text of the proposal. Foothill Conservancy thanking for participation in Moke River clean-up. Tami reported that we have the good bags for the gear-up grant. Ron said that we can coordinate with Dana Holland to do a snow patrol in March and can combine the survey with that. Old Business: T-Shirts and windshield banners still for sale, see Mike or Tami Hats-Ron has two left with red jeeps. WFF applications-we need to get those in. We are doing Saturday night dinner. We need to decide what run we want to do. Historical tour or SUV Run proposed by Richard. SUV is first, historical is 2nd. Tundra Trek is 3rd. Richard needs by the 15th of the month and will mail them out together. Make checks to WFF. New Business: Xmas Party-Richard’s house. Has a roof. Emily proposes increasing the gift value to $20.00. $20.00 maximum. Start time any time after noon. December 6th. Pot luck with registration form to be placed on the website. There is room for a couple of RV’s and g Gareth has room for 3 at his house. Mike will put a map on the website. Chicken in a barrel like last year and tri-tips also from club funds. Past Runs: 10/4 garage sale-went well. Coincided with grape crush weekend in Shenendoah Valley. Everything sold except the old ford p/u. Big items went well. Tires sold well. Had an accident in from to Ron’s house on Sunday (not their fault) where 2 people not wearing seatbelts were ejected. Will be planning another in late spring. Moke River Clean-up- 10/18- Mark reported. Good effort and was a lot of work. Worked with the president who was interested in what we do. We should try to do a better job of turning out next time so that the other groups can have exposure to us. Made a good impression. 10/25 Apple Hill-not enough for a bus, but had 6-7 vehicles. Went to the same places as last year. Went to winery, Able’s for apple dumplings, was warm weather. Nice dinner in Placerville. 11/1 Adopt-a-trail clean-up- 5 vehicles, one was a quad. 2 pieces of trash. 10 inches of snow, lots of hunters, bear tracks. Everyone went in at Bear. Had lunch at Pardoe Lake. Mark went back and everyone else went through. One group of off-roaders went off trail and into the wilderness. Quad tracks went off road. Maybe there should be signs. Lower kiosk already has had a rock thrown through it. Richard will contact the Forest Service to see about replacing. Future Runs: Topaz 11/14-Mike reported. Will hopefully be able to make it to Bodie. Will try to make it in from the back side. Lots of jumping off places. Depends on weather. 11/27-30 Thanksgiving in Winnemucca has been changed. Going to California City which is just north of Mojave. Lots of desert running. If you want to go, contact Ron because they are going for the whole week. 6 hours either way. Xmas Party-already discussed. Dec 27-Jan 4 Doran Beach-make a reservation 37-47 in Gull Campground. Scott made reservations today at 41. There are still spaces available. Will eat out Saturday night in Fort Ross. Charge full dues to Moles and start them with new calendar year. Think about nominations for next month. Adjourn: 8:47 p.m.