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July 2016 Club Ride & Lunch

On July 16 the club ride had 30 machines and 53 members and guest. We enjoyed our club ride to Tea Pond Lodge for lunch.

 

Flagstaff Area ATV Club Meeting Minutes – July 10th, 2016

28  guest and members were present. Meeting was brought to order at 10:00 a.m. By the President Don Plante with the pledge of allegiance.

Presidents Report:  Don Plante damp@tds.net

  • Welcome Mike Lee  ATV Maine,  V. P Rep.
  • Family Fun Day was a success, Thank You for all the help!  You did a great job.
  • Lobster Raffle was won by Patrick Stark from Eustis.
  • Tea Pond Ride Rain or Shine next Saturday the 16th. The cost is $13.00 per person and Elaine will be collecting the money before we leave on our ride. This will help us when we get to Tea Pond and we can all go to eat and visit with one another. We all meet at Pines Parking lot which is intersection 1 on your maps at 8:45 to 9:00.  The ride starts at 9:05.
  • Tim Pond ride is Aug 13 Saturday, call Don Plante or email him if you want to go.  Deadline for calls will be Aug 6th. We will be having a short meeting that month at Tim Pond.  We will meet at Pines Parking Intersection 1 at 8:45 to 9:00.
  • Don is looking into ways to catch the dirt bikers who are trashing the trails. The landowners have the last say over who rides on their land and on what type of vehicle.

Vice President Report:  Sandi Isgro sandi.whitewolf@gmail.com

  • Still trying to get permission from the landowner to connect the two ends between Rangeley and Phillips for the Moose Loop.

Treasurer Report:  Elaine Marcoux erm@myfairpoint.net

  • We did well again this year Thanks to our members Jeff and Linda Bureau, Nancy Charest and Marylnn Dodge for there hours of work with fried dough, french fries and strawberry shortcake. Fried station made $293.00, Cakes station made $262.00, Membership was $160.00, Clothes $45.00, Maps 15.00 and 50/50 Raffle was $42.00.  Many Thanks to all who sold the lobster raffles tickets $750.00 bring our total to $1,567.00.  With the $508.00 on Memorial Day weekend bring our fund raisers to $2,075.00. Great job MEMBERS.
  • Total paid out this month is $1,119.56.   ATV Dues $650.00 Gas for Trail master $ 469.56 for two months.
  • Total deposit was $1675.60 membership, family fun day, and trail donation boxes.  Most of the $750.00 lobster raffle was deposited last month.
  • Club will need Stickers for the ATV’s next year and a motion was made to buy 1000 for $435.00 and carried.

Membership Report: Elaine Marcoux erm@myfairpoint.net

  • We have 165 members; we had 149 last year at this time. When we ended our season last year we had 162 members.
  • We have 31 Business renewed and still waiting for 3 more.
  • We have 5 new Businesses and 20 new members so far this year.
  • Landowners Picnic Sept 10th I have the list of food if anyone has not offer to make anything and would like to please come see me after the meeting or email me with what we need.  Thanks
  • Our 50/50 winner was Ruthann Smith $13.00 she donating it back to the club thank you Ruthann.
  • We are still in need of a Secretary. If anyone would like to volunteer with great people and a lot of fun please call Don Plante 246-5946 or email him.

I would like to take a minute of your time to sadly say that at Octobers meeting I will be resigning from Treasurer / Membership / and somewhat Secretary.  I don’t want to, as I have to for personal health conditions.  It has been a real pleasure, the members I have meant and spoke with were all great and made me feel like family Thanks a bunch.  And whoever takes over, will enjoy the nice and fun members we have in this club.

Also when the new person starts if I am here at the camp I will be more than happy to help show them what and how I did things in the past years, which is very easy. I also have all the info on a flash drive for them.  So please think about these positions and call Don Plante and or come to the October meeting as this is our election month.

Trail Master Joe Marcoux Report   erm@myfairpoint.net

  • June 23 – Carl, Bill from AFM and I did a ride around the boneyard to check out a new trail that would bypass the boneyard boardwalk and rocky areas.
  • June 27  – Carl and I worked the powerline moving rocks.
  • June 28 – Carl and I made a couple of wash out guides on the Brochu’s bridge.
  • June 29 – Carl and I cleared rocks in the Stratton trail and signs.
  • June 30 – Carl and I did brushing on the lake loop.
  • July 1 – Sam from Wagner and I checked out logging areas for future cutting going on around our trails. Intersections 14, 27, 28.
  • July 7 – Carl and I repaired boardwalk off Rt 27 from a fall though side by side.
  • July 8 – Brian Bronson, Tom Lapointe and I did GPS on three different areas one for a possible new short cut to Tea Pond, Butler Brook bridge area and Plum Creek Rt 27 Road.

Thank You   

 Our next meeting will be on our Club ride Saturday August 13 at Tim Pond.