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

Presidents Report:  Edie Dunlap, breezy1@tdstelme.net

• Our club ride to Tim Pond Lodge was a great time, we had great food and enjoyed our ride. We had 35 members and 21 machines.
• The next club ride will be Saturday, September 28th for our picnic at the lookout on the Canyon Trail; rain date will be Saturday, October 5th . PLEASE call Edie at 643-2920 or Elaine  229-2055 before Monday, September 23rd  if you are attending and if you are bringing a side dish, please try to update us so we can update ours and know what we will need to finish off a great club picnic menu. The club will furnish the hamburgers and hot dogs. Same as last year please bring your fold up chairs and water or soda. We will meet at the Eustis parking lot at 9:45 am and leave at 10:00 am. Thank you.
• The November final meeting of our 2019 season will be a Christmas Party. Sunday, November 10th.  Next month’s meeting on October 13th we will have a signup sheet for a food list. And don’t forget your Yankee swap gift ($10.00).
• We will be doing our renewal of Officers for 2020 year at the November meeting also.
• At the last meeting it was mentioned that getting a small excavator from Bobcat Rental in New Hampshire would be a big help on the trails for a few weeks doing work that was hard to do with the Kubota’s. We were able to get one for $3300 for 4 weeks along with the liability insurance required by the landowners for $386.25 from V & V insurance. In the two weeks we have had it a lot or work has gotten done quicker and some could not have gotten done with the Kubota’s. The Trail master and Assistant will fill in where they have been working and what they hope to get done with it before it goes back. While working with V & V insurance it was brought up that both Dale and Fred’s personal tractors were not covered to work on the trails with any liability insurance. Dale from V & V said that if the tractors were leased to the club for a certain amount of money that they could cover them with the 2 million dollars liability that was needed for them to have them on the trail. The cost for 2 million of liability insurance would be $144.05 for both of them for one year. A simply contract was drawn up for Dale and Fred each to lease their tractors to the club for $100.00 for a year to work on the trails. Our board of directors has signed the contract as well as The President and Vice President of the Club.

Trail Master’s Account: Edie Dunlap, breezy1@tdstelme.net

Beginning balance was $911.93. We had one deposit last month of $1000, transferred over from the Club Account. Expenses totaled $343.40 for fuel for tractors and trucks. The balance in the account is $1568.53.

Treasurer Report:  Gloria Smith, fredgloria@msn.com  

•  Total deposits for August was $869.00.
• Expenses were, Trail Fund transfer $1,000.00, V&V rental $386.25, V&V yearly liability. $1,200.00, Liberty Mutual Insurance &575.00, ATV Me $50.00, Absolut  $648.83 hay, Tire repair $20.00, Absolut Services $1,384.80, Excavator E35 NH $3,300.00, V&V rental on personal equipment $144.05, Checking account is going down, however the grant money is coming in.
• Great Job to all who are working the trails and paper work.

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

• Map for the Moose Trail is at the printers. Please take pictures if you are on that trail and put them on face book.

Secretary Report:  Elaine Marcoux, erm@myfairpoint.net

• We have 154 members so far, we mail out 52 newsletters to  our members. To date we have 14 new members this year, 4 new Businesses. We are 5 more members at this time compare to last year.  Thank You Businesses and Members!
•  The 50/50 winner was Ruthann Smith $23.00  The door prize winner was Joe Marcoux gift card to Pines Market.

Trail Master:   Dale Dunlap, breezy2@tdstelme.net  

• We are waiting for a price on the Welcome signs for our trails.
• The Canyon Trail from where Wagner stopped has been done all the way down to the ISF road and then back up and over Rock Hill. Big rocks have been removed from the trail as well as ditching and fixing culverts.
• Have been back over to the Carrabassett Trail to reset 3 culverts, replace one culvert, fix the hole by a bridge and fixed two mud holes that had developed on the trail.
• The excavator has been taken from the start of the Eustis Trail all the way through to Tim Pond Road removing rocks, fixing mud holes, ditching, fixing culverts, water bars.
• The muddy rocky section on John’s way has had the bigger rocks removed, culvert put in and gravel brought in to fill that section in.
• The truck bridge that has been blocked off to just ATV traffic on the Sawyer Brook Trail has been fixed. Wagner agreed to furnish the materials if the club would take the old timbers off and rebuild the bridge from the cement piers up. It was done yesterday.
• We will be going back over to Butler Brook trail to fix two mud holes and install a culvert. Plan on taking excavator to work on the split rock trail and an area on Tim Pass which has been a bad section for a while and continue on working the Sawyer Brook Trail as well.
• AFM has requested either Jim Brochu or Pepin to do some of the work way up by the Wind Towers so waiting for quotes from them on that section.
• Jim Brochu will be doing the section of the Rangeley Trail from Quill Hill to Flag Bridge within the next few weeks. That section was in with the quote for when he did from Quill Hill to Route 16.
• Just a reminder that the trail that crosses the Indian Land is closed as of September 1st.

Our next monthly meeting is Sunday, October 13th  at the Town Community Hall in Stratton at 10:00 a.m.