Maine's Flagstaff Area ATV Club

Flagstaff Area ATV Club Meeting Minutes May 2015

May 17, 2015,        24    guest and members were present.

Meeting was brought to order at 10:00a.m. By President Don Plante with the pledge allegiance.

Welcomed all Guest and Members

Treasurer Report: Elaine Marcoux/ erm@myfairpoint.net

• We have collected $1,165.00 from Maps, Clothes, Donations, Memberships and 40 postage stamps… We want to thank everyone for the support.   We have paid our Annual State Report fee $35.00 and Pine Tree Publishing Website work $350.00. We are higher by $2,500 then last year at this time.  

Presidents Report:  Don Plante  damp@tds.net

• At the ATV Banquet, Don researched the insurance issue with the executives of the ATV of Maine. It was voted to stay with the ATV of Maine this year.

• Oquossoc’s new ATV Club is excited to get started and is trying to build their system.

• We will be arranging club rides to Tea Pond Lodge & Cabins and Tim Pond Camps this year.

• We have set a date for our Landowners Picnic for Sept 12, 2015 at Cathedral Pines.

• On June 20^th Saturday we will be hosting the ATV of Maine monthly meeting at the White Wolf Inn. Meeting starts at 900a.m. followed by lunch at noon, and is open to all.

• On June 27^th Saturday is Family Fun Day’s Parade. Anyone wants to ride their ATV in the parade the theme is Storybook Characters. Meet at CMP Parking lot at 9:00. We need help from members to man our booths, contact Don or Elaine to help.

• Made donations to the Sugarloaf Marathon 15k of $100.00. This run raises money for Franklin County Charities.

• We donationed $200.00 to the Bikes for Books program supported by the Bungalow Lodge #202.

Vice Presidents Report: Sandie Isgro whwolf@tds.net

• No Report

Membership Report:  Elaine Marcoux erm@myfairpoint.net

• The ATV Packets will be mailed out May 19, with your map, stickers and ATV membership card.

• Last year at this time we had 108 members, so far this year we have 109 members.. We got 2 new Business and three new Memberships so far this year. We also had 4 Business that is not renewing this year.

• To be Associate member with this club and you live out of state your primary club has to be enrolled with ATV of Maine.

• To be a Associate member as a state of Maine resident the primary club HAS to be enrolled with ATV of Maine first. If not we will have to pay for your enrollment with ATV of Maine, which is the 10 or 15 dollar you pay us. At that point you didn’t pay the full fee for this club membership.

• Our 50 / 50 raffle was $15.00 going to Ray Charest.

Trail Master Report:  Joe Marcoux erm@myfairpoint.net

• May 5- Dick, Carl, and I went to Bingham to a Plum Creek meeting to talk about the do’s and don’ts on Plum Creeks trails.

• May 5- Carl and I had to go check pole number for CMP that are on our trails.

• May 15- Gordon Campbell and I went on the Cannon loop to check out a view on East Kennebago Mountain, we got the approval to add this to our trails.

• Club voted on paying $150 for the permit to ride the Penobscott Nation Indians land.

• Joe is looking into two other spots to try to get around the Indian land this season for our trail to contained to make a loop .

• The Trails will open on May 29, Friday per AFM the landowners Rep. Please feel free to call if you would like to check and see if the AFM Rep changes the date. 

Next meeting is June 14, 2015 at 10:00a.m. Stratton Community Hall

Flagstaff Area ATV Club Meeting Minutes March 2015

March 8, 2015,         23    guest and members were present.

Meeting was brought to order at 10:00a.m. By President Don Plante with the pledge allegiance.

Welcomed all Guest and Members

Treasurer Report: Elaine Marcoux/ erm@myfairpoint.net

• We got our Grant money last October in the sum of $7,600.00. We are doing very well to start our year of 2015.

Presidents Report:  Don Plante  damp@tds.net

• Phone calls from all across the U.S. and Canada expressing interest in our trails. Members report other calls from people requesting information also.

• Thank You Cards from the Stratton PTC and Western Me Community Action for our Donations.

• April 18, Brewer Me. Annual ATV Maine Banquet, anyone interested in going please contact Don Plante. Club has voted to send someone to represent us.

• Club voted to rejoin FABA $100.00 membership motion made and seconded.

• 2015 Spring appeal for the Pine Tree Society $ 100.00, club voted and approved.

• Club voted to send a sweatshirt and one night stay at The White Wolf Inn in Stratton for Al Langeley Scholarship Fund Auction.

• Don will investigate further our clubs liability insurance.

• Club voted to pay for the use of the Community building for our meetings and copying documents $120.00.

• New ATC Club in Oquossoc is working on a trail to Rangeley.

Vice Presidents Report: Sandie Isgro  sandi.whitewolf@gmail.com

• We have an issue that we are working on with the state and landowners to keep the trail from Rangeley to Phillips/Strong. At this point this section is closed on April 1^st to ALL traffic ATV and Snowmobiles.

Membership Report:  Elaine Marcoux erm@myfairpoint.net

• Mailed out over 175 renewals on Feb 26^th.   I’ll be mailing out all the renewal packets the end of the second week of May after we update our 2015 Trail Map.

• As of today we have 33 renewals and 5 are Businesses. I have 10 news letters to be sent out.

• We bought another order of our clothes line. Go on line and check out the store icon on our website.

• Our 50 / 50 raffle was $15.00 going to Eddie Manter.

Trail Master Report:  Joe Marcoux erm@myfairpoint.net

• Once the snow is gone we will start on the Stratton Bridge by Rt 16

• Working on the Boardwalk in the Pines.

• Volunteers will be needed to do Brushing on some Trails. Please contact me when you are in the area and can help on this.

• Work on the Bone Yard Bridge

• Fix the rocky area toward the Carrabassatt Trail.

• Work the power line trail in Stratton

Next meeting is April 12, 2015