2012 Banquet Overview

March 3rd, 2012

Welcome – Mark McVay, President

Maria, Mark, Mary handed out the gift bags with last year’s banquet
overview, treas. report, banquet agenda, belt buckle, calendar, and pictures for 2011 season.

Maria Handed out the new member plaques to the ones that showed up.

Mark announced we need to help out the hooking and flagging at the pulls.
 If you are asked and are not pulling at the time you will be expected to help.

There was talk about maybe on having a pull on Sunday at Emerson in Sept. instead of the two day pull. We voted on this:
Both: 13
Saturday: 0
Sunday: 4
Both days wins so we will keep the two day pull in Sept. at Emerson

We need someone to bring at least an 8 ft. table to the pulls for Maria. She no longer has a truck to bring it.
Mark McVay said they would bring the table

We created a V-8 class
The rules were discussed and everyone will be sent the final copy of the rules
The track width will be an issue at Tabor the spectators are too close to the track incase anything would happen. Need to discuss with Tabor.

Our current webpage is non-working to update. Look into getting a new one but may be more expensive. Also may include a facebook page. We voted on this:
Yes: 5
No: 1
We will now have a new webpage and facebook Maria will let everyone know what the new webpage is.

Maria had an idea to get more people to come to the pulls we will hold a drawing at each pull whoever wins will get a free hook at the next pull. This was voted on:
Yes: 9
No: 0
We will now hold a drawling at each pull for a free hook

Donation Fund: We only had one person donate last year and that was at the banquet. We voted on this:
Yes: 5
No: 9
We will not have a donation bucket out for you to donate however if you would like to donate we will not stop you from doing so.

If I do the pull it will be points if I don’t then no points. However Tabor is an exception. New market was discussed and voted on for points or no points:
No Points: 6
Points: 4
New Market will not be points this year. We still would like everyone to attend if you can.

Reminder: Dues will be paid at the first pull you come to. If you don’t pay your dues at the first pull it will cost you $16 a hook and you will not receive any points until you pay your dues.

Reminder: BE ON TIME!!! If you are going to be late CALL MARIA so she can sign you up.
We asked if anyone else had anything they would like to discuss:
Mark asked to have 3 other people on the Tech Committee:
We voted on who they should be:    
Warren Bergaland: 6
Bob Wingert: 4
Mark McVay: 4
Rich Wenzig: 2
Mike Bruning: 8
Gary Jipsen: 4
Mike Alexander: 1
Tom Greiner: 1
Mark Herzberg: 3
Kevin Bruning: 1
Delbert McVay: 1
Jeremy DeWitt: 5
Dwight Bierbaum: 1
New members on tech Committee will be Mike Bruning, Warren Bergland, and Jeremy DeWitt

Bob Wingert asked if the club had any insurance in case anyone would get hurt and try to come after the club.

No we don’t have insurance however Mark McVay and Bob Wingert will look into getting insurance for the club.

At the end of the Meeting we took a club picture