2013 Banquet Overview

Welcome – Mark McVay, President

Maria, Mark, and Mary handed out the gift bags with the treasurer’s report, banquet agenda, calendar, 2012 final points, 2012 plaque bars, and pictures of 2012 season.

Maria handed out the new member plaques to the ones that were at the banquet.

It was voted on to increase annual dues to $35.00      

• 19 – Yes    
• 0 – No

It was voted on to increase hook fees to pay insurance and sled rent.  Insurance costs about $2.00 a hook.  Club will offer to pay ½ of sled fee up to $300.00 per event.  Hook fees will increase to $15 for members and $20 for non-members.

• 17 – Yes
• 2 – No

It was talked about that for track safety for insurance purposes that the track will need to be roped off.

V-8 class rules questions were discussed and everyone will be sent the final copy of the updated rules.

Voted on division “2” tractors allowing stroker’s

• 14 – No
• 5 – Yes

Maria is retiring and the New Secretary/Treasurer will be JoAn DeWitt

Voted for New President and Vice President

• Bob Wingert, President
• Mike Bruning, Vice President

     Voted on 3 members for Vice President

• 13 – Mike Bruning
• 5 – Jeremy DeWitt
• 1 – Kevin Bruning

Voted on tech and rules committee.  The tech committee will be

• Kevin Bruning
• Mark McVay
• Jeremy DeWitt

Voted on to add 8000 lbs class Div II, III, open, V-8

• 17 – Yes
• 2 – No

In Memory of Delbert McVay, his family is doing a “Puller of the Year” award to be voted on by the members of the club.  The puller of the year will be receiving a plaque, t-shirt, and their dues paid for the year from the Delbert McVay Memorial.

• This year's "Puller of the Year" went to Delbert McVay

Meeting adjourned

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