Another beautiful fall day here in WNY as we look forward to another great sledding season.
President Nate called the meeting to order at 11:07am and currently we have 73 members.
The minutes were read and approved from the October’s meeting. Treasurer Michelle also reviewed our finances and answered any questions. Treasurer Michelle and President Nate spoke about their meeting with Tompkins Bank to obtain the loan for the new groomer. The board will meet after the regular meeting to discuss this matter further.
Michelle discussed needing to update our computer to work with Windows and QuickBooks and she will research this further.
NYSSA is switching to our a new software system from TrailIntel as support for the previous system is going away. We have had online Webinars and in person phone sessions to learn the new registration/membership system and the transition will not be overnight. It is heavily dependent on personal members emails and some people don’t have an email address. Always something new to learn.
More equipment work and stake painting are being done at the groomer barn so join in if you can.
We acquired more GPS units so we now have 5 of these for our groomers for this season.
Our Youth Safety Course will be held November 21st at the Warsaw Fire Department 8am.
Our February Raffle tickets are now available. The drawing for the winners will be March 7th. The pr-esale drawing party will be at Brian Bartron’s home on January 1st. Call Brian at 716 491 1847
Zach reported the 70% NYS Parks and Rec funds should be available to the club in December or January. Our county federation is also working on paper maps that should be ready by January 1st. We might also have a dice run the 1st weekend in February sponsored by the Bliss Hotel weather dependent.
The Legion Hall in the Warsaw Park has been reserved Sunday May 2nd for our landowner chicken barbecue.
Regular meeting adjourned at 11:43am. Board meeting to follow.
The Oatka Valley Snowmobile Association board met immediately after the regular meeting to discuss the loan provisions that Nate and Michelle brought back from Tompkins Bank. After some discussion a motion was made by Ken and seconded by Zach authorizing the club to go ahead and procure the loan to purchase our new groomer. All of the board voted in favor.
