Table of Contents Page Three Day Convenon Agenda ....................................................................... 3 Direconal Map – Radisson ........................................................................... 4 Annual Meeng Agenda‐Saturday ................................................................. 5 Outgoing/Rering Director & Rep Recognion ............................................. 6 2018 Annual Meeng Minutes ...................................................................... 7 Execuve Board Candidate Profiles ............................................................... 12 Snowmobile Friendly Awards ......................................................................... 14 Saturday Evening Banquet ............................................................................. 18 Guest Speaker—Sco Eilertson Bio ............................................................... 19 President’s Cup Award – Past Winners .......................................................... 20 2018 Scholarship Recipients .......................................................................... 21 Trail Pass Stascs .......................................................................................... 23 2018‐2019 AWSC Membership Totals ........................................................... 24 2018‐2019 Club Membership By County ....................................................... 25 Blue Mound State Park Master Plan Revision ................................................ 40 Saturday Bus Informaon ............................................................................... 41 2 Three Day Convenon Agenda Friday – March 22, 2019 1:00 pm – 8:30 pm AWSC Registraon Tuscarora 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm Youth Silent Aucon Drop‐Off Huron/Ontario 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Hospitality Room Brown County Plaza Club Registraon nametags are required for access to all hospitality rooms. 8:00 pm – Midnight Sound Dimensions DJ Three Clans Ballroom (Free Beer, Soda & Cash Bar 10:00 pm Hospitality Room Brown County Plaza Club Saturday – March 23, 2019 8:00 am – Noon AWSC Registraon Tuscarora 9:00 am – 11:30 am AWSC Annual Meeng Three Clans Ballroom Elecon of Officers By‐Laws Change Guest Speaker—Chrisne Jourdain, ASCA Officer Reports Speakers—Department of Natural Resources and Department of Tourism Cathy Burrows, Snowmobile Trails & Forest Landowner (WFLGP) Grant Manager – April Dombrowski, Natural Resource Program Manager DNR Drew Nussbaum, Regional Tourism Specialist Rering Director’s & Reps Recognized AWSC Raffle Drawing – 10:30 am Anniversary Gun Raffle Drawing ‐ 10:30 am Snowmobile Friendly Community Awards Noon – 4:00 pm Tail Gate Party at Hotel Iroquois South Noon – 1:30 pm Buffet Tail Gate Lunch / Cash Bar Iroquois South (Convenon Name Badge Required for Lunch) 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm KAOS Coordinated Tail Gate Games Bus Trip Vintage Barn Snowmobile Collecon – Sign Up at Registraon Bus Trip Ken’s Sports Open House more info at Registraon 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm Youth Silent Aucon Huron/Ontario 5:00 pm – Hospitality Room Manitowoc County Plaza Club Registraon nametags are required for access to all hospitality rooms. 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Cocktails ‐ Three Clans Ballroom (Free Beer, Soda & Cash Bar for those aending banquet) 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Banquet – Three Clans Ballroom Guest Speaker – Sco Eilertson The President’s Cup Award Scholarship Winners recognized Sunday – March 24, 2019 8:30 am – unl ? AWSC Directors Meeng 3 Direconal Map ‐ Radisson Hospitality Room— Plaza Club Youth Silent Aucon – Huron/Ontario KAOS Tail Gate Games In Hall KAOS Room— Tail Gate Party/Buffet Michigan Vintage Display Registraon— Tuscarora Sound Dimension DJ/Friday PM Annual Meeng/Saturday AM Saturday Banquet Director’s Meeng/Sunday AM 4 Annual Meeng Agenda ‐ Saturday, March 24, 2018 Call the meeng to order 9:00 am ‐ Dave Newman, President Pledge of Allegiance ‐ Introducon of Head Table – AWSC Execuve Officers and other guests in aendance Approval of Agenda – Dave Newman, President Approval of minutes from 2018 Annual Meeng ‐ March 24, 2018, Green Bay Elecon of AWSC Execuve Officers for 2018‐2019 and AWSC By‐Laws Change— John Brozek, By‐Law Commiee Chairman Introducon of Guest Speaker – Chrisne Jourdain, ASCA AWSC Execuve Officer Reports ‐ President Dave Newman Vice President Lori Heideman Treasurer Andy Malecki, Jr. Secretary Sue Smedegard Execuve Director (to the AWSC Directors) Sam Landes AWSC Associaon Coordinator Don Hamilton 2018‐2019 Miss Snowflake Kendra Randrup Guest Speakers from Department of Natural Resources and Department of Tourism Cathy Burrows, Snowmobile Trails & Forest Landowner (WFLGP) Grant Manager April Dombrowski, Natural Resource Program Manager Drew Nussbaum, Regional Tourism Specialist Recognion of Rering/Outgoing AWSC County Directors and Reps ‐ Dave Newman, President & Sam Landes, Execuve Director Snowmobile Friendly Awards— Lori Heideman, Chair; Don Hamilton, AWSC Associaon Coordinator and Drew Nussbaum, WI Department of Tourism Membership Commiee Chairmen – Jim Chambers & Jim Marks, Membership Commiee (Co‐Chair) Old Business – New Business – Elecon Results – John Brozek, By‐Law Commiee Chairman Fund Raising Chairman – Keith Bauer, Fundraising Commiee Chairman – AWSC Raffle drawing @ 10:30 am Further Convenon Briefs/Updates – Dave Newman, President Adjourn – 5 Outgoing/Rering Director & Rep Recognion The Associaon of Wisconsin Snowmobile Clubs, would like to recognize and honor these out‐ going or rering Directors and Reps for their dedicaon and commitment to the sport of snowmobiling. Deb Levey Columbia County Rep 2013‐2018 Pat Neff Grant County Rep 2015‐2018 Lloyd Runde Grant County Director 2010‐2018 Doug Waehler Oneida County Rep 2011‐2018 Jim Walcisak Price County Rep 2010‐2018 Tim Werner Price County Director 1998‐2018 Please Note: These Directors and Reps rered aer Workshop 2018. 6 Annual Meeng Minutes from March 24, 2018 DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED AT ANNUAL MEETING 2019 AWSC Annual Meeng Saturday March 24, 2018 Green Bay, Wisconsin Meeng called to order by President Dave Newman Pledge of Allegiance recited. Veterans and Military Personnel recognized. Head table introduced. Moon to accept agenda by Sco Makowski, second by Gary Hilgendorf. Moon carries. Approval of minutes from 2017 Annual Meeng ‐ moon by Jim Drmolka, second by Sco Makowski, opon carries. Nominaon of AWSC Execuve Officers for 2018 ‐ 2019 ‐ John Brozek, By‐Law Commiee Nominaons for Secretary ‐ Jon Schoepke nominates Sue Smedegard. Second by Bill Hicks. Nominaons called for 3 mes, moon to cast a unanimous ballot for Sue Smedegard by Doug Johnson, second by Gary Hilgendorf, moon carries. Nominaons for Treasurer ‐ Elroy Jaeger nominates Andy Malecki, second by Tom Hinchcliffe. Nominaons called for 3 mes, moon to cast a unanimous ballot by Sco Makowski, second Jeff Schwaller, moon carries. Vice President ‐ Arlyn Baumgarten nominates Lori Heideman, second by Briany Thompson. Harold Butschke nominates Jim Blouin, second by Doug Johnson. Notaons called for 3 mes. Moon to close nominaons by Sco Makowski, second by Steve Bollig, mo‐ on carries Nominaons for President ‐ Gary Hilgendorf nominates Dave Newman, second by Dennis Johnson. Nominaons called for 3 mes, moon to cast a unanimous ballot for Dave Newman by Doug Johnson, sec‐ ond by Gary Hilgendorf, moon carries. Ballots collected and tabulated by the By‐laws commiee members 565 people are registered for convenon Guest speaker ‐ Tom Anderson, World Snowmobile Headquarters and Internaonal Snowmobile Hall of Fame Faith Murray, DNR Northeast Region Community Service Specialist 7 Annual Meeng Minutes from March 24, 2018‐ cont’d Where does the money come from, and where does it go? Many aren’t aware of the various funding sources or expenditures. Registraons are at 232,265 currently. Trail pass numbers (all passes) higher this year than last year. SNARS ‐ 3/4 done with effort to get grooming units correctly classed. Queson ‐ There has been an excessive amount of off‐trail riding ‐ any way we can get the DNR to put a note ‐ this trail pass gives you the right to ride on marked, open trails, off‐trail riding will be considered trespass‐ ing. Dave responds that we will meet with the DNR and bring that up. AWSC Execuve Officer Reports President Dave Newman ‐ Thanks to the office, Lori Pohl and office staff for a great job with trail passes and memberships being processed. Most people seem to have trail passes on their sleds this year. SNARS program is required this year; you need to work with your county coordinator to get your paperwork submied. Snowmobile Rec Council met in Eagle River in conjuncon with the VIP ride ‐ all counes must have their trails GPS’d by April 15. 36 were in at last count. Need to get a handle on how many miles each county actu‐ ally has, to determine what new miles can be funded. Some grooming equipment isn’t in the right category, that’s being worked on. When purchasing new equip‐ ment, be sure you know the rates for that equipment before you buy it. Cathy Burrow or Gary Hilgendorf can help you with that if you need assistance. Infrastructure subcommiee met this week, are making some recommendaons to the council ‐ some re‐ garding Class 2 or Class 3 drags, set specs for fully tracked trucks, drags that have wings on them. AWSC execuve board members will again meet with DNR personnel Trail passes being purchased for snowmobiles that do not belong to the member to give away or sell has been stopped by tying into the DNR database, worked with the DNR and Lori Pohl to take care of that prob‐ lem. Beer communicaon with club members is important.