Called To Order @7:12– Moved to Social @ 7:55

• 15 Members in attendance at start - 22 Members in attendance at close.

• Treasury Report

  • Account Balance $1612.38 

• Scavenger Hunt

  • Snag - Fire Dept already has a rescue sled

  • Fire Dept would prefer to keep the rescue sled they have, and get a new rescue dry suit for ice water rescue.

  • Price for dry suit would be $500-$700 -  and they can get ice cramp-ons that go with it

  • They also have interest in a used snowmobile, but the club thinks this won't work very well

  • Brought up 75 LBS of canned goods to the LION's club food pantry

  • Also brought up about 15 coats to donate to Ginnie's in Leominster.

  • Vote on doing the ice suit and ice crampons - all in favor

  • Vote on donating coats to Ginnies - all in favor

  • Would like to present the suit to the Fire Dept at a selectman's meeting - present to Chief Glenny at the meeting.  (either present the suit or present the check) - Should be around $600 - or $750 if we get 4 sets of crampons

  • We could donate $250 to Lion's club - Motion on floor

  • Motion for Lion's donation was passed unamously

  • Total raised around $1050 assuming all the pledges come in - if some of the pledges don't come in, this amount will be less.

  • Could also purchase rescue donuts for police vehicles (first responders)

• Club Update

  • Soliciting what we can do better next year

  • We tried real hard with groomers this year - but did not have as good a year as we had hoped

  • We could do better signs

  • We could do better on getting the extended trail established

  • We could create a better private map

• SAM Update

  • They are looking for update for trail maps

  • Our trail system with Watatic is still in land owner discussion now - so we can not submit that

  • The full trail system from the Water District to Watatic is simply not ready for mapping (especially public) - each year there are land ownership issues and trail re-routes.

  • Next year SAM passes are going up by $5.00

  • New rules - have to go to 5 of the 9 SAM meetings or lose club membership

  • Minimum sale of 1 book of SAM passes for each club.

  • Requiring MA License Number for SAM Pass sales next year.

  • DCR Grants

    • Harvard Club request got approved - but only partially funded

    • 5th of April SAM meeting is about Grant writing - we should attend - this year is going to be a banner year for funds coming out of the federal tax funds - could be the last year any money comes.

    • Ernie discussed how he put his through - including the formula they used to show man hours and machine costs to enhance the trails.

    • It took Ernie about 30-40 hours to write it.

    • Keith can do the writing with help from Ernie.

• Old Business

  • None

• New Business

  • None

• Meeting moved to Social @ 7:55 PM