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Meeting Minutes - August 7, 2003
ATTENDANCE:
Tom Dimaggio - Candia, NH
Rhonda Hendry O'hearn - Sandown, NH
Jim Lalla - Bradford, NH
Leif Erickson - Gilmanton, NH
Bob Joy - Milford, NH
Bob Heckman - Kingston, NH
Keith Bryar - Moultonboro, NH
Donna Johnson - Webster, NH
Peter Johnson - Webster, NH
George Cook - New Hampton, NH
Christine Richardson - Canaan, NH
Bill Bartlett - Newport, NH
Bob Spoerl - Bureau of Trails Representative
Lana Petty - Danbury, NH
Marylee Guertin - Briston, NH
Sharon Morris - Suncook, NH
7pm: Opened by welcoming Lana, Marylee and Sharon who are recreational mushers sitting in on the meeting and made introductions.
OLD BUSINESS:
Secretary's Report:
Rhonda reviewed the minutes of July meeting as she was acting secretary for that meeting.
Treasurer's Report:
Bob Heckman reported $418.95 in the account. All from donations and memberships.
Committee Reports:
Safety and Rules:
- Jim Lalla passed out the revised Ettiquite guidelines. They were reviewed and unanimously accepted.
- Both the Satety and Ettiquite guidelines need to be posted on the website where people can easily find them and Christine will print them out and bring copies to the Muster for all to have.
Membership:
- The website has received 1600 hits!
- Rhonda designed a one page questionnaire for attendees of the Muster.
- Each question was discussed and most were agreed relevant.
- The snowmobile club working day poll was not well accepted and will be deleted.
- Bob Spoerl suggested to have a raffle of something nice for all who fill our the questionnaire. We discussed and decided that was a good idea and Christine will talk to Kathy Pickett about bringing a gift certificate for a harness with reflective tape.
- Rhonda suggested sending press releases and articles to the Critter Exchange, a non-competetive animal owner publication.
Musher Muster:
Review of schedule of events:
- Tom - Quick Officer and committee announcement, Overview of Mission and Pressing Issues
- Jim/Leif- Pass out By-Laws, Safety and Ettiquitte sheets
- George - Fill in on trail compilation and report project
- Rhonda- Quick overview of membership
- Take Questions which Bob S. will help to answer.
Constitution and Bylaws:
These were reviewed and edited by the whole group page by page.
Major changes:
- Annual meeting to be in August
- Board expenditures limited to amount in Treasury
Notes of Discussion:
- A publicity director is included as one of the directors and we don't have one. One must be found. Until then, Marylee and Lana have offered to help with a newsletter.
- Lana, Sharon and Marylee made the point that Musher needs to be defined as far as the NHMA is concerned. Scooterers, carters, bikejorers etc.. need to feel like they are included. After short discussion, Musher was officially defined as "Anyone involved in a Dog Powered Sport".
- Jim Lalla motioned to accept Const. And Bylaws Keith Bryar seconded Final versions were unanimously approved.
Website Update:
Tom would like to change the caption for the bulletin board to infer its use as more for dispersal of information and discussion, not just as a guestbook. A few people pointed out that it is presently hard to find info on it and it should be more user friendly.
DESDC Trade Show:
Christine reported that we have been assigned 2 1-hour sessions for our presentation. One hour on each Saturday and Sunday. We will give the same presentation on both days and it will be given by Christine helped by Tom, Lief and Bill .
Snowmobile Club Presentation:
Pete presented the 2nd draft of the flyer for snowmobile clubs. It was well excepted and he will continue to work on it. He asked for digital pictures from anyone who wanted to offer. It would be great to get some scooter, cart, bike type pictures too.
NEW BUSINESS:
It was brought to our attention that John Harrigan sent an email offering to help in the northern part of the state. That was greatly appreciated and the possibility of John being publicity director was discussed however there was strong feeling in some members the the PD should be at the board meetings and John cannot make them. Discussion was tabled until the next meeting.
Keith brought up an issue with a wolf hybrid kennel in his area and wondered if that's an issue we as a club should address. Differing opinions led to the decision that all should think about it and discuss it at the next meeting.
The next meeting will be at the Muster on the 23rd of August. Subsequent meetings tentatively scheduled for sometime between Sept 11-18th.
PRESIDENT'S FINAL COMMENT:
Tom warned us not to focus at this moment on issues with particular trails but instead NH trails in general. He would prefer not to tackle issues of trails we don't use presently (ie. Plaistow) as we don't need more battles to fight.
This brought up an important issue for the next meeting...what is our member's "trail concern chain of command" ? Who do you call when you have a concern?
Bob Heckman suggested a notification process via our website where people can let us know which trails are having problems.
Bob Spoerl pointed out that people need to contact the landowner first! Discussion tabled until next meeting and this meeting was adjourned at 9pm.
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