Monthly Meeting Minutes

January 2010 Monthly Minutes

CALL TO ORDER:

Meeting called to order at 7:00 P.M. by President Jeff Lauer.

I. Secretary's Report: Approved as read

II. Treasurer's Report: Approved as read.

III. Attendance: 43 Members present

IV. Old Business:

1. The election of the 2010 officers remained the same as Jeff Lauer President, Sean Sullivan Vice President, Alison Lincoln Secretary and Steve Gotzion Treasurer. The Board of Directors for 2010 is as follows: Pete Rustad, Connie Mateszuske, Butch Jungbluth, Jim Kuhls, Ross Petty and Art Ofsthun. Motion to close the elections was made by Sean Sullivan and 2nd by Randy Thorsen. Congratulations to all.

2. Jim Lowery has some telephone poles for the rifle range to donate and will bring them up and talk to Ross Petty about installing. Thank you Jim.

3. The 2010 Newsletter is done and will be distributed to all members very shortly. The new logo was approved and the membership cards will be here in mid December

V. New Business:

1. The 2009/2010 Buck contest was won by a narrow margin by Ron Hommen with a 9 pt buck, he won $95.00 The Pheasant hunt was won by Joe Peters with a 22-1/4' tail feather, he won $18.00

2. The quad county shoot was held here at the gun club January 3rd with a turnout of 68 shooters, this is a great turnout considering the weather was in the single digits all day! Thanks to our board members that volunteered help as well as Randy Stenjem, Jim Lowery and Russ Nottestad for their extra efforts in the cold!

3. We are talking of cancelling the Wild Game Feed that was scheduled for March 14th due to the lack of anyone shooting anything this year! Also brought up was the spaghetti dinner that is dated April 17th on the newsletter but may change due to when organizers can get entertainment.

4. Hunter safety registration is March 9th, it is limited to 30 people so sign up early. Tim Thompson is distributing posters everywhere to promote the class and it will be on the DNR website as well.

VI. New Members: 4 new members welcomed to the Club in January.

VII. Attendance/Raffle. Won by Jeff Lauer

VIII. Adjournment: Motion made by: Jim Lowery and 2nd by Todd Borland.

Respectfully submitted: Alison Lincoln, Secretary

December 2009 Monthly Minutes

CALL TO ORDER:

Meeting called to order at 7:00 P.M. by President Jeff Lauer.

I. Secretary's Report:

Approved as read

II. Treasurer's Report:

Approved as read.

III. Attendance:

50 Members present

IV. Old Business:

1. The nominating committee has picked four people for the three positions open for the board they are as follows: Pete Rustad, Butch Jungbluth, Art Ofsthun and Denny Smithback Jr.

2. The logo for the 50th anniversary has been submitted to the club, we are going to redesign it after the discussion and present it at the December meeting for a vote.

3. We discussed a trick shooter to come for the anniversary, Patrick Flanigan, he wants $3000 to come and will include a new shotgun that we could sell in a raffle to offset some of the costs. It has since been decided that the club could use this money in other ways to promote our anniversary.

4. The television over the refrigerator needs to be replaced. Suggestions are a flat screen tv against the wall but we would like to wait until the shed is completed before moving on to purchasing a new television. Motion made by Sean Sullivan to hold off on this until after the 1st of the year. 2nd by Bob Burns.

5. Dick Pirkle and Dean Gotzion are proposing a spaghetti dinner and polka dance for sometime in the spring, we will put a committee together to discuss this.

6. Jim Lowery discussed putting a roof over the concrete slab by the ranges. Talked of having the boy scouts put it up if we pay for the materials. Art Ofsthun bid this at $2200 for materials only. The motion to proceed was made by Randy Thorsen and 2nd by Mark Wadum. Motion carried.

7. The hot water issue was brought up, we have some major plumbing to do, Ross Petty wants to bring a person in to get this taken care of, the person owes Ross some money and is willing to do this. We are going forward on this.

V. New Business:

2. Jim Lowery has some telephone poles for the rifle range to donate and will bring them up and talk to Ross Petty about installing. Thank you Jim.

3. The 2010 Newsletter is done and will be distributed to all members very shortly. The new logo was approved and the membership cards will be here in mid December.

VI. New Members:

No new member welcomed to the Club in December.

VII. Attendance/Raffle.

None in December

VIII. Adjournment:

Motion made by: Sean Sullivan and 2nd by Tim Reddy Jr.

Respectfully submitted:

Alison Lincoln, Secretary

November 2009 Monthly Minutes

CALL TO ORDER:

Meeting called to order at 7:00 P.M. by President Jeff Lauer.

I. Secretary's Report:

Approved as read

II. Treasurer's Report:

Approved as read.

III. Attendance:

32 Members present

IV. Old Business:

1. Working on 2010 calendar to have done by November and send it out to all the members.

2. We had Doug Fendry of the DNR here to talk about the 2009 chronic wasting zone deer hunt regarding using rifles in these certain zones. There are people complaining now about the use of rifles in these zones as their farms are near DNR lands. The DNR is proposing to close these lands to public access during the youth deer hunt, the 4 day October hunt and then open it for the 9 day deer season and muzzle loader season, close again for the holiday hunt and the 2nd 4 day hunt. Doug called some people for their opinions such as Jeff Lauer and Denny Rahn and the unanimous thought was they should not close DNR land at any time for these reasons. The final decision of the DNR was that they will be open for all the seasons but shotgun only NOT rifle.

3. The shed has been completed other than some minor issues that Art is taking care of, thank you Art for doing a great job on the shed.

4. Bartending issues, we are interviewing some people for bartending, if we don't get any bartenders we will have to resort to closing on those Sundays.

V. New Business:

1. . The nominating committee has picked four people for the three positions open for the board they are as follows: Pete Rustad, Butch Jungbluth, Art Ofsthun and Denny Smithback Jr.

2. The logo for the 50th anniversary has been submitted to the club, we are going to redesign it after the discussion and present it at the December meeting for a vote.

3. We are discussing a trick shooter to come for the anniversary, Patrick Flanigan, he wants $3000 to come but will include a new shotgun that we could sell in a raffle to offset some of the costs. Also talking about a Friday night shoot for members only.

5. Dick Pirkle and Dean Gotzion are proposing a spaghetti dinner and polka dance for sometime in the spring, we will put a committee together to discuss this.

6. Jim Lowery discussed putting a roof over the concrete slab by the ranges. Talked of having the boy scouts put it up if we pay for the materials.. Tom Eide made a motion that Art Ofsthun get a bid to us and 2nd by Tim Thompson. Motion carried.

7. A benefit shoot in November in Jefferson for John Schneider who passed away in a car accident, Jim Lowery motioned that we donate $50 to the memorial shoot for him this Sunday. 2nd Brian Matasuske, motion carried.

8. The hot water issue was brought up, we have some major plumbing to do, Ross Petty wants to bring a person in to get this taken care of, the person owes Ross some money and is willing to do this. We are going forward on this.

VI. New Members:

No new member welcomed to the Club.

VII. Attendance/Raffle.

Won by Ann Kasten

VIII. Adjournment:

Motion made by: Denny Rahn and 2nd by Deb Wethal.

Respectfully submitted:

Alison Lincoln, Secretary

October 2009 Monthly Minutes

CALL TO ORDER:

Meeting called to order at 7:00 P.M. by President Jeff Lauer.

I. Secretary's Report:

Approved as read

II. Treasurer's Report:

Approved as read.

III. Attendance:

28 Members present

IV. Old Business:

1. The board is considering having their meetings separate from the Monday monthly meetings due to interruptions and being too hectic on these Monday nights. They want to change it to the last Monday of the month right before the meeting.

2. October 4th merchandise shoot here we had 42 shoots.

3. Our quad county shoot is October 24th here, will need volunteers to help support this. The 1st shoot was a great turnout at North Bristol according to Deb Wethal.

4. Sean Sullivan is chairing the nominating committee, we are looking for 3 board members and as always there can be nominations for the officers.

5. Art Ofsthun got the bid for the new shed, he already has poured concrete and the goal is to have it done by the Quad County shoot on October 24th.

6. Have poles coming from Denny Smithback for the pistol range for the backing. Hopefully should have that done soon.

7. We have a committee formed for the 50th anniversary and need to plan a date to get together to start talking about what we want to do to cover the costs of the event as well as what we are going to plan for it. Things being talked about are a calendar where we have monthly winners, tee shirts, Hats, mugs and things of that nature to cover some of the costs.

V. New Business:

1. Working on 2010 calendar to have done by November and send it out to all the members.

2. We had Doug Fendry of the DNR here to talk about the 2009 chronic wasting zone deer hunt regarding using rifles in these certain zones. There are people complaining now about the use of rifles in these zones as their farms are near DNR lands. The DNR is proposing to close these lands to public access during the youth deer hunt, the 4 day October hunt and then open it for the 9 day deer season and muzzle loader season, close again for the holiday hunt and the 2nd 4 day hunt. Doug called some people for their opinions such as Jeff Lauer and Denny Rahn and the unanimous thought was they should not close DNR land at any time for these reasons. There has not been a final decision from the DNR yet as of this writing.

VI. New Members:

2 new member welcomed to the Club.

VII. Attendance/Raffle.

Won by Jeff Lauer

VIII. Adjournment:

Motion made by: Sean Sullivan and 2nd by Randy Thorsen

Respectfully submitted:

Alison Lincoln, Secretary

September 2009 Monthly Minutes

CALL TO ORDER:

Meeting called to order at 7:00 P.M. by President Jeff Lauer.

I. Secretary's Report:

Approved as read

II. Treasurer's Report:

Approved as read.

III. Attendance:

35 Members present

IV. Old Business:

1. Joe Peters fixed the old ice machine and we sold it to the Cambridge Fire Dept for $400.

2. We had the Lewis shoot on Saturday Aug 24/25 and open merchandise shoot Sunday. The gun raffle was on Sunday and BBQ chicken both days.

3. The Quad Co. shooters trapshoot is starting in October 4th at North Bristol gun club. See orange sheets for more information by the door of the club.

4. We are having pistol range problems as they are really getting shot up, by 4 weeks the boards are all shot up. Todd Borland offered to be a range manager up here, we are working on this issue.

V. New Business:

2. October 4th merchandise shoot here, need volunteers as always.

3. Our quad county shoot is October 24th here, will need volunteers to help support this.

4. Sean Sullivan is chairing the nominating committee, we are looking for 3 board members and as always there can be nominations for the officers.

5. The board asked for a motion to have a 17k limit on the new shed including the building of the shed, excavation and removal of the old concrete. We want a 28x40 shed and want to pre plumb for some restrooms and possibly a bar in the future. Jim Lowery made a motion for this and Sean Sullivan 2nd it. Motion carried.

6. We have a committee formed for the 50th anniversary and need to plan a date to get together to start talking about what we want to do to cover the costs of the event as well as what we are going to plan for the event. Things being talked about are a calendar where we have monthly winners, tee shirts, Hats, mugs and things of that nature to cover some of the costs.

VI. New Members:

7 new member welcomed to the Club.

VII. Attendance/Raffle.

Won by Dennis Rahn

VIII. Adjournment:

Motion made by: Jim Lowery and 2nd by Dennis Rahn

Respectfully submitted:

Alison Lincoln, Secretary