1-17-10 Annual meeting report

Meeting was called to order at 7:30 Pm by Colin Milliken. there was 22 members in attendance.

first was thanks for the refreshments and snacks that were brought by various members

carl Winterburg read the current club financials and explained several specific items including how grant money was spent for target steel and explained expenditure for other items. several questions were fielded on these, all answered by Carl.

Colin and Kelly described range improvements completed and planned. these included the road re-graveling at the hi power range, the aforementioned target steel, at the rimfire range new concrete benches were built, and the concrete was donated by Terry Hettich. Also there is a grant in the works for a roof at the smallbore range and that was discussed at some length.

Gregg Simon brought up that a representative from the Appleseed shooting foundation had contacted him in regards to holding an appleseed shoot at the sage brush range. The was quite a bit of discussion on this and the end consensus was that the club is not interested in becoming affiliated with the appleseed foundation.

Mark LeFebre filled in the group on the status of the blog and upkeep of it. Mark requested that he get all score sheets and other info as quickly as possible after shoots so he can post it here.

Kelly Thanked everyone who had donated prizes for last years club lever action championship.

At this time we had considerable discussion on whether or not to continue the hospital benefit shoot held the last two years. Gene Cox reported a less then enthusiastic response from the hospital on the project. the motion was made by Colin and seconded by tom Forbes to discontinue the shoot. Motion passed unanimously.

Gene then suggested that he had been thinking about doing a shoot with the proceeds to go to the American Legion honor flight that sends vets to Washington DC to view the war memorials. There was some discussion and the motion was made by Colin to do a Honor flight shoot in lieu of the hospital match. Motion was seconded by gene and passed unanimously. the date was decided as June 6, and the format was to be the same as the hospital shoot (half match), with the only change to be shooters were allowed to use any lever or military rifle of choice, instead of just lever action.

Colin brought up that at the last club lever action championship, there had been several people disappointed that there wasn't a military club championship held due to time constraints. The was discussion and the motion was made to split the shoots into two different days, one for military, one for lever action. motion passed unanimously.

The bonus for the cooks was discussed and increased to 100$ from the 50$ it had been previous. thanks was given to the cooks for their excellent meals.

Diane Fransen then asked if there could be a more formal designation of shooting positions when there are 8 shooters on the line at the high power range. there had been confusion about that last season, and several members commented on this. The decision was made to set up markers for each position and what animal should be shot from that position. Richard fransen volunteered to make the markers.

Kelly then talked about a group of guys from the Black hills that are putting together a new silhouette range. Kelly had donated a set of rimfire targets to them from our club, to help them get started. Also there was discussion of working with them to schedule shoots together. there was also some discussion for our scheduling as kelly needs the pasture the range is in for cows during the month of July. it was decided to schedule some rimfire matches that month to maximize our shooting time. also Kelly said he would contact the Black hills club to see if they would like to schedule shoots that time as well.

Kelly brought up match fees and it was decided to keep them the same as last season for regular shoots, and to charge 20$ for the honor flight shoot.

Mark, Colin and Kelly discussed signage for the range, to help new shooters find it easier. There was discussion of a permanent sign and other options. It was decided that Mark would look into getting into a vinyl banner that could be put up and removed at will to prevent any legal problems from arising as they would with a permanent sign. the banner would be bought as club finances allow.

Colin asked for any further questions and as there was none, the meeting was called to a close at 8:20 PM.

Thanks to all for coming we had a good time and much was taken care of.