Ozarks JeepThing Club
General Membership Meeting

February 4, 2010

Clint (JEEPOLANTERN) called the meeting to order at 7:36 p.m.

Officers Present:   

Clint Ackerman (JEEPOLANTERN), President
Aaron LaRose (YJ_Aaron), Vice President
Jim Markusic (upnover), Secretary
Alex DeVries (derf1184), Treasurer

Board of Directors Present:   

Bobby Love (B-Love) Director of Trails
Tom Hover (Grizwall), Director of Membership
Ross Burgess (FlameRed08), Director of Internet
Jacque Markusic (girlyjeep), Director of Charities
Roger Miller (OldYJ), Director of Vendor and Public Relations
Jennifer Ackerman (JEEPAHO), Director of Events
Matt Paxson (MAP93HEEP),Director of Photography

Aaron will made roll call with   42 members and 1 guest present.

Alex gave the financial report with a balance of $1336.99 .

Old Business:

Christmas Party was on Saturday, December 5th. Fifty-three members were
present who brought non-perishable items for Ozarks Food Harvest.

Annual Disney Run was scheduled for January 9th.  Due to the cold temperature this event was cancelled. Clint presented to the club members for a possibility to reschedule. Clint suggested to put it on the website.

Jacque (girlyjeep) to announce the plan for an Ozarks Food Harvest representative to attend March 4th meeting.  A check will be presented as well as all food donated through the year. The club members were asked to bring non-perishable items to the March meeting. All items collected through the year will be given to the representative with a $500.00 cash donation.

The OJT business cards have arrived. Inform the club members the BOD will dispense on college campuses in Springfield and display them in various businesses. Ask the membership for other ideas they would like to participate in distributing the cards. Clint also announced that the BOD has a plan to distribute the cards. Keith suggested we market the club at 4 Wheel Drive Jamboree.

New Business:

Discuss February’s event scheduled for the 20th, the President’s Day Run. President’s choice. Bobby will post to bring money for this event.

Discuss with the membership the ideas of Fall 4xFest was relative to developing a committee and host it at the Bison Ranch. This was opened to club discussion. Larry suggested to keep it at SMORR. The problem with having at SMORR last year was the cost that would leave enough to donate to charity. Keith brought the concern that we could host the event at a park within 1 ½ hours. Bobby suggested to look for land that we could lease for the weekend. Disney was suggested as a possibility. We wouldn’t be able to block off and have the park exclusively for the event. Keith suggested to drop the Fall from the 4xFest and host it in the summer. Ross suggested to form a committee to investigate these ideas.

Ross Burgess will begin a thread to get people involved.
George  Rennison
Austin Piester
Keith LeJeune
Steve Vestal

Bobby talked about club attending the “Seligman In The Ozarks” run hosted by Seligman Chamber of Commerce, Saturday, July 31st & Sunday, Aug 1st. Entry Fee $25.00. No alcohol allowed. Bobby will post it on the website.

Clint announced that the BOD discussed hosting more stocker runs and to host one on April 17th. Other ideas the BOD discussed were

•   Ask membership why they joined the club
•   Explore local owners who would be interested in permitting us to host an event at their property.
•   Gary Wood Chrysler Dodge & Jeep Meet and Greet
•   Meet and Greet and then Drive-In the same day.
•   Ross (FlameRed08) stated that Kara Tveet suggested the club participate in an activity in planting trees.  We would hope this event would give the club some exposure especially in terms of “TreadLightly!”.  If she is present at the meeting you may want to ask her to talk some about this event.

Clint announced Aaron’s leaving but is not resigning from his position and will not be replaced due to election of officers next month.
Suzanne Bray checked out the Basic Training video for the month.

During the March meeting the Wheeler of The Year will be announced and receive the award.

Clint announced the currently nominated officers for FY 2010 - 2011

Roger – President
VP – None
Alex – Treasurer
Jim – Secretary

The floor was opened for nominations for each office

President: No nominations for president. Nomination was closed.

Vice President: Tom nominated Larry Morey and was accepted.

Secretary:  Roger nominated Keith LeJeune who declined the nomination.

Treasurer: Aaron nominated Austin for treasurer who accepted the nomination.
         Alex declined his nomination for treasurer.

The following are the current nominated officers.

President – Roger Miller (OldYJ)
Vice President – Larry Morey (CRAZYLARRY)
Secretary – Jim Markusic – (upnover)
Treasurer – Austin Piester (XJ92)

Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Bobby, 2nd by Aaron and 3rd by Dick.

The meeting adjourned at 8:12 p.m.

The next meeting will be on March 4, 2010, 7:30pm at The Library Center.