alan van
straten 920.986.3421
steve knorr 920.986.3276
david mcnichols 920.250.3145 brian laedtke 920.538.3149
gary marcks
920.986.3112 wlliam
kortens 920.984.3613
pat van straten
920.986.3906
April
2008
Shiocton
Flyers Club General Membership Meeting, April 9,
2008
Members
present: Steve Knorr, Dave McNichols, Bill
Kortens, Pat Van Straten, Gary Marcks, Glenn Riehl, Frank Sausen,
Galen Timblin, Bob Dieck, Rick Verhagen, Brian
Laedtke.
Vice President Knorr called the meeting to
order at 7:30pm.
The minutes from the 2008 Annual Meeting
were approved as read.
The Treasurer’s report was approved as
read.
Old
Business: Band for the Fly-in. The band we
have hired for the Fly-in this year is called “Off the
Record.”
New
Business: The airport is closed (as of the
April meeting).
Airport fees and dues. (This was briefly
discussed the end of 2007 and tabled until 2008) The general
consensus of the members present was to wait and discuss any
changes in fees and dues until after the
Fly-in.
The skydivers are going to give up a lot
(they have 3). They don’t need the room and we do for future
hangar space.
Airport committees. Several of our
committees have had members leave or for other reasons have become
defunct. VP Knorr asked for members willing to fill committees and
so far we have the
following:
Building/Grounds
Committee:
Al Van
Straten
Fly-in
Committee:
Brian
Laedtke
Dave
McNichols
Steve
Knorr
The IRS is conducting a systematic
financial audit of clubs, organizations, for profits, non-profits,
etc., SFC amongst them. We are now keeping financial records the
way the IRS wants them to be kept. Another change we had to make
is all our different accounts are now under one roof so to speak.
All club monies and accounts are now under control of the
Treasurer.
Bill Bertram is leasing a lot with the
intention of building a hangar. In the course of measuring the
lots, it was discovered that our old airport maps while showing
the lots themselves, didn’t show the placement of the hangars in
relation to the lot. Pat & Al Van Straten remeasured all the
lots. Al is in the process of redrawing the map with the building
placements on each lot.
Food Permit. A reminder was made for me to
fill out the food permit for the Fly-in. As of this newsletter,
the 2008 applications are not yet posted on the Outagamie
County
website.
Bob Reiland of Greenville
is interested in doing the potato pancakes for us at the Fly-in
this year. Instead of making the pancakes from scratch, he uses a
regular potato pancake mix. Just add water kind of thing. Gary
Marcks & Glenn Riehl to further
investigate.
We are going to get several loads of
gravel for the airport access road, around the machine shed and
also, we are going to build up the driveway leading from the
highway 54 access next to the shed, along the ditch and will tie
into the airport access rod by Bob Polsin’s hangar. When
completed, this will be our main access to the airport instead of
through the Portlite parking lot. Before the gravel goes down, we
need to investigate the possibility of laying in some drainage
tile in the grass parking lot and also what we need for a culvert
in the ditch alongside the access road. Gary Knapp to
coordinate.
A motion was made and seconded and the
meeting was adjourned at
8:30pm.
This
and That: The airport is
open.
What a crappy spring. The John Deere and Big Jake
mowers are ready to roll. Little Jake still needs a bit of fine
tuning with its recently re-built engine. Actually, the runways
have been largely mowed already with the John Deere. Things are a
bit soft yet for Big Jake and our current every-other rainy day
cold weather isn’t
helping.
If you see piles of dirt behind the
machine shed, the top soil has been stripped from where Bill
Bertram’s hangar will be built. Speaking of
hangars….
With our recent IRS audit, the days of SFC
being run as a club are over. As of now, the airport is a business
and has to be run as such, with all of our “I’s” dotted and our
“T’s” crossed. And to that effect, the first order of review will
be hangar leases. Other than the skydivers, there are no signed
hangar contracts in either the current airport files or in the
archives. If any hangar owner has a copy of a lease they signed,
please bring it to the meeting so we can review and make archival
copies. If there are no signed copies, SFC will start meeting with
hangar owners to sign contracts. Nothing will change on the
contracts as far as costs, this is only to start the process of
the airport keeping our records up to date in case of future IRS
audits.
Al Van Straten would like to establish a
Safety Committee… to do safety things. It won’t hurt anything to
have one and having one could potentially lower our airport
liability insurance.
Condolences to Ken Braun who recently had
a sister pass away.
The proposed agenda for the May
meeting:
Report on Portlite
property.
Bill Bertram/new hangar construction.
WRS lease
reduction in frontage.
Hangar
leases.
Establish Safety
Committee?
Fly-in? Raise plane
ride $ with cost of fuel? Review food & beverage
prices.
???
The next meeting will be
held on Wednesday, May 14th at 7:30pm IN THE HANGAR.
Board meeting at 7pm.
updated 05-10-08
22:05
