Valencia Travel Village
Attendees:
Iris and Ron
Connie and Gary
Sherry
Flora and Rex
Vicki and George
Martine and Jess
Linda
Celia and Les
Elaine and Scott
Helene and Ben
President George started the meeting by handing out a “Guidelines and Duties of a Wagonmaster” bulletin to each member and encouraged everyone to sign up to be a Wagonmaster for at least one campout.
He introduced Sherry as a guest.
First on the agenda was the election of Officers.
2023 Officers
President – Gary
Vice President – Linda
Secretary – Iris
Treasurer – Carol
Assistant Treasurer – George
Ron gave the Treasurer’s report – We now have $3,000 in our account. There was a lengthy discussion on how much money is needed in the account to be able to cover upcoming campouts. At this point we can only cover maybe 2 reservations in advance. The $10 per rig is necessary to grow our account to provide greater resources and actually plan beyond 3 or 4 calendar dates.
Carol discussed one option to minimize the challenges the club faces trying to collect the $10 each month. Because we often have campouts that are paid directly by each rig to the camp site, it is difficult to gather those payments. Several times some of those amounts were never collected. Carol made a motion to increase the dues from $35 to $100 which is due in January 2023. Most of the attendees agreed this would be a solution to the challenge.
With the new amount there would not be any $10 extra fee included in each campout. This would give the club enough money in the account to cover upcoming campouts.
The next item for discussion was to decide to keep the Web Site or not.
It was discussed that several people have found our group from that site and it would be a good idea to continue with it. There is a cost of approximately $300 per year to maintain it. It is a helpful tool to acquire new members. Ron volunteered to keep it up to date. Using a Facebook account was suggested as an alternative, but members felt that site would be much more public than what we would want.
Ben made a motion to retain the Web site. Membership voted to keep it.
Upcoming campouts:
January – Tapo Canyon January 13 -15 Rex and Flora wagon masters.
February – Santa Paula KOA February 17 – 19 Karen and Tom wagon masters
March – Lake Casitas March 17-19 Connie and Gary wagon masters
April – Pechunga April 11 – 14
May – Bonelli Bluffs May 9 – 11 Carol and George wagon masters
Meeting was adjourned at 5:20 pm