HVFF Meeting Minutes, July 30, 2021
In-person meeting at the Ellenville Country Club Grill (Golf Course) Meeting began at 7:36 with 8 members in attendance. Treasurer’s Report: $2085 in the bank, with only lawnmowing expenses in the immediate future. 64 members, roughly a half dozen new. Launch Purchase: Wayne will be meeting with Tony on Tuesday to iron out the final details. We are looking at $650K paid over 10 years, with possible help of the Free Flight Foundation. If they do their normal support of 50% matching funds it would be the largest outlay in their history, so we shouldn’t expect that level. They also normally purchase easements, making this another groundbreaking effort for them. As this begins to happen we will need to take up the responsibility of policing the site ourselves, so there is lots of discussion to be had about this transfer. (Officer’s meeting on Wednesday to discuss via Zoom). Club Road Trip: Hyner for…
HVFF Meeting Minutes, June 2021
Wednesday June 30 via Zoom Meeting began at 8:11 with 11 members Next Meeting July 28 will be in person, and will be mainly social with a business-only zoom meeting the Wednesday after. Cohen’s Bakery will host, perhaps putting us outside. officer’s meeting also coming up. Treasury – $1725 + 1 member. Latest mowing bill is included. USPHA – Nothing new of note: see last month’s minutes for description of online training platform. Look at Wills Wing website for update on move to Valle de Bravo. Ricardo knows the guy who will be taking over. Steve Pearson is staying on. Seminar -Paul Voight may offer a landing seminar, working out the details. Work Parties – Tim is looking for three people to help him one morning wrangling equipment to seal Greg’s launch – sprayer, etc. Can’t schedule too far in advance because need 3 days of dry weather. Will tentatively aim for the weekend after…
HVFF Meeting Minutes, May 26, 2021
Started 8:08 PM, May 26 via Zoom with 18 members including Dave Hopkins! Treasury: $2018.94 Expect mower expenses of ~ $300-500Membership: 53 members, about 10 PG rest HG, some mixed New Business: Next Zoom Meeting Wednesday June 30; PLUS In-person Meeting Saturday June 26th {Officer’s Meeting Thursday June 3} Tax Filings: Wayne is meeting with Rob Wisdom to get that all straightened out. Then can start working on purchasing the LZ. Pricing for Flight Park (LZ, training hill): negotiations are underway. USPHA Report: TreeToppers conflict ongoing, trying to keep school next door from landing in field without insurance. Training platform for PG: students can sign into website and it has all training materials and tests. Not mandatory but a nice tool for a reasonable cost to student. Matt Tabor working on similar platform for HG. Some sites need much higher insurance (mainly ski areas), working that out. • Tim Curran led a work party that…
HVFF Meeting Minutes, April 28, 2021
Meeting opened at 8:08 with 18 members Treasury: $1759.47 nothing earmarked so ours to spend. Mail: a reorder for checks came but we dont need it. 501.3c: WE HAVE IT! Now need to talk about how to use it. Website apparently had a lot to do with the approval, it helps that it looks so professional. Dues will be considered a donation. USHPA Updates: Only new thing is reinstating the safe pilot awards, but instead of nice pins will have less nice pins but a jacket as well. Problems down in Tennessee Tree Toppers with commercial school nearby landing in same LZ. But USHPA is solvent. The mag wants more hang gliding stories, submissions are rather lopsided right now. Rick Fitz may right up the resurgance of new pilots. Greg’s Training Hill: he’s started teaching again. Has a few students, a couple are crossovers from paragliding. If anyone wants to knock the rust off, he…
HVFF Meeting Minutes, March 31, 2021
Meeting started at 8:06 with 14 members Treasury: $1741.44. All current expenses paid, internet bill may be next up. There are two ways to join so need to keep syncing up. USHPA report: most time spent on getting RRG to deal with people flying XC and landing at insured sites. Just a matter of technical wording. USHPA online store closed while reworking how merchandise is handled. Meeting Space: Cohen’s bakery discussed, outdoor BBQ in LZ, 3rd and Company in Walker Valley. 501.3.c: little details cleaned up and submitted, expect decision in about a month. Website: small details fixed, sign-in form had a glitch with uploading picture: will address right now by instructing people not to upload until after the initial registration process. Will work on club store over the summer. Jane and Fred will be working on apparel. Club Notifications: everyone should be getting them. If not, subscribe to the newsletter on the site. Road Work…
HVFF Meeting Minutes, February 2021
Started at 8:12; after sending out a rescue party we ended up with 22 people in the Zoom meeting. Treasury: $1424 no outstanding debts or upcoming expenditures, lots more members yet to join. Mail: one letter. Missed what it was, hope it wasn’t important. Covid: nobody we know seems to have it; people starting to get vaccinated. USHPA meeting news: lots of discussion about what is an “official” USHPA event. Some RRG discussion, including ski resort sites that wanted higher levels of insurance. Safety and Training committess split into HG/PG and renamed Safety and Certification. The organization is solvent, with no major lawsuits. 501.3c getting closer to being official, submitted paperwork still grinding through bureaucracy. New Sites: won’t offer insurance unless asked. Paul has spotted a likely place near Olive, large swath of trees cut out, ready to go. Snow at Launch: road getting closer to passable for all vehicles,…
HVFF Meeting Minutes, Jan 27, 2021
Meeting started at 8:15 via Zoom, 7 members grew to 8. Treasury: $1337 Hosting and domain fees paid by donation. Chapter renewal: USHPA being annoying in the way they have been the last few years. Want us to pay insurance to protect work parties. So we decided we are no longer a USHPA chapter. Should hear about 501.3.c in a couple weeks. USHPA news: monthly board meetings. Steve Pearson is president. Nearly 5 hour long meetings. One main aim is making it easier for instructors. Website: work has sort of plateaued, but Mike will take requests. (side note: the second syllable of “plateau” has nearly every vowel except the one it sounds like) T-shirts: haven’t been designed yet. Other merchandise has been looked at by Fred, will put out something. Road Report: Impassible. Entry slope is all ice. May put out salt drum. General Discussion: what about other sites? Now…
HVFF Club Meeting – August 1, 2020
Next meeting: August 22 Treasury: $1576.56 All donations used, so money is not allocated to anything as yet. BUT Romano joined 2 minutes before the report, so add $30 (Romano has had 19 mountain launches at Valle de Bravo, plus truck towing with Steve Wendt down in Virginia.) Old Business: for once Brian was ready. But the rest of you can go look at the February 2020 report. Maybe can put current wind video public, history as private? Mike will investigate. Can new website chat fill the gap left by the old version of yahoo site? Maybe make some discussions open to all, others open only to club. Website: invitation to website and forum will go out on Sunday. Facebook groups: rename the group to HVFF, Jimmy D will be asked to make the changes. He may get advice from Paul. Membership management: Data entry will be needed for the new website. Brian VH is willing…
HVFF Club Meeting – February 29, 2020
Meeting started around 6:20, with 9 members attending • A Big Welcome to Johm McGlade: PG2 trained in Montana. He’s Looking forward to flying here. But Forrest was not in attendance. Puppy’s getting old. Treasurer report: still $1094, same as last meeting. Hey, it’s winter, nothing new going on.. All bills paid. Next Meeting: 5/30 is the May meeting due to avoid Memorial Day. Club Status: Ready to file for HVFF. After legal consultation some changes are due on website to make it clearly nonprofit. We can use membership donations (not dues) but can not have any clearly “paid for” benefits – should be general benefits. We are filing as an educational non-profit which lets the club focus on flying supported activities. It is vital to keep on educator on board (Keep buying Greg drinks, folks!). Website: Use Amazon smile for nonprofit merchandise. Wind talker may be accessible only to club members. We CAN charge for it. Looking into a website widget with log-in accounts that can expire with membership. Education: All educational content must be public under…
HVFF Meeting Minutes, June 29, 2019
HVFF Meeting June 29 at the White Wolf Meeting opened 6:39 with 7 members Treasury Treasury: treasury stands at $1158.5, including $227 Jimmy has collected for the road campaign; he will post a call for donations (need over $400 for a load of read material). Mower fix will cost $918.31, so our balance is right at the line now. Mike is questioning whether membership should have a rotating date or go to start of the year. We decided to go annually rather than rotating. Those who join after September just get rolled over to next year. Old Business Road work party July 20 1 truckload of material (plus vegetation) Tim Curry scheduled a work party for Greg’s on July 6 New Business July 4 Parade float: not much enthusiasm for it, so probably won’t happen this year, but may use Wayne’s truck in the future. USHPA governance – soliciting nominations…