Meeting called to order at 7:35 p.m. by Vice President Jamie Williams.

No corrections to last months minutes.

Dirt Track: Ralph Lee reported:

• New season starts in 2 weeks.

Enduro: Alan Plumbridge Reported:

• Quicksilver National on 2/17/02. The event was held at Clear Creek with 198 riders leaving the line. With around 150 pre-entries the weather system that showed up Sat. night changing the conditions of dry and dusty to wet, muddy and falling rain and snow had to impact the total that post entered and left the line. Conditions were slick on the 1^st loop with bottlenecks starting at about the 4 mile mark, this resulted in lots of B & C riders becoming so late that they would never get back on time and houring-out or deciding not to continue on the 2^nd loop. The 2^nd loop consisted of more single track and roads that continued to deteriorate with the weather. As reported by the club the 2^nd loop was designed to take points from the B & C riders but the top riders were dropping points. The 3^rd loop was described by some riders as all uphill with deep ruts. Weather was the issue; I did not hear 1 complaint about he trials or the layout of the course from the riders I talked with, good job Ramblers, one of these years the weather will cooperate.
• 1 injury reported, course worker received a bruised arm that resulted from a head on with a rider heading back to camp.
• Next event Wild Piglet/Wild Boar on 3/9 & 3/10

Cross Country: Bill Buffington reported:

• Polka Dots- Prairie City G.P. held on 1/29/02. 665 riders for the day. Thanks to the district officials for help with bar codes and sign-ups. 93 Kids raced in the youth program. There were 5 injuries, 3 ambulance rides. The scoring did ok. There was an all new scoring team trying to get use to the equipment. We had a couple of bottlenecks at the home check. A&B results were posted same day and trophies given out. C’s results were posted on Tuesday following the event. The weather was perfect and the dirt was nice.
• Hollister National: Referee Edd Haymond reported: 682 riders entered. Great conditions and course. The new starting position was much safer than previous years and we had no pile-ups in the first turns. There were a couple of bottlenecks on the first lap but no time adjustments or reroutes were necessary. There were 8 injuries, no protest. The results are on the web except for the Gentlemen and Formula 100’s. They shall be up soon.

Youth Cross Country: Al Fitch reported:

• Prairie City G.P. had 93 riders. The 50’s track was a little short so they manually scored the event. Kids loved it. 1 injury, broken collar bone & concussion.
• Hollister National: 79 kids entered. Race went well. This was not part of the district series. Next race is the Old Crow on March 3^rd.

LAO: Bill Dart reported:

• El Dorado National forest: there is a suit against the forest challenging the entire forest plan. They would like to hold up all OHV recreation while settling the suit. They want to do a full blown analysts on all the trails. They are trying to set a precedence for all OHV areas. This will include Rockcreek and Elkins Flats. The Blue Ribbon Coalition is battling this.
• Last week there was a meeting for the grants for northern California. Several grants were held over to next months meeting, including Clear Creek and El Dorado. There were a couple of dead lock votes.
• Clear Creek: The grant was attacked challenging to close some trails heavily used.
• The noise standard is coming soon. It will lower to 96dba. Effected bikes shall be models 1998 and newer bikes.

Competition: Jerry Fouts reported

• The clubs have been reporting after events quickly, it’s been great. The family memberships are up.

Rulebook: Randy Patterson reported:

• Five new proposals to be decided on. To be voted on in competition meeting later tonight.

Sanctioning: Dave Pickett reported:

• The Training Wheels event is on hold. No new date as of now.
• Stockton M/C has one date correction. The correction can be found on the website

• Calendar: The Dirt Diggers picked up the full cost of the calendars. Thanks guys!

District Cards:

• Family membership is up. The size of a family membership has also increased in members.
• Looking for someone to take over district cards.

• Flag information for enduros needs to be put into rulebook. Need to add verbiage from AMA’s rule book on start flag.

• Thanks to all the clubs for the exceptional support of the ever expanding Women’s Class. The Women’s class entries is way up and it is looking really great in the Youth series thanks to Al Fitch. We are currently looking for a Steward for the Women. Please contact Eddie Diaz.
• The enduro B/C series is being sponsored by Motul.
• Marc DeMarco added as a committeemen and will be running the bar codes.

Adjourned at 9:12 p.m.

Rulebook: Randy Patterson reported:

• We have a new name change for the old Qualifier. The committee elected "Brand Q enduro".
• Voted Down: Rule change for dual points at the "Brand Q enduros". There will be no dual points awarded.
• Voted to Pass: Change entire rule to read: 21.8.3 Riders will receive championship points in the Enduro category only.

Adjourned at 9:56 p.m.

All Board members present.

Enduro: Alan Plumbridge reported:

• Danny Conrade was added to the committeemen as the Youth Enduro Steward.

Banquet: Kevin Yost reported:

• Voted to take January 18^th 2003 for the banquet this year. Buckhorn will cater this event again.
• Voted: Kevin Yost to Banquet chairman. All decisions and changes to the banquet will go through Kevin Yost first.

Cross Country:

• Bar Codes will remain with the district official. The clubs will hire the scoring crew to score their events if they chose to do so. The district will have no control or evolvement in the scoring.

LAO: Bill Dart reported:

• Bill Darts last day with the district in CA will be in June 2002.

• The Legislation Reception is coming up. Last year we contributed $750. This year we will contribute $500.

Adjourned at 12:30 p.m.

Submitted by Heather Wilson