SnoTrack has let us down
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 6:32 am
Just received word that SnoTrack has decided to limit all funding of SnoTrack funds to grooming. What I received in regards to the Iron Dog grant application:
My response:I just got news that we may have been dropped for ANY grants for 2014. Apparently, in a desperate move, someone made a motion to drop ALL funding for any programs other than grooming…and it passed!
The question is, do you recall if there are any mandates, bylaws or statutes that require the SnowTRAC board to fund at least some level of education/safety programs? (FYI, only NAOI and Iron Dog have applications for this)
Either way, we do plan to make a very strong appeal to this motion/decision. It is wrong on principle to drop all educational programs, regardless if do/don't get funded.
Thanks,
Kevin
It may be time to contact Juneau in a coordinated effort to address the SnoTrack issue in general.1st, this type of action was/is our concern with the SnoTrack committee from the beginning and I'm not surprised they did it.
As a recommendation committee "not" appointed by the Governor, DNR has broad administrative powers, to broad I believe.
You should read their Operating Procedures, located at http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/misc/operat ... edures.pdf and also contact every snowmobile club in the state to address this issue,
I plan to make this action known to the Fairbanks Snow Travelers.
Unfortunately the only real action that the snowmachine community can take is to contact Juneau and ask the powers that be to consider defunding SnoTrack if they don't follow their own Procedures as written and published. It is a violation of the trust they have been given to disburse the funding they receive representing the snowmachine community of Alaska.
Best we can do is try and get them to reverse their decision based on the verbiage of the Operating Procedures they published.