Grayling Visitors Bureau

General Membership Meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month – Our next meeting will be on January 5^th, 2012 at the Ramada Inn of Grayling starting at 7: pm.  AVSA meetings are open to anyone who wishes to attend.

Meeting dates for the remaining 2011–2012 season are as follows: February 2^nd, 2012 – March 1^st, 2012 – April 5^th, 2012

As I sit here in the middle of December preparing this month’s newsletter I’m having trouble getting excited about this season with little to no snow on the ground.  Crawford County is roughly 25 inches behind our average snow fall for this time of year and we are not alone.   Know a good snow dance?

With little to report I dug into the 2010-2011 DNR Grant Summary*:    

The DNR annually issues grants from the recreational snowmobile trail improvement subaccount to non-profit snowmobile trail sponsors. The following were for 2010-2011:

• Equipment – $1,876,717
• Grooming – $1,704,184
• Special Maintenance (filling and grading, bridge repair and replacement, culverts, new development, etc.) – $1,546,548
• Miscellaneous Expenses (comp insurance, liability insurance, land lease payments, snowplowing and portable toilets at trailheads) – $765,501
• Brushing and Signing – $576,054
• Major Repair of Equipment – $196,615
• Signs and Posts – $95,726
• Groomer Utility – $94,200
• Contingency – $69,000
• Fuel Adjustment – $63,394
• Holdback for Next Year – $800,000

 Number of designated snowmobile trail miles in 2010-11: 6,407 miles. This is slightly less than 2009-10 (6,412 miles).

Number of miles groomed in 2010-11: 372,906

Number of permits sold in 2010-11: 164,003

Total permit dollars received: $5,543,118

2011 snowmobile grant spending authority: $8,004,000

*Information from MSA

 Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

AVSA Board of Directors

Pres.-Rich Filley    V.P.-Tom Everly    Secretary-Mike Miller    Grooming-Keith Miles

Safety-Art Fisette    Web & Treas.-Rob Tomlinson    B.O.D.-Bob Smith

B.O.D.-Bill Weaver   B.O.D.-Mike Brown

Contact via US mail at: AVSA, PO Box 1176, Grayling, MI 49738

Or visit us at: www.GoSledGrayling.org

                           Frequent our Business Sponsors Whenever Possible!!
Airway Automation                    
Fay’s Motel & Cottages              
Grayling Generating Station
Grayling Visitors Bureau            
Jack Millikin, Inc. Excavating                  
McLean’s Ace Hardware
Pointe North Motel                     
Ramada Inn                                          
Rich’s Cycle Service
River Country Motor Lodge        
Woodland Motor Lodge                          
Charlie’s County Corners
Grayling Restaurant                   
Sledheads of Frederic                            
Spicer’s Boat City
Forward Shell Gas Station          
The Medicine Shoppe