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Motion noted to raise sportsmen’s club coyote-hunt payout; budget line shows funds available
Summary
A meeting participant reported a motion at the annual meeting to raise the sportsman's club coyote-hunt payout from $1,000 to $1,500; participants said the current budget shows $2,000 allocated and discussed how payouts are calculated per coyote.
Meeting participant (S6) told the group that at the annual meeting a motion was made to increase the sportsman's club coyote-hunt payout to $1,500 from a prior $1,000. “Motion was made in our annual meeting...to go to the sportsman's club for the annual coyote hunt. It's 1,500,” S6 said.
S6 described how the club divides the total bounty by a per-unit value ($17.50 in the example) to calculate individual payouts and said the budget now shows $2,000 in the relevant line, which participants acknowledged during the review. Committee members discussed historical participation and whether the incentive money helped secure buyers for coyotes and other furbearers.
The discussion included operational details — S6 said participants sign a sheet showing how many coyotes they brought in and are then paid from the pooled funds — and observed that markets for some animals (raccoons, foxes, badgers) no longer exist, while porcupine guard hairs have niche value for craft and fly-tying markets.
The meeting did not record a formal roll-call vote on this motion in the transcript; participants signaled agreement in the budget pages and noted the budgetary line. The group recorded the annual-meeting motion and will treat the budget line as reflecting current funding for the hunt.
Next steps: the clerk will reflect the $2,000 line in the finalized pages and document the annual meeting motion in the minutes.
