Heart of the North Snowmobile Council

The Heart of the North Snowmobile Council was established in 2001 to cover
the Center of the Lower Pennisula's North Country snowmobiling area. By-Laws
were established in 2002 to formalize the Council.

This Council covers an eight county area in the Michigan Snowmobile
Association's Region 2 and has 3 appointed delegates to the MSA that activily
hold seats on the Board of Directors of that organization.

A majority of the Clubs and DNR Grant Holding entities in the area belong to the
Council as active participants. (Currently NINE organizations are ACTIVE, with
SEVEN holding Trail Grants). Under the By-Laws of the Michigan Snowmobile
Association all clubs and associations with-in the Council District are members
of the Council. Then, each entity is intitled to Actively join the Council, or just
be passive in their area. ALL REPRESENTATION on the MSA Board is through
their Council. In non Council areas, representation may be by an at-large
appointed representative. Clubs, but not Councils are entitled to one vote in
the election of officers. All other business of the MSA is conducted through their
Council Representatives and the Executive Committee of the Association.
Executive Committee consists of ALL OFFICERS of the Association, Past
President(s) and three duly elected Board Members from each of the Three
Regions of the Association (Officers except the President each hold one of their
3 regional seats). Full Board of Directors meetings are alternated with
meetings of the Executive Board during the year. Executive Committee
members are expected to play an ACTIVE ROLL in the operation of the
Association (such as a leadership roll in one of the many committees it takes to
operate).

This Web Site is intended to provide distribution of information on Council
Meetings, Links to other Snowmobile web sites, Links to member club Web sites
and To Provide factual information on the Council and its membership to the
community at large.

On Saturday April 19,2008 over 100 interested snowmobiler's and grant
sponsors spent the day in facilitated focus groups. These focus groups were
being used to chart a direction for MSA to use in their strategic planning
process.

Information collected from the day?s meeting will be used by the board of
directors to further dissect the information collected and put together the plan
for MSA to follow in the coming years.

Video segments of the Meeting are available for viewing on the MSA Web Site
front page. There are 5 segments, totaling almost one hour of viewing. They
are also available on YouTube. Go to the Links Page of this site for the MSA
link.