What’s Been Happening at NYSSA.

From the Desk of the New York State Snowmobile Association Secretary March 2015 Edition
By: Rosanne Warner, NYSSA Secretary, secretary@nysnowmobiler.com

The New York State Snowmobile Association is working to keep its members better informed of the
issues that NYSSA faces on a daily basis.
Hot off the presses here is a re-cap of what happened at the March 7, 2015 NYSSA Board of
Directors meeting.

NYSSA Board of Director Meeting Schedule
 April 4, 2015 – Canceled
 May 2, 2015 – The Rusty Rail, Route 5, Canastota, New York
 June 2015 – No Meeting
 July 18, 2015 – The Rusty Rail, Route 5, Canastota, New York
 August 2015 – No Meeting
 September 5, 2015 – Location to be Announced
 October 3, 2015 – Location to be Announced
 November 7, 2015 – Location to be Announced
 December 5, 2015 – Location to be Announced

Membership Dues Increase
A membership dues increase has been proposed and will go to the Delegates at the 2015 Annual
Meeting at the Rochester Convention Center, April 12, 2015. The proposal is for a $5 increase to
the membership dues with $4.00 going to the club selling the membership and $1.00 will go to fund
SLEDNY.

New GPS Submissions Announced
GPS submission has been decided by the New York State OPRHP Snowmobile Unit. GPS data collected
prior to January 2011 will be required to be updated. GPS data submissions will be required every
three (3) years.

Parks Proposal
As of June 1, 2016 (expected 16-17 Phase I due date), all trails must have GPS data no older than
January 1, 2011.
As of June 1 2020 (expected 2020-2021 Phase I due date), all trails must have GPS data no older
than January 1, 2017.

Thereafter, each and every trail must have GPS data no more than three years old. This gives clubs
over a year from the expected release of the 2015-2016 grant documentation in April of 2015 to
prepare for the 2016 deadline, and 3+ years to prepare for the 2020 deadline. After the 2020
deadline, every trail would be required to be gps’d at least every three years. It is recommended
that clubs stagger their GPS efforts beginning in 2017 so they are not collecting data for all of
their trails in the same year.
Please note that our requirement for any newly proposed trails or re-routes to be gps’d in the
grant year they are proposed.

March 2015 – Secretary’s Report

Snowmobile Registrations
As of 3/7/2015 snowmobile registrations in New York State was 120,163 snowmobiles. That is
wonderful news for the trail fund.

NYSSA Membership
As of 3/7/2015 NYSSA Membership was 61,238.

Nilico Mailing
A mailing will be sent out by NYSSA on behalf of Nilico Insurance to every member that has not
opted out of receiving communications from NYSSA and its business members.

Legislative Gazette
NYSSA will be doing an insert in the March edition of the Legislative Gazette. Advertisements were
sold to pay for the publication and the insert will be included in the Legislative Gazette which is
read by all legislators in Albany. NYSSA will receive 1,500 extra copies to distribute throughout
the state.

NYSSA Forum
The Forum will be held on April 10, 11 & 12th in Rochester, NY. Registration is still open and
rooms
can be booked at the Rochester Hilton. There are many new classes that will be presented on
including:
 GPS for Beginners
 Snowmobile Youth Safety Class
 Volunteer Round Table
 Social Media/How Clubs Can Improve Communication
 Youth in Snowmobiling
 All About Permits (DEC, Parks, Health Dept., Dig Safe, DOT)
 501(c)3 What you need to know
 Basic Snowmobile Maintenance
 Women in Snowmobiling
 Club and Membership Relations
 Plus Many More

Groomer Rate Recommendation
The NYSSA Trail and Funding Committee has made recommendations to OPRHP for Groomer Rates. These
rates are only recommendations and have not been adopted by the OPRHP Snowmobile Unit.

Groomer Classification recommendations:
Class A: Generally over 150hp with 8′ drag widths minimum
Class B: Generally less than 150hp with 7′-8′ drag widths
Class C: Generally less than 80hp with 4′-7′ drag widths
Class D: Snowmobiles/ATV/UTV and equipment comparable to these regardless of drag width

*Class A –
Bombardier-160,180, 250 ME, 350ME, ME PLUS
PB- 100,200,230, 240, 260, 270, 300 Bully, Trail Bully
Tucker- 2000’s only
Tracked Tractors- 110hp + Case Puma 145 NH TS 110 NH TM130 TM 134 TM 115 7740 Kubota
M125(6)XDTC
LMC- 1800’s, 3700’s
Lambtrac-All
Thikol- 2100’s 165hp Prinoth- Husky TG176hp Marcel MXM 140
VMC 04W 174 HP

*Class B- roughly less than 150hp
Bombardier- 110, 60, 200,252
PB- 130, 150
Tucker- any model other than a 2000 or 442
Tracked Tractors- 65hp-109hp JD 6400 CAT MT 535B Kubota 126 Puma 230 Kubota H126 (half-track) ASV-
other than track truck all DX4539 DX4530
LMC-1500’s
Trail Boss- All
Full Size Pickup conversion- All
Gilberts- All
VMC RT-01 105 hp
Trail Boss -110hp Diesel
Lambtrac-All
ASG- All unless Larry Synder can identify. Bell- TC 110
Prinoth- Trooper

*Class C- Less than 80HP
Bombardier- 100, bombi, muskeg, 100+, JW 70 & 71, SW 48, JW 73
PB- 60
Tucker -442A
Tracked Tractors- less than 65hp TC 45 Kubota L5740
Track trucks- All 2800, 8600
Cushman- All
SUV/truck conversions- All
Thikol 1450 56hp, IMP 1400-1402 30 hp, 1200’s
Centaur 954DT
ASV- Scout 50 HP

*Class D-
All snowmobiles, UTV’s (Bobcat CT450) Arctic cat Prowler, Kubota 900 & 1100 UTV’s, Polaris Ranger,
Kawasaki Mule, Yamaha Rhino, John Deere Gator 825I & 850I, ATV with tracks.

Using the fact that repairs are no longer allowed as per Parks’ rules, the trails committee
reviewed and
recommends to parks the following rate:
Usage Flat Rate
A $ 180/hour
B $ 128/hour
C $ 52/hour
D $ 21/hour

The above figures do NOT include labor. These figures were realized by the Trails Committee using
only operational costs associated with these specialized pieces of grooming equipment that are not
used in other applications to recoup the money that is invested.

NYSSA Officers
The nominations received for NYSSA Officers to be voted on at the Annual Meeting on Sunday, April
12, 2015 are as follows:
President – Jim Elmore
VP – Craig LaPlante
Secretary – Rosanne Warner
Treasurer – John Occhino

Clean Sled Challenge
Once again, NYSSA will be donating $500.00 each to Rochester Institute of Technology, University of
Buffalo and Clarkson University for the 2015 Clean Sled Challenge which is already underway. Good
luck to all of our New York State schools who are competing.

Annual Charity Auction
Raffle Baskets are needed for the Annual Charity Auction. Clubs and Associations are asked to
donate baskets and items for the raffle. The proceeds go to help fund the Pink Ribbon Riders, the
USO and Easter Seals. Please help support these worth-while charities by donating to the auction.

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