2021 WATVA Annual Meeting & Convention April 16th, 17th & 18th 2021

Sponsors 

The Wisconsin ATV / UTV Association would like to thank this years dealership sponsors! If you're looking for a home dealership, you'll definitely want to check out one of the following dealerships.

Friday, April 16th - Reception 

Let's Network! Our Friday evening reception included a cash bar and time to network with other club leaders, agency partners and learn about other our friends in the 4-wheel drive community.

Saturday, April 17th - Workshops (All Workshops Subject to Change)

• Club - Dealer Partnerships: Presented by Tom Van Zeeland of Team Winnebagoland. Tom will discuss how a club and a dealership can work together to promote each other, encouraging each to increase their exposure and drive memberships. 
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• Trail & Route Sign Manufacturing: Presented by Mark Hennessy and Paul Gradian of BCE Signs. Learn about how the signs are made from BCE signs, the design and build process and how your club can order.
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• Overlanding & Slow Speed Trails: Presented by Ryan Harden of Road Legal 4WD. Learn about what overlanding is and how it can be applied to the ATV / UTV industry as well as how the Road Legal 4WD industry utilizes it. Also featuring time for learning about how slow speed trails are being utilized by the 4WD community and how it can be applied to ATV / UTV trails.
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• County Recreation Officers: Presented by the WATVA Team and Marinette County Sheriff Deputies Zak Albrecht. Learn how your club trail ambassadors can work with county recreational officers on educating, promoting and enforcement on the trails. Learn also about how club members can be utilized for welcome centers while club ambassadors are patrolling the trail systems. 
• Trail Ambassador Program for Clubs: Presented by the WATVA Team. Learn what the Trail Ambassador program can do for your club. Also, how our new club coordinators can help facilitate club trail ambassador operations including recruitment, engagements and training.

• Radio Communications - Can you hear me now? This workshop looks at various two-way communication tools you can utilize including CB Radio, FMS / GMRS, HAM Radio and other long range tools. Guest speaker is John Kruk from JJK Communications.
• Road Routes Town Hall: Presented by the WATVA Team.  A town hall style workshop where clubs can collaborate on various road route issues.
  • Click here to see the road route bill draft.
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• Club Marketing: Presented by Jeff Anderson from the Wisconsin Department of Tourism. What tools are available for your club to promote events, membership and the positive things going on in your community?
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• Trailering Safety: Presented by Rattle Free Hitches. Learn about proper trailering techniques as well as seeing a near product designed to help reduce stress and noise for bumper pull trailers.
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  • Click here to see Rattle Free Hitches hand out.
• Kuryakyn Product Showcase: Presented by Tim Horvath of Kurayakyn. Learn more about how Kurayakyn is supporting the ATV / UTV / 4WD / OHM industries with quality aftermarket products.
• WATVA Annual Meeting.
  • Click here to view the ATV / UTV Funding Presentation.
  • Click here to view the WATVA goals.
  • Click here to view the ATV / UTV Child Safety Workgroup notes.
  • Click here to view the Child Workshop handout.
  • Click here to view the Youth Expo announcement.
  • Click here to view the OWI bill draft.

Sunday, April 18th - Review

It's time to wrap up the weekends activity with a town-hall style review. During this meeting we discussed what we liked, didn't like and plans for the remainder of the year / next years annual meeting. This session was open to the public as we love to hear feedback on how you enjoyed (or didn't) the annual convention. 

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