BMW CCA, Puget Sound Region
Board Meeting Minutes
November 4, 2004

The meeting was called to order by Membership Chair Rick Gulstrom at 7:10 PM at the Issaquah Roundtable Pizza. Those in attendance were:

• Rick Gulstrom, Membership Chair
• David Lightfoot, Treasurer
• Martin Hovenkotter, Tour Coordinator
• Lance Richert, Concours Chair
• Alan James, Tech Events Coordinator
• Lucetta Lightfoot, Zündfolge Editor
• Jim Millet, Zündfolge Advertising Manager
• Mike Ellis, SIG Coordinator
• Walt Conley, Chief Driving Instructor
• de-Anna Martin, Banquet Chair
• Dane Martin, Member
• Jeff Butler, Member
• Zena Bartusch
• Chris Mason, Member
• Lynne Eskil, Member
• Don Robesch, Member
• Kim Burgess, Member
• Tom Olsson, Secretary

Opening Comments
Rick Gulstrom welcomed everyone.  No introductions were needed.

President's Report
News from National
• Newsletter/Webmaster conference May 13-15, 2005, in Atlanta
• Wiesenberg has chosen not to cover drifting events


Nominating Committee
The Committee reports that we have a full slate of Officers, with no contested positions.

Treasurer's Report
David reports that the cash basis is down, as we've prepaid all of the Pacific Raceway track fees.  He distributed a report, which is attached to these minutes by its mention.  Current assets total $86,799.70, with $51,646.18 in cash.  Both Zündfolge and Track are on their budgets.  Track will not make quite as much money as forecast due to the Fall Novice school and Portland school being somewhat under-subscribed.  Committee draft operating budgets for 2005 are due at the December Board meeting, and final budgets are due at the January meeting.
 

Track Committee
Past Events -
• October 17th Novice school had rather light attendance, possibly due to the torrential rain.  We also had an Instructor damage his car on the full course at the end of the day, possibly due to the combination of rain and VHT.  The Driving Committee recognizes that we have a concern with the full course at Bremerton, and will revisit how we conduct Instructor rides in the off-season.
• October 30th school (Portland) again was lightly attended, only 43 students.  It was raining again, and the track was extremely slick.  Kudos to the Instructors for keeping everyone safe in the difficult conditions.

Upcoming Events -
• November 13th Advanced Skills Day at Bremerton has 20 people signed up.  We would like to see 30.  Dan Tackett, the Pacific Region DEC, is coming to help with the event.

General Business -
• Bremerton rates for 2005 are going up to $750.
• The Foundation has approached us as a Chapter to host a Street Survival school in 2005.  We said we were interested.
• Tentative dates for 2005:  2/20-Instructor Clinic (BMP); 2/26-Instructor Clinic (PR); 3/13-Novice School (BMP); 3/19-Novice School (PR); 6/5-Driving School (PR); 7/10-Driving School (PR); 8/28-Driving School (PR).  October Novice school won't be scheduled until the Conference race schedule and the IEC school schedules are released.

Tours and Rally
Tours -
• Past tours
     • Fall Color, 10/9 - Martin reported that 30 cars attended, great Mexican food, everyone had fun, safe event.  This was the last event of the year.
    
Rally - no report

SIG Groups and Events
• E30 Tech Session, 10/10 - Lances reported that 25 M3's came.  Everything went smoothly.
• Mike reported that the '02 SIG went on a tour up to Leavenworth and got snowed on.

Zündfolge
• The deadline for the Jan issue is Tuesday, Nov. 30th
• Lucetta reports that she has a very full issue coming out this month, but is still looking for material for the January issue.
• Need to work on advertiser comp list.  Jim and Rick will follow up.

Roster and Membership
• Rick reports that he sent out 40 new member packets last month.  National membership is at 66,966, slightly down from last month.