BMW CCA Puget Sound Region

Board Meeting

July 5, 2001

Members in attendance:

Lucetta Lightfoot

Kevin Chow

Joni Candey

Karl Seeger

Bill Spornitz

Lance Richert

Stephen Niver

David Lightfoot

Tom Cox

Chris Linder

Bill Linder

Ken Wear

President Lance opened the meeting shortly after 7pm.

Lance reported that the CCA National meeting Oct. 6 & 7, 2001 is for the president and treasurer (current or elect) and no substitutes can attend. Our club will not have representation at the meeting.

Treasurer’s report was a balance of $16,866.43. Lance handed out information on the Missouri Valley Chapter’s embezzled funds by their treasurer. Bill S. is looking into a Fiduciary bond/ banking practices and will report at the next board meeting.

The detailing session at Bradley’s was a great event. Follow up in the next Zündfolge. Many raffle items from Bradley’s.

Lucetta reported on the Historics Car Corral at SIR. The event is full and additional tickets were purchased for club members and there was a waiting list. SOVREN is also involved in a classic car show this fall in Seattle. More info will come as it becomes available.

Bill S. reported for Rick G. that the Dinan Tech Session at Strictly BMW was getting big. Non-club members also were invited by Strictly. The club will have a sign in table with promotion for the club. Three Dinan information areas will be set up and groups will rotate through.

ALMS PIR event has spent $350 of BMW NA and BMW CCA’s donation of $1000. The NA money has not been received but CCA’s money has been received. 15 members are signed up. There will be a parade lap on Saturday and autograph session on Sunday.

The CCA National Board Meeting will be here in Seattle area in August. (8/25) There was discussion about the location and dinner. The board felt $35 per person for dinner would be okay.

BMW Seattle will sponsor the IRDC SIR race on 9/9.

Lance suggested a club event at Evergreen Speedway (demolition show and fireworks 9/29) where the club would all sit together as a group.

Autobody tech session chaired by Jim Millet—no report on this 11/3 event.

Ken Wear spoke of the ’02 event at Ray Kirkland’s garage.

Chris Linder handed out Concours posters to be distributed to local businesses. Twelve display and nine judged BMWs are registered at this time. There will be a Meguiar’s representative attending. Lance is getting a case of Chevron cars for the coloring participants. Bill S. is picking up the rental items.

Lucetta reported on the Zündfolge. Status of the mailing service and deadline change was discussed. The board okayed the funds for photos, of the Z3 cars used in the July Zündfolge, to be made and given to the owners.

There is still problems with some memberships since the ACA/CCA merger. The list may have to be gone through by hand to confirm who should be on the list. It was reported that ten members are known, but there could be more, who are affected. Wynne at CCA national office has been very helpful during this process.

Kevin Chow has volunteered to help with the banquet. Discussion included Kevin’s travel and working with Rick’s help. The board voted for Kevin to be the Banquet Coordinator, a board position.

Discussion on SIR usage in the future. SOVREN is one of the largest groups using the road course. The Club’s July 22^nd event is full and August 26^th event is filling.

Tours:

The LeMay Tour was a great event. Donation towards the museum was about $600. Members felt it was a full event, with the maximum number for the location.

Wine Tour was a great event. Most likely the next wine tour will have a limit to the number of participants. The board voted to reimburse the $120 expense incurred.

Ocean Shores trip is on 8/4. Dave Himes organizing event.

FestNW on 9/15 & 16. Help is needed with the TSD rally. The BC Club is hosting the event. Karl not getting much info about this event.

Much discussion about insurance and driving pace for future tours. The Club wants no part of speeding by members. An article will appear in a future issue of Zündfolge.

The 02 Interest group is having an informal tour on 7/8.

No Web Site report as Dale was not present. Mention of the bulletin board being very active.

Roundabout:

*Greg—Michelle’s 320 will be entered in the Concours. Roster now only electronic as it is 175 pages.

*Karl—Speed Vision changed to Nascar. Hans Stuck has the Nürburgring record for SAV’s.

*Kevin—is ready to go!

*Lucetta—reminder about the Policy & Procedure contributions.

*Ken Wear—shared his 02 flyers he made up for placing on 02’s. Brian Capp is helping with the 02 group. The first event is 7/8 and the next meeting is 7/18.

*Chris—received email from CCBC re: increase in the cost of Concours registration. Houston Chapter asking for info on how to put on a Concours. Chris is sending them past Zündfolges and info to help them.

*Tom—suggested putting detailing how to article by Tom Nast on the web site. Lucetta will contact Tom Nast. Gray car sold to a good home; owner will join soon.

*Steve—asked about getting advertisers from the Portland area.

*Lance—reminder to get checks to the treasurer ASAP. A Banquet auction donation of a full detail, is being used on his car.

All other members present passed on roundabout.

Meeting adjourned at 9:30pm.

Respectfully submitted by

Lucetta Lightfoot

filling as secretary for Evie Falkin who was not present.