BMW CCA Puget Sound Region

Monthly Board Meeting

May 3^rd, 2000

Vice President, Lance Richert, called the meeting to order at 7:20 pm at Karl Seeger’s home.

Karl Seeger Rick Brown Lucetta Lightfoot

David Lightfoot Bill Spornitz Dale Beuning

Jacqueline Kahn Evie Mercer Greg Mierz

Lance Richert Chris Linder Tom Cox

Bill Linder Joni Candey

The next meeting will be June 1^st at Chris and Bill Linder’s home.

A motion was made and seconded to have our July and August meetings at the Mercer Island Community Center. Pizza will be delivered. A vote was taken on whether to move the Board meetings to Wednesdays. It was decided to change to Wednesdays beginning in July.

Report on the vote is as follows: 414 in favor of merge, 243 against merge.

Logo Redesign – Our questions were could we keep our logo and change the ACA to CCA? Will we be called the Puget Sound Chapter? The board generally wants to keep as much the same as possible. Questions will be forwarded to Keith Wollenberg as our liaison person.

By Laws- The committee made a draft recommendation. Discussion followed on member elected positions and Board elected positions. The Bylaws Committee will make a recommendation to the Board. Lucetta asked us to email her with our questions regarding the draft.

Next Step – Roger has suggested a transition committee be the ACA/CCA committee members. There will be track transition to CCA. Does Jacqueline need help for transition? The advertising/promotions that are currently in the dealerships will need their displays changed. Lance will join the committee to bring his ideas to them regarding this issue. Bill Spornitz suggested each of us think about how we might need board input on the affect the merger has on our positions. We can email these to Lucetta. A clarification of dual membership renewals should be made in the magazine.

Ladies Tech Session has had poor pre-registration. Hopefully our membership email reminder will bring more responses. Lucetta handed out a sheet with possible topics to be covered at the Tech session. She needs nametags from Lance.

New Members Meeting – inviting owners of new M5’s to park in front of the restaurant.

E30 M3 Tech session – conferring with Ron (Strictly BMW) on what will be covered.

Pre-Grid Motorsports follow-up – 49 members attended, it was a fun event with nice cars parked outside showing their modifications.

30^th Anniversary Celebration – Confirmed and a deposit has been made. Jill will do design on T-shirt. Lucetta gave a handout of a sample design and information of T-shirt prices. Discussion followed regarding long sleeve vs. short sleeve. Final decision has been given to Lucetta. Board approved subsidizing event. Budgeted net cost $500.

Charity Coordinator – no calls yet from notice in magazine.

Golf – Steve Niver reports only 4-5 responses, thus will table the idea for now.

Vintage Races 7/1 to 7/3- A registration form will be in the magazine. Make it clear that any BMW car is welcome in the corral. It does not have to be a "vintage" car.

IRDC Races Club Car Corral 8/6 – Chris Bowl is the contact person. We would like a big turn out to promote our club racers. Can the pace car be a BMW? We will promote the event in the magazine and at the track event in July.

Winter prep event – Lance talked to Dennis Noland at Exeter about having an October event focusing on winter prep for our cars.

Postal audit went okay. With merger will need more volunteers to get magazine out. High quality digital photo on cover of new magazine. May do E30 cover before concours event. Need articles and photos for promoting concours. Before the merge takes place, can do historical issue, possibly use poster from concours. David will get cost for adding 4 more pages for advertising.

Result of the vote posted on web page. Bill Buchanan sent video of PIR and SIR tracks, which is in the works for getting on the web site. Need to find domain information for change to CCA.

Received refund check from the Harbor Club for the incorrect amount that was charged to us.

Jill will make new nametags for the concours. The judging classes will be changed. David handed out new format. It was agreed by all that it-looked good. Banchero’s wants someone to look at what they can do for trophies. Bill Spornitz will go and look. Chris reported on dash plaques/magnets will cost 75 cents to $2.00 for three colors. Agreed it was a good price. Chris will do a "walk through" one month before event at the site of the concours. Posters will cost between $l.50 – 2.00 each.

Karl reported the Richard Weixler rally has been cancelled, and the BARC car challenge rally has also been cancelled. The karting event was fun and everyone had a good time. Wine tour June 17 and 18^th information in the magazine. Will do 5 tours the first day and 3 tours the second day. Columbia Crest is greeting us with open arms and will advertise we are coming. Karl sent input to Rolf regarding the last event we shared with the B.C. Club to Leavenworth.

Jacqueline reported the May schools are full. The ground school held May 2^nd at Bellevue BMW went well. The Laguna Seca event has 32 confirmed. Ken says everything has been mailed out. They will have a flat bed tow truck and workers for 8 corners. The Porsche Club has contacted us about the possibility of having our advanced and instructor level drivers attend their events. Currently they are not filling their events and would have space available for us to run. Jacqueline will be talking further with them to determine our club’s involvement and participation. Various clubs have met with SIR regarding the material that has been put down on the track for the dragsters. This material makes driving the track in the rain dangerous. If it rains on our lapping days we will have to close down the straight by going through the hot pits.

We have money. We are in good shape. Our balance is $13,520.00

Our membership is about 1150. We are getting lots of email addresses on the renewal forms. Currently have about 470 email addresses. Great tool.

Chris L, Bill L, & Dale left before roundabout.

Rick B – pass.

Greg M – Voting was great, pat ourselves on the back for phone calling, etc.

Evie M – pass.

Jacqueline K – Auturo has been providing concession food at Bremerton. He has health problems and has to stop. He is having a hard time giving it up. We should do something for him, either send a card or flowers.

Bill S – pass.

David L – English patient story continues.

Lucetta L – can she do handout at track for Ladies tech session? Board meeting June 1^st conflicts with some board members driving back from Laguna Seca. Will not change date of Board meeting. It will be a small group.

Karl S – pass.

Joni C – pass.

Tom C – pass.

Lance R – Impressed that 242 voted to stay independent.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 pm. Submitted by Evie Mercer, Secretary