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Monthly
Board Meeting
Minutes
July 1, 1999
The meeting was called to order at 7:25 PM by President Steve Niver at Jacqueline Kahn House.
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Greg Mierz |
Lance Richert |
Roger Wales |
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David Lightfoot |
Lucetta Lightfoot |
Ray Kirkland |
Rick Brown |
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Jacqueline Kahn |
Hugh Golden |
Karl Seeger |
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Brian Horne |
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Discussed the reference in the previous minutes to the dollar amount of the CCA stipends to ACA. Lance reports that Keith of CCA would rather the dollar amounts not be referenced in the minutes, especially if the minutes were published in the Zundfolge. We will delete them if we post the minutes on the web page.
Sandra Suzuki was introduced. She is considering doing the Secretary Position.
The Poster is done. Steve Norman is buying the trophies. Food is still being worked out. There will be a judges meeting before the event. Rick will work on getting the Bellevue BMW M1 or 3.0 Coupe. There will be bikes there again. Greg says he can do the photos. Discussion regarding using a bullhorn versus a PA system.
Lucetta reports that the corral is full except for 2 tickets for Sunday.
Brian reports there are a few spots left. 18 are filled and 12 are open.
The July event is full. Mark Greene of Griot’s garage wrote us a nice letter about the school he took of ours. He will be giving out some free stuff to everyone attending the July event. Jacqueline got information on radios from Conference. They are approximately. $190 each. We need 8-10. The funds are already available for the purchase per a previous meeting.
The feature article will be an article about the BMW LeMans victory. David passed out a 6-month financial statement for the Zundfolge budget. The cost has crept up and we have lost a couple of advertisers. One suggestion is to combine November and December into one issue like we have in the past. There was a discussion about recruiting an advertising manager. David will put in a notice about needing an advertising manager.
Roger reported on the normal stuff. Armadillo will pay their bill. Bradley owe’s $526.60. Ray will get it from him. RMS – They are closed for business. Jacqueline reports that the June track event will break even. We should still make a surplus from the remaining events after June but probably not as much as last year for the entire year, due to two of the lapping events being held on Saturdays instead of Sundays (where you can have more people, etc). Roger says we are $1,000 ahead in track so far this year.
We have exceeded 1,000 members. Greg did a bulk e-mail test. He will solicit more e-mails in the magazine. Lance is getting more comfortable with handling the membership duties. Discussion regarding Lance’s idea to send out a renewing membership questionnaire when members receive their renewal cards. The basic concept was agreed upon to do. Board members will e-mail additional ideas to Lance to work into the draft. A better random sampling will be gathered if we send them out to renewing members versus posting on the web page for anyone to respond to. Within 12 months everyone will have an opportunity to express their opinion.
Bill says that the Concours would suffer. Greg has changed his mind due to the present CCA problems. Brian thought that our questions were answered. He thinks it is an attractive offer and thinks it is critical to show to membership. Roger reviewed the expenses. At $13.50 we could handle it assuming no magazine subsidy. Lance says that membership would change from an administrative role to more of a recruitment and membership retention role. Rick wonders what are the pros and cons as does Karl. Hugh sees the benefit to getting the Roundel. He likes CCA because it is democratic. Jacqueline says the two big differences to track are that with CCA only Instructors can take passengers and tech inspections are different.
There was discussion that Keith’s interpretation of a roll bar may not be right. JK likes our direction regarding allowing passengers with more people than just instructors. She thinks we should put out a short note to the membership to solicit opinions.
Ray thought he saw a lot of smoke and mirrors. He thought Keith said one thing, but the book says another. David agreed to get something out. He is also concerned about saying one thing and seeing another. He thinks we should check into their affiliation option - and to go slowly. He saw no reason to join. As an affiliate we would be official with the International Council and it would make a hostile takeover difficult.
Lucetta didn’t think Keith answered our direct questions. CCA does get down on chapters that are not doing things right.
Steve thinks we have two next steps options: Document the pros and cons, and put out a notice to members that we are discussing the issue. This was agreed.
Jacqueline will write up a notice for the magazine.
A committee will develop pros and cons. This will include Lucetta, Jacqueline, Roger and Greg. They will see if Keith can give input. Hugh declined to help with the pros of joining CCA.
Brian asked about the previous schedule of having a general meeting about CCA in September. Steve said we have changed the schedule because we can’t be ready that soon. We presently have nothing in writing, thus nothing to present to membership one way or the other.
Steve says to bring your one good idea to the August meeting at Ray’s house.
Jacqueline will send info to Greg regarding Conference affiliation. And she really wants us to start having fun again.
Greg thanks the board members for their support. He is in touch with Jill Hilke who will help with graphics on the web page.
Karl ran a rally. He says the rally council wants to help us out.
Rick reports on the Banquet. He likes the Newcastle Golf Club. He is also looking into the Harbor Club in Bellevue or maybe the Bellevue Club but BAC has no view. He is working on a couple of ideas for speakers.
There was a discussion on whether Hugh is considered the Past President because he resigned. The issue was not resolved.
There was a general discussion about friendliness. A few people noted that most of the tension at many of the previous meetings was being caused by Hugh and to a lesser extent Brian.
Meeting adjourned around 10:00 PM
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