Golden Gate Region 

5 July 2023

Attendance:

X	President – Ed Hunter	X	Autocross – Himanshu Patel
	Vice President – Brad Zucroff	X	Motoring – Gilbert Bouzeid
X	Secretary – Melinda Lin	X	Track – Howard Yao
X	Treasurer – Canyon Chan	X	Nugget Editor – Jim Tierney
X	Membership – Wen Shen		Webmaster – Chris Hamilton
X	Social – Kate Efremova

Call to Order at 6:12 PM

President: 

• Welcome
• Sponsor package discussion (+Captain Mike) – provide options and Ed will follow up
• Parade post-mortem – in Palm Springs, 41 entries, 60 GGR members attended
• Elections – August/September for nominations, November is election
• Subsidies Status:
• multi2-500 (AX-received)
• multi-3 750 (Track-received)
• charity750 (Concours, Ed will apply)
• new member500 (next Membership event)

• Purchase Owl for conferencing device for next year’s budget = APPROVED
• Rook’s Reunion during Car Week in Monterey, $100 for parking spot

Vice-President:

• No updates

Secretary: 

• Vote to approve May 31 Minutes = APPROVED
• Vote to purchase camera and audio device from next year’s budget

Treasurer: 

• May 31 financials = APPROVED
• Balance for DE4 Sonoma was paid

Membership Director:

• Membership Update and vote to accept new members, total 3,745
  • Primary members 2,592, Co Members 1,152, Honorary/Lifetime 3, PCA Jrs 129, Renewals 49, Dropped 84, New Members 45

National active Members 157,232, Primary Members 103,009, Co-Members 54,223

• Pano Submissions – August is submitted, Sept will be from the parade
• Member Social Event
  • 12 July, 11-2p ay AutoVino, MSR Registration: 144, Attendees: 130+, New Members 50+, New Badge: 41, Cost/Income: $2880 ($20/person in MSR)
  • Expense: Drink: $1300 (Not final with AutoVino), Chair rental: $550 (Not final with AutoVino), Key Chain: $732.05, Raffle: $482.02, Misc. supplies: $50+
  • Final gain: 315.93 (Not final)
• Next Event: 18 Nov?
  • Potential Partner: BRRacing, DJ (GGR member)
  • Location: TBD
  • Budget: $1500
  • GGR T-shirt

Autocross Director:

• 10 June AX5 at Salinas Airport, 62 drivers, 10 students
• 9 July AX6 at Salinas Airport
• 26 August GGR AX7 – Zone 7 event at Salinas Airport
• 30 September GGR AX8 at Sonoma Raceway Paddock

Track Director:

• Post-mortem on DE4/CR3 Thunderhill East – turn out was higher than anticipated, 19 time trial entries – event went well
• Upcoming events DE5/CR4 -Sonoma – 50 registrants, GGR and Diablo keeps money for registration from each club, ppl from other zones/regions would be split evenly
• Will check on photographers for upcoming events, print/purchase more t- shirts with more sponsorship recognition, and reach out if sponsors interested in supporting membership events

Motoring Director

• 8-12 June Napa to Shasta Tour / PCA GGR Caravan
  • Only PCA GGR members can attend the caravan) – 10 members registered
  • Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/gxMd1NMkG7ZpSjEc7 
  • Video: https://youtu.be/UPq1SwDty3M 
• 15 July GGR Carmel Drive Event, 40 cars, sold out as of tonight, pay as you go lunch
• 29 July Mt Hamilton PCA Joint event with GGR, Diablo, RWC 30 cars, sold out
• 2 July PCA GGR Motoring H2 2023 Planning Session – finalized event

• Laguna Raceway Experience Event to be planned

Social Director:

• 10 June Porsche RWC Porsche 75th Anniversary – good event
• 17 June Porsche SF Preview (50 seats) – good event
• 25 June Half Moon Bay – 50 cars
• 30 June RWB in Mountain View, wide body builds 
• 30 July – Los Altos, Lucky parking lot, to be confirmed
• 26 Oct/26 Nov at Mt Terrace, 70 cars 

Webmaster: 

• 10 July due date for blog date, 10^th of every month will be submission date moving forward

Nugget Editor:

• No updates 

Adjournment @ 7:34PM

Topics for discussion:

Next Board Meeting: Weds, 2 Aug at Water Dog, Belmont