Porsche Club of America

Golden Gate Region

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

April 3, 2024

Attendance:

	President – Howard Yao	X	Autocross – Himanshu Patel
X	Vice President – Brad Zucroff	X	Motoring – Cheryl Spott
X	Secretary – Eric Wilson	X	Co-Track – Scott Kalkin
X	Treasurer – Alan Jung		Co-Track – Jim McClelland
X	Membership – Wen Shen		Nugget Editor – Jim Tierney
X	Social – Kate Efremova		Webmaster – Christina Hamilton
		X	Invited Member – ​​Alexander Wu

Call to Order 6:37pm

President:

• (not present)
• Reminder: next year is GGR’s 65th anniversary!

Vice President:

• No updates

Secretary:

• Vote to approve March 6, 2024 minutes: APPROVED

Treasurer:

• Mar 2024 financials discussion, vote to accept: APPROVED
• Current bank balance: ~$237.6k
  • We have (and will continue to) incur higher expenses at this point in the year as deposits are placed for events later in 2024
  • Event revenues will not be earned until after the events take place
• Targeted with a phishing attack with the scammer purporting to be Howard Yao – so everyone should stay vigilant!

Membership Director:

• April 3, 2024 member counts
  • PCA GGR
    • 3790 total (2631 primary members, 1156 co-members, 3 honorary)
    • 135 PCA Juniors, 102 renewals, 67 dropped, 37 new members
  • PCA National: 160,722 active members (105,454 primary & 55,268 co-members)
• Membership Event was recently held at Auto-Vino with 126 registrations!
• Vote to accept new members: APPROVED

Autocross Director:

• First Auto-X event held March 9 at Crows Landing: over-subscribed for the first time in a while; 8 runs with average lap over a minute (long track)
• Next event is this April 7 at Salinas, 54 registrations so far (closing today)
• Car Control Clinic (Saturday Beginners/School and Sunday Advanced) was originally scheduled April 20-21 is moving to May 25-26, pending finalization of the contract with County of Alameda (Ed Hunter helping to sort it out)

Track Director:

• Thunderhill event coming up this weekend, currently 74 DE and 37 racers (with new sign-ups still coming in)
• Sponsorship Update
  • Checks have come in: Roboostoff & Kalkin and SP Motorsports
  • Porsche Redwood City has decided not to sponsor track events this year, so we’ll be approaching other dealers for support

Motoring Director:

• Second event of the year held on March 16 with 40 attendees (sold-out)
• Upcoming events:
  • April 27 in North Bay
  • May 25 in South Bay as a Demonstration Rally
  • June 14-16 to Mammoth
  • July TBD
  • August 10 to Carmel, tied into Car Week
  • September 13-15 to Lost Coast
  • October 18-20 to Santa Barbara
• Planning:
  • July
  • November: Ladies Drive co-hosted with Redwood Region
  • December: Holiday Event

Social Director:

• Cars & Coffee #3 held March 31 in Los Gatos with ~100 cars
• Next event is April 28, location being confirmed
• Velocity International will be held October 4-6, 2024 in Sonoma and are offering package deals, so will try to organize a group

Webmaster:

• Welcome ​​Alexander Wu, who has expressed interest in the Webmaster position
• Alex would look to migrate Membership Spotlight from Google Sites to our WordPress site for consistency with the rest of the site
• Alex suggested reclassifying our Google Workspace as a non-profit organization, which would eliminate the cost

Nugget Editor:

• (not present)
• Submission deadline for this month’s newsletter is April 15

Adjournment 7:43pm

Next Board Meeting: May 1, 2024 @ Ditas in Sausalito