Porsche Club of America

Golden Gate Region

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

February 5, 2025

Attendance:

X	President – Howard Yao	X	Autocross – Steve Forshay
X	Vice President – Brad Zucroff	X	Motoring – Cheryl Spott
X	Secretary – Eric Wilson		Co-Track – Scott Kalkin
X	Treasurer – Alan Jung	X	Co-Track – Jim McClelland
X	Membership – Wen Shen		Nugget Editor – Jim Tierney
X	Social – Diana Bogorodskaya		Co-Webmaster – Christina Hamilton
	Creative Director – Ryan Holmes	X	Co-Webmaster – ​​Alexander Wu

Call to Order 6:13pm

President:

• New brand identity for GGR approved by Vu Nguyen (PCA Executive Director)
• Discussion of updates to 2024 Track budget – due to previously unrecognized expenses, we will no longer be making a charitable donation for last year
• Discussion of Sponsorships: we are seeking additional sponsorship
  • GGR will only solicit Porsche dealers in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties
  • We accept sponsorships from other businesses regardless of location
• Discussion of establishing redundancy across all digital accounts

Vice President:

• Discussion of updated system to accept and track requests for insurance for club events

Secretary:

• Vote to approve January 8, 2025 minutes: APPROVED
• Updated Board Directory will be published internally

Treasurer:

• We only held one event in January (our holiday celebration), so no material updates besides the previously-discussed revision to 2024 numbers

Autocross Director:

• Porsche Redwood City has agreed to sponsor our Autocross series this year (as they have in the past), including additional support towards our new trailer
• Securing insurance for planned events
• Working with Creative on branding/graphics needs: tee-shirt for Car Control Clinic and graphics for new trailer
• Want to increase participation of women: seeking feedback from existing female participants and considering more targeted, female-focused materials

Track Director:

• Working on revisions to the Track budget for 2025 based on some event date updates
• Pursuing additional sponsorships for the Track program
• Track Instructors Party will be held soon, at a Sim Racing manufacturers office

Motoring Director:

• Lead/Sweep Workshop was held at Airborne Exotic Car Club in Petaluma to train members for these positions
• First event, Valentine’s Fun Run on Feb 8, is sold out

Social Director:

• Instagram engagement of @pcaggr has increased significantly over the last month
• First Cars & Coffee held Jan 26 at CAFÉ KAZKA in Foster City – attendees overwhelmed the capacity of the coffee shop, with ~150 cars!
• Seeking a venue for February Cars & Coffee
• Next confirmed event will be “Cars & Cupcakes” Cupcakes Decorating with Connie on March 9 at Porsche Redwood City
• March Cars & Coffee will be held at SF Sportscars on March 29
• Planning “Roller” photo shot event pending insurance requirements

Membership Director:

• February 1, 2025 member counts
  • PCA GGR
    • 3809 total (2669 primary members, 1137 co-members, 3 honorary)
    • 152 PCA Juniors, 129 renewals, 48 dropped, 80 new members
  • PCA National: 163,605 active members (107,577 primary & 56,028 co-members)
• Vote to accept new members: APPROVED
• Discussion of new logo usage across stickers/decals, clothing, gifts, flyers, etc.
• Planning GGR’s 65th anniversary event this summer

Webmaster:

• Have located archive of old Nugget issues

Nugget Editor:

• Submission deadline for this month’s newsletter is Feb 17

Adjournment 8:31pm

Next Board Meeting: March 5, 2025 @ Howard’s