Porsche Club of America

Golden Gate Region

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

June 5, 2024

Attendance:

X	President – Howard Yao	X	Autocross – Himanshu Patel
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	X	Nugget Editor – Jim Tierney
X	Social – Kate Efremova		Co-Webmaster – Christina Hamilton
			Co-Webmaster – ​​Alexander Wu

Call to Order 6:33pm

President:

• Brainstorming on potential venues for Year-End Awards (~100 attendees)
• Discussion on how to coordinate AutoX & Track schedules to avoid overlap

Vice President:

• No updates

Secretary:

• Vote to approve May 1, 2024 minutes: APPROVED

Treasurer:

• May 2024 financials discussion, vote to accept: APPROVED
• Current bank balance: ~$244k bank balance with minimal outstanding

Membership Director:

• June 1, 2024 member counts
  • PCA GGR
    • 3827 total (2656 primary members, 1168 co-members, 3 honorary)
    • 138 PCA Juniors, 104 renewals, 52 dropped, 53 new members
  • PCA National: 161,838 active members (106,191 primary & 55,647 co-members)
• Vote to accept new members: APPROVED

Autocross Director:

• Autocross #3 held on May 4 at Salinas
  • Rain storm caused the competition to be called off at noon (so 3 runs counted)
  • Participants were instead offered a skid pad exercise for the afternoon!
  • Buffet dinner had light attendance given the weather
• Autocross #4 is June 9 at Salinas
• Beginners Car Control Clinic and Advanced Car Control Clinic now scheduled for June 22 and 23, respectively, at Alameda
  • Insurance requirements for Alameda site were really challenging
  • 55 students already signed up with 30 instructors for Saturday
  • 60+ signed up for Sunday

Track Director:

• Buttonwillow DE (May) report
  • Much better financial results than expected
  • Weather extremely mild compared to usual
• Sonoma DE (June) projections are looking positive
• Chasing on sponsorships where promised checks haven’t actually come in yet
• Planning to coordinate more with Diablo so their Friday DE events blend more into our track weekends
• Have an available Buttonwillow date in November, but Sonoma would have to make a lot of money for us to seriously consider that
• Brainstorming on promotion of track events – can promote that members of other PCA regions can register for our events
• Track team (volunteers) continue to receive great reviews from the PCA National stewards

Motoring Director:

• Co-hosted a rally with Redwood Region: good showing of cars
• Mammoth Drive has strong registrations
• Nothing organized yet for July but will plan one
• Additional events planned for later in the year, potentially a re-do of the rained-out event held on Valentine’s Day

Social Director:

• Event May 19 at Issimi (San Carlos) had tons of cars, raffle winners will be contacted
• Next Cars & Coffee on Saturday, June 29 at Sonoma (track event) – event announcements will contain a paddock map showing where they should park, and volunteers needed for gate (managing signing of waivers, directing attendee parking)
• July event will likely be somewhere in South Bay
• August event may be held at San Francisco Sports Cars

Webmaster:

• (not present)
• Alex had a baby boy on May 30!
• Alex and Christina will operate together as Co-Webmasters

Nugget Editor:

• Submission deadline for this month’s newsletter is June 10
• Need to reconcile the mailing list for The Nugget in with PCA’s list for all region members

Adjournment 7:58pm

Next Board Meeting: July 3, 2024 @ Kate’s place