Porsche Club of America
Golden Gate Region
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
July 3, 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 | Nugget Editor – Jim Tierney | |
| X | Social – Kate Efremova | Co-Webmaster – Christina Hamilton | |
| Co-Webmaster – Alexander Wu |
Call to Order 6:21pm
President:
- Discussion of new GGR logo proposal from Tim Hankerson
- PCA Zone 7 will be unincorporated so their MotorsportReg account will be closed soon
- LPR expected to take over the Zone 7 Concours series
- GGR expected to take over the Zone 7 Autocross series
- To be voted on at upcoming Presidents meeting
- Next year will be GGR’s 65th anniversary!
Vice President:
- No updates
Secretary:
- Vote to approve June 5, 2024 minutes: APPROVED
Treasurer:
- June 2024 financials discussion, vote to accept: APPROVED
- Current bank balance: ~$248.5k bank balance with minimal outstanding
Membership Director:
- July 1, 2024 member counts
- PCA GGR
- 3786 total (2630 primary members, 1153 co-members, 3 honorary)
- 140 PCA Juniors, 125 renewals, 84 dropped, 27 new members
- PCA National: 162,175 active members (106,494 primary & 55,681 co-members)
- PCA GGR
- Vote to accept new members: APPROVED
- Share photos with Wen for submission to PCA magazine
Autocross Director:
- Autocross #4 held on June 9 event at Salinas
- Beginners Car Control Clinic held on June 22 at Alameda
- Basic exercises in the morning – skidpad, slalom and braking
- Autocross-like course in the afternoon
- Advanced Car Control Clinic held on June 23 at Alameda with a simulated Autocross course (no timing)
- Autocross #5 is July 28 at Salinas
- Autocross #6 is August 11 at Crows Landing
- Discussion about using an alternative timing software package, Clokkr, to replace Pronto
Track Director:
- Sonoma Track Event (June) – very well attended
- Track team will meet next week – need to build up the volunteer team as have a lot of key-person risk today
- Jim volunteered at the PCA Club Race at Watkins Glen hosted by Zone 1 – took back some learnings about gridding process
- Continuing to collaborate with Diablo PCA on streamlining two track events in a weekend to look like one
- Thunderhill Track Event (October) coming up next: Oct 12-13
- Diablo DE on Friday, Oct 11
- Our DE registrations are open now
- Club Racing registrations are opening soon
- Considering another event at Buttonwillow in November (DE & Club Race)
- Open question is whether the new circuit will be available
- Central Coast will be running Friday, November 1
- We have November 2-3 dates available but have not made any commitments yet
- Looking for a designated Time Trial coordinator
Motoring Director:
- Mammoth Drive was fun
- Harris Ranch coming up next on July 20
- Unsure of August event with Car Week
- Lost Coast in September
- Santa Barbara in October
Social Director:
- Most recent Cars & Coffee at Sonoma on June 29
- Coordinated parade laps with track event: two groups of 12 cars each
- Overall, average attendance
- Next event will be end of July in Los Altos near 280 & 85
- San Francisco Sports Cars (on Industrial Road in San Carlos) event is now October
- Working on event with Panerai watches in Santa Clara for November
Webmaster:
- (not present)
Nugget Editor:
- (not present)
Adjournment 8:03pm
Next Board Meeting: August 7, 2024 @ Wen’s place