July 6th, 2022 Board Minutes
Golden Gate Region
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
06 July 2022
Attendance:
X | President – Ed Hunter | X | Autocross – Himanshu Patel |
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X | Vice President – Scott Kalkin | X | Motoring – Gilbert Bouzeid |
X | Secretary – Melinda Lin | X | Track – Howard Yao |
X | Treasurer – Canyon Chan | Nugget Editor – Aleksey Kadukin | |
X | Membership – Michael Sherman | Webmaster – Chris Hamilton | |
Social – Kate Efremova |
Call to Order at 6:09p
President:
- Interviews – Aleksey to determine if articles/activities – typically we don’t do, but does he have the bandwidth to do?
- Monthly Panorama Submission – publish more diverse content in Nugget for national exposure and interest
- Track DE should be featured, perhaps an ad hoc/roving reporter, 50 words max and photo – extend to Aleksey’s team, an ongoing agenda item to post
- Crows Landing – Should we just send the payment due after each event since not billing in a timely manner?
Vice-President:
- Issued 2 certificates of insurance for Sonoma and AX
Secretary:
June Minutes APPROVED
Treasurer:
- The bank balance remains healthy
- Financial report APPROVED
- Financial policy – deferred to next meeting
- Switch from debit to credit for expenses? Canyon to investigate pros/cons
Membership Director:
36 new members since 6 July, APPROVED
Primary 2442, Co-Members 1,119, Lifetime 4, PCA Juniors 138; National Active Members 148,766, Primary Members 97,255, Co Members 51,511
This past month: 39 Renewals, 52 Members dropped or transferred, 104 Up for renewal
Trophies are in progress
Trailer issues – maintenance and repaint with Porsche Redwood City, what is the work that needs to be done before? Buy a box truck? Be able to tow the equipment as needed (timing trailer), perhaps park at Carlson?
Autocross Director:
- 5/28 AX school: Joint Lotus club and GGR, shared cost, most of the expenses were incurred by Lotus club. $6k loss if we didn’t partner up, $3500 loss total. GGR to pay Lotus club to equalize costs.
- 6/11 Awards Banquet at Palette Tea Garden, 30 attendees
- 6/25 Crow’s Landing – 48 attendees
- 7/31 Cow Palace – waiting for the contract to come in, insurance certification needs to be issued
Track Director:
- Laguna
- $13k loss on Laguna, 32 DE, 47/52 club racers, attendance was good
- Insurance seems higher than expected even though the 3-day event, will check to make sure, not double billed
- Moving forward MSR no refunds within 5 days of the event (Covid, mechanical issues, etc)
- Sonoma
- 66 registered, max 185, (40) 3 days, (85) 2 days, (60) 1 day
- Future
- Maybe 2-day weekends vs 3-days due to the cost of the event
- Co-venture with Diablo to share the cost
- GGR members are more of the people attending for the entire weekend
- Look at single-day DE perhaps at Sonoma
Motoring Director:
- 2 Major Motoring Events in June:
- June 9th Shasta Tour by PCA Shasta
- PCA GGR Caravan from the Bay Area to the 4-day Zone 7 Event in Shasta. Caravan invitations are sent only to PCA GGR Members registered/confirmed in the Shasta Tour
- Shasta Tour went through the mountains, valleys, and scenic by-ways of Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Lassen Counties
- The total number of cars registered for the Shasta Tour is about 60 cars total
- June 17th Mammoth Lakes Tour, Zone 7 Event:
- 41 cars registered, among them 28 cars from PCA GGR
- Looking into an official partnership
- Upcoming events:
- July 31: Summer Touring Drive and Social Event – Destination, a winery Barrel Room in Livermore, for participants to cool down, 40 cars/60 members
- August 27: A Raceway Experience, a Drive and Social Event by PCA GGR includes the Fun Run and the Lap Parade Tour at Sonoma Raceway
- September 17th: Wine Harvest Touring Drive and Social event
- October 16th: Women’s Drive and Social event
- October 29th: Halloween Drive and Social event
- Nomination: Motoring Award for Wen Shen for being an event organizer for 4 events in 2022
- Shirts – currently working with a shirt company in Burlingame
Social Director:
No attendance
Webmaster:
No attendance
Nugget Editor:
- The June edition was sent on 6/30
- July Nugget statistics:
- 6,753 sends, 58.7% opens, 4.6% clicks
- May Nugget statistics: 6,749 sends, 61.4% opens, 5.2% clicks
Deadline Wednesday, July 27 for the next issue
Adjournment @ 7:36p
Topics for discussion:
Next Board Meeting: Tuesday, Aug 2 reservations for “In-Person”
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