May 12th, 2022 Board Minutes

Porsche Club of America

Golden Gate Region

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

12 May 2022

Attendance:

X	President – Ed Hunter	X	Autocross – Himanshu Patel
	Vice President – Scott Kalkin	X	Motoring – Gilbert Bouzeid
X	Secretary – Melinda Lin		Track – Howard Yao
X	Treasurer – Canyon Chan	X	Nugget Editor – Aleksey Kadukin
X	Membership – Michael Sherman	X	Webmaster – Chris Hamilton
X	Social – Kate Efremova

Call to Order at 6:20p

President: 

• Advertising
  • Will offer a spot in newsletter, Ed to provide establish policy as we go forward with other sponsorships
• Sport Classic Racing Group at Laguna
  • Historic car racing, groups 1 & 2 old Porsches, public service to get information about the organization

Vice-President:

No update

Secretary: 

April Minutes APPROVED

Treasurer:

• Bank balance end of April $190k, but $130k uncleared payments
• Net about $77k
• CR goes through a different payment mechanism before it gets to us
• Financial policy update deferred to next month
• Budget APPROVED

Membership Director:

23 new members since 26 April, APPROVED

3,698 members total for PCA

Autocross Director:

• 5/21 AX @ Cow Palace, 32 registrations now, if not at capacity and send out to entire membership
• 5/28 AX @ Cow Palace joint venture with Lotus Club
• Annual banquet – Palette Tea Garden (Asian) 6/11 available, about $16K, will require 50% deposit
  • Bar area, assigned seating, food is family style for 8 course meal
  • Subsidize event around $12k to try and keep costs down (under $100/per person), $40-60 actual cost per person, plan on 60 ppl min, 100 ppl max, give AX awards ppl first rights to reserve
• 6/25-26 AX @ Cow Palace

Track Director:

• May 14 DE3/CR2 @Buttonwillow: DE 45, CR 32
• Laguna sold out, DE 28, CR 35
• Sonoma DE 28, registration 3 months away

Motoring Director:

• Upcoming:
• Rolling shot event 5/14
• Overnight Touring Trip to the Gold County

Date: May 26th and May 27th

28 participants, event sold out in less than 9 minutes

• June

6/9-10 Shasta + Caravan

Mammoth Lakes + Caravan – announcement to be sent by Monday

• July:

7/31 Summer Drive, ending at a winery

• August:

8/27 Sonoma – For Saturday August 27

• September

9/17 Harvest Drive and Social Event at a winery

• Shirts
• Big thanks to Ed – following up on the shared links
• Taycan drive
• Redwood City Porsche

Social Director:

• 5/8 Cars and Coffee 50
• 5/14 Sunset Touring Drive, 10 cars
• 6/25

Webmaster: 

No issues

Nugget Editor:

April Nugget came out today

Deadline 5/23 for next issue

Topics for discussion:

Next Board Meeting: 7 June, reservations for “In-Person”

Adjournment @ 7:53p