Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA Board/General Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at Johnnie’s Tavern on August 29th, 2023 at 7:11 pm.
Board Members present: Bill Johnson, Chris Kern, Greg Cheney, Al Hermanns, Ed Nicholson, Josh Holsworth and Mike McGinley.
Board Member(s) not present: Phil Meredith, Bob Henson, Jessica Dorn and Paula Diehl.
Guests: Jonathon Griffith, Al Hermanns, Steve Fudge, Charlie Clark, Neava Ford, Guy Watney, April Turner, Bill Bauman, Janet Bauman, Tara Young, James Young, Gigi Garrido, Dick Berger, Greg Cheney, Max Bear, Andrew vonBevern, Alexander vonBevern, Henry Rompage, Niles Davis, Courtney Davis, Brian Schwartz, John Wilson, Dmytro Guznva, Nathan Carlston, April Turner and Steve Johnson.
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Mike made a motion to Greg approve the minutes; seconded. Motion passed unanimously. General meeting minutes accepted for June.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
July 2023
| Starting Cash | $9,033.72 |
| Starting CD | $94,517.98 |
| Ending CD | $95,748.95 |
| Ending Cash | $9,743.84 |
| Ending Balance | $105,222.79 |
Have CD maturing 9/15/2023 and we can roll to a new 3 month. Mike made a motion to roll to 3 month and Greg second motion passed.
- 3 month 5.2
- 6 month 5.25
- 9 month 5.3
- 12 month 5.35
Mike made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Greg seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
Bill, mention Mike’s new Corvette C06 C8 with C07 package. He optioned it as he wanted thanks to passed dealer ship. Also did a Corvette driving school in a C06 with C07 package on the track in Nevada. This was a very good deal and a great driving school, got to learn to drive the C08 at the limit without putting my new car at risk.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
Paula Diehl was out. Bill, we have 625 members.
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
Event #6 was held on August 20. There were only 83 drivers with times due to several leaving because of delays and the oppressive heat. We had a major oil down (transmission fluid) about halfway through the 4th runs of heat 1 which required all the oil dry we could find on short notice. We bought a pallet and used all of it. While the fluid was being cleaned up, we received permission to re-configure the course to avoid most of the spill to allow heats 2 and 3 to run.
Street Survival and event #7 were held on August 26 & 27. There were 14 students for Street Survival and everything went well. There were 119 drivers at event #7. We had 4 heats and 5 runs per driver with few stoppages of note.
Registration is open for events 8 on MSR which is scheduled for September 24. There are 23 entries as of earlier today.
The Pro Solo Finale, CAM Challenge, and Solo Nationals begin on Saturday and continue to next week Friday. Of the 1300 entries for Solo Nationals, 39 are from the KC Region.
The truck will need some repairs. It has been determined that the radiator has a pinhole leak and will need to be replaced. The front tires are looking pretty sketchy and should be replaced.
Requesting funds $1000 to replace the front tires, horn and the radiator. Mike makes the motion to repair the van Ed second. Motion passes.
There are a number of the members attending the National Solo. 100 percenters from our region Charlie Clark and Dick Berger.
Tara, will be doing KCR pod cast for the Solo National and we can follow along, look on the KCRSCCA Facebook for link.
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern)
We have 2 dates from next year, May at Heartland Park, we are waiting to hear, we have June 1st and 2nd at Ozark. More to come so stayed tuned.
No breakdown for the Ozark event but finalizing at the moment.
Two more track night events are coming year this year September 20th and one more in October.
Lake Garnett Revival will be held on October.
RALLYCROSS REPORT: (Niles – Greg reporting)
Had to cancel the last two events, one after the beginning of the first run as track became undrivable. Last of event was rained out and for the next event we guarantee rain, 10 out of the 100 for the Rally X nationals coming from KCR.
Next event is the Sept. 17 at I-35.
Maybe a new site coming in the future, stay tuned.
WEBSITE REPORT
No report at this time with Paula out.
OLD BUSINESS
None
NEW BUSINESS
New computer Dell i7 and IBM and looked at HP but not Requesting a $1000 for a new laptop. Ed made a motion for Bill Bauman to buy computer for the timing system, Josh second motion passes.
Tara, a big thanks to Andrew Von Bevern and Dmytro Guznva for doing a great job on social media, Instagram, etc.
EVENT DATES
Next solo – Solo Nationals Sept 2-8, Sept 24 Event 8.
Rally X – Sept 17th at I-35 Speedway.
Road racing – Finished for the year
Track Night in America Heartland Park – Sept 20th.
Time Trials – Oct 15th at RPM.
Call for motion to adjourn
Dick made a motion to adjourn and Guy seconded motion passed. Meeting ended at 8:07.