The Kansas City Region SCCA Board Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at The Bar on July 26, 2022 at 7:00 pm.
Board Members present: Bill Johnson, Chris Kern, Lisa Kern, Bob Henson, Greg Cheney, Ed Nicholson, Mike McGinley
Board Member(s) not present: Paula Diehl, Al Hermanns, Donna Cross, Jessica Dorn
Guests: –
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Mike made a motion to approve the minutes; Lisa seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
May 2022
| Starting Cash | $23,160.68 |
| Starting CD | $83,447.76 |
| Ending CD | $83,177.82 |
| Ending Cash | $22,571.06 |
| Ending Balance | $105,748.88 |
Bob made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Lisa seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Question from Jessica. Shall we add Clarissa Votipka? To the credit card, this would be for rally X at a $500 limit? Mike made a motion to approve, Lisa second, motion carried.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
Paula Diehl, not present. Bill: We have 625 members!
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
The Starting Line School and Event #5 were held on July 16 & 17. Starting Line had 24 entries and event #5 had 103 entries. Two local instructors were recruited to help the nationally contracted instructors. Event results are posted on the region website. There was one safety incident about a possible knee injury of a driver during Starting Line.
Street Survival is proceeding on August 20. Spread the word. Volunteers (instructors and course workers) are welcome. Instructors may need to do an online training session if they have not already done so. Registration is available on the national website https://www.scca.com/events/2001218-kansas-city-region-tire-rack-street-survival-metropolitan-community-college. Also on MSR https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/scca-national-starting-line-metropolitan-community-college-driver-school-659924. Event #6 will follow on Sunday. Registration for event #6 is open on MSR. 26 have signed up so far.
A commitment is needed for the Nationals tent. I recommend $400.00 be allocated to helping to pay for it. 1,007 people have signed up for Nationals as of this afternoon. Ed respond to A that this is approved.
Greg: We lost Anthony Toledono. There will be a memorial at Quivera and Shawnee Mission Parkway Sunday, July 31st at 2:30pm.
RALLYCROSS REPORT: (Nils, not present but was read by Ed)
Numbers from last event:
Our total number of drivers from the last event was 32 with 2 weekend memberships.
Our gross income for the event was $1,435.00 and our total profit after expenses was $837.30.
Weekend overview:
Thankfully, the weather finally cooperated with us and we were able to have an event. The site was bone dry, which we were excited about at first but presented other problems later on. No large safety concerns This ended up being very close to a perfect event. Minimal timing issues. 11 total runs and no mechanical issues with any of our drivers! Our feedback from the event was very positive, from the course design, to generally the way things were run. This event was a great manifestation of all the hard work the RAC has put in this year into event planning and how to run an event that people enjoy being at.
Van issues:
Of course, the weekend didn’t end without any hiccups. On the way back from I-35, the heater control valve on the van failed, spilling much of its coolant out onto the highway. We were able to have the van towed to Burnett Automotive, where they were able to diagnose and fix the issue within the week and had the van back to the Solo program for their weekend events. We also had one of our Rallycrossers, Wes Votipka, volunteer to rescue the trailer and bring it back to the storage facility. Once again, our rallycross volunteers are just so awesome!
Upcoming events:
Event #5 – August 28th @ Thunder Valley Sand Drags
Pre nationals Test n’ Tune – September 11th @ Thunder Valley Sand Drags
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern and Mike McGinley)
Mike: for year end we are down for the year. Balance is about $50,000. Bill is working on the outstanding checks, will follow up with Mike.
Track night for July was cancelled per request of the track. Temps on track were 110 to 130 so national office agreed. Did have 2 workers and a few drivers to show for the event. Reset to August.
Need to discuss reenergizing race group. Last Tuesday there was some good discussion and need to get together and plan our way forward. Bob, need to take ideas to the divisional level.
Bill, do we need to get race group meeting again? Yes, is Tuesday the best night? Let’s get the message out and see who can come when. Mike, let’s have Jessica send out a message to the KCR.
WEB REPORT: (Mike McGinley)
Transition to Paula: Mike is covering her on all communications for the website.
Total Visitors: 5636 | +.5%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 176
Sessions: 6193 | +2.9%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 176
Total Page Impressions: 25,656 | -6.3%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions per Session: 4.6 | +10.2%
The average number of pages of the website that are visited per session
Top 5 Most Frequently Visited Pages:
- Home page
- solo/live/results_live
- /autocross/autocross-schedule-and-results
- /our-racing/autocross
- /our-racing/rallycross
Bounce Rate: 2.18% | +9.2%
How many visitors left the website right after the landing page without any further interaction with the website.
Top Key Words
The keywords/phrases with which the website was most commonly found in search engines.
- Burnett Automotive
- Kansas City area road rally
ALL PAGES OF ORIGIN
Where site visitors came from, i.e. whether they were transferred to the website from search engines, social networks or online directories, for example.
- Direct: 25.15% | +3.7%
- Search engines: 52.74% | -11%
- Social networks: .82% | -4.1%
- Others: 21.29% | -5%
OLD BUSINESS
None.
NEW BUSINESS:
Extended stay hotel that could get dinner of burgers and that type food and possibly beer and wine. Did have private rooms. We continue to look.
Dates:
Autocross – August 21 @ MCC
Rally X – August 28 @ Valley Raceway Grain Valley
Road racing – done for the year
Time Trials – August 13 @ Motorsports Park Hastings
Track Night in America – August 18 @ Heartland Motorsports Park
Street Survival – August 20th
Call for motion to adjourn
Ed made a motion to adjourn and Lisa second motion passed. Meeting ended at 8:32.