Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA Board Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at Conroy’s on July 25th, 2023 at 7:06 pm.
Board Members present: Bill Johnson, Chris Kern, Greg Cheney, Phil Meredith, Al Hermanns, Ed Nicholson, Paula Diehl, Mike McGinley and Bob Henson.
Board Member(s) not present: Jessica Dorn and Josh Holsworth.
Guests:
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Paula made a motion to approve the minutes; Mike seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
June 2023
| Starting Cash | $15,014.84 |
| Starting CD | $94,267.71 |
| Ending CD | $94,517.98 |
| Ending Cash | $9,033.72 |
| Ending Balance | $103,551.70 |
Bob made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Greg seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
We have 649 members, Lost 9 and picked up 9.
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
No solo events have been held locally since the last BOD meeting.
Our next local event is the starting line school and event #5 on July 29 & 30. Registration is open and 109 are registered for event #5 so far. Starting line has at least 16 registered as of a week ago. Registration for Starting Line ends on Wednesday and registration ends for event #5 ends on Thursday. Registration is open for events 6, 7, & 8. The next MiDiv event is August 5 & 6 in Lincoln. 99 are registered so far.
Registration for Nationals opened for tier 3 participants opened on June 27 at 3:00 PM and was sold out in under 4 1/2 hours. The event cap is 1300 drivers.
A couple of items from recent SDAC meetings may be of interest:
- 1Notify Region representatives that if they are using self tech forms that these forms shall be retained the same as waiver forms. We would prefer that regions not mail these to the national office for retention.
- Notify Region representatives that if asked to perform as an expert witness that they should consider who is involved. It may be that they are being asked to testify against the SCCA. It’s best to just say no to such requests.
- Stolen Trailer writeup status – Rick will go back to review. There was some discussion that insured property must be registered to an individual. I’m aware that in Steel Cities Region our equipment is insured as business property. I will follow up with Gene Kerns (couldn’t recall his name on the call last night) to find out specifically how we do that.
- Keep an eye on online forums and weigh in on toxic posts. The trolls may not recognize it but those posts are not welcoming to new members.
- The national office is looking for ideas for national convention presentation topics for solo.
- Training for new SSS is being handled online through a course developed by the national office. Event shadowing and local monitoring from experienced SSS’s will continue as before. Renewals will also need to take the online course.
Bill, have we thought about having an Apple Air tag on the trailer as a way to locate should it go missing. Cost reasonable need to watch batteries. Will be considered.
Phil, will be talking to insurance agent about covering the solo trailer and will purchase a policy if under $500.
Lincoln Solo Nationals, we should have plenty of room, air force has moved out and we can go north. No work has begun an new buildings.
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern)
Event at OIR had 56 race cars and 38 TT cars. National time trial squeezed in they were busy. Track for test day and we operated Saturday and Sun, Saturday feed went well TT made pulled pork. Both TT and race group worked together to get the schedule set for the weekend to make the event occur.
Heartland was working hard to put the track together for the upcoming events. Still working on their issues with the city.
RALLYCROSS REPORT: (Niles – Greg reporting)
Benefit was rained out so nothing for RX this month.
WEBSITE REPORT
Did not get site analytics at this point.
We will be working on the prospective website move.
When events are opened in MAR we need to get Rachel to update the links.
Instagram content will be administrated by Alex Von Bevern. We need to be sure and do a good job of providing content.
General meeting August 1st, Kill creek park shelter 2 and we can use RC car down the hill, free entry for winner. Will RSVP on MSR. Start at 6:30 PM and RC after. SAC is meeting on August 6 at the GM cookout and the cooker will be going to eat around 7ish, will be using the RC track next to the shelter. RC winner will get a free entry to Solo or auto X. Chris will see what is left from OIR in the way of drinks and hardware. Those coming will be asked to provide a side dish.
Note: There will not be a general meeting the first Tuesday of September due to the National Solo Championships in Lincoln. We will be having a combined Board/General meeting the last Tuesday of August. Bill to check with Johnny’s for room availability.
OLD BUSINESS
Was the Van fixed, there was a problem? We are waiting to hear. Van is in getting repaired, Greg to follow up with Phil.
NEW BUSINESS
Nominating committee: Phil, Ed, Tim Frist, Steven Fudge.
Niles, might be good and Max Baer is also a likely candidate.
August 29th will be a combined Board and General meeting at Johnny’s, this is in the works.
EVENT DATES
Solo – July 29 and 30 Starting line school and Event 5.
Rally X – August 6th at Thunder Valley.
Road racing – Finished for the year
Track Night in America Heartland Park – August 18th.
Time Trials – August 12th and 13th at Hastings Motorsports Park.
Call for motion to adjourn
Mike made a motion to adjourn and Bob second motion passed. Meeting ended at 8:20.