The Kansas City Region SCCA Board Meeting was called to order by RE Paula Diehl at The Bar on May 28, 2019 at 6:50 pm.
Board Members present: Chris Kern, Paula Diehl, Tim Friest, Jessica Dorn, Lisa Kern, Bill Johnson, Jeremy Salenius, Mike McGinley
Absent: Al Hermans, Tara Young, Todd Hesskamp
SECRETARY REPORT (Lisa Kern, Secretary):
Minutes from April 30, 2019 Board Meeting were approved. Jessica Dorn made a motion to approve the minutes; Mike McGinley seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER REPORT* (Jessica Dorn, Treasurer):
Chris Kern made a motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report; Tim Friest seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
April 2019
Starting Cash: $20,052.46
Ending Cash: $27,071.03
Balance for the month: $115,276.75
*For a more detailed Financial Report, contact the KCR Club Treasurer.
June 18, 2019 we have our next CD coming due.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT (Paula Diehl, Membership Chair): 570
SOLO REPORT (Al Hermans, Solo Chair):
Events 2 & 3 were held on May 4 & 5 in conjunction with the MiDiv event. 114 people came out Saturday and 115 people came out Sunday. Have not seen final accounting yet.
Street Survival and event #4 are on June 1 & 2. Looking for coaches and students. Who is bringing the SCCA van on Saturday? Novice School and event #5 are on June 29 & 30. Please contact Paula Diehl if you would like to be a Street Survival Coach. Street Survival 8:00a-4:00p lunch included for those who volunteer their time.
KVRG REPORT (Chris Kern, KVRG Board Member):
May: For the HMP event on May 17-19 we had 65 registrants for Majors and 21 for Time Trials.
June 3: KVRG meeting at 7p Location: Paisano’s at Iowa & 25th St, Lawrence, KS. The group will discuss how to attract more workers. All are welcome to attend. Some incentives discussed were possibly a paid solo entry or a reduced amount for a solo driver to assist with working a road race. They would need to work the whole weekend in order to get credit. Mike McGinley will contact Al Hermans to see if he is interested in bringing up the topic with the SAC committee before a possible announcement to the Solo group at their next event this coming weekend.
June 13: We need workers for TNiA. Contact Chris Kern if interested.
June 21-23: National Tour event at HMP.
July 12-14: This is a Majors event at HMP which takes the place of the RPM event Aug 10-11. We will use the same course configuration at HMP as our May event. Friday may be a Test Day or TNiA. Bracket sprints will be included in the schedule.
RALLYCROSS REPORT (David Williams, Rallycross Chair):
Committee Items
- 5/28 – Novice School (5/25) and Event #3 (5/26) were both cancelled due to the site at Thunder Valley Sand Drags being about 2 feet underwater by mid-week, which with when coupled with the additional rainfall on Friday and Saturday it would have been a regatta instead of a RallyCross.
- 5/28 – Our next event is our rescheduled Event #1 at I-35 Speedway on June 23rd.
Schedule
- June 23 – Event #1 @ I-35 Speedway
- July 19th thru 21st – 2019 DirtFish SCCA RallyCross National Tour, The Mid-America Challenge / Event #4 @ Lucas Oil Speedway
- August 25 – Event #5 @ I-35 Speedway
- September 20 – 22 – DirtFish RallyCross National Championship
- September 29 – Event #6 @ I-35 Speedway
- October 20 – Event #7 @ I-35 Speedway
- November 3 – Event #8 @ Thunder Valley Sand Drags
- November 24 – Event #9 @ Santa Fe Trail Cycle Park
ROADRALLY REPORT (David Williams reported):
- “Rubber Meets the Road” Rally has been postponed until the Fall to allow me time to work on the event since I have lost the assistance of Rich Bireta
- Missouri Rally Weekend
- “West to Weston” Road Rally – TBD
- “Rubber Meets the Road” Rally – TBD
SPECIAL COMMITTEES:
Website (Mike McGinley):
Part of the redesigned website were delayed due to the webmaster being on vacation. She has approximately 80 action items to complete.
- Jessica could not find “wordpress” link for adding content. Several member have access to upload content to the website.
- Lisa could not update the calendar
- Bill Johnson will provide contact info of Chuck Hanna who was taking picture at the May HMP event to Mike McGinley. Mike will talk with Chuck about pics for the website.
Social Events (Lisa Kern):
- General Meeting: June 4, 2019 we will be meeting for a picnic at Antioch Park, Shelter House #1. Paula Diehl is providing Hamburgers, Hotdogs, Buns, Chips, Condiments, and utensils/plates/napkins. She is asking everyone to bring a side dish or dessert.
Grill starts at 6:00p; Racing begins at 7:00p (bring your remote-control race car for races)
Lisa Kern will announce on KCR FB site.
Jessica Dorn will announce using constant contact for email blast.
- New Meeting Location: Lisa is trying to find a new meeting location for General Meetings and BoD Meetings. If you have any ideas, please bring them to her attention.
- Granite City: Lisa will request Dave Vincent to set up another Granite City Race Group Meeting. Look for notifications.
OLD BUSINESS:
Jessica Dorn would like to move forward on the 2019 budget. Bill Johnson made a motion to accept the 2019 budget Jessica provided; Chris Kern seconded.
We are having our Street Survival School at MCC on Saturday, June 1st. We have 20 students so far and need coaches.
OLD BUSINESS:
2019 Budget – Jessica Dorn is asking the BoD for approval of the 2019 budget. Bill Johnson made the motion to approve based on Jessica’s last revision of the budget; Chris Kern seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
NEW BUSINESS:
Mike McGinley brought to the attention of the BoD some flyers that the National office is providing as handouts free of charge (100 per packet). Mike will ask National for 500 (5 packets) and ask them to be included in the content that Paula Diehl is picking up from National for the Street Survival School. We have some calendar events printed up and will hand those out in conjunction with the flyers. There was some discussion of stickers being made and included in the flyers.
There being no further business, Jessica Dorn made a motion to adjourn; Mike McGinley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Kern
SCCA Board Secretary