Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA Board Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at Conroy’s on September 26th, 2023 at 7:09 pm.
Board Members present: Bill Johnson, Chris Kern, Greg Cheney, Phil Meredith, Al Hermanns, Ed Nicholson, Paula Diehl, Mike McGinley and Jessica Dorn.
Board Member(s) not present: Bob Henson and Josh Holsworth.
Guests:
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Paula made a motion to approve the minutes; Jessica seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
July 2023
| Starting Cash | $9,743.84 |
| Starting CD | $95,478.95 |
| Ending CD | $95,530.79 |
| Ending Cash | $15,870.37 |
| Ending Balance | $111,401.36 |
We had a CD roll over in September at 5.5%.
Mike made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Greg seconded.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
We have 647 members, Lost 11 and picked up 9.
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
Event #8 was held on September 24. There were 108 drivers with times.
Registration is open for events 9 & 10 on MSR, scheduled for October 8 and 29 respectively. There are 25 entries so far for even #9 and 20 for event #10.
There is a National Champ Tour event in Frederick Oklahoma on October 20-23. Entries are a bit low and the decision to cancel the event will be made on October 5. There are 52 entries so far and they need 120 to make it happen. If anyone is waiting until the last minute, there may not be anything to wait for.
We had several people participate at Solo Nationals in early September. There were no national champions from this region but Craig Wilcox was 2nd in his class.
We will continue funding Go Baby Go for Hollweenie.
Will be looking at I-70 Flying H as they have a new parking lot we can use and will be investigating using this for future events.
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern)
Heartland will be going up for sale at the end of October, 2nd. Events at the track are in doubt for next year.
Last track night for the 19th of October, might be fun to have a bunch of us come out and talk about road racing at the venue as this could be the last event there.
Try to relate Ozarks here. Home office still talking about what the pay.
Could use help at Garnett. Fun weekend to work with a short day on Saturday with events in town to see. Event does pay workers.
Could we pick up track night people for time trail with Heartland Park going away? New track by Adrian might be a venue we could use.
RALLYCROSS REPORT: (Niles – Greg reporting)
Sept 17 I-35 Speedway 35 cars and it was a nice dry day. This was only the 4th event this year due to all the rain outs. Mark Macoubrie did the setup of the courses. We ran two courses accumulative time about 10 runs. No problems with timing for front wheel drive cars which has been see at other venues.
There was a test and tune on September 10th at Ray Rocks at a gravel area, Area is fairly flat and around a lake. Event was limited to 15 cars, had a good day and may be a new venue for RX in 2024.
WEBSITE REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
Below are site analytics for kcrscca.org for the period 8/26/23-9/24/23. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 7/26/23-8/25/23
Total Visitors: 10,847 | 21.3%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 362
Sessions: 12,609 | 23.4%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 219
Total Page Impressions: 42,537 | 17%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions Per Session: 3.44 | -6.8%
The average number of pages of the website that are visited per session
Top 5 Most Frequently Visited Pages:
- Home page
- /our-racing/road-racing
- /autocross/autocross-schedule-and-results
- /our racing/rallycross
- /our-racing/road-rally
Bounce Rate: 1.06% | -18%
How many visitors left the website right after the landing page without any further interaction with the website.
Top 5 Key Words:
The keywords/phrases with which the website was most commonly found in search engines.
- road racing
- autocross schedule and results
- thunder valley sand drags
- solo live timing and scoring
- racing
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: 48.5% | 42.8%
- Search engines: 37.09% | -1.6%
- Social networks: .09% | -5%
- Others: 14.32% | 4%
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Nominating committee is working hard on filling the slate. At this time we have Jessica Dorn for Treasurer, Greg Cheney secretary, and board at large Dan Roland and Josh Huff.
Shall we have the next board Ed motion for Oct 24th, Mike second motion passed. We will meet on the 24th at Conroy’s.
OLD BUSINESS
None
NEW BUSINESS
Shall we purchase Dash plaques for the Hollweenie? No one objected from the board.
Should we create stickers for the region to sell at events? Did we decide to do this?
EVENT DATES
Next solo – October 8th Starting line school and Event 9.
Rally X – October 6 to 8 RX nationals, our next event 15th at Thunder Valley.
Road racing – Finished for the year
Track Night in America Heartland Park – October 18th.
Time Trials – October 15th RPM and awards.
Call for motion to adjourn
Mike made a motion to adjourn and Paula second motion passed. Meeting ended at 8:36.