Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA General Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at Johnnies Tavern on December 5th, 2023 at 7:35 pm.
Members present: Bill Johnson, Chris Kern, Ed Nicholson, Al Hermans, Steve Fudge, Charlie Clark, Neava Ford, Guy Watney, Bill Bauman, Janet Bauman, Dick Berger, Greg Cheney, Max Baer, Andrew Von Beven, Alexander Von Beven, Bob Henson, Robert Henson, Niles Davis, Courtney Davis, Josh Huff, April Turner, Johnathon Griffith, Paula Diehl, David Bennett, James Young, Tara Young, Jonathan Robertson, Alex Westrope, Daniel Rowland, Phil Meredith and Tim Friest by phone.
Lost 2 long time members of the club:
Bill Johnson Sr. who was very involved in the region and was on the ground level of pro solo along with Charlie Clark. For three years Pro Solo they traveled the country putting on pro solo events and developing the series for the SCCA. He is a member of the SCCA Hall of Fame.
We also lost Sharon Bybee who passed away after a car accident. Bill Johnson, Charlie Clark, Mike McGinley and Dick Berger all told reminisces. She was an avid autocrosser and active in the SCCA community along with her husband Fred.
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Bill B made a motion to approve the minutes; Niles seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
November 2023
| Starting Cash | $12,821.80 |
| Starting CD | $96,346.15 |
| Ending CD | $96,416.66 |
| Ending Cash | $22,095.17 |
| Ending Balance | $118,511.83 |
Ed read in the following from Jessica’s report.
For the month of October, the Club had a starting cash $12,821.80. We had income of $9,805.34 and expenses of $531.97 giving us an ending cash of $22,095.17. Our CDs went from $96,346.15 to $96,416.66. The CD combined with the checking account gave us a total balance of $118,511.83.
Ed made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Tara seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
We have 627 members.
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
The 2024 national tour and pro solo schedules were expected to be released on December 1. We will begin looking at a local schedule after the national schedules are out. We anticipate that the usual Spring and fall Nationals will be on their traditional dates. A tour and pro solo are being worked on at Frederick Field in Oklahoma prior to Spring Nationals. Locally, we will present a bid to do another MiDiv event. We will also try to fit in 10 events again along with a school, Starting Line, and Street Survival. We might try one or two connected weekend events if we can work out a theme for them.
The SAC is working on trophies for 2023. The yearly total results have been posted on Facebook for those with the minimum number of qualifying events (6). Individual event results are on the website under scheduling and results.
If someone is cruising through the website and they see something wrong or out of date, please let us know so we can change it.
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern & Bill Johnson)
Chris, Schedule has been put together we currently have events for first weekend of June at Ozark International Raceway and two events at Hallett, the Super Tour event in March and then another to be held in July where we will run the track clockwise.
Bill, working on putting on an event at a track South of KC area, more information coming.
RALLYCROSS REPORT: (Niles)
Summary of November 12th Event#10 at I-35 Speedway:
- Another stellar event!
- No major stoppages
- Good turnout
- 32 Drivers total
- No major timing problems –
- Photographer (Chloe Boozer) came out and took amazing photos, shared on FB.
- Great courses! Some of the best we’ve run on!
Upcoming events: KCRX Event #11 @ Thunder Valley Sand Drags – Sunday, December 17th
For the November event we had a rookie rally x’er. Al Hermans and Kujo took to the track, if AL can run Kujo at an autocross then any can come and run and should so come on out and have fun with us.
WEBSITE REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Below are site analytics for kcrscca.org for the period 11/01/23-11/30/23. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 9/30/23-10/30/23
Total Visitors: 8,048 | -34%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 268
Sessions: 8,778 | -33.8%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 219
Total Page Impressions: 34,360 | -21.5%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions Per Session: 3.91 | 19.4%
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
- /2024-general-elections-are-now-underway
- /our-racing/rallycross
- /our-racing/road-racing
Bounce Rate: 2.03% | 107%
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.
- live timing
- rally cross
- road racing
- autocross
- 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: 35.57% | -48.2%
- Search engines: 45.16% | -4.4%
- Social networks: .26% | 161.8%
- Others: 19% | 11.7%
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
List of Nominees:
RE: Paula Diehl
ARE: Al Hermanns
Treasurer: Jessica Dorn
Secretary: Greg Cheney
Board at large: Dan Rowland, Josh Huff, Max Baer
NEW BUSINESS
None.
OLD BUSINESS
None
EVENT DATES
Solo – Finished for the year.
Rally X – Thunder Valley Sand Drags – Sunday, December 17th.
Road racing – Finished for the year.
Track Night in America – Finished for the year.
Time Trials – Finished for the years.
Virtual SCCA National Convention Jan 18th-26th, 2024.
KCR Awards Dinner Feb 10, 2024. MiDiv 2024 Convention Feb 23-25 Hotel Topeka.
Call for motion to adjourn.
Neava made a motion to adjourn and Tara second motion passed. Meeting ended at 8:06.