Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA Board Meeting was called to order by RE Paula Diehl at Johnny’s Tavern on February 6, 2024 at 7:35 pm.
Members present: 50 people attended.
Welcome first time attendees: Steve Johnson Past President and CEO of SCCA, Chuck Hunter, Jeff Hunter, Doug Bryant, Ryan Hodapp, and Eryk Michalak,
SECRETARY’S REPORT: Greg Cheney
Ed made a motion to approve the minutes; Max seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Jessica Dorn
December 2023
| Starting Cash | $12.621.53 |
| Starting CD | $96,813.75 |
| Ending CD | $86,006.62 |
| Ending Cash | $14,907.27 |
| Ending CD Balance | $100,913.89 |
Neava made a motion to approve the treasurer’s report; Niles seconded. Motion passed with one nay.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: We have 611 members
SOLO REPORT: Al Hermans
The regional schedule has been announced for MCC. We have the following dates confirmed.
| April 6 & 7 | Test & Tune; Event #1 |
| May 11 & 12 | Exhibition Event(s) at Hedge Hollow |
| May 18 & 19 | Event #2; Event #3 |
| June 8 & 9 | Novice School; Event #4 |
| June 30 | Event #5 |
| July 27 & 28 | Starting Line School; Event #6 |
| August 17 & 18 | Street Survival, Event #7 |
| September 22 | Event #8 |
| October 13 | Event #9 |
| October 27 | Event #10 (Halloweenie) |
The first event will go live in a couple days.
SSS training at the Midiv Convention
KVRG REPORT: Bill Johnson
Have a date at Hedge Hollow May 11-12.
Multiple events are planned.
The track has been reviewed by KCR and National Office.
June Majors at Ozark June 2-3
RALLY CROSS REPORT: Niles Davis
Entry fee is raised to $50. $45 each for Family.
We will have 3 sites. I-35 Speedway, Thunder Valley Speedway and Ray Rocks.
Budget is ready. Max will email it.
| March 3 | Test & Tune | Thunder Valley |
| March 24 | Event 1 | I-35 Speedway |
| April 28 | Event 2 | Thunder Valley |
| June 22-23 | Event 3-4 | Ray Rock |
| July 14 | Event 5 | I-35 Speedway |
| August 25 | Event 6 | Thunder Valley |
| September 15 | Event 7 | Ray Rocks |
| October 6 | Event 8 | Endurocross I-35 Speedway |
| November 10 | Event 9 | Thunder Valley |
| December 8 | Event 10 | Ray Rocks |
WEBSITE REPORT: Ed Nicholson
Ed will ask the webmaster to get 2022 and 2023 solo results archived.
Schedule is up to date for 2024.
Call for articles for Checkpoint and the website.
Below are site analytics for kcrscca.org for the period 12/26/23-1/24/24. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 11/26/23-12/25/23
Total Visitors: 6,049 | -3.7%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 202
Sessions: 6,482 | -3.2%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 219
Total Page Impressions: 28,238 | 7.9%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions Per Session: 4.36 | 11.5%
The average number of pages of the website that are visited per session
Top 5 Most Frequently Visited Pages:
- Home page
- /our-racing/rallycross
- /our-racing/road-racing
- /autocross/autocross-schedule-and-results
- /our-racing/road-rally
Bounce Rate: 2.35% | -3.3%
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.
- rallycross
- road racing
- competitive rallycross
- SCCA Hall of Fame
- 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: 29.79% | 29.79%
- Search engines: 53.56% | 0.5%
- Social networks: .07% | -58.8%
- Others: 16.58% | 8.4%
NEW BUSINESS
Bylaws and Ops manual are being reviewed by the BOD. Will discuss at the next board meeting.
Paula Diehl: Keep saving up pull tabs for Children’s Mercy Ronald McDonald house. Benefits cancer treatment.
SCCA past president Steve Johsnon was here and spoke about his time in the national office and that he is permanently in Kansas City.
Andrew Van Bevern spoke about the new KCR promo cards and passed some out.
OLD BUSINESS
KCR Banquet is set per Ed Nicholson. Go to MSR to sign up for the banquet. Dinner is $35
Bob has a carousel of old slides from racing years ago. If anyone has a carousel projector we can show those.
Silent auction will again benefit Go-Baby-Go to help kids with disabilities.
110 are registered.
Midiv Convention is in Topeka Feb 23-25. Free to attend. Banquet tickets are available. Lots of new presentation events are scheduled.
Call for motion to adjourn.
Bob Henson made a motion to adjourn and Josh Huff seconded, motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 8:10 PM.