CALL TO ORDER
The Kansas City Region SCCA General Meeting was called to order by ARE Paula Diehl at The Bar on July 5, 2022 at 7:31 pm.
New member present, Beverly Harvey. Welcome to the club.
Members present: Jeremy Salenius, Beverly Harvey, Ed Nicholson, Chris Kern, Greg Cheney, Dick Berger, Guy Whatney, Jeremy Scotton, Phillip Meredith, Paula Diehl, Beverly Harvey, James Young, Al Hermans, Jessica Dorn, Niles Davis, Henry Rompage.
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Dick made a motion to approve the minutes; Chris seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
May 2022
| Starting Cash | $17,337.09 |
| Starting CD | $83,483.20 |
| Ending CD | $83,447.76 |
| Ending Cash | $23,160.68 |
| Ending Balance | $106,608.44 |
Ed made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Chris seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
Membership Report: (Paula Diehl)
We have 609 members! We gain more than we lose month to month.
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
Events #3 and #4 were held on June 18 & 19. Event #3 had 71 entries and event #4 had 75 entries. Event #4 results are posted on the region website. Event #3 results do not appear to be linked from schedule and results within the autocross pull down tab.
The Starting Line school on July 16 is coming along. Registration is available on the national website https://www.scca.com/events/2001074-scca-starting-line-kansas-city-metropolitan-community-college. Information is also available on MSR https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/scca-national-starting-line-metropolitan-community-college-driver-school-659924. They are looking for help with instruction as we are at 13 registered as of yesterday. Event #5 will follow on Sunday. Registration is open on MSR https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/kcr-2022-autocross-event-5-mcc-blue-river-prec-driving-ctr-scca-kansas-city-solo-689820?fbclid=IwAR1ZmU1u8vLwCIxbuPgMUYOCw3TVNudoJMcippM54gwK_NATASbgcgq5Idw. There are 21 entries so far.
Street Survival is proceeding on August 20. Spread the word. Volunteers (instructors and course workers) are welcome. Instructors may need to do an online training session if they have not already done so. Registration is available on the national website https://www.scca.com/events/2001218-kansas-city-region-tire-rack-street-survival-metropolitan-community-college. Also on MSR https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/scca-national-starting-line-metropolitan-community-college-driver-school-659924. There are 19 entries for Street Survival so far. Event #6 will follow on Sunday.
New cones have arrived at Phil Meredith’s house. They will be delivered to the trailer in groups as needed based on how many will fit in his vehicle.
We will be sharing a tent and the cost at the solo nationals with the Kansas Region.
RALLY CROSS REPORT: (Nils)
Numbers from last event:
Our total number of drivers for the weekend was 39. We had 13 family entries at $40 and 24 regular entries at $45. We had one driver run both heats and pay two entry fees. Our net revenue after MSREG fees was $1,579.34. With site fees and consumables. Total profit for the weekend is $817.80.
Early last year there was some experimenting with a hose system that does not have the same pitfalls as the lazer system when it comes to dust. This project was headed by Reuben Samuels and unfortunately, much of the research and knowledge of this secondary system, left with him.
The RAC is interested in trying to make the hose system the primary system of timing for RX, as to avoid the issues we had with timing this weekend. While we do not think it will be ready in time for our July 10th event at I-35 speedway, we are hoping we can find a way to implement it in the near future.
Note: Mark has information to use the hose system. Looking to bring this on line in the future.
Event coming this Sunday. Moved event 6 to a test and tune for folks going to national, Event 6 is September 11, which is the test and tune plus charity for naturally asperated at Grain Valley.
Van has a new side window! Group did the work this last week.
Upcoming events:
Event #4 @ I-35 Speedway Winston on July 10th
Event #5 @ Thunder Valley Sand Drags on August 28th
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern)
Race at Ozark disappointed with the entries, track is entertaining. There were issues but nothing we have not been able to handle before. Lost about $1000 dollars.
Racing is done for the year. We need to figure out how to get the event numbers up for road racing. How do we co-exist and how do we get more racers. We have tried endurance events with very limited success. We need to do better at promotion. Events are compressed, front loaded to the beginning of the year, need to be able to stretch the schedule into later in the year and add events. Scheduling needs to begin for the next year in June as tracks are booked up just after mid year for the next. Do we increase prices to help cover the cost of putting on events? Further discussion on this topic will be necessary.
Track Night in America – July 21 and we need help, help, help.
WEBSITE REPORT: (Reported by Paula)
Transition from Mike to Paula and new member, Beverly Harvey, will be helping. Please let Paula know if things are right on the sight.
TOTAL VISITORS: 5702 | -4.2%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 190
SESSIONS: 6171 | -2.2%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 176
TOTAL PAGE IMPRESSIONS: 25,656 | -6.3%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
PAGE IMPRESSIONS PER SESSION: 4.27 | -2.3%
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
- /autocross/autocross-schedule-and-results
- /our-racing/autocross
- /our-racing/road-rallycross
BOUNCE RATE: 2.36% | 1.3%
How many visitors left the website right after the landing page without any further interaction with the website.
TOP KEY WORDS
The keywords/phrases with which the website was most commonly found in search engines.
- rally
- Burnett Automotive
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: 25.15% | 3.7%
- Search engines: 52.74% | -11%
- Social networks: .82% | -4.1%
- Others: 21.29% | -5%
Social: Paula for Lisa we need to be thinking about a site for the awards banquet.
OLD BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS:
Still collecting tabs for the kids, 26,000 tabs so far.
Forest Tucker Smith, passed away last week. He was an avid rally crosser and very involved.
Dates:
Next solo – July 16 / 17
Rally X – Event #4 @ I-35 Speedway Winston on July 10th
Road racing – done for the year
Time Trials – July 2-3 – @ Brainerd International Raceway (tentative)July 23-24 – St. Louis @ WorldWide Technology Raceway CANCELLED
Track Night in America – July 21 and then August 18
Call for motion to adjourn
Dick made a motion to adjourn and Chris second motion passed. Meeting ended at 9:08.