Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA General Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at Tanner’s on March 7, 2023 at 7:33 pm.
Members present: Bill Johnson, Chris Kern, Paula Diehl, Ed Nicholson, Bob Henson, Al Hermanns, Steve Fudge, Charlie Clark, Guy Watney, April Turner, Bill Bauman, Janet Bauman, Henry Rompage, James Young, Tara Young, Dick Berger, Greg Cheney, Aron Porter, Niles Davis, Courtney Japhet, Jonathon Robert and Steve Johnson.
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Bob made a motion to approve the minutes; Bill seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
February 2023
| Starting Cash | $25,803.02 |
| Starting CD | $83,379.87 |
| Ending CD | $83,428.50 |
| Ending Cash | $25,136.57 |
| Ending Balance | $108,565.07 |
Jessica could not make the meeting and emailed in the following report read by Ed.
“For the month of January, the club had a starting cash of $25,803.02. We had an income of $3,572.32 and expenses of $4,238.77 giving us an ending cash of $25,136.57. Our CDs went from $83,379.87 to $83,428.50 giving us a balance for the month of $108,565.07.
The Awards Banquet was well attended with 135 attendees. The banquet was enjoyed by 131 attendees while 4 came to watch the awards ceremony. The banquet had an income of $3,690.00 and expenses of $6,237.46 giving us a net loss of $2,547.46. The Awards Banquet Silent Auction raised $1,040 for Variety KC – Go Baby Go. Thank you to everyone who donated items and who bid on the items.”
Bob made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Niles seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
T&T and Event #1 are open for registration. As of this afternoon 48 people have signed up for the T&T and 80 people have signed up for the event. These events will take place on March 25 & 26.
Registration for the MiDiv (Events 2 & 3) being held on April 29 & 30 should open in a few weeks.
Trailer cleanout and inventory is scheduled for March 11 at 10:00 AM at BHR– 2916 Holmes Street, KCMO. We would like to see 6 – 12 people come out to help if possible.
There were several trophies unclaimed at the banquet. I will be bringing them to local events and hopefully most of them can be given out.
The Street Survival school is open. It is capped at 24 students and will be held on August 26. We will need instructors and volunteers, especially at registration and tech. If you want to instruct, there is an online tutorial that is required to be taken. For those unsure, we are not teaching technique, just guiding them through some basic exercises. Having a rapport with the students is as important, if not more so, than driving skills. Spread the word amongst friends, neighbors, schoolmates, etc. Street Survival will be sending out an email blast to past students and others in their database soon.
Heartland Park is not allowing use of the solo pad for autocross and are not planning on resurfacing to allow for solos. Kansas does have a new solo chair, sure they are working on putting together a solo schedule for 23. they have not reached out to us at this point.
RALLY CROSS REPORT: (Niles)
Rally Cross 1 was cancelled due to rain.
April 2nd at I-35 and check next date. Nationals at Heartland Park in October. Hoping to be able to have a better event this year planning for equipment to take care of the course as a lesson learned from
Bill mentioned that National convention could be coming to KC in the future. If it were to do so we would want to be sure and support this from a region perspective. Last time one was in KC it was a great time and well attended.
KVRG REPORT: (Bob Hinson & Chris Kern)
Last night at the KVRG meeting we talked about getting ready for the events. Working on the supplemental regulations and we will be needing help for the events. There will be a Drag race event at the track on Friday evening at Heartland Park and all attending our event are free to watch. If you would like to come out and help over this weekend we can get you next to the track which is the closest view you can have without being in the race car.
Ozark details are being gone over and along with our majors event there will be a national TT event along with ours. Should be a good time and of course we will be needing help to put this on.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
624 members, 9 brand new members.
WEB REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
Below are site analytics for kcrscca.org for the period 2/5/23-3/6/23. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 1/5/23-2/4/23
Total Visitors: 7,849 | +32.4%
The number of visitors that accessed the website.
Daily average: 262
Sessions: 8,230 | +30%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 209
Total Page Impressions: 26,611 | +6.2%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions Per Session: 3.43 | -14.9%
The average number of pages of the website that are visited per session.
Top 5 Most Frequently Visited Pages:
- Home page
- /autocross/autocross-schedule-and-results
- /our-racing/road-racing
- /our racing/rallycross
- /solo/live/results_live
Bounce Rate: 2.83% | +1.1%
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 rally
- autocross schedule
- road racing
- Kaw Valley Race Group
- SCCA National Championships Runoffs
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: 28.63% | +31.8%
- Search engines: 56.17% | -2.8%
- Social networks: .12% | +39.1%
- Others: 15.09% | +3.3%
Banquet (Ed Nicholson)
Was a great event well attended as reported in the treasurers report we had 135 registered and 131 at the event. Everyone seemed to be having a great time and the food was reported to be the best we have seen for a banquet. The board is currently looking into booking this venue again for next year.
Bill, there was a Super Tour event held over the same weekend as out banquet and a few of our members where there. Steve Johnson, who indicated it was a fun event but the groupings where challenging. Sam Henry, Tyler Fox, Bryan Heitman, Kelly Toombs, Carl Heyward, Chris Funk, Robin Kirkland, Kirk Collins, Larry Howard and Mark Kirby.
Midiv
Following list are the Mid Division officers for 2023.
- Charline Bettinger Secretary
- Betty Martin Treasury
- Chris Kern Assistant Chair
- James Cahill Chair
Adam Pessetto will be taking over getting the location from Donna to put the convention together. He is looking to get more people coming to the convention. Reviewing 4 sites currently so already making progress for next year.
Old Business
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New Business
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DATES
- Next solo – March 25 & 26. Test and tune event.
- Rally X – I 35 Speedway April 2.
- Road racing – Heartland Park May 19-21.
- Track Night in America – April 27.
- Time Trials – May 20 & 21 Heartland Park.
Call for motion to adjourn
Bob made a motion to adjourn and Aaron second motion passed. Meeting ended at 9:06.