Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA Board Meeting was called to order by RE Paula Diehl at Johnny’s Tavern on March 5, 2024 at 7:33 pm.
Members present: 40 people attended.
Welcome first time attendees:
SECRETARY’S REPORT: Greg Cheney
Bill Bauman made a motion to approve the minutes; Dick Berger seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Jessica Dorn
December 2023
| Starting Cash | $14,907.27 |
| Income | $2,598.81 |
| Expenses | ($7,704.76) |
| Ending Cash | $9,801.32 |
| Starting CD | $86,006.62 |
| Ending CD | $86,072.07 |
| Ending Balance | $95,873.39 |
Ed made a motion to approve the treasurer’s report; Alex VB seconded. Motion passed.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: Paula Diehl
We have 647 members.
We should try to push membership more at events.
Get a link at to membership application on MSR when registering
We were eligible for Large Region of the Year Award but got beat out. All we need is to get more weekend members to go annual.
SOLO REPORT: Al Hermans
Trailer clean out day has been moved to March 9 at 9:00AM at BHR.
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 | Novice School; Event #2 |
| June 9 | Event #3 |
| June 29 & 30 | MiDiv Event #4 & #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) |
| April 13 & 14 | Muskogee, OK |
| May 4 & 5 | Independence, KS or Wichita, KS |
| May 18 & 19 | Burns Flat, OK |
| June 1 & 2 | Salina, KS |
| June 29 & 30 | Independence, MO |
| August 3 & 4 | Lincoln, NE |
We are looking for chairs and co-chairs for all of our events. For those interested, co-chairs get the event they are co-chairing free, chairs get their event plus another free. We can help you with resources and training.
KVRG REPORT: Bill Johnson
Have a date at Hedge Hollow May 11-12.
Multiple events are planned. Solo (track sprint) on south loop Saturday morning. Afternoon Track Night in America
Saturday night party.
Sunday Time Trial and Regional Road Race.
June Majors at Ozark June 2-3.
Super Tour at Hallett April 3rd weekend.
RALLY CROSS REPORT: Max Bear
The 3/3 T&T was a benefit for Unnaturally Aspirated. 29 drivers participated.
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. Working on getting additional data storage.
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 1/28/24-2/26/24. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 12/28/23-1/27/24:
Total Visitors: 5,917 | -4.1%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 197
Sessions: 6,322 | -4.2%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 210
Total Page Impressions: 24,583 | -13.8%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions Per Session: 4.07 | -6.6%
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/autocross
Bounce Rate: 2.47% | 5.1%
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.
- rallycross
- road racing
- autocross schedule
- rallycross schedule
- road racing schedule
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: 20.73% | -40%
- Search engines: 58.76% | -4.7%
- Social networks: .09% | -4.3%
- Others: 20.42% | 3.4%
We enjoyed the Awards Banquet and want to go there again next year.
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.
June 4 Member Picnic at Kill Creek again this year.
Greg gave an overview of the Marketing Seminar put on by Andie Albon at MiDiv Convention should be viewed by all board members. It is in our individual portal at my.scca.com.
Greg also discussed his conversation with Arnie Coleman, Director of the SCCA Foundation. He said the SCCA Archives has imaging equipment that they can use for our KCR Region scrapbooks and historical archives. We would get a digital copy and the books would be stored by the Archives. Bob Eddy is the contact for the Archives, beddy@sccafoundation.org.
OLD BUSINESS
Call for motion to adjourn.
Ed made a motion to adjourn and Andrew seconded, motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 8:11 PM.