
Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA General Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at The Bar on October 4, 2022 at 7:33 pm.
Members present: Jeremy Salenius, Ed Nicholson, Chris Kern, Greg Cheney, Dick Berger, Guy Whatney, Jeremy Scotton, Phillip Meredith, Paula Diehl, Al Hermans, Jessica Dorn, Niles Davis, Henry Rompage, Neava Ford and Donna Cross.
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Donna made a motion to approve the minutes; Dick seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
July 2022
Starting Cash | $24,791.37 |
Starting CD | $83,164.76 |
Ending CD | $83,220.03 |
Ending Cash | $19,863.62 |
Ending Balance | $103,083.65 |
Donna made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Paula seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
Banquet: Ed Nicholson Chair. Date is 2/11/2023 at St. Andrews Golf Course (11099W 135th St Overland Park, Kansas.) Looking for those interested in helping setup and perform minor tasks at the banquet.
Membership Report: (Paula Diehl)
Members 614 with 8 new members.
OLD BUSINESS:
- NA
NEW BUSINESS:
- Nominating committee Bill – Greg, Tim, Al and Chris. No head and looking for two members. 4 positions open on the board and all officers. Need to determine who is going off the board.
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
Event #6 was held on August 21. There were 110 participants. Event results are posted on the region website.
Street Survival was held on August 27. Following the scheduling debacle, we had a few cancellations but 19 students took the course. There were 6 in-car coaches, 5 staff for registration, setup, and help out on course, and one classroom instructor. It appears that the students were all pleased with the day as were the instructors.
Events #7 & #8 were held on September 17 & 18. There were 88 participants on Saturday and 106 on Sunday with a total of 125 distinct individuals for the weekend. Event results are posted on the region website.
National championships for Pro Solo and Solo were held between September 3 and September 9. National solos 37 KCR members and 1 regular from KS Region attended. We had one national champion in Craig Wilcox from this region and 5 other trophy winners.
- Brian Strack – DS – 51/60
- Gus Jacob – DS – 54/60
- Penelope Strack – DSL – 12/14
- Daniel Rowland – ES – 21/44
- Neil Rowland – ES – 41/44
- Bill Bauman – ES – 43/44
- Janet Bauman – ESL – 7/7
- Brian Meyer – FS – 5/39 – Trophy
- Phillip Meredith – 18/33
- Jeff Bartz – HS – 14/28
- Nealand Rattanasamay – HS – 23/28
- Mark Hill – STU – 6/40 – Trophy
- Niles Davis – STH – 12/16
- Josh Huff – STH – 15/16
- Jonathan Griffith – DSP – 7/10
- April Turner – DSP – 9/10
- Craig Wilcox – SMF – 1/9 – Trophy
- Al Hermans – CP – 20/29
- Charlie Clark – CP – 27/29
- Dick Berger – CP – 28/29
- Charles Berger – CP – 29/29
- Chris Delay – EP – 2/7 – Trophy
- Blake McIntyre – EP – 6/7
- Tony Giordano – FP – 14/14
- Robert Qualkinbush – CM – 9/12
- Vernon Maxey – CM – 12/12
- Dan Wheeler – FM – 3/24 – Trophy
- Brad Smith – FM – 6/24 – Trophy
- Nick Angell – FSAE – 4/7
- Jeremy Scotton – CAMS – 9/24
- James Woodward – CAMS – 21/24
- Keith Lamming – CAMC – 11/33
- Daniel Martin – CAMC – 18/33
- Todd Morris – CAMC – 19/33
- Scott Peterson – CAMC – 32/33
- Patrick Darling – CAMT – 14/24
- Kent Edmondson – XSA – 18/25
- Stephen Fudge – XSA – 19/25
Our next local events are October 16 & 30 (Halloweenie) and registration is open on MSR for October 16.
Two SAC positions are available for the upcoming election. In addition, a position is available with one year remaining on the term. Anyone interested should contact the nominating committee or the SAC.
Anyone interested in a Chief position for next year, please contact the SAC.
The last MiDiv event for this season is being held this weekend in Salina. Registration is still open on MSR.
Or Pro Solo there is the new Johnson-Clark-Johnson award.
RALLY CROSS REPORT: (Nils)
Charity Event Had test and tune with the NA event and the event was cancelled at Thunder Valley. 19 for test and tune but none of the NA people came for the event except Nils a couple of other event leaders. Made $305.
Rally X nationals 8 members went. Nils Davis 2nd and Max Bear 8th prepared rear wheel drive, Mark Macoubrie 6th modified all-wheel drive, Mark Hill 2nd prepared all-wheel drive, Tiernan Eiberger modified front wheel drive and Ryan Redenbaugh 5th, Brian Tefft 6th, Bill Taylor 7th, Ian Jennings 8th and Brian Strack 9th modified rear wheel drive.
Event #7 – Saturday, October 22nd @ Thunder Valley Sand Drags?
Event #8 – Sunday, November 20th. Look up venue.
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern and Mike McGinley)
Chris; Need help for Lake Garnett GP weekend of October 8th and 9th. Starts at 8 AM. Will not be a vintage group. Run until 1:30 Saturday and then a car show downtown. Sunday runs all day.
SCCA Runoffs – Were some fantastic driving in some challenging weather. There were just under 500 entries. Only 19 drivers from Midwest division.
Race 1 F500
P7 Jack Walbran / STL
DNF Tim Friest / KCR
Race 4 GT1
P4 Stephen Wiles / KCR
Race 5 EP
P1 Jessie Prather / KAN
P13 Mark Weber / STL
DNS Don Tucker / MIDS
Race 11 GTL
P9 Roy Lopshire / KCRDNS Peter Zekert / STL
Race 13 SM
P10 Grayson Farischon / OKLA
P51 John Valenta / STL
P53 Jim Drago / MIDS
Race 16 HP
P5 Chris Albin / SILR
P11 Jack Schulz / OZMTP15 Angus Chrome / SILR
Race 18 T2
P2 Charlie Peter / KCR
Race 20 AS
P10 Andy Schniedemeyer / STL
Race 21 FP
P1 Eric Prill / KAN
P9 Cliff Ira / KCR
P11 Mark Weber / STL
Race 22 GT2
P9 Hans Peter / KCR
Race 24 GT3
P6 Brian Haupt / KCR
There is a time trail event coming up a week from Lake Garnett GP at RPM.
Convention is 17th through the19th February at Independence Hilton Garden Inn at 19677 E Jackson Dr. Independence, MO. National staff will have a good presence. This is a great event to come attend. More information to follow if you have items you would like to donate for the silent auction please let Neava know.
Paula, we are now over 30,000 pull rings.
WEBSITE REPORT: (Reported by Paula Diehl)
Below are site analytics for kcrscca.org for the period 6/26/22-7/25/22. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 5/26/22-6/25/22.
TOTAL VISITORS: 6,341 | 13.6%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 211
SESSIONS: 7,019 | 17.9%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it. Daily average: 233
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: 28,557 | 11.3%
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/raoad-racing
BOUNCE RATE: 2.45% | -0.8
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.
- KVRG
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: 28.94% | 43.1%
- Search engines: 52.22% | 0.7%
- Social networks: .21% | 20%
- Others: 18.63% | 5.9%
Dates:
Next solo – October 16 at MCC
Rally X – October 22 – Thunder Valley
Road racing – done for the year
Track Night in America – October 13 at Heartland
Time Trials – done
Call for motion to adjourn
Donna made a motion to adjourn and Neava second motion passed. Meeting ended at 8:32.