July 22, 2006 at 1:00 PM

Mike Smith’s Office, Saratoga

BOD Members: Bryan Nemy, Mike Smith, David Allen, Peter Nosler, Ed Railton, Blake Tatum

Regional Office: Sherry Grantz

Thunderhill report:

Discussed the cleaning up of the turn14 issue as a self imposed solution.  One solution mentioned was to paint a line half the length of the turn to create less grip.

Discussed being more aggressive regarding recruiting new customers for Thunderhill.

Talked about new zoning (RPM) for Thunderhill.  This will take property off of the Williamson Act.

Region Admin Report:

Talked about the new Regional office.  Hall of Fame should be in the new office. 

The 2007 schedule is in process.  Discussed the yearly schedule procedures.  Work is being done on 9-2 and 9-3 race publicity.

Discussed the new online entry system we will be using that was developed by Brian Ghidinelli.

Discussed recruiting course workers from the Willows community.

The Road rally program for SFR is being discontinued.

Infineon recap:

Lots of new records were set

Discussed the computers that were stolen.  Will have to remove them each day from T & S.

Talked about the numbers at the national races.

Issues for Jim Julow Visit:

The comparison of Jumbo regions.

Keep national support at a high level.

Will be here for the Laguna race on 9-29.

We will be putting together a list of the things that SFR does to help the  national organization.

The West Coast REs will be getting together.  We also will have a one to one with CalClub.

Secretary’s Report:

No report to approve

We should be putting the full minutes on the WEB and a summary published in the Wheel

Treasurer’s Report:

Discussed report.

Peter moved to approve the report. Seconded by David.  Approved.

Discussed using a worst case budget to analyze future possibilities.

Talked about the budget for the annual drivers school.

Next meeting we will develop a budget for our goals

Liaison Reports:

Mike Smith -

New trophies

Discussed left over trophies and ways to distribute them.

One suggestion was to make enough trophies for the minimum number of places with some extras and send out the ones not picked up on the Monday following the race.

Trophy article should be put in the Wheel.  Discussed when to hand out National trophies.  Suggestion to give out at impound.

Bryan Nemy -

Solo: Solo is talking with Altamont Raceway about helping to pave an additional paddock area to be used for autocross.

Rallycross: There will be Rallycross on September 17 at the Contra Costa Fairgrounds in Antioch.

David Allen -

San Jose Grand Prix Membership both is all lined up.

Ed Railton -

Social Infineon trailer

Social is not happy with the trailer.  It can be reskined and cleaned up.  It will still be parked in the dirt and subject to the weather conditions.  Mike will check with Infineon about parking the trailer on an asphalt surface.

Nothing new on the radios.

Blake Tatum -

The new fire equipment was put to good use at the last race.

Mike and Ralph had an issue with towing at Thunderhill.

Rick Bynum has worked things out with the pit lane fire extinguishers (25 will be needed) 

Misc:

Demand for WAP money to be used for gas cards has increased.

Gas card program is going well.

Will get together with the BOD at year end to give something to the chiefs.  Yearbook is one suggestion.

Long Term Goals:

Discussed 2007 Schedule, Regional, National and Pro.

Discussed gas card concept.

Discussed VIP Program.

A possible new appreciation program needs to be discussed.  Mike will work on this and email the BOD

Election 2006 Plan (2007 Year)

Petitions are due on September 1.  Ads in the Wheel are due August 10 and September 10.  Candidate statements for the Wheel are due Sept. 10.

Goals:

Focus and grow classes (Blake) -

Pro races support classes were discussed

Get list of schedule issues to Mike

A small bore formula festival at Thunderhill was talked about

Blake will come up with ideas for a special event

Mike will come up with a track day ideas

True Spec Miata (Ed) -

Class is going well.  Larry Oka has shown interest in fielding some cars.

Mike Smith wants to give Ed Railton a budget to come up with some awards for the sealed motor competitors.

Expect 8-9 cars by end of year.

Frequent Racer (Mike) -

Discussed the program.  Give incentives to reward people that are frequent racers to maintain good class counts.  Mike will generate a write-up to be discussed at the next BOD meeting.

Banquet (Blake) -

Discussed trophies.  Suggested that Blake, Dave and Peter go to Trophy store to look at various options.

WEB (Bryan, Sherry) -

Met with Chico Web Design to finalize the tasks.  We should be getting a new proposal in August.

Wheel (Peter) -

Working on a mockup of a new Wheel format with the possibility of one or two months printed with color pages.  Will make sure captions are on the pictures. 

Make the BOD minutes just a summary with the full version on the WEB. 

Have an abbreviated race result with Class, position and best lap.  Move ads and some other content to the WEB.

Get specialty writers for columns.  Peter will email the chiefs to request these reports. 

Peter will put together a new budget for changes.

Correspondence:

Laguna Bathrooms

Email said that 15 year worker recognition should be given and was not mentioned. 

Adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Bryan Nemy