RENO SCCA MINUTES

February 4, 2004

 

Meeting was called to order by Eric Gangloff at 6:30 PM.

We started with a round of introductions, as we had some new faces. Welcome to those making their first meeting!

Attendees: Jim Uchytil, John Perry, Randy Jones, Mike & Joanne Kapic, Matt Roy, Scott Perry, Charles Marshall, Lee Mitchell, John Riggs Jr., John Riggs III, Heather Money, Mike Mulhall, Lucas Kunze, Loren Enstad, Greg Benson, Jim Gandy, John Evans, Matt Benson, John Breternitz, Larry Capen, Debbie Kerswill, Terry Gough, Jim & Diane Whiteley, Eric Gangloff

Old Business

Secretary Report: January Minutes were accepted. Patty was unable to make the meeting, so Eric’s notes and Greg’s tape-recorded conversation were used to create these minutes.

 

Treasurer Report: Matt presented the revised financials, with multiple cost centers for tracking P&L for different aspects of the Club. They were accepted.

 

Solo2 Schedule Review: Greg led us through our options, and the following were voted on with a strong majority for each:

·         The challenge events will remain as points events

·         The last weekend on the old schedule, Oct. 23-24, was eliminated.

·         The Divisional was made a non-points event.

·         Since the last meeting, two new event weekends were added: April 24-25, and June 12-13 to give us some home events closer to the School on April 17th.

So, we now have a finalized, 17-event Solo2 schedule with two schools. The Solo1 and HPCCC events were unchanged. A new schedule will be posted soon.

 

NorPac Convention Review: Eric read a letter that Dave and Carol wrote recapping the success of the NorPac convention. In the letter ‘Dave & Carol thanked each and every one of the 27 members of Reno Region that attended the Convention.  The only region with higher attendance was San Francisco with 46 attending out of approximately 4600 members.  Outstanding! Your help with the many tasks was so very much appreciated.  A broader selection of seminars was offered than ever before.  The new for 2004 technical seminars were well attended and received positive comments all around.  A great deal of networking was also observed among the attendees during the social activities.  The opportunity to meet and discuss items of concern remains one of the most rewarding aspects of attending this event.  Again, thank you for the support.’

 

Volunteer Worker Seminar: Eric read Dave’s request for people to join him in a Feb. 21 seminar for Workers at Infineon.  Looks like we will have a good support group attending and again helping at the March event.  If you are interested call Dave.

New Business

Solo2 Safety Steward School: Eric relayed Dick Lewis’ April 2nd School date and info. This meeting will be very important to attend by all Safety Stewards – there are many items that need to be reviewed to be sure that they are being followed correctly.  If you plan to continue as Steward, please make this meeting.

 

2004 Solo2 Season Pass proposal: The Club discussed Dave’s proposal at length. John Riggs mentioned that we have some significant equipment expenses coming up. After deliberating its pros and cons, more people felt that the Club doesn’t need to do this and we would be better off using any extra money to hand out more trophies, etc. than to cut the event fees in any way. It was voted down, 3 for, 10 against, and many abstaining.

 

 

 

2004 Solo1 and HPCCC: Greg gave a status report of the Solo1 and HPCCC event planning progress.

Event Pre-Registration: The Club agreed that we should have non-mandatory pre-registration for events using MyAutoEvents.com.

 

2004 PAX review and Proposal: Eric reviewed the updated National PAX/RTP factors for 2004, and the rationale behind Reno's SU and Street Tire PAX factors for 2004. The main change for this year is the use of a single multiplier (0.968) to arrive at the ST PAX factors for each class. This will allow automating the results for ST in our timing and scoring SW system so it will no longer need to be manually calculated. Eric then proposed that we score Ladies PAX with Open PAX to further automate the scoring process for 2004, but it was clear this was an unpopular proposal and it was dropped without a vote, so Ladies’ PAX will continue to be scored separately from Open PAX.

Walk on Items:

·         Matt Roy and Scott Perry gave a rally-cross update. There is an Rally Cross planned this summer and have asked the Subaru Club to help work the event.  A meeting is scheduled for Sunday 2/8/04 to discuss further plans.  Matt will report findings at our next meeting.

·         Jim Gandy suggested that we create a committee to study the Reno PAX system, and whether our high altitude, course design and other unique factors makes it inherently unfair. Jim suggested that this Committee could make its recommendations, and perhaps fixes to the existing system, for the 2005 season if not 2004. Discussion ensued about the difficulty of creating our own system from scratch, and of the potential to tweak the existing system using factors to reduce the PAX for lower HP-to-weight ratio vehicles, increase it for forced-induction motors, etc. We held a vote and the Club decided to form this Reno PAX Committee.

o      Volunteering at the meeting to be on the Committee were Jim Gandy, John Evans, and Eric Gangloff. Dave Deborde was “nominated” to be on the Committee if he so desires. If anyone else is interested in participating on this Committee, contact Jim Gandy at 775-267-1183. (Craig Angel, LA area, has been involved with some changes with PAX – the committee will be in touch with him for any suggestions)

 

Notes from the tape:  Much of the meeting was not recorded, but the following are a few items of interest.

 

John Riggs,III wanted events chairs to be aware of the problems of putting GRID outside of the fence.  Suggest we have a person assigned for spectators watch & get waivers signed.

John Perry was concerned that we aren’t able to get into the bleachers.  John Evans indicated he

knew someone that we may get a key from and will check into it.

 

The meeting was adjourned at roughly 8:45 PM.

 

Respectfully submitted by: Eric Gangloff, Assistant RE

    added notes from Carol Deborde from the tape