Minutes of the Regular Meeting
of the
Attendees: Dave DeBorde Carol DeBorde Doug Driver
Lee Mitchell John
Evans Lucas Kunze
Matt Roy Scott
Perry Patty Evans
Pat Riley Larry Capen Deb Johnson
Kyp Johnson Greg Benson Rick Martini
Jenna Martini Jim
Uchytil Kevin McDaniel
Dean Benz Tyson Kueper Debbie Kerswill
Russ Carpenter
Dave DeBorde
hammered the gavel at
OLD BUSINESS
Minutes of prior meeting
Patty Evans moved to approve
the minutes from the
Treasurer’s Report
Matt Benson, our honorable
treasurer, was buried in tax returns and unable to attend the meeting. However, he furnished the cash transactions
report for the month of March which showed a total cash balance, as of
Solo2 Safety Steward Seminar
Dave reported on the safety
steward training seminar held at the home of Dick and Annie Lewis on April 1st. It was well attended, and Dick did a fabulous
job with the training.
Solo2 School Summary
41 students attended the
Saturday session, and 82 students attended one or both days. Comments received from the first-timers were
universally positive. Russ Carpenter
suggested that the directors be better identified so novices could more easily
find someone to ask questions. The list
of first-timers was divided among the directors who will call each of the
participants to encourage them to continue and discuss the novice program. Dave read a letter from Jim Gandy thanking
the volunteers for their help.
The members gave Jim a
rousing thank-you in absentia.
The North-South challenge is
available for registration on myautoevents.com.
Reno/SFR Double National
Dave reported on our region’s
participation at the Double National at Thunderhill
March 18th-20th.
Lucas, Larry, Lee, Carol, Deb, Kyp, Dave, Big
Al and Mary Ann endured some bad weather to represent the Reno Region. Our participation was noticeable, but more
would have been better. Hopefully we
will see some income from our members’ hard work.
Winnemucca Challenge
We’re looking for a volunteer
to drive the bus to the event. In a
moment of weakness, Tyson agreed to design the T-shirt. Winnemucca is a Reno Region event, so our
annual tech inspections will apply.
Solo2 Event Chair Sign-up
Dave again stressed the need
to finalize the staffing for all Solo2 events well in advance so the event
chairs do not suffer burn-out from doing all of the work. The advance staffing should include safety
steward, registration, tech inspection, timing and scoring, and, of course,
refuse management.
Matt Roy and Scott Perry are
chairing the April 23rd-24th event at Stead and have
confirmed that it will be a dry course.
The event chairs for the remaining dates are:
May 14-15 Winnemucca John Evans and Tyson Kueper
June 25-26 Divisional/Stead Dave DeBorde
and Doug Driver with Patty
Evans as Operating Steward
July 16-17 Stead Jim Uchytil and
Mike Mulhall
August 13-14 Stead Lucas Kunze
September 3 Lovelock Jim Uchytil and Doug
Driver
October 1-2 Stead Pat Housel
NEW BUSINESS
Reno-Fernley Time Trials
We have booked July 22nd-23rd
for a Time Trials event at Reno-Fernley but have not yet paid a deposit. This two day event will be classified as a
Performance Driving Experience (PDE)/Track Trials. Reno-Fernley and the SCCA national office are
working together (separate from our activities) on track approval. The PDE is a
street school and is not a competition event, rather
it is an opportunity for drivers to experience race track driving. The Track Trials is a solo competition event
for track prepared cars.
Dave proposed the following resolution
to allow the region to advance the funds for the event while holding the Solo2 program
harmless from any financial loss:
The
club will advance the necessary funds to the Time Trials program to enable it
to secure the site and host the event. Should
there be a financial loss on the event, the Time
Trials program will agree not to host any further Reno-Fernley track events
until it has repaid the club in full through the profits from its Lovelock Time
Trials events.
Dean Benz moved to adopt the
resolution and Scott Perry seconded. The
motion carried unanimously.
Solo2 PAX
Dean Benz reported on his
research into the Street Tire and Street Unlimited PAX factors. Currently our Street Tire factor is 2
seconds/minute, and the data from national events suggest that we are still a
bit low. Dean moved to keep the ST and
SU PAX factors as they are for this year.
Scott Perry seconded, and the motion carried unanimously.
Membership Recruiting Opportunities
Dave reported that he had
been approached about our interest in participating in Big Mamma’s Show N Shine
in the
Walk-On Items
Dave suggested that members
interested in the Time Trials program visit msquaredracing.com/tt/forum
to participate in some of the Time Trials forums.
We need about 50 new cones
thanks to the errant driving of our membership.
Pat Riley will give us a quote.
The next general membership
meeting is scheduled for
With no further business
before the members, the meeting was adjourned at the early hour of
Respectfully
submitted by Doug Driver, Secretary.