Minutes of the Meeting

of the Board of Directors of the

Reno Region of the SCCA

August 31, 2005

Attendees:       Dave DeBorde            Doug Driver                 Lucas Kunze              

Greg Benson               Dean Benz                  Eric Gangloff                          

The board members convened at the DeBorde residence at 6:30 PM;  Dean and Eric participated via teleconference.  The meeting commenced as the live participants began working on their Sloppy Joes.

Dave presented a request from NASA to advertise its 25 hour enduro at Thunderhill in the Reno newsletter.  National discourages but does not prohibit it.  San Francisco declined the request for its newsletter.  The consensus of the board members was “no” because NASA events compete directly with SCCA events.

The 2004-2005 awards banquet has been tentatively scheduled for November 19^th, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  The Tamarack Junction is the tentative venue.  Mike Cesario has generously offered to help out with some wine.  The cost of food alone, without service and corkage, will be about $30 per person.  The club will have to subsidize the dinner, as it has in the past, to keep the price reasonable.  Several people will be unable to attend because of the date, so there was discussion about rescheduling to November 12^th.  However, November 12^th is the tentative PDE at Reno-Fernley. 

The November 12^th Reno-Fernley date could be moved to November 19^th or November 5^th.  We’ll need close to 30 students and 10 instructors to make the event successful.  We could manage with fewer participants if we hired corner workers as the worker changeover for the corners is very time consuming.  The consensus of the board was that we should require all participants to work.  A long discussion on scheduling ensued.

Lucas volunteered to work on the autocross trophies.

Sign-ups for the Labor Day weekend events are sparse, but it appears that attendance will be sufficient to host the events.

Dave suggested that a nominating committee be formed to work on next year’s positions.  Lucas and Doug agreed to work on the committee.  The following positions will need filling:

Regional Executive

Assistant Regional Executive

Secretary

Treasurer

Solo2 Activities Director

Race Activities Director

Director At Large

Dave indicated an interest in the Race Activities Director position.

The following agenda items were tentatively set for the September 7^th general membership meeting.

·         Nominating committee

·         Report on the August 13^th-14^th Solo2 at Stead, the August 27^th-28^th Club Trials at Lovelock, and the Labor Day weekend events at Lovelock

·         Discussion of October 1^st-2^nd Stead Solo2, October 8^th Touring Rally, and October 15^th-16^th Club Trials at Lovelock

·         Year-end banquet

·         Reno-Fernley PDE – Track Trials

The teleconference adjourned at a respectable hour.

Respectfully submitted by Doug Driver, Secretary.