GGR October Board Minutes

Porsche Club of America

Golden Gate Region 

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

Oct 4th, 2023

Attendance:

XPresident – Ed HunterXAutocross – Himanshu Patel
XVice President – Brad ZucroffXMotoring – Gilbert Bouzeid
XSecretary – Melinda LinXTrack – Howard Yao
Treasurer – Canyon ChanXNugget Editor – Jim Tierney
XMembership – Wen ShenXWebmaster – Chris Hamilton
XSocial – Kate Efremova

Call to Order at 6:06 PM

President: 

  • Welcome
  • Election update – need candidate for Secretary
  • Christmas event(s) and door prizes – Blackhawk Car Museum location, do one event vs 2? $16k cost, 75-125 ppl, Wen will follow up with date and contract, we pay 2/3 of cost our of our acct
  • Subsidies Status:
  • multi2-500 (AX-received)
  • multi-3 750 (Track-received)
  • charity750 (Concours-received)
  • new member500 (next Membership event)

Vice-President:

  • No Updates

Secretary: 

  • Vote to approve Sept Minutes =APPROVED

Treasurer: 

  • Sept financials: discussion/vote to approve = APPROVED
  • $290k current balance 

Membership Director:

  • Membership Update and vote to accept new members, total 3,806
  • Primary members 2,636, Co Members 1,169, Honorary/Lifetime 3, PCA Jrs 130, Renewals 130, Dropped 53, New Members 41 = APPROVED
  • National active Members 159,135, Primary Members 104,426, Co-Members 54,709
  • Pull up banner design – need ideas and suggestions, use national track logo?
  • Next membership event: Sat, Nov 18
  • Potential partner: European Autotech
  • Location: European Autotech
  • Agenda: Social
  • Tech session
  • Bore Scoring
  • IMS bearings on M96 and M97 engines
  •  Budget: 2000(?)
  • Tent: 1000
  • Wine: 1500
  • Gift: 600
  • Door prize: 500
  • Food truck deposit

• Raffle: European Autotecha set of 4 Michelin, Pilot sport Cup 2 tires

  • GGR: Porsche Items
  • Souvenir – Stemless wine glass
  • Pano Submissions?

Autocross Director

  • A picture containing table

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  • Local Charity  – Ranch Ceilo (vocational programs) for our event
  • Meeting next week to begin thinking for next year and establishing the calendar

Track Director:

  • Sept 16-17 Laguna: 200 attendees, sold out, blue and green drivers want to be separated want higher quality of time 
  • Oct 15 Instructor Party @ Refuge in Hillsdale
  • Website – lost all the previous Board members served and year end awards (Ed has a paper list to 2018)
  • Future credit for future event for racers.  No, want to start next year with a positive cash flow and want 2 dates at Laguna (drop 1 Buttonwillow date)
  • Tentatively hold dates with tracks and share in Jan to determine calendar and share

Motoring Director

  • Saturday October 28, event planner Gilbert
  • 40 cars limit
  • Charity Drive – date TBD

Social Director:

  • Sept Ames Hotel in Mountain View, 80 cars
  • Oct C&C? $150pp
  • Discussion about cost of events and what is the socioeconomic backgrounds of the area

Webmaster: 

  • Backlog of items needs to be addressed (will share list with Board members) and requests of items from others
    • Previous Award members
    • Previous Board members

Nugget Editor:

  • Last Issue stats/comments
  • Next Issue Submission deadline 10/10

Adjournment @ 7:26 PM

Topics for discussion:

Next Board Meeting: Weds Nov 1 (same location)

***Board Agenda Ends **

Elections committee – after meeting if time (if not will setup a separate Zoom to discuss)

Group 2 – election cadence [odd years]: 2021, 2023, 2025

  • President (Corporate Officer)
    • (2023) Howard
  • Secretary (Corporate Officer)
    • (2023) Melinda will not run again, looking for replacement
  • Track Director
    • (2023) Scott K/Jim McC
  • Webmaster
    • (2023) would like to see if there is someone else, Christina to train (Howard has a candidate)
  • Motoring Director
    • (2023) Gilbert will need a replacement – Cheryl Spot, John Ellis & Gilbert will assist

For example Group 1 election takes place from November 1st to the 15th of 2020 and the Group 1 members take office January 1st of 2021 and serve through December 31st 2023.