March Minutes for PCA-GGR Board Meeting
Porsche Club of America
Golden Gate Region
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
March 5, 2025
Attendance:
President - Howard Yao
Autocross - Steve Forshay
Vice President - Brad Zucroff
Motoring - Cheryl Spott
Secretary - Eric Wilson
Treasurer - Alan Jung
Co-Track - Jim McClelland
Nugget Editor - Jim Tierney
Social - Diana Bogorodskaya
Creative Director - Ryan Holmes
Co-Webmaster - Alexander Wu
Not Present:
Membership - Wen Shen
Co-Track - Scott Kalkin
Co-Webmaster - Christina Hamilton
Call to Order 6:10pm
President:
Board member headshots at next meeting
Discussion of pitch we’ve received for a “PCA Super App” integrating various services
Discussion of potential sponsorships the club is pursuing
Updates on establishing redundancy of ownership across the club’s digital accounts
Vice President:
Starting to use new system for event insurance requests
Secretary:
Vote to approve February 5, 2025 minutes: APPROVED
Treasurer:
Recap of info from PCA National webinar for Treasurers
Revenue from event participants who are not PCA members (nationally / any region) cannot exceed 15%
Revenue from outside of the membership cannot exceed 34%
Suggestion: maintain an inventory of equipment owned by the club - spreadsheet has been created and shared
Recommendation to remove contact information from club website to eliminate a vector for phishing/scams (which has now been done). On the redesigned website, we’ll instead have a web form that accepts inquires and routes them to the appropriate board member
Recommendation to use interest-bearing savings accounts to hold cash
February 2025 financials discussion and the club’s finance are healthy, vote to accept: APPROVED
Creative Director:
New website design is in progress with a preview available internally
Discussion about migration of blog posts from the old site and linking to the archive of older Nugget issues - board meeting minutes will be separated from the blog
Discussion how to provide spaces for advertising by sponsors and local businesses
Selection of a target launch date for the website
Preview of swag designs with new logo
Webmaster:
Working with Ryan on transition of content to new website
Autocross Director:
Registration closes March 12 for first Autocross event at Crows Landing on March 15
Making good progress on securing insurance and satisfying other venue requirements for the full year’s schedule
Track Director:
Discussion of first track event at Thunderhill, March 21-23
Discussion of track event schedule for the rest of the year
Motoring Director:
St. Patty’s Fun Day is oversold
Planning a joint tour with Redwood Region for PCA’s 70th anniversary on Sep 13
Social Director:
Recent Cars & Coffee at Autovino on Feb 23 was another well-attended event
Instagram account @pcaggr continues to gain followers (now over 3k)
“Cars and Cupcakes” Cupcake Decorating coming up on March 9
Next Cars & Coffee is at SF Sports Cars (in San Carlos) on March 29
Seeking venues for the remaining Cars & Coffee events
Membership Director:
Not present - updates sent by email
Mar 1, 2025 member counts
PCA GGR
3812 total (2678 primary members, 1131 co-members, 3 honorary)
153 PCA Juniors, 117 renewals, 70 dropped, 43 new members
PCA National: 163,601 active members (107,594 primary & 56,007 co-members)
Vote to accept new members: APPROVED
Nugget Editor:
Submission deadline for this month’s newsletter is Mar 12, with Google Doc format preferred
Adjournment 9:00pm
Next Board Meeting: April 2, 2025 @ Ryan’s