Minutes for May GGR Board Meeting
Porsche Club of America
Golden Gate Region
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
May 7, 2025
Call to Order 6:11pm
President:
Discussion of LinkedIn presence, positions can be added referencing the official GGR account as a volunteer organization
Suggestion of reformatting Nugget newsletter as a single blog post
Discussion of sponsors and advertising revenue opportunities - will create a sub-committee to discuss further
Creative Director:
Website will be handed off to Webmasters
Working on goodie store with swag featuring new logo
Vice President:
Insurance for Buttonwillow track event will be secured soon
Secretary:
Vote to approve April 2, 2025 minutes: APPROVED
Treasurer:
April 2025 financials discussion and the club’s finance are healthy, vote to accept: APPROVED
Autocross Director:
Autocross 2 held April 13, 2025 at Salinas
Novice Car Control Clinic at Alamada held April 26, 2025 sold out registration in 24 hours
Advanced Car Control Clinic at Alamada held April 27, 2025 had over 90 registrations, had to adjust the course design to maintain a safe environment
Next Autocross will be on May 17, 2025 at Salinas and has about 50 sign-ups already (expecting more)
Continuing to source new trailer, seeking new provider who can supply the base trailer and make our desired customizations
Nugget Editor:
Submission deadline for this month’s newsletter is May 14, 2025
Motoring Director:
North Bay Fun Run had 27 cars, and rain didn’t start until after lunch
Cambria overnight run has 15 cars signed up
Submitted another picture for Panorama
Track Director:
Thunderhill event in April surprisingly had lower registrations than the March event
Vote on hosting a Thunderhill DE/TT/CR event on September 13-14 with theming for PCA’s 70th anniversary: APPROVED
Presented updated budget including revised costs from POC for Laguna Club Race on August 22-24, retained Thunderhill DE/TT/CR event in September, new Laguna DE/TT/CR event on Oct 18-19, and purchase of a trailer
Discussion of an equipment trailer for track series
Vote on revised track budget: APPROVED
Social Director:
Members participated in Porsche and Pastries partner event on April 6 with Diablo/LPR/Porsche Fremont
“Seen on Skyline” event on April 19 was successful and pictures were great, will plan more similar events but keep them limited to 12 cars given logistics
Joint Event with Stevens Creek & Penske had about 50 GGR members sign-ups
Next Cars & Coffee is May 18 at ISSIMI - will provide parking map
Three events in June: “Paint Your Porsche” Art event with Porsche Redwood City, partner event in Gilroy, Cars & Coffee at Sonoma during track event
Surveyed members for additional event ideas
Membership Director:
May 1, 2025 member counts
PCA GGR
3827 total (2678 primary members, 1146 co-members, 3 honorary)
151 PCA Juniors, 113 renewals, 47 drops, 64 new members
PCA National: 164,102 active members (108,026 primary & 56,053 co-members, 23 honorary)
Vote to accept new members: APPROVED
Discussion of proposed details for GGR 65th Anniversary event, vote on proposed event budget: APPROVED
Webmaster:
Calendar page showing all categories of events in one place will be added
Adjournment 9:10pm
Next Board Meeting: June 4, 2025 @ Howard’s house