LPR Board Meeting Minutes, June 2024 – Loma Prieta Region

Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie; Treasurer – Andy Ward; Activities – Greg Sickal; Member at Large – Homer Pitner; Membership – Kathy Musser, Additionally, Activities Chairs – AX – Dave Dunwoodie, Hospitality Chair – Emilie Highley, Webmaster – James Turk, Safety – John Reed; Tour – Hugh Calvin; Prieta Post – Donald Chaisson; Social Media – Dana Ambrisko; Technical – Peter Ridgway; Charity – Kris Vanacore

Absent: Treasurer – Andy Ward, Activities – Greg Sickal, Social Media – Dana Ambrisko, Safety – John Reed, Charity – Kris Vanacore, Hospitality – Emilie Highley, Technical – Peter Ridgway

LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
June 4, 2024, 7:01 PM to 7:21PM

Call to Order

Vice President Honore called the meeting to order at 7:01PM.

Board Member Reports:

President – Dana Drysdale

May 14 Board Minutes: Honore asked the Board to approve the May 14 Board minutes.

Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion Passed

Parade Reminder: 17 Zone 7 members will be at Parade. Sunday before the Welcome banquet there will be a Zone get together. Brian Adkins will bring prizes to be drawn for Z7 attendees.

VA – Interested in a Return Visit: Theresa from VA contacted me about a return visit. I think given the busyness of our Spring to Fall schedule, this needs to stay a late fall or winter activity. Through at least September we have a very busy calendar. Of course, if Board / club members want to go earlier, am happy to set it up and Missy and I are happy to help.

Thank you to everyone who responded with a willingness to serve on the Board for another year; honestly, thank you for serving in any year. I let Homer know for Nominating Committee. In a year when working on Bylaws seems like a big ask of Homer, this makes things a little easier.

We are and I am very lucky to have you! If something changes, please just let me know.

Vice President – Honore D’Angelo

A few updates:

Following is the VP report for June 2024

5/02/2024 – Thirsty Thursday – Beer Thirty – Santa Cruz – Good turnout
5/12/2024 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos in Santa Cruz – Did not go, however heard it was a good turnout
5/23/2024 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga – Saratoga – Excellent turnout – about 40 plus people attended and lots of new faces – Will alternate between Jakes and Kelly’s from now on.
6/06/2024 – Thirsty Thursday – Kelly Brewing Company – Morgan Hill
6/09/2024 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos in Santa Cruz
7/13/2024 – LPR Summer Picnic – Roaring Camp
7/14/2024 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos in Santa Cruz
8/01/2024 – Thirsty Thursday – Beer Thirty – Santa Cruz
8/03/2024 – GTG at Dana’s Club – Cupertino Hills Swim and Racquet Club – 22090 Rae Lane, Cupertino, CA 95014 – 4:00 – 9:00 p.m. – Potluck – Home – Cupertino Hills Swim and Racquet Club
8/11/2024 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos in Santa Cruz
9/05/2024 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga – Saratoga – please change on the Post, Facebook and Blast.
9/15/2024 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos in Santa Cruz
10/03/2024 – Thirsty Thursday – Bear Thirty – Santa Cruz
10/13/2024 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos in Santa Cruz
12/01/2024 – Toys for Tots Tour
12/07/2024 – Awards Banquet – BackNine Restaurant in Pasatiempo

Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie

Thank you for your reports in advance of the meeting

Treasurer – Andy Ward

Absent – Report submitted

Treasurer: Andy Ward

Recap: May Financials

Expenses: $ 4,826
Income: $ 6,419
Net Income: $ 1,593

Income was: Autocross (members & non-members), Sponsorship

Expenses were: Autocross, In-Person Board Meeting, GTGs, Awards Banquet Deposit #2

Recap YTD Financials, Jan 1 to May 31, 2024:

Expenses: 24,022
Income: $ 19,985
Net Income: $ -4,036

Membership – Kathy Musser

New Members from PCA (3)

Arthur Caisse from Los Gatos, 1984 911 Carrera Cabriolet
Schooner Viguers from Santa Cruz, 2014 911 Carrera
David Zajicek from Royal Oaks, 2021 718 Boxster GTS

Transfers in (1)

Daniel Seol from Golden Gate, 2012 911 Carrera S Cabriolet

Transfers out (0)

Non-Renewals for the month of May (9)

Member Renewals for the month of May (11)

Total Membership for the month of May:

Primary Members 372
Affiliate Members 231
Total Members 603

Anniversaries

5 Years
Bruce Manning

10 Years
Jim Reeder

15 Years
Peter Ridgway

20 Years
Frank Pacheco
Thomas Mc Guinness

25 Years
C Blanchard
Greg Loitz

Proposal: Kathy proposes we accept the new members. Second: Sheila Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes

Activities – Greg Sickal

Absent – Report submitted

Nothing to report this month except minor updates to the calendar.

Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner

Nominations committee

Meetings proceeding on monthly cadence, next meeting 6/20

New National bylaws review

Completed fourth draft version, ready for review prior to BOD submission. Need BOD to decide if we want to add an AX and Communications director to the LPR BOD. It would be best to decide if we want to add these two positions to the BOD before proceeding further with the bylaws rewrite. In addition, the LPR policies and procedures need to be updated. I will approach the BOD members to review and update the description of theirrespective roles in the coming weeks.

Chairperson Reports:

Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie

I would like board approval for the budget for our last 4 events this year at Crows Landing. The site fee, portables, and lunch/waters will cost about or under $4,000 per event.

Aug 10th – Site $2K, Portables $500, Lunch/Waters $1K

Sept 15th – Site $2K, Portables $500, Lunch/Waters $1K

Oct 12th – Site $2K, Portables $500, Lunch/Waters $1K

Nov 10th – Site $2K, Portables $500, Lunch/Waters $1K

Total $16,000

Proposal: Kathy proposes we approve Autocross fees for the final events in the amount up to $16,000. Second: Homer Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes

Charity – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley

Kris is working on the “Save the Date” flyer for the Jacob’s Heart Tour scheduled for September 14th (mark your calendars)

Hospitality – Emilie Highley

Absent – Report submitted

John Reed is still off his feet with his trusty “wound vac” – would love phone calls.

June Iles is doing well and will be celebrating her 95th birthday on June 13th. Cards are welcome and can be sent to:

Sonnet Hill Senior Living
429 Meridian Avenue
San Jose, CA 95126
Attention: June Iles, Room 201A

Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson

We published the May/June POST on May 7th. The issue featured our new AutoX trailer as a cover story.

Given the timing, we now have reader statistics for the issue.

Total audience who opened (and read) the issue: 196 individual readers

Time spent reading the issue Total time was about 15 1/2 hours of reading.

Time on pages (who’s reading what) in order of most time on an article/section

Article/section Time spent on article/section

John D/Angelo interview (3 pg.) @ 1 1/2 hours
SRO/Porsche Motorsport (4 pg.) @ 1 + hours
LPR Trailer (2 pg.) @ 1 hour
LPR Calendar (2 pg.) @ 45 min
Essential tied

Driving with Friends (1 pg.) @ 40 min
St Patty’s GTG (3 pg.) @ 40 min
Editorial/Board (2 pg.) @ 37 min
All other pages, ads, etc. @ less than 30 min.

So, the data shows that people are reading the articles — GREAT. Members are reading the Racing and Porsche Motorsport section, which is something that I enjoy putting together. The Calendar section is getting good focus time — good for getting more folks out to events!!!

The July/Aug issue is in-work. The lead article, provided by Doris Britschgi, is about LPR folks at Treffen Sonoma. Other articles will feature our blow out Cars&Coffee and Thirsty Thursday attendance. Including 5 or 6 new members in attendance, a report about and on the LPR Forest Bathing Tour, with interview with Nancy Calvin and a review of two recent IMSA WeatherTech series races, Laguna Seca and Detroit (spoiler alert, some good, some bad results for our favorite cars).

I’ll highlight the new members who attended the Jakes Thirsty Thursday event in the “Membership Corner” section. I’d love to keep this part going!!

Any questions, comments, complaints, or ??, please send them in! I promise to answer each and every one! Hehehe..

Public Relations – Open

Absent – Report submitted by John Reed

A photo/caption was submitted to Panorama’s “From the Regions”. This will appear in the July or August issue. This Pano feature has become very popular!

(We are looking for someone to take this position – basics are sending photos, possibly an article into Panorama. John is happy to continue taking pictures, but anyone should feel free to take photos.)

Safety – John Reed

Absent – Report submitted

All is safe. More next month.

Tour – Hugh Calvin

BoD authorized Tour fee waivers for tours in 2024.

No Tours were held in May.

Next scheduled Tour is the Forest Bathing in the Redwoods Tour on 16- June.

Further out: Jacob’s Heart (14-Sep), Oktoberfest Joint Tour with MBR (tentative, 21-Sep), Ole Amigos Tour (2-Nov), and Toys for Tots Tour (1-Dec).

Social Media – Dana Ambrisko

Absent – Report submitted.

May Mid-month Blast was sent on the 15th
- Emailer Statistics from the May Mid-month Blast:
  - Total Num Address = 498 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 485
May/June 2024 Prieta POST Emailer was sent on the 13th
- Emailer Statistics from the Prieta POST Emailer
  - Total Num Addresses = 498 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 485
PCA request for Porsche Panorama back editions now online Emailer sent to membership the 22nd
- Emailer Statistics for Porsche Panorama info:
  - Total Num Addresses = 501 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 488
June Blast Update was sent on the 1st
- Emailer Statistics from the June Blast Update:
  - Total Num Address = 494 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 481
June Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around the 15th

Tech – Peter Ridgway

Absent – Report to be advised.

Webmaster – Jim Turk

During the month of May, the webmaster did the following:

Updated links to current versions of
- The Prieta POST
- Zone 7 In the Zone
- AX link on the home page updated to point to the 2024 information, not the 2023 stuff.
Working on changing the location of the September and October Cars and Coffees
- September 15 at Julio and Edna’s lot in Aptos. Spoke with Julio and he is good with this.
- October 13 potentially at Brookdale Lodge, since the April event was so well received.
Website maintenance – our site is becoming woefully out-of-date for the WordPress version (we are at 6.1.1 and the current WP version is 6.5.3) – our hosting site claims they don’t support any WP version beyond 6.1. It’s a big job to move to a new hosting site. Probably best done during the “down times” at the end of the CY.
I will practice moving the site for a while until I’m comfortable with that process.
WordPress plugin maintenance
Added an advert for Eric Siemens
Installed a WordPress plugin, ShortPixel, that compresses the photos stored in WordPress on our site.

Old Business: None

New Business: None

Adjourn Meeting: Meeting adjourned by President Dana at 7:21 PM