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Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie; Treasurer – Andy Ward; Member at Large – Homer Pitner; Membership – Don Minami, Additionally, Activities Chairs – AX – Dave Dunwoodie; Hospitality Chair – Emilie Highley, Webmaster – James Turk; Tour – Hugh Calvin; Prieta Post – Donald Chaisson; Social Media – Dana Ambrisko; Technical – Peter Ridgway; Charity – Kris Vanacore
Absent: Greg Sickal, Andy Ward, Kris Vanacore
Additional: Patrick Kuhn, Mari Kuhn
September 9, 7:00 PM to 7:45PM
Call to Order
President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:00PM.
Board Member Reports:
President – Dana Drysdale –
August Board Minutes: President Dana asked the Board to approve the August Board minutes.
Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion Passed
Bequest from Ken and June Iles
We received notification of a donation from Ken and June Iles trust. There are specifics about how the donation should be used. Funds will be received when the trust is able to release funds.
Based on reading the trust document, we will have about $2,000 / year for 5 years for a specific purpose.
Emilie Highley is one of the trustees and she will help us define actions that meet the parameters.
Discussion: Emilie stated that Ken and June Isles would like a perpetual Hospitality Award to be presented. The annual gift of $2,000 per year is to be used for a party in their name. Both of these requests would not begin until 2026.
October 18 – Oktoberfest with Monterey Region (Reschedule)
Monterey Region is very sorry about any misunderstanding that occurred for Sept. 13.
Their members wanted something different and want Oktoberfest to be a separate event.
They are working on Oktoberfest for October 18. This should be on our calendar and marked Tentative.
Mark McMahon and I met last week, and I explained everyone from LPR loved our 1st year Oktoberfest with MBR.
The park and the caterer are the same ones used for Concours in Paradise.
Mark had asked me for options, and my Monterey catering connection decided to go upmarket.
Werks Reunion Photo 12:45PM Friday At the Stage:
Thanks to all for coming to the photo.
Best one yet!
November 1 VA Car Show / GTG from Panera, etc.
VA has updated info, says November 1 is the perfect day for them.
Checking with Board on that day for us.
Is date OK? Same food arrangements – Panera, Missy will pick up, etc.
70th Anniversary Party:
LPR’s party scheduled for September 13 will take place in Cupertino during the Cupertino Fall Fest. A venue located near the Fall Fest band has a fee of $500. Dinner will be catered at a price of $25/person.
Process for Adding / Changing Activities?0000
Other Regions seem to be having challenges with too many activities. Lately, we had MBR Oktoberfest turn into two calendar dates, and added tours. Something for the Board to think about – should there be a process for adding / changing activities? We don’t need to figure this out immediately, it’s just a question to consider.
Discussion: Dave mentioned that the Activities Director needs to be informed of all additions and changes. He also reminded us that the Activities Director has a meeting in the later part of November where activities are decided for the upcoming calendar year. In the past, the meeting would try to set up the calendar typically to have 1 autocross, 1 tour, and 1 GTG per month.
Proposal: By email, Dana Drysdale made a motion to pay the room rental fee of $500 for the LPR 70th Anniversary Party Second: Honore Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion passes
Vice President – Honore D’Angelo
8/23/2025 – Dana and Missy’s Pot-luck GTG – 22090 Rae Lane, Cupertino, CA 95014 – 4:00 – 9:00 p.m. – Potluck – Home – Cupertino Hills Swim and Racquet Club – Great Turnout and fun event
9/11/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga
9/13/2025 – PCA 70th Birthday – Cupertino Senior Center – .21251 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA – 4:00 – 8:00 p.m.
9/14/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos – Santa Cruz
9/27/2025 – Lake Tahoe Tour
10/04/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
10/09/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewing Company – Santa Cruz
10/12/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Beeline Motor Club – Santa Cruz
11/23/2025 – Toys for Tots Tour
12/06/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
12/06/2025 – Awards Banquet – Cupertino Senior Center – 21251 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA
Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie
Thank you for your reports in advance of the meeting!
Treasurer – Andy Ward
Absent – Report submitted
LPR Accounts:
Recap: August LPR Financials
o Expenses: $ 2,304
o Income: $ 5,576
o Net Income: $ 3,272
Income was: Autocross, PCA Hospitality Reimbursement, Interest Income
Expenses were: Autocross, GTGs, administrative
Recap LPR YTD Financials, Jan 1 to August 31, 2025:
o Expenses: $ 38,793
o Income: $ 39,610
o Net Income: $ 817
Zone 7 Accounts:
Recap: August Zone 7 Financials
o Expenses: $ 0
o Income: $ 405
o Net Income: $ 405
Recap: Zone 7 YTD Financials, Jan 1 to August 31, 2025:
o Expenses: $ 2918
o Income: $ 3000
o Net Income: $ 82
August Income was: SNR Concours Payment
August Expenses were: None
Membership – Don Minami
Report date September 6, 2025, by Don Minami, Kathy Musser, and Jim Turk.
Our region gained six new members (four primary members and two co-member) during August. New members are:
Douglas Lang Santa Cruz 2016 Cayman S
Joe Rip Los Gatos 2009 911 Carrera
Kathy Rip Los Gatos Joe Rip’s associate
Russel Case Santa Cruz 2024 Boxster GTS 4.0
Marlene Hagoipan Santa Cruz 2000 911 Carrera
Brian Hagopian Santa Cruz Marlene Hagopian’s associate
July Aniversaries
5 years
Dusty Hookey
Chris Pruden
William Condon
10 years
David Whitlock
15 years
James Thompson
Joshua Thompson
35 years
Sheila Dunwoodie
David Dunwoodie
Total Primary Members 380
Affiliate Members 231
Total Region Membership 611
Proposal: Don proposes we accept the new members. Second: Homer Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes
Activities – Greg Sickal
Absent – Report submitted
LPR Calendar
* NOTE: Email any calendar additions/changes for tours, GTG’s and other events to [email protected]
Insurance
* Submitted insurance for Overnight Tour to Lake Tahoe on 9/27-28
* Submitted insurance for To the Moon June Iles Memorial Tour on 10/4
* Updated calendar with various changes
Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner
Nominations committee: Have candidates for all BOD positions except VP (duties will be distributed across
multiple members). Have provided the WebMaster with the preliminary ballot.
Chairperson Reports:
Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Co-Chair Homer Pitner
AX #6 went well with 67 drivers. It was our last event at Salinas Airport this season.
Registrations for AX #7 are going well with 76 drivers so far with a limit of 80 drivers.
I need board approval for a reimbursement for $253.54 for the following:
$206.10 for Business Cards for myself, Jim Turk, Homer Pitner, Patrick Kuhn, & John Gould
$8.72 for Hooks to hang trash bags in the trailer
$8.72 for Pencils for our Tech Quiz in June
$30 for gas for our generator
Proposal: Homer makes a motion to approve the $253.54 as described above. Second: Honore Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes
Charity – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley
Join your LPR colleagues for the “Have a Heart Charity Tour” (Jacob’s Heart) . . . it’s not too late to sign up. . .
Date: Saturday, September 20th
Meet at: The Canepa parking lot, Scotts Valley 9:30 a.m. (enjoy a self-guided tour)
email: Kathy Musser at [email protected]
Donation: $25.00 (minimum)
This event will include a tour of Jacob’s Heart and light lunch
For more information – Check the LPR Calendar or the current POST or contact Kathy Musser
Discussion: Jim to bring donuts and coffee per Kathy’s request.
Hospitality – Emilie Highley
All is good . . . LPR Members are all healthy!
Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson
It was a daunting issue with more pages than ever before.
The lead articles were: Werks Reunion with interviews with photographer Michael Allen Ross and LPR friend Gunter Fieldmeier, our annual picnic, the Hit the Trail Tour with Nicole Naidu appearing as a first- time contributor and she did a great job in her debut, and bios for our board candidates.
To my delight, Doris feels like she is stepping up her contributions to the POST, not being just a grammatical proofreader but weighing in on content presentation and providing various exceptional recommendations for the issue.
The keen observer will note that I use the same font and bolding for both our names in the masthead on page 4… as I attempt to recognize her contributors are more than just hounding me away from run on sentences, which she still needs to do. DAMN, there I go again!
ALSO, I’ve listed people that have contributed articles to the POST in recent times as Contributors. This doesn’t mean that each provided something for this issue, but that we consider them as part of our bull pen of writers and want to recognize them for both past and, hopefully, future contributions.
Speaking of future contributions, I will not be able to attend a number of events in the coming months. So, I need someone to volunteer for the following events:
High Priority:
PCA 70th Anniversary event. Good chance to write about something new.
The LPR and MBR joint Oktoberfest event Oct 18th. There ought to be a story in there, somewhere!!
The Over the Moon June event. Apparently, this is a route that was a June Iles favorite, so there should be some good nostalgic aspects of this tour that could be highlighted.
Only a bit less Priority:
Jacobs Heart tour: the event seems that it will similar to last years, so maybe difficult to come up with a new angle.
Toys for Tots: Again, somewhat of a repeat, but there should be a story if focus on the toys for tots angle.
<. these stories don’t need to be lengthy, but perhaps a brief review in sort of a “In Case You Missed It” teaser. >
LPR at the VA: While this is a repeat event, it is A GOOD FEELING story… should be easy to come up with some interesting stories about our veterans. I might be able to attend, TBD.
I will be reporting on the Tahoe overnight tour and a bonus report on UnStock.
Anyone interested in joining me to UnStock. We will meet up with a couple YOS folks. Still an outside chance that Kelly Tefler will be in one of the YOS cars.
Public Relations – Dana Drysdale
Dana to submit the group photo from WERKS.
Safety – Open Position
Safety Report for Autocross #6 was already completed and was noted in the August board meeting minutes.
Tour – Hugh Calvin
The “Hit the Trail” Tour was conducted in August.
The “Jacob’s Heart” Tour is next up on 20-September.
The “Fall in Love with Tahoe Overnight” Tour follows on the 27-September.
Remaining Tours on the Calendar for 2025: Jacob’s Heart Tour (20-Sep), Fall in Love with Tahoe Overnight Tour (27-28-Sep), To the Moon, June (4-Oct), Ole Amigos Tour (8-Nov), Toys 4 Tots (23-Nov).,
The Ole Amigos Tour, currently scheduled on 8-Nov, needs a host! I’ll develop a paragraph calling for a Host in the Blast.
Social Media – Dana Ambrisko
- RSVP Reminder for the Hit the Trail Tour sent Aug 8th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 510 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 496
- Emailer Statistics
- LPR photo at Werks Stage announcement sent Aug 13th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 514 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 500
- Emailer Statistics
- August Mid-month Blast sent Aug 15th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 514 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 500
- Emailer Statistics
- Reminder to RSVP for the Jacobs Heart Tour sent Aug 25th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 524 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 510
- Emailer Statistics
- September Blast Update sent Sept 1st
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 512 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 498
- Emailer Statistics
- To The Moon June Tour flyer sent Sept 2nd
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 515 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 501
- Emailer Statistics
- PCA 70th Anniversary Celebrating sent Sept 2nd
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 515 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 501
- Emailer Statistics
- PCA 70th Anniversary Celebration sent Sept 3rd – Motorsport.Reg now working announcement
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 516 Total Num Opted out = 15 Total Num sent = 501
- Emailer Statistics
- LPR Concours at Porsche Fremont was Cancelled – Notice sent to members sent Sept 5th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 517 Total Num Opted out = 16 Total Num sent = 501
- Emailer Statistics
- September Mid-month Blast will be sent around Sept 15th
Tech – Peter Ridgway
Nothing to report.
Webmaster – Jim Turk
At the September 9 meeting, I would like to ask for board approval to spend $379.21 for renewal of our website hosting service (which renews on October 12) for one year, and $125.85 for SiteLock (which renews on September 22). SiteLock is a website security service that helps protect websites from various online threats like malware, viruses, and hackers (so far so good on that front)
Although my next request is below the $200 threshold, I would also like to ask for board approval to spend $198.00 for a two-month subscription to SurveyMonkey for the 2025 election.
On to the monthly report.
During the month of August, the webmaster did the following:
- Posted the 2025 Policies and Procedures and By-Laws documents to the Club Docs section of the website and identified them as PROPOSED. Added a home page notification that they are available.
- Attempted to run down the cause of some website server problems. Worked with a software vendor to try to solve the issue. I think I got it fixed. Misconfiguration of the PHP portion of our website.
- BOD ZOOM invite list updates. Added Brad Boardman and the Kuhns. How would the board feel about sending the BOD ZOOM link to all LPR members? It’s a bit scary to me, but I suspect that if I’m vigilant, I can keep the party crashers out. Let me know how you feel about this via email.
- As Dave Dunwoodie demonstrated to me, iOS devices don’t seem to like the embedded iFrame that I’ve been using for Clokkr AX timing. I have added a button on the 2025 Autocross Season page that iOS users can click on to go directly to clokkr.com, thereby bypassing the iFrame, and solving the problem.
- Work on constructing the 2025 elections ballot has begun. I would like the BLAST to have a link to the online voting location for the October 1 and October 15 mailings. I should have all (most?) of the ducks in a row by September 20, and will share the link with Dana Ambrisko when my work is complete.
Proposal: Homer makes a motion to approve $703.06 to pay the expenses that Jim describes above. Second: Dana D. Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes