LPR Board Meeting Minutes, November 2025
Table of Contents
Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie; Treasurer – Andy Ward; Activities – Greg Sickal; 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, Dana Ambrisko, Kris Vanacore, Peter Ridgway, Emilie Highley, Hugh Calvin
Additional: Mari Kuhn, Patrick Kuhn, Brad Boardman, Ed Tefankjia
LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
November 11 2025, 7:03 PM to 7:45PM
Call to Order
President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:45PM.
Board Member Reports:
President – Dana Drysdale –
October Board Minutes: President Dana asked the Board to approve the October Board minutes.
Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion Passed
Region Leadership App
Any Board Member is supposed to be able to use the Region Leadership app.
You can see any member in LPR, and if that does not find the person, it will look nationally.
We can also sign up new members. This generates an email from PCA to the new member.
We do not take the credit card, etc., that comes from PCA.
I also explain how to change your region if you want to.
The email from PCA comes with it locked to your zip code, even though it is a drop down.
VA Car Show and Volunteering with the VA
VA would like us to do this on a Saturday in March.
A huge problem is that most vets do not sign up for benefits! Our event will help with this.
My suggestion is to see what dates we have open after AX, and make this a priority.
Also, they gave me valuable insight into VA in East Bay and volunteering.
I believe I will have their volunteer coordinator’s name next week.
Board – Are we OK with publicizing volunteer coordinator and letting LPR members contact on their own?
Or, is this too much volunteering? What’s the sense?
Discussion: The VA event will be a bigger event to encourage veterans to sign up for benefits. They will have a DJ and our car display. Their volunteer coordinator is looking for volunteers for the VA. Contact information will be in the Blast and in the Prieta Post if any members are interested.
Vice President – Honore D’Angelo
Following is our list of events for the rest of 2025.
10/26/2025 – Concours Porsche Los Altos Service Center – starts at 8:00 – 2:00 p.m. – breakfast and lunch were provided – event went very well
11/16/2025 – 4:00 p.m. – LPR Planning Meeting for 2026
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
Discussion: Dave mentioned that he will not have confirmed autocross dates until after Thanksgiving. It was decided to move the LPR Planning Meeting to December 14 pending Greg’s approval.
Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie
Voting on the Board of Directors and Awards was completed at the end of October. All votes were submitted online through MonkeySurvey set up by Jim Turk. No paper ballots were received by US Mail. Jim Turk extracted the results from MonkeySurvey, and the votes were certified by Homer Pitner and Peter Ridgway.
The following are the voting results for the list of Board of Directors for 2026:
President – Honore D’Angelo
Secretary – Mari Kuhn
Membership – Andy Ward
Treasurer – Dana Drysdale
Activities Director – Brad Boardman
Autocross Director – Dave Dunwoodie
Discussion: Dana Drysdale to send job descriptions to the elected board.
Treasurer – Andy Ward
Attached are Treasurer’s Reports, detailing LPR financial activity through October 31, 2025.
I’ve also attached the Zone 7 report for October, as we received a payment for the Concours award fund.
Special thanks to Jim Turk for making the modifications I requested to our Reimbursement Request form. The form now has entries for entering a phone number, and Zelle account information.
As always, if there are any questions, please let me know.
See Appendix A below for information about the accounts.
Discussion: Andy mentioned that he sent a deposit to the caterer for the Award Banquet via Zelle. Honore to confirm with the caterer that they received the deposit.
Don Chaisson sent in a request for reimbursement for Prieta Post publishing costs of $240.96 for In-Design and Photoshop, and Flip.
Proposal: Andy made a motion to reimburse Don Chaisson $240.96. Second: Honore Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion passes
Membership – Don Minami
Our region gained two new members.
Roy Clausen Scotts Valley 2014 911 Carrera S
Russel Stanley Monte Sereno 1965 Porsche 356
September Anniversaries compiled by Jim Turk
10 years
Gayle Byers
David Byers
25 years
Bradford McClure
Membership Numbers as of October 9, 2025
Total Primary Members 381
Affiliate Members 232
Total Region Membership 613
Proposal: Don proposes we accept the new members. Second: Homer Ayes: 6 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 activities@lprpca.org
Insurance
* Submitted insurance for Ole Amigos Tour on 11/08
* Submitted insurance for Toys for Tots Tour on 11/23
* Submitted insurance for Awards Banquet on 12/06 (for alcohol)
* Updated calendar with various changes
Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner
Election Results (big thanks to Jim Turk for compiling the results)
- New Policies and Procedures – 91% approval (50 of 55 votes cast w/5 abstaining)
- New Bylaws – 93% approval (51 of 55 w/4 abstaining)
Discussion: Jim Turk will update website effective January 1, 2026.
Chairperson Reports:
Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Co-Chair Homer Pitner
Our 9th AX is done and another successful season is complete. Just some awards to be handed out and 5 free AX to be raffled off Dec 6th.
PCA national has extended the use of 2010 Snell helmets till Oct 2026, so we don’t need to buy new loaner helmets till after next season.
Charity – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley
Absent – Report submitted.
Thanks to generous donations from Club Members and Friends:
Jacob’s Heart will receive
$15,000.00.
Morgan Autism – Kill-a-Kone. Donations still being counted. A $10,000 donation was received Anonymously. Next month we should be able to report the total.
Hospitality – Emilie Highley
Absent – Report submitted
Joanna Herz recently had surgery – she is home and doing well. Phone calls and “cheery” cards are welcome.
Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson
As is typical there was an initial surge in readers checking out the issue and as of his morning, there were 132 individual readers spending about 11 1/2 hours on the pages of the issue. These numbers are not unusual and should increase with Dana’s customary POST reminder in her next blast in a couple days.
The time spent on sections of the POST (below) show spikes in times spent on the elements, e.g Editorial, Dana’s DWF, even time on the back story to the cover page, and of course, the featured articles. So most folks didn’t just scan the issue, but spent time reading content. All GOOD!
The issue incorporated a couple new elements spurred by PCA Newsletter judging comments and “magazine” typical practice of 3 column pages, reflecting incremental improvements. ALSO notable, this issue featured articles from different authors — I’d love to see this continue!
Next year, I plan to spend more time looking at the POST’s look: moving from a tight magazine look (e.g. The Economist) to more exciting spreads (Excellence or ??) with a bit more white-space and grabber hero photos. This may well be a challenge to do given my career of manufacturing audits and failure analyses than pop art. We’ll see.
See Appendix B for page view statistics.
Public Relations – Dana Drysdale
WERKS volunteer picture will be in Panaroma in January.
Safety – Open Position
Ed Tefankjian has submitted safety report for the November 9 autocross.
Discussion: Need Safety person for Tours. We are hopeful to have a Concours Chair for 2026.
Tour – Hugh Calvin
Absent – Report submitted.
The “To the Moon June” Tour was conducted in early October.
The Ole Amigos Tour was conducted ion 8-November
Remaining Tours on the Calendar for 2025: Toys 4 Tots (23-Nov).
Social Media – Dana Ambrisko
Absent – Report Submitted.
I will not be able to attend this meeting as I will be out of town.
- October Mid-month Blast Sent Oct 15th
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 620 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 603
- Reminder to RSVP for the Ole Amigos Tour Sent
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 625 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 608
- The LPR 2025 Election Deadline Notice Sent Oct 27
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 625 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 608
- 2 Days left to Vote – The LPR Election sent Oct 30th
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 626 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 609
- November Blast Update sent Oct 31st
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 626 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 609
- November Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around Nov. 15th
Tech – Peter Ridgway
Dana spoke with Peter and said that he had nothing to report.
Webmaster – Jim Turk
During the month of October and early November, the webmaster
- Reported the results of the BOD election and Awards to Member at Large, Secretary and President on November 6 (a day late).
- Election results:
- 56 total ballots received, about 10% more than last year.
- 55 valid ballots received.
- No more than one ballot received from each member (members can vote, submit multiple ballots, but only the last ballot received is counted – ballots are date and time stamped)
- 1 ballot received from another Region, and it was discarded
- Continued to gather information about upgrading our website software.
- Website hosting company has made multiple changes upgrading their software. That’s great. Unfortunately, our website’s software isn’t capable of dealing with the hosting updates. It still works, but we will eventually, maybe sooner rather than later, be forced into updating our software.
- Updated the website’s Photo software. You can now automatically cycle through an album of photos. The old software was unsupported and stopped working reliably.
- Performed website WordPress maintenance.
- Began scheduling Cars and Coffee for 2026, second Sunday of April through October. So far I’ve had positive responses from Vilozny Insurance and Carpo’s. I would like to spread the locations out more next year.
Old Business:
Update Website: Jim will have a Statement of Work prepared. Hope to start updating website in January to have done before the autocross season.
New Business:
Patrick and Mari Kuhn will be absent in December.
Adjourn Meeting:
Meeting adjourned by President Dana at 7:45 PM
Appendices
