LPR Board Meeting Minutes, January 2026
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LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
January 13, 2026, 7:00 PM to 7:48PM
Attendees
Present: President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Mari Kuhn; Treasurer – Dana Drysdale; Activities – Brad Boardman; AX – Dave Dunwoodie; Additionally, Activities Chairs – AX – Patrick Kuhn; Charity – Kris Vanacore, Prieta Post – Donald Chaisson; Safety – Jacob Inman; Social Media – Dana Ambrisko; Technical – Peter Ridgway; Tour – Hugh Calvin; Webmaster – James Turk;
Absent: Andy Ward; Homer Pitner, Kathy Musser, Emilie Highley
Additional: Jack
Call to Order
President Honore called the meeting to order at 7:00PM.
Board Member Reports
President – Honore D’Angelo
December 2025 Board Minutes: President Honore asked the Board to approve the December Board minutes.
Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion Passed
Nominate the 2026 Chairs:
Activities – Brad Boardman
Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Homer Pitner
Charity – Kris Vanacore and Kathy Musser
Hospitality – Emilie Highley
Post – Don Chaisson
Public Relations – Dana Drysdale
Safety – Jacob Inman
Tours – Hugh Calvin
Tech – Peter Ridgeway
Webmaster – Jim Turk
All in favor?? Yes
Region Leadership App
Request other Board Members please test this app.
PCA wants us to test it to a) look up members and b) sign up new members.
All Board Members should be able to use it.
On Apple App Store or Google Play search for PCA Region Leader Tools.
Sign in using your PCA name and password.
With good results, I will ask to add more people to the app. Please check!
PCA Public Service Awards
Dana Drysdale submitted the application to National and we will see what happens.
We should be extremely close to an award if we do not receive.
Over the long haul, we should be recognized, LPR is amazing and recognition adds inspiration.
Parade 2026: Registration opens early February as usual
VP Report:
6/21/2026 – Porsche Heritage Day, Sunday June 21, 2026 -> Maybe move it to 6/28/2026
Presented by Porsche Stevens Creek and Loma Prieta Region, PCA
Stevens Creek Porsche Service Center, 16151 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gato
Picnic 2026 and LPR Award Budget 2026: Estimate $15,000.
All approved to shelve this to a later date.
Secretary – Mari Kuhn
Thank you for your reports in advance of the meeting!
Treasurer – Dana Drysdale
December 2025 was net loss, and annual income was $1k.
We are set up to process payments. Remember to use the form, scan the form and invoice, and send to Dana.
The reimbursement form is at https://wpgeeks.online/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Reimbursement-Request-Form-R1.3.2.pdf
QuickBooks Software Note: We use the last QuickBooks desktop version produced, in 2021.
It is no longer supported. So, there is some risk, although our use is very simple – just bank deposits, expenses, and reports.
Dana is looking at options to bring to Board, ranging from QuickBooks cloud @ $800 / year to Zoho books at $420 / year.
Ideas from anyone are welcome. Any choice needs to be able to import old QuickBooks data.
We also use a dedicated LPR computer dating from 2020 to possibly 2015. Cloud software would likely eliminate
the need for a LPR computer, although each Treasurer would have to run reports and save them to Glovebox.
Committee Chair Reports
Activities – Brad Boardman
Nothing to report.
Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie
(Committee co-chairs: Homer Pitner, Patrick Kuhn)
I would like make a motion to get advanced board approval for all the big AX expenses for the 2026 season as detailed below for $36,100.
Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion Passed
Membership – Andy Ward
January Membership Report for the month of December, 2025
New Members from PCA (2)
Edward Stone Bancroft, White 2020 Taycan 4S
David Dury, 2019 911 Carrera Cabriolet (Co-Member: Anneke Dury (Spouse))
Transfers in (1)
Sean Schnoor, Black 1987 911 Carrera Targa
Transfers out (1)
Enrique A. Gonzalez
Memberships Expiring at end of December (7)
Member Renewals for the month of December (1)
Total Active Membership for the month of December:
Primary Members: 384
Co-Members: 240
PCA Junior Members: 17
Total Members: 624
Anniversaries
5 Years
None
10 Years
Jeff Greenwood
20 Years
Jonathon Simmons
Proposal: Andy Ward proposes we accept the new members. Second: Jacob Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passed
Chairperson Reports:
Charity – Kris Vanacore, Kathy Musser, Emilie Highley
Nothing to report.
Hospitality – Emilie Highley
Last month, a sympathy card was sent to the Weir Family with the loss of Bill’s beloved wife, Kate.
Emilie Highley resigned.
Nominations & Policies – Open Position
Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson
The Jan Feb 2026 issue was completed and published Jan 8th. Thank you Dana A for pushing the issue out and reporting it went out to 623 addressees.
PCA started to solicit entries for the 2026 Newsletter contest. Dana, Honore, Doris and I agreed to submit the Nov Dec 2025 issue. It was a great issue, four featured articles from four different authors (a first of the Post of late), good photography and incorporated 2025 judging comments and suggestions. Incremental improvement is always a good thing!
The Jan Feb issue has also started additional improvements, better use of color (background), better use of white space and more.
The next issue’s possible articles: Part 2 of Iain’s DIY of the light weight fly wheel, a report on Porsche Sprints to follow up on our tacking the young Porsche drivers and maybe a bit on the SRO race at Sonoma also, reports on our first Thirsty Thursdays of the year and maybe our visit to the VA. The Autocross season will also have begun.
Thanks to everyone who helps Doris and I publish our award winning publication.
Public Relations – Dana Drysdale
Panorama: Pano delayed our latest submission, Tahoe Tour to March.
Explanation was holiday photos only, and Pano stopped accepting them on December 1.
Directions to me are to resubmit the Tahoe Tour in late January.
Problem is that so many submissions are being received, Pano is working on a new way.
From the Regions and Linda are very nice with communications, directions, and editing!
Other
VA Car Show – Confirmed for March 28. Bigger than 2024 show.
DJ, popcorn, etc. for Veteran guests. Purpose is marketing to sign up new VA system members.
We plan to still have lunch available for PCA volunteers, etc., there will just be more veterans.
Safety – Jacob Inman
Nothing to report.
Social Media – Dana Ambrisko
- 2026 LPR Planning Meeting Reminder sent on Dec 8th
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 626 Total Num Opted out = 15 Total Num sent = 611
- December Mid-month Blast sent on Dec 15th
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 629 Total Num Opted out = 15 Total Num sent = 614
- January Blast Update sent on Jan 1st
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 619 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 605
- Jan/Feb 2025 Prieta POST sent Jan 8th
o Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 623 Total Num Opted out = 14 Total Num sent = 609
- January Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around Jan 15th
Tech – Peter Ridgway
Nothing to report.
Tour – Hugh Calvin
We have the following Tours on the calendar for 2026:
Ken Iles Memorial (4&5-Apr)
Mt. Hamilton Observatory (16-May): Confirmed
Forest Bathing (14-Jun): Confirmed
Hit the Trail (23-Aug)
Jacob’s Heart (20-Sep)
Fall in Love with Tahoe (26&27-Sep)
To the Moon June (24-Oct)
Ole Amigos (8-Nov)
Toys for Tots (22-Nov)
Webmaster – Jim Turk
During the month of December, the webmaster did the following:
- WordPress maintenance
- Beginning of the year tasks.
- New BOD page
- New AX page
- Updated “generic” email addresses for delivery to new board members – you might want to check yours out by sending yourself an email from the BOD page on the current website
- Updated the footer copyright to 2026
- There are more updates that need to be done, but I am waiting until the software update is complete before doing those
- Added a new email address for the autocross director, autocross-director@lprpca.org. This email address can have different delivery addresses from the autocross chair address, autocross-chair@lprpca.org. I don’t know if that is important or not, but it made sense to me.
- Due to the fantastic response to our request for a new webmaster or at least a co-webmaster, I am proposing that we “outsource” the maintenance of the website to a third party.
This will allow a webmaster to concentrate on content rather than the constant updating of the website software – a risky proposition depending on the capabilities of the webmaster.
A rough quote that I have received for this type of service is about $3300/year, which is significantly more expensive than what we are currently paying for the hosting of the site, and the software around the edges for maintaining the site (like backup software, page builder software, etc.). This idea is in the early stages of gestation. I’ll keep the board in the loop about this idea. - Updating of the website has been started by Techmagick, and the club has made a partial payment of $1600 for the work that has been done so far. Techmagick has identified 19 total tasks to complete the software update, and 8 have been completed. It’s been smooth sailing so far, and I anticipate that will continue.
I do not have an estimate for when the website will be back up and running the new software at this time.
Old Business: By Email dated 12/31/2025.
Proposal: Request Board approval for following expenditures:
- Concours fee for LPR Concours. To fund Zone concours trophies.
$330 per bill from Zone 7. - Travel mugs for 3 departing Board members not otherwise awarded.
$225.00. Honore suggested, I said you bet and did the buy.
Proposal: Dana D. requests approval of $330 to Zone 7 for payment of concours trophies and $225.00 for Travel mug gifts as described above. Second:Homer Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes
New Business: None
Adjourn Meeting:
Meeting adjourned by President Honore at 7:48 PM