LPR Board Meeting Minutes, June 2025

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:  Emilie Highley, Kris Vanacore

LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
June 10, 2025, 7:02 PM to 7:51PM

Call to Order

President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:02PM.   

Board Member Reports:

President – Dana Drysdale –

May Board Minutes:  President Dana asked the Board to approve the May Board minutes. 

Ayes:  6   Noes:  None    Motion Passed

Porsche Heritage Day, June 22:

Stevens Creek Porsche wants to take this event upmarket a little bit.

Most of their frequent car customers signed up, about 50. 

They will want to just relax and enjoy the experience, just like the rest of us!

Funding Requests Coming:

$1,500 for canopies to provide more shade opportunities for Classic Display participants
Formally approved last meeting?

Art glass trophies (Dana), & bases and inscription (Peter) – Approx $900
SCP wanted a 3^rd place for both People’s Choice and Junior’s Choice

50% of Breakfast – $2,000.  SCP asked for this

Goodie Bags & Misc – Honore working on

Grille Badges for Display Cars are sponsored  

Revised Timing:

 7:30AM Display cars can park – special areas    10:00AM Spectator admission

1:00PM Cars start leaving     2:00PM Must leave

Volunteers Needed or Signed Up: 

Table of Display Cars so Far – There will be surprises in both directions 

Am trying to keep adding people, but no more 996, 986, etc.

Older Race and strong Sport Purpose we need.

Going after a tractor.

Proposal:  Dana Drysdale makes a proposal requesting a budget not to exceed $5000 for costs described above for Porsche Heritage Day event.  Second: Honore Ayes: 6   Noes:  None  Motion passes

 Vice President – Honore D’Angelo

First, I would like to request a budget of $500 to prepare goodie bags for the display cars at Porsche Heritage Day. Each bag will include water, snacks, car numbers, and car badges. We are expecting at least 120 cars to be on display. Thank you for your consideration.

One confirmation/change: Missy and Dana’s Potluck at their Tennis Club has been confirmed for August 23rd – 22090 Rae Lane, Cupertino, CA 95014 – 4:00 – 9:00 p.m. – Potluck – Home – Cupertino Hills Swim and Racquet Club .  More details to follow.

One change to note: the July Board meeting has been rescheduled to Tuesday, July 15th, due to the Porsche Parade taking place that week.  Several members will be unavailable on the previously scheduled date of July 8th.

We will hold a hybrid meeting at Legends in San Jose:
5965 Almaden Expy, San Jose, CA 95120.

Following is our list of events for the year 2025. 

Event to keep in mind and date TBD.

Porsche Now Brunch (event with Stevens Creek Porsche) – TBD

5/11/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos – Santa Cruz

6/07/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside – great turnout

6/08/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos – Santa Cruz – great turnout

6/12/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga

6/22/2025 – Porsche Heritage Day
Presented by Porsche Stevens Creek and Loma Prieta Region, PCA
Stevens Creek Porsche Service Center, 16151 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos

7/13/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Beeline – Santa Cruz

7/19/2025 – LPR Summer Picnic – Roaring Camp

8/02/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside

8/07/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewing Company – Santa Cruz

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

8/10/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos – Santa Cruz

9/11/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga

9/13/2025 – Oktoberfest with MBR – Location TBD – PCA 70th Birthday – MBR is working on details, may involve dealer, not so much of a tour this time.

9/14/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos – Santa Cruz

10/04/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside

10/09/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewing Company – Santa Cruz

10/12/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos – Santa Cruz

11/23/2025 – Toys for Tots Tour

12/06/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside

12/06/2025 – Awards Banquet – BackNine Restaurant in Pasatiempo

Proposal:  Honore makes a proposal requesting a budget of $500 for goodie bags for the Porsche Heritage Day event.  Second: Dana Drysdale Ayes: 6   Noes:  None  Motion passes

Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie

Thank you for your reports in advance of the meeting!

Treasurer – Andy Ward

I’m still traveling in Europe and will not be able to attend Tuesday night’s meeting. I’ll be back on June 23rd.

In addition to our normal financial activities, LPR Federal and state tax filings were submitted on May 14.

There has been no income or expenses registered to our Zone 7 Concours account, so I have not attached a separate Excel report for that account.

LPR Accounts:

Recap: May LPR Financials
o Expenses: $ 9,850
o Income: $ 5,613
o Net Income: $ -4,237

Income was: Autocross, sponsorships

Expenses were: Autocross, GTGs, Prieta Post, Administrative

Recap LPR YTD Financials, Jan 1 to May 31, 2025:

o Expenses: $ 21,005
o Income: $ 19,942
o Net Income: $ -1,064

Zone 7 Accounts:

Recap: May Zone 7 Financials
o Expenses: $ 0
o Income: $ 0
o Net Income: $ 0

Recap: Zone 7 YTD Financials, Jan 1 to May 31, 2025:

o Expenses: $ 2,918
o Income: $ 2,595
o Net Income: $ 323

May Income was: None

May Expenses were: None

Membership – Don Minami

Discussion:   1) Okay for Don to reach out to members with expired membership.  2) QR Code with membership enrollment to post at the Porsche Heritage Day.

Proposal:  Don proposes we accept the new members.  Second: Honore  Ayes: 6   Noes:  None  Motion passes

Activities – Greg Sickal

LPR Calendar
* NOTE: Email any calendar additions/changes for tours, GTG’s and other events to activities@lprpca.org

Insurance
* Submitted insurance for Forest Bathing Tour event on 6/15
* Updated calendar with various changes

*Submitted insurance for Porsche Heritage Day event on 6/22

Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner

New bylaws: No new update from PCA National, recommend to move ahead with BOD and membership approval of new bylaws.

Nominations committee: Have confirmed candidates for President, Treasurer and AX director. Pursuing additional potential candidates. The ad in the Post and mid-month email Blast have not produced any candidates.

Chairperson Reports:

Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Co-Chair Homer Pitner

AX #3 ended up with 54 drivers, and we made a profit, but almost half registered in the last 24 hours. Stress me out!

Our AX #4 and Zone 7 event is coming up Saturday, and we are currently at 61 drivers registered.

Our Zone 7 dinner on June 14th will be at a local Mountain Mike’s. We are getting $750 from PCA for a 3 event multi region gathering. The winner of the trivia quiz will get a free AX. I’m expecting 40-50 drivers at this point. We would like to get board approval for an additional $250 just in case we go over a little bit.

Proposal: Honore proposes we approve up to an additional $250 for Zone 7 dinner.  Second: Don Minami Ayes:  6  Noes:  None  Motion passes

Charity  – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley

Absent – Report submitted.

Waiting for word from Mariah (Porsche Service Center, Stevens Creek) on final. plans for the Porsche Heritage Day.    These plans will include when our Charities can set up, if Porsche of Stevens Creek will supply the ‘pop ups’ so they will all be uniform.   Honore has been present at all the meetings and continues to give me feedback.    We plan on touching base with the Charities this week.

Hospitality – Emilie Highley

Absent – Report submitted.

• June Iles turns 96 on the 13th of June.   A small group of LPR Members are planning a birthday celebration for her at the facility where she resides.
• Doris Britschg & Emilie Highley are having lunch once a month with Angie Reed – Angie is doing very well and is keeping busy.   She and her daughter Laura are planning a trip to Hawaii.

Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson

Folks…. 

School is out so I am back to attending these meetings — please, don’t everyone groan all at once!  Hehehe.  

First, a review of the May/June Issue’s readership.   It was a bit lower than in previous issues, which is disappointing in that the issue had a lot going for it.  If you believe the data feedback, folks did read my editorial, looked at the calendar and the road test part of the Macan test drive, but not a lot of time on the Campbell Easter parade or the Porsche Sprints and BRracing interview.  Actually, time spent seemed to go down as the pages went on.   Not a good sign.     It is what it is.  

We (Doris and I) are starting to work on the July/Aug issue.  The meat of the content will flow from the BIG Porsche Heritage event, — still hoping to do an interview with Stevens Creek Porsche Manager about the Heritage event — which they are heavily invested in.    I need someone to pull together a story about the Forest Bathing Tour.   Hugh offered to do something, but it would be great if another participant could write the story and let Calvin run the event. 

We will have two spots about individuals for Member Corner.   One for Noel Eberherdt, a friend of Dana’s who came to a Thirsty Thursday, interesting guy.   The second, a little background for a new member, Stephen Pitzer of Santa Cruz and his 2001 996 and almost a 356.

I’ll promote the Annual Picnic and the New Member par, upcoming WERKS and start talking about Calvin’s planned overnight trip to Tahoe (Sept 27-28… it’s on my calendar already!).   Of course, there will be short updates to Porsche’s racing adventures in the last couple months.  

I spent a lot of time structuring the product within InDesign to make creation, pagination and edits easier.   And based on my classwork on Graphic Design, I’ll be adding a bit more color on the non-photographic pages.  Stay tuned for some changes.  

Will we get the issue out by July 1st — probably not.   My realistic target will be July 7 or 5th.  I’ll be on the golf courses helping conduct tournaments (Stanford, Granite Bay and Pasatiempo) for 5 full days in June… which will slow me down a bit.  

Thanks for all the help everyone does pitch in to help make the POST as good as it is.  Speaking of which, we should get a read on last year’s entry to the PCA Annual Newsletter Competition to see if the independent judges report on progress or lack of from Oklahoma’s Parade mid-July, but after we publish July/August.   

Public Relations – Dana Drysdale

Needs to acquire another photo.   Porsche Heritage Day should provide an opportunity for a photo or more.

Safety – Open Position

Ed Tefrankjian submitted the safety report for the May AX#3.

Tour – Hugh Calvin

No Tours were conducted during March.

Dana D. signed the lodging contract for The Overnight Tour to Lake Tahoe!     

No Tours were conducted during May.

The Forest Bathing Tour will be next weekend (Father’s Day).  It’s a popular Tour, and more people wanted to go than destination parking allowed, so we have a waiting list.

There are no more Tours for rest of the Summer.  Nancy & I would love to help with the organizing activities if someone is interested in hosting a Tour.  I’ll develop a “Call for Tours” note for the Mid-Month Blast and/or Blast Update that might move some of our members to action.

Remaining Tours on the Calendar for 2025:

  MBR Oktoberfest Tour (13-Sep), Jacob’s Heart Tour (20-Sep), Overnight Lake Tahoe Tour (27-28-Sep), Toys 4 Tots (23-Nov), Ole Amigos Tour (TBD).

Discussion:   Dana signed the contract.  Just waiting for confirmation.

Social Media – Dana Ambrisko

Here is the Social Media Chair report for the June 2025 Board Meeting:

• Notice of LPR AX#3 at Salinas Municipal Airport info sent May 10th to help encourage participation
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 503 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 490
• May Mid-month Blast was sent on May 14th
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 504 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 491
• May/June Prieta POST sent on May 14th
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 504 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 491
• June Blast Update was sent on June 1st
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 498 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 485
• June Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around the 15th

Tech – Peter Ridgway

I took the time to review the treasurer’s report today.

It looks like LPR is doing OK this year.   We’re only down slightly so far and we have a number of sponsors still going to pay.  Plus, a couple new sponsors.  Bottom line is I see no issue with the requested funding for PHDay.  It may sound expensive but I think we’ll see the benefits soon.  

Nothing else to report tech wise but we should have some things in the near future.

Webmaster – Jim Turk 

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

1. Re-factored the Sponsors page using Elementor, adding Beeline and updating the look of the page
2. Re-factored the Board of directors’ page using Elementor
3. Re-factored the 2025 Autocross Season page using Elementor
4. WordPress maintenance
   • Plugin updates
5. Updated home page with events
6. Cars and Coffee
   • May Cars and Coffee at Carpos’s well attended – 20+ cars
   • June Cars and Coffee will be at Carpo’s, June 8
   • July Cars and Coffee will be at Beeline Motor Club in Santa Cruz, July 13

Comment:  Peter said that the website looks great.

Comment:  Jim said that they got rid of a few name badges.

Old Business:

None

New Business:

 Proposal:  Dana Drysdale makes a proposal requesting $250.00 for Hospitality portion for Porsche Heritage Day  Second: Honore Ayes: 6   Noes:  None  Motion passes

Adjourn Meeting:

Meeting adjourned by President Dana at 7:51 PM