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August Meeting Minutes dolores ranhofer August 8, 2011 Mercer Island Community Center Board Members present: President ��� Bill Bauer Treasurer - Mary Downing Secretary - Dolores Ranhofer Director at Large ��� Jay Gillotti Ridge Motorsports. The track is graded and crushed rock now covers part of it. (See new business) Vice-President ��� Ward Carter: Board Members not present: Vice President ��� Ward Carter Director at Large - Larry Nelson Past-President ��� Eric Breidenbach Chairpersons present: Advertising - Emmett Koontz Autocross - Tim Kornacki Concours - Dennis Rood Driver���s Education - Tom Pritchett Membership ��� Jay Gillotti Special Events - Duncan Newell Safety - Steve Downing Technical Education - Bill Rogers Tours ��� Miller Adams & Eric B. Kent Driver Skills ��� Robert Durff Goodie Store - Ted and Kathy Vander Hoek Not Present -- Report Submitted: We should be current on Insurance Requests, as of Aug 7. ��I submitted the application for the Mt Baker Tour (August 20-21). The Cayenne Tour on Sunday was a blast. Thanks to Miller and Eric. It was a great event. Secretary - Dolores Ranhofer: Present - No Report Treasurer - Mary Downing: Present - Report Submitted July showed receipts of $21,067, expenses of $15,981, totaling income of $5,086. Year to date receipts total $170,960. Expenses total $128,257, resulting in year to date income of $42,703. We show $160,337 in available cash as of July 31, 2011with $63,842 in checking and $96,495 in short-term CDs. Summation: Club continues to operate in good financial standing. Director at Large ��� Jay Gillotti; Chairpersons not present: SCCA Racing Coordinator ��� Bob Rygg Social - Larry & Sherrel Nelson Caveat Emptor - Dennis Coplen Database Coordinator - Leeds Gulick Spiel Editor - Barb Coplen Web Site - Barb Coplen Chief Driving Instructor ��� Velle Kolde Present - No Report Submitted Zone 6 Representative not present: Dave Cooley Present - Report Submitted September has been billed out. We have 40 different advertisers and have collected $4505. We have 2 new sponsors - Driven Products, and Nick Pallis, Windermere. Cafe Veloce, MAXRPM, and Cantrell Motorsports have renewed. Emmett needs someone to take over the Advertising Chair. Members and Guests present: Diane Koontz, Al Courtney, Jacque Courtney, Bud Bohrer, Richard Ranhofer, Nancy Rood, Western Washington University: Chris Jones, James Dunn, Brian Idzik The meeting was called to order at 7:06 pm by Bill Bauer. A quorum of the Board was present. Board Reports President ��� Bill Bauer: Present - Report Submitted Bill participated in the Cayenne Tour and told those of us at the monthly meeting everything was fabulous. (Spiel article to follow from one of the participants.) He has been chatting with 44 Director at Large - Larry Nelson & Past President ��� Eric Breidenbach: Not Present ��� No Report Submitted Committee Chair Reports Advertising - Emmett Koontz: Autocross - Tim Kornacki: Present - Report Submitted Autocross took place on July 2nd. VRI was there and there were 86 attendees. The next event is on September 3rd. The October 15th event will be done with the BMW Club. We are still on hold for replacing timing equipment. Caveat Emptor - Dennis Coplen: Not Present - No Report Submitted September 2011 Concours - Dennis Rood: Present - Report Submitted The Show and Shine and the picnic were great fun. The winner of the Show and Shine was Jeff Bowlby with his white 2009 911 Turbo. Mark Twete���s black 914-6 was second, and Terry and Tracy VanHee won third place with their black 2011 C4 with GT body kit. There are no Aston Martins registered for display for the Kirkland Concours d���Elegance and there may be one solid axle Corvette. There are currently 46 cars registered and there will be space for a lot more cars. Dennis is now soliciting with individuals to participate. He will work in the fall and winter to schedule a couple of restoration sessions. Database Coordinator - Leeds Gulick: Not Present- No Report Submitted Driver Education - Tom Pritchett: Present - Report Submitted Tom bought the whole day including the evening run on July 13th. There were 105 students and 35 instructors. Runs were from 9am till 9pm, and there were a number of request that we do that again. The next event is on Thurs., Aug. 11 and there are 85 students - 35 instructors. Drivers Education is running strong as far as attendance. September 3rd is open - 55 students are registered. The events have just been fun. Chief Driving Instructor ��� Velle Kolde Not Present - No Report Submitted Driver Skills ��� Robert Durff: Present - Report Submitted There was an event Saturday, July 2nd for Families and Young Drivers. It was a good event with no incidents. The Drivers Skills Leadership Team is still evolving. There have been different instructors running the event. The challenge is our ability to get enough instructors to run a full event. We were limited to 28 students this time. We could have had 33. Jeff Nord is lead instructor - Robert���s counterpart. Don���t need full instructors. We can use instructors that are not yet instructing for DE. Looking for Incentive programs to attract instructors such as free track time and a really ���kick ass��� party. We���ve lost some of the older instructors. Youngest driver this session was licensed the previous Tuesday. Minors: Parents or another guardian must be at the event when a minor is driving. Participants need a driver���s license not a drivers permit. There is no drivers skills event on 9/3.