May 2023 Board Meeting Minutes
The May board meeting was held on the 9th at 6:30 PM via Zoom video conference.
In attendance:
Bailey Bishop – Treasurer
Bill Seymour – Past President
Lisa Burke – Membership Chair
Glenn Champagne – VP Administration
Betty Mae Mosley – VP Administration
Charlie Kenney – DE Co-Chair
Not in attendance:
Robert Jacobsen – President
Kristin Larson – VP Driving
Erick Aubin – Secretary
Luis Rivera – VP Communications
The April Meeting Minutes had been posted to Freedcamp prior to the meeting and distributed via email. A discussion of club activities, events, and general business followed.
Motion to accept treasurer’s report:
Quorum not available – vote will need to be taken via email.
General Business
Discussed in-person meeting for June which does not seem to be coming together so we will continue via Zoom June 13th 6:30pm.
Treasurer
No news or excitement to report.
Administration
4 new Porsches & Coffee set up for chestnut hill & westwood
Q car care tech session confirmed for June 17th
Gala will be on December 1st, Friday, at Tupper Manor (25 hotel rooms, lovely views if no foliage and before dark)
Summer party will be 7/29 at Wachusett, contracts to be signed in coming days
June 10 Porsche Burlington wants help advertising their open house for Porsche’s 75th anniversary, hoping we can recruit 20 cars and post on our website (clarify it is not a NER PCA event).
Cayman Island event planning discussions to start next week
Roger Slocum will be passing the SoBo torch to Paul Soares
Membership
May 20th focus group with PCA National coming up to talk about the onboard experience for new members.
Driving
DE Meeting tomorrow for Thompson planning
Ground school included ~80 attendees
Charlie received the Newcomers attendee list and is working on correlating DE signups
Calabogie numbers are low. Trying to engage Upper Canada region but not able to reach their track chair or chief instructor. Lisa will pass along contact info for person she met at Parade last year.
No spring rally planned.
Ramble was great, as usual, new electronic GPS option worked out very well.
Dow rally is on track.
Autocross school was fun, nothing else exciting – business as usual
Communications
Need editor help to enforce proper tagging to help organize content on the site.
A member the team met at the Newcomers meeting and expressed interest in helping, Brett will reach back out to her and CC Lisa who also met her at the Autocross School last week.
Discussed SoBo photo formatting
The Club’s monthly Board meetings are planned for the second Tuesday of each month and typically begin with a social period at 6:30PM and the official Board meeting at 7:00PM – although when it’s a Zoom meeting, the social piece is brief, and the meeting begins shortly after 6:30 PM.
Club members may attend any of the monthly Board meetings. Please contact the Club Secretary ([email protected]) in advance of the meeting to confirm your attendance and the meeting time and place.