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2018-12 Board Meeting Minutes

This is the location for the meeting minutes from board meetings should there not be a published monthly NOR’EASTER issue that would otherwise contain them.

DECEMBER 2018

The final board meeting of the year was held at Bill’s home on the evening of December 13. Between the old and new board members, plus Turbo the dog, the BBQ buffet provided by Bill and Rosemary was left with few survivors.

In attendance were:
Bill Seymour – President
Glenn Champagne – VP Admin
Robert Jacobsen – Treasurer
Nick Durham – Secretary
Kristin Larson – Past President
Anker Berg-Sonne – Membership
Gary Cooper – VP Communications
Stan Corbett – DE Registrar Chair
Paul Skinner – 2019 VP Driving Events
Don Kelly – 2019 Treasurer
Lisa Davis – 2019 Secretary
Alan Davis – NER member

The meeting commenced in the usual fashion by a vote to accept the Treasurer’s report. A brief review of our advertising and sponsorship status leading into next year was followed by a survey of the 2018 budget. Partly due to high activity attendance and the move to a digital newsletter, our club’s reserves are healthier than years past. Especially noteworthy for 2018 is an increase in our charitable giving. The board decided to share our good fortune by giving back a bit more to the community. A motion was approved to present an additional $7,500 donation to Homes for Our Troops at the January Gala. The board also voted to boost the designated charity of our autocross program, Loaves and Fishes food pantry in Ayer, with an additional $6,000 donation. After all of the good financial news, the discussion migrated to the more mundane topic of introducing board meeting logistics to our newly elected members. This segued into an approved motion to slightly increase the reimbursement of board meeting hosts to $20 per guest. Last on the housekeeping agenda was the approval of an organizational system for the various documents used in our club. Activity chairs are free to organize as they like, as long as the board is kept updated on storage locations and access. Our incoming secretary is tasked with communicating the details to our chairs.

Designs for our 60th anniversary shirts were passed around the room and a favorite sketch and logo were decided (look out for these to become available very soon!). An amount of $500 was approved to produce calendars with a simplified NER logo. These will be introduced and available at the gala dinner. Conversation around the gala was light as Glenn, Robert, and the additional committee members have all but the final details finished for our year-capping flagship event.

Anker circulated a proposal to rotate content review duties amongst board and communications team members. The new review matrix and deadlines are an attempt to spread out the burden of publishing the NOR’EASTER. An upcoming issue will include an in-depth explanation of the new PCA rule requiring a HANS for DE participants using harness belts.

As a last item for the year, the board delighted in passing around a Lifetime Achievement plaque for long-time member Steve Ross. A decision was previously made to honor Steve, who has helped shape our club over decades of participation, at the January gala. Congratulations Steve, and thanks for all that you do!

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2024-10 Board Meeting Minutes

October 9, 2024

 

NER Porsche Club Meeting

 

Bill Seymour (Presiding on behalf of Robert)

Bailey

BettyMae

Mark

Glenn

 

Not In Attendance:

Kristin

Robert

Stephen

Luis

 

Meeting begins at 6:38pm

 

Glenn President’s Report

Glove Box – PCA has mentioned around the information to be saved and where we should keep this information (safety precautions) and available to all officers and other roles may be able to leverage as a replacement for Freedcamp and be replaced by Redbook to keep reports per national policy committee moving forward.

Glenn will seek help to create a sunset timeline and move files/items over from Freedcamp via Luis and Ryan.

Note: Other items that have been shared for DE folks/driving use google drive to save their information/reports and it may make sense to merge under one platform (Glove Box – will need to produce a plan to allow the sunsetting of all files – more to come).

Bailey’s Treasurer’s Report

Shared Account information and received notification to decide if we would like to make a change. Will review rates 5-60 months .1% or .7% or a 5-month CD special 4.9% and will confirm on 10/21 – 10/31 to make a final decision as it matures.

Will look to present to the board if a final vote is needed from the board vote to continue the implementation or recommendations moving forward. Will continue to review. Will need to make a virtual vote for the board to approve. Bailey will share more information to share to allow directors.

Based on info accepted and will move to the November meeting.

 

Mark VP Administration

One update November 3rd event with one of our partners for the mentioned Formula/Tech Session event, we will move this to the early winter.

Porsche coffee, Sobo etc. (on the website for upcoming events through November)

Gala needs for volunteers – will share an event volunteer and BettyMae will share the volunteer names who have shown interest.

Need to open Gala registration – the menu needs to be locked down and once complete on the final cost and open the registration – looking to have this work done by other years via the menu. Open registration next week.

VP Communications – Luis’ report shares his project will be wrapping up (board to review Luis’ report he shared Freedcamp) and working on the transition plan for Peter/Kevin and will learn more at the next board meeting. 6K visits per month.

 

Driving – President shared.

Season has ended great shape; concourse was outstanding those attended.

 

Charlie and Martha Dow – Bill Seymour Chairperson

42 Passengers course is designed and will go through NH and should be a great drive. Motorsports – Charlie and Martha Dow’s son will attend along with four people, and one will drive Charlie’s yellow 911 which was parked outside his funeral services.

 

Secretary – September Meeting Minutes – Approved by Attendees (Glenn, Mark, Bailey & BettyMae)

Based on low attendance can move September meetings along with the October Meeting Minutes will move to the November meeting to be accepted. September has been placed in Freedcamp.

Open Board Discussion Electronic Communication with Team – Emails

Board opened a discussion around interpretations for Bylaws and has PCA guidelines and it could have helped to have clearer Bylaws in the future…

Suggestion to take offline for a variety of conversations.

The board shared we have had great discussions in the past.

Voting: Opens on the November 5th

Membership Files – contact (current email/membership / election software)

Teller information – Bill Seymour Role (Stan/Sterling) setup the election process then stan sends results and verifies. Bill shared he has not been heavily involved and knowing the details how it works. Moves to a spreadsheet.

Next steps to report out.

Email and place on the internet.

 

Adding add ’l members to the slate: compromise – draft and have the board approve (need 5) per Bill Seymour’s suggestion.

 

Member Notice and add to the calendar of events… 6:30pm ET. wish to take part Secretary for the zoom link.

PCA call to create our Own Zoom Link

No items were voted on due to lack of quorum

 

Motion to adjourn.

Mark

Bailey 2nd

Meeting adjourned at 7:48pm.

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2024-09 Board Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

 

In Attendance

Robert Jacobsen

Bailey Bishop

Mark Shane

Glenn Champagne

BettyMae Mosley

Luis Rivera

Kristin Larsen

 

Guests:

Peter Palermo– co-VP Communication Candidate

Kevin Moran – co-VP Communication Candidate

 

Not in Attendance:

Stephen Hall

 

Open 6:36

 

President – Glenn

Will attend the Zone 1 president’s meeting in November and will send the agenda once received. He asked the board to share topics that could be introduced.

Glenn asked the guests to introduce themselves. Peter and Kevin both have shared interest into the Communication role to replace Luis.

Treasurer – Bailey

Few changes to report for August the prior month, and has looked around monthly motorsport as additional funds came in for the following events: Concours, Dow rally, Summer Party, and Watkins Glen.

Financials were presented.

Approved – Kristin

Luis – 2d Approved.

All approved.

 

VP Communications – Luis

Ryan is doing an excellent job maintaining Website updates. The advertising logo(s) were repositioned on the landing page and are now easily viewable on the desktop version.

September Events are posted, along with future upcoming events and asked if there are any other events that need further support.

The Dow Rally can use help. Luis will connect with Bill around support in terms of driving traffic to the home page/social pages. Ramble & Concours are areas of suggestion in terms of a great page to emulate.

Operations – VP Comms Candidates Kevin and Peter were in attendance. Luis shared that he is willing to support onboarding for the first 60 days to help ramp up onboarding faster and more effectively.

NER’s Ramblemeister has offered to help with email messaging. The board agreed to revisit in 2025.

The first Aditoral is completed. The team is currently looking into leveraging templates for future usage. The reason, for the template is due t the amount of considerable time it takes to complete.

Traffic Flow was an area of concern, the team continues to review a variety of data. Traffic flow is relatively low, in certain age categories and the team has identified a significant change. However, in the age group 25-34 are up year over year by 20%. This group has played a significant part in terms website traffic and event attendance.

The communications team also noticed there seems to be an increase with our members in this age category driving 4-door cars vs. older air-cooled cars.

The team will continue to present data and how the board might leverage this information to allow our chairs to think towards 2025 club events.

 

Kristin VP Driving

Palmer is the last event for NER and a great lunch time education has improved DE continues to show how the program has evolved and received great reviews, and the focus is around education and adding value to the program.

AutoX – VP of Driving shared ongoing discussions around how to assist the AX committee to increase registrations which has been an issue among all clubs.

The issue around sound has also affected other clubs. The team had an idea for a tech session focusing on tech session specifically focused on autocross.

Ramble – The concourse is moving along well, and the ramble is progressing well and the year 2025 is set and the Ramblemeister is looking at 2026 venues the team is in a good place in terms of securing dates/venues.

The Dow Rally is moving along. The registrations are down. and it not that unusual currently. (13 cars registered) but typically will get thirty cars if we consider how last year progressed in terms of registrations. Luis will connect with the DOW chair to help with driving more interest for the DOW event.

 

Mark VP Admin

Last 2 Porsches / Coffee have had a great turn out and go into October for the final event.

Summer Party – Ended up with ninety-one adults and two youths it was few registered early, then 2 weeks prior we got a jump in terms of interest. Mark noted that while a few unregistered “walk-ins” for the Summer Party some came and paid in cash.

A small few folks did not have cash or a check, and Mark inquired about a better process to make this better and thinking about a unique way to support a member how may be a walk-in. Peter suggested implementing a Venmo, Zell etc., PayPal to address potential walk-ins.

Peter discussed the Venmo option in further detail. The board appreciated Peter, sharing his authentic thoughts and ideas and will revisit this topic with the 2025 board and work with Mark to investigate more workable options for our members.

The Gala is continuing along and plans to open registration soon. The venue will be held at Lake Pearl in Wrentham on 12/21/2024. The event will be in primary building used for formal events such as weddings and is NOT the same building used for the summer party.

Mark started a discussion around event promotion and a “Save the date” website page if the communications team has bandwidth to support. Betty recommended he ask for Gala volunteers.

Mark noted that the club will receive a 10% discount on the food since the club produced the Summer Party. Glenn was pleasantly surprised that the 10% discount was on the food.

Tech Session – Justin would like to do a combined Cars/Tech/FI event and capture a larger interest for the day.

 

Election and Nominee Updates

The process is continuing along. The chair has identified candidates for all positions at this point and will send a notice for any other for any other member expressing interest.

VP of Communications inquired around the upcoming timeline. The chair shared the timelines was 10/1 for the nominee slate to be finalized.

The board approved the 10/1 posting date.

 

Glenn President

Mark inquired about revisiting a website redesign. Glenn does have a mockup website he can share for 2025 utilizing WordPress.

Final discussion of the meeting regarded increasing the number of consecutive terms in one office from 2 to 3 years. Due to time constraints the conversation was asked to be tabled and will be resumed on September 26th meeting seeking a final resolution. Luis suggest we can think about the roles and do a side-by-side comparison.

Glenn wanted to commend the turnaround DE has had this year. He called the work of the chairs truly outstanding.

 

Motion to conclude was passed and concluded at 7:48pm

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2024-01 Board Meeting Minutes

20224 January Kick-off Meeting (started at 9:26) – Approved not unanimously on 9/26/2024

 

Glenn opened and asked new board members & chairs to asked to introduce themselves.

Paul is the registrar (new role)

Doreen – Dennis with the ramble

Peter – Dennis with the ramble

Larry – Registrar with ramble

Mark Shane – Vp Admin

Stephen Hall – Membership

First addendum item was to Approve Dec/Nov minutes.  All approved.

Glenn Opened up with a powerpoint presentation and reminded everyone that an executive session will follow this meeting.

Setting goals and review events/quality/tweak/replace and revisit.

AutoX well

Ramble outstanding

Concourse

DE – Instruction was well organized.

Volunteerism – needed and recognition is needed.

 

Stephen is our new membership chair – Participation and get involved (support the club events and we need to find ways to locate new members)

Share upcoming events across the board (go back to the Steve Ross version).. Cross support & promote each other’s events

 

Website – content has stopped flowing . outdated, not reflective of a contemporary club

Remove Nor’easter references, they are dated back to 2021, and placed in the center on menu bar

Tech Inspectors – move from about us and move to DE side..

Review deadlinks/send to Luis (ok’d)

Chairs/Event mgrs.. you are responsible to confirm the content is updated.. (Luis will speak later in the program)

DE/Stan goes into the event page and sets up on the website, the links etc.. (Does anyone help Stan) (Upcoming Events) needs organization, inaccurate (Ann Anderson still DE Instructor ?), hard to locate and started the classroom session at DE and wants to upload those discussions and realize we have a lot of work to do and clean up and do a sort of spring cleaning.

Paul/Mike DE Side (David will take lead to create a newly formatted charge on the cleanup)

WordPress is not a website development platform, more blogging of a blogging site. There has also been issues with event registrations and website logins.

Let’s continue to use Eventbrite for event registrations.

There is a fee associated with these EventBrite Increase.. (Chris and Paul are using the (Motorsport and ClubReg used for the Ramble).  Standardizing on one platform in 2024 will make it easier for our members

(Standardize the motorsport registration)

Review options etc.. Using Club Registration can use for multiple paying, non-paying and non-driving events (Motorsport Registration – Mark S. can speak to them).

 

Motosport Reg Database, has an eblast 300mile radius (Cape to Watkins Glen) they help you in terms of event promotion to a greater geographic.

Bailey – motorsports reg does not charge for tech session (free events) the fees charged but comparable, sharing screen-prints to support on tech issues.. *Based on the Audi experience*

Moving forward with Motorsports registration – all agreed. Need to create a profile, and you can reuse the profile..

In-House Talent – can we build using internal resources (Mark S. has some outside folks)

Webforms, Wix, Square Space – Glenn has experience with Wix – not committed but we need a more contemporary robust platform. (CT, NJ sites are very impressive and get to that caliber of a standard, we need to move forward with a sleeker version) CT is really on point.

 

Glenn noted that a Zone 1 Presidents Albany, April ’24. Glenn will ask the other presidents on best practices/shared advice.  Bring questions to Glenn so he can take to the Albany Meeting..

 

Next Topic – Sponsorship / Partnerships

Account Mgt – Need to do internal check-ins. Glenn recommends an on-site visit or monthly/quarterly email club update.

Let us not overwhelm our sponsors and maintain positive relationships.

Do a Check-In (Porsche Burlington) Mark S. owns this contact / relationship.

 

Gold/Silver/Bronze – levels of commitment/access how can we give back to the sponsors.

Title Sponsors – Cayman Island (Dave M.) – sharing his process second tier sponsors.

Ramble – Can Gerry Pelegrino be a title sponsor and seek out secondary additional sponsors.

Let us not take advantage of our sponsors and create a partnership and we need to also ask what we can do for them. Glenn sees this as a partnership.  We all win when we support..

 

Sponsor Partnership Mgr. – Glenn is very concerned about too many event/program repeatedly contacting the same for sponsor for funding.  A sponsorship manager can help by identify NER members to be sponsor contact.  A sponsorship manager could also help build a sponsorship pricing model i.e., Gold/Silver/Bronze.

 

More on sponsors

What can we do for our sponsor/advertisers etc.

Build Rapport/Connection

Understanding the roles/who is the POC and ensure we are checking the box etc.. and that is the main relationship.

Tech Inspector List – target for event sponsors or advertisers.  Tech session or a DE Event – let us ask around.

Keep in mind (Sponsor can be an advertiser) and an advertiser can sponsor an event..

A lot of followed with regarding sponsorship and advertising levels and pricing.   discussion regarding a value proposition – a document produced goes back to 2021. Kristin’s believe it’s it has been shared on freedcamp. Kristin confirmed it goes back in 2021.  Where do we place ads or sponsorship logos.  Robert pointed out that a lot of logos will overwhelm a page.  Betty asked about a Carousel / page advertiser index.  Glenn pointed out that CT region I doing this on their website. Everyone agreed that our sponsors should be curated– needs to make sense for the club.

Community Outreach Mgr.. – Promotion of charitable work

Loaves and fishes – AutoX side 5K per yr.

Homes for Our Troops – $7,500 per yr.

Parade Laps – goes towards Donations and at each event promotion.

Bailey says Audi does Best Buddies – share and take photos of presenting the events..

Chris / Paul – has the BIG Check..

Glenn believes this is an aspect of the club that not only should share this information and brag out it.  Create a separate Page on the website

Further discussion followed around new charity adoption. Glenn and Kristin noted that is a tradition that the outgoing  president chooses the club’s charity of choice.  Numerous attendees questioned members should have a say in that. Numerous charities such as Homehold Good in Acton – provides used provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.  They take donations, need volunteers, donate and people who need covering all Eastern MA

North Country Region – Make a wish and work together.

Previous NER charity Angel Flights

Wreaths Across America – Audi club supports/volunteer effort etc.. (Stan does this as well)

Create a Volunteer Day (Habitat for Humanity) – let us approach the Volunteer link and get that up and running on the volunteering space and focus and give back to our community at large..

 

Social Media – Luis will manage/Own along with Larry.

Following Best Practices – do not create a silo and communicate with those  are unclear the process..

Do we need a Private Group – Un-shareable Events.. We are active with our FB Page

 

Collaboration/Collaborative Approach

Following on the idea of cross-promoting events, we e nsure we are producing events throughout the region to ensure we are cross representing our members

Create a crossover affect.. let us not be silo’ d and let us allow us to need more diversity of the attendance with more intentional, meetups, maybe consider speaker events

Sobo events really obtaining great attendance..

Cross pollinating our events with other car clubs..

41 Events for 2023

52 SIM Racing does fantastic events for the year..

Theatre nights BMW/Audi/PCA – light attendance, but interesting

 

Ensure Events are announced and promoted early/often.. Create soft reminders..

Brewery Events (south of Boston etc..)

 

Treasurers Report

Bailey will spend more time Understanding the Tools/Invoice the sponsors (collection). Pay the bills through Bill.com vendor payment etc..

Review the financials from last year.

Bailey introduced a reallocation of cash. In his opinion we are leaving money on the table at at 0.1% money market interest and recommended a move in to 8-month at 5%.  Glenn loved the idea.

We still have enough cash to run all of our events.  If we have to break the CD contract, it’s not big of a deal because it will just bring us back to we were.

 

Profit Statement

The PCA region distributions are likely to increase this year and continue to be a substantial revenue stream of the club

 

Motion to approve Treasurer’s Report – Kristen / 2nd Luis – approved. 11:08am

 

Communications – Luis

Google analytics – website hits, female visiting website are stable most from Boston are 35-55yrs.. youngest 25- 30 under visit our sites.

More Mobile Devise usage and less using a desktop and info is at their fingertips.

Our visitors understand what events they are interested in joining our. In terms of the overall usage to increase activity – need to increase a  model.

Membership Chair on the website needs to be updated from Lisa Burke change to Steve Hall

Be cognizant when you post and what you post, do not oversaturate our members to keep them engaged in our channels and focus on the primary channels. There is a demographic reason on the why and the email/Facebook and device..

 

2024 Process

Notify Comms at least in 30 Days in advance minimum & ideal if something pops up as last minute, be aware of other’s time (volunteers and hard to keep updated), but the calendar will be used and will work best on the posting and the go live date..

Updating out of date information on the website needs to move through the COMMS team and share the responsibility to clean up items on the site.

Glenn to share the outdated info with Luis.

Who should have access – Chairs/Volunteers who should be able to have access to clean up the site? Glenn believes that each chair/event manager is responsible for their own content.

Follow rules to post online (include links – vitally important) use the club’s social account when posting on behalf of the NER club.  Current FB admins are

Lisa

Larry

Paul Soars

Melanie (DE)

Update names on the new boards members and chairs on website – Luis to update his email access to add other’s names.

Content calendar sharing Luis to Larry..

 

Discussion lead to email level of effort for email distribution, Anker – how long does it take to create an email blast, believes its about an hour, and if you can do it regularly and the flow is smooth and cut/paste/drag images.. sometimes the Membership Chair is the owner..

Email Blast – Need to submit weekly (needs to be tracked to see who is reading the email).. slower months we distribute 1/month October thru March, then twice month April thru October.

Database list from national gets downloaded monthly – Anker Owns as a Backup / Luis will create a system to have auto-generated for a smoother way to send out emails.. (Stephen Hall)

Open Rate for email percentage – Anker to help Stephen with how to review those numbers…

Documentation for all roles/process/ways we do business.

 

 

Secretary – Betty Mae

D&I Inclusion for all and collaboration/supporting each other and ensure we are looking at our ENTIRE member population, regardless of car, Cayman, 911, Boxster etc.. young/old/middle age etc..

Help each other and be intentional on ways we can support/offer assistance and be mindful of how others are moving through our work and how we can maximize interest along the way.

Work with Stephen to drive volunteerism with our newer members (See below)

Volunteerism – Working with Luis/Anker to ensure we are opening the vault to allow others to volunteer for a Porsche Event/community Events. Etc..

Think creatively outside of the box.

 

Mark – Social

Procedural Manual – Anker to share (Waiver, Insurance when do I need to obtain) upload to Freedcamp

Mark noted Karting excluded from our insurance, so any karting events are out!  He wants to ensure that all events comply it with the Insurance Policy..

Robert J. will review the bylaws and the RPM and try to analyze what is NOT included and verify – will own per Glenn.

Mark reviewed events from last year which he will use to build this year’s schedule.

Events

Charlie/Martha Dow Tour, driving responsibility

Paul Russell possible

Museum events to encourage partners to attend events.

Zone 1 ran trips that we we join and collaboration beyond Canada down to Southern New Jersey.. – How can we build relationships.. Glenn will inquire on his new calls with the presidents

Bailey informed us that the Audi club does Covered Bridge Tours and the Audi club does this and have seen one hundred Bridges without duplicating and partnering with other clubs.

North Atlantic – female driving school ’24 participants – Audi Club

EO February – Teen Driving Audi Club – educational events to x pollinate.

 

Membership – Glenn is interested in learning more about our members, demographic information and driving experience.  Some members may not want to share that information and suggest that we contact as Jim Hemmig or another member of PCA membership for guidance.

Create a survey – volunteer the information to target age groups/interest etc.. and by car events..

Target Geographically to understand where our members live to ensure we are driving/promoting the events..

YOY – Lisa/Luis – event interest age group.. (Luis will pull the data and resurface)..

 

DE – Charlie

Focus will be on

Brand

Track time

Value/Cost

Build rapport/connection.

Safety

Educational Opportunities

Sixty drivers attend three events or more and this is a core/tribe support

Need to Recruit new drivers club via motorsports reg to increase signups and do better in social media/posting/Instagram/platforms

Recognizing others (Driving Status)

Adam and I have worked hard on Calabogie on 3/25 and have twelve sign ups. Went live last week. Adam is the track chair for Calabogie. 2024 budget is completed – Need 30 people to register, take can have money by March 25th

Non-Refundable after that date– similar in line of this event (case by case basis) show some flexibility..

Palmer/Thomson and Calabogie and those have held price.

Watkins Glen increase 10% (this is a heavily popular track event).

Ground school – understand how we share information, and the percentage needs to increase.

Competitive landscape (understanding why and where we are making inroads).

Peter/Larry – Ramble 278 registered, hit that number the first week. Peter has concerns how we handle aggressive drivers. Asked if a strongly worded email to the offender indicating they can be prohibited from future rambles, future driving events, membership revoked. People agreed overwhelmingly.

 

Chris – Auto X

Motorsport registration numbers have diiped.  Open to others who are not Porsche Members.

New space for inexperienced drivers. New drivers are 20% of the populationand the old timers are dropping off. Not changing things at this moment and time..

Loaves and fishes and important organization we support in terms of donations..

Noise complaint at Devens – ok now and no issues and keep this going due to noise.

Police moving out of from Fort Devens in a couple of years. April – November (Local businesses) are happy with their support.

Alan Davis is taking over for registration on behalf of Jeff who will be stepping back and document the role.

We will contact our sponsors  Norwell, Burlington, Boston Herb Chambers, Peabody – Tim Kachel, Will post with a group photo and email sponsors highlighting the event.

Sponsors get two free registrations with sponsorship. Will not work for DE.

 

Concourse – David M/Larry

Paying 5K for the lawn and down from 10K in the past.. but we are now only paying 5K and now we are in a great space to ensure we are allowed back

Sponsors

Porsche Warwick – Major Sponsor (has not paid/attended)

Grenon Watch and Jewelry – A member..

Quansot – Storage space

Revenant  – mechanic shop

Cayman Islands Department of Tourism

Local RI companies who are sponsors as well – members of the club and has asked to obtain advertising..

Cayman Island – 2.5K, will offer them a trophy to give out.

Need more volunteers for judging.  Cars can be left on the grounds until 6pm

One hundred spectator Porsches in/around the field

Past 2yrs it has rained.

Create Testimonials – educate the concourse collaboration with the DE team!

Surplus $7K

 

Anker – SIM Racing / DOW Rally

Club members to help in a spring/summer rally – wants to do one.

Fall Dow – continue.

SIM Racing – opened to other regions and has a membership of 172 people. races each week and a race has 10-20 participants.

Open wheel reaching (Rob G) loaner system and can bring/pickup fully functional rig and virtual reality to understand what it is about..

You need to buy a license to pay $100.00 per year.. I Racing etc..

Thomson

Watkins Glen

Lime Rock

Wonderful experience to learn how to drive..

Anker now involved in management SIM racing at the national level and seen an influx for driver school and the past 5yrs.  500 hundred members joined in 2023. 10-15 members to join each week and it is equally big as Club, DE/AutoX, novices and SIM can be a great tool to use in real life spaces)..

Anker to consider promoting the rig loaner option.

Glenn asked if would help SIM racing to have a page on the website.

Perhaps advertise the loan option and not promoting well enough.

 

Motion to end was made, seconded at contended at 1:30.

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2024-02 Board Meeting Minutes

Attendance NER PCA Board meeting 2/15/2024 – Approved not unanimously on 9/26/2024

Stephen Hall

Kristin Larson

Bailey Bishop

Luis Rivera

Glenn Champagne

BettyMae Mosley

Mark Shane

 

Not in attendance

Robert past President

 

6:37pm

 

Glenn called the meeting at 6:40PM

 

We will work 6:30pm-7:30pm moving forward.

Homes for our troops and placed a call due to no feedback and speak to Briana and she shared she did not receive my calls and it went to another Briana and we spoke and they sent a card and were thankful and appreciative and still at this point the outgoing president to choose and we can honor and have a discussion and it is unclear to me and if we are making a difference and how appreciative and what we have done for them and we can stay the course..

 

Per Kristin – Robert’s decision and it is not a board discussion, and we need Robert to make the call and we should have Robert to make the final decision due to this being a tentative reminder.

Kristin will email Robert to remind him (Robert), and Glenn did not set any expectations and we are ok there.

 

This is our 65th anniversary and we did a logo we created and had the event posted in the nor’easter and the article, Ted Shaw, tom take and Alicia k an bill found some older status reports from 1960 and use that again and ask them to come up with a 65th logo and perhaps sterling and unless others have ideas.

 

Kristin – In the past we did anniversaries and national may send a banner sharing happy 65th and I still have the 55th banner in my basement and asked if Kristin remembered the actual date. Kristin will look to confirm the date. February 4th, 1959.

 

Luis asked if we want to highlight at the summer party and give a way.

 

Mark – it would be interested to see who a member was back then and call them out to gain any info from that point in time…

 

Kristin does not believe we have any members, and it may have been Martha & Charlie Dow who were the oldest. confirm if we can confirm.

 

David Melcher has been with us for 50yrs. keeping on track of our members.

 

Safety Chair – Stan will remain for now until we confirm with Robert.

 

DE Registrar was stan and he retired.

 

Board changes from executive session to discuss and make some extra time and not the place to do this now and will reach out to begin conversations and bring others into the loop and Glenn will share the slides to discuss for Stephen.

 

Treasurer – Bank statement & Balances did post and we are not much different from the end 144K and down due to the Watkins Glenn already and the Clinton 175+K and had been generating interest for the past year and that is the only change due to the Watkins Glenn and not a lot of P&L Change and dinner, Endicott money came back and Watkins Glenn paid for track spills and oil drive and the payments for the ramble 24/25

27K for Watkins down payment 36K income of 1, 500K

144K and the other account 175K take advantage of the investments for a short-term CD and Kristin suggested some good analysis and can we manage if we did this via our checking balances.

 

6,500 March was the final and that dropped due to track events and moved money into 150K to give us some room and as I mentioned the money market has not increased and over the year.

What we have been retaining and had ample money (liquid assets) and on the checking account .05% interest on the money market 0.15% and the CD rates from the fed are off their highs and an 8 month CD it is just over 5.1% for 8 months and we did not touch money last yr. and the recommendation is to move into a short term CD and take 125K and put into a 8 month and leave 50K in the mmm account and if we needed and 60K in the checking and if we do have to break there is a 3 month interest and there is a 6 month interest at Clinton and we can earn more than we are currently earning and not tie up in a CD and we do not want to break..

 

Glenn asked about breaking up into CD vs 1 CD and Bailey shared just be able to break 1 CD vs the cost.

 

Thoughts from the board for the CD conversation – Kristin feels more unlikely, and we will get deposits each week and we may have more cash earlier than the past.

Prior we used to pull after the event and now we do this as time goes by.

 

Luis – 9k based on 8 months? It seems like an no brainer.

 

Robert shared – we could do online money markets and can make over 5%.

 

Bailey the money market can fall faster than a CD and if that is true and if not needed for a while and do a ladder and have go out for a couple of years and pick up 5yrs and have a certain amount mature each 6 months and this is something to think about rather than have sit in the Clinton bank acct.

Robert’s thoughts – Treasuries have had better yields vs the corresponding CDs.

Glenn how often to change for the treasuries – do not do something over burden and break out 50/50/50/50 and keep buying out and we will not get paid to go out past the certain time frame. not roll out each month and twice a yr. if we do 200K and that is 10K in returns a year and that is extra income.

Robert’s thoughts overall – Speak every 3 months and mature every 6 months and look at the interest market and we can view that and now see were we want to place the 50K and the yield curve will normalize and keep it shorter and eventually should normalize on the 2nd market and (trading at the institutional level on the secondary market and can carry a higher yield.. Open a Charles Schwab/Fido money market and use the 200K to purchase the CDs like securities. thoughts are to purchase a brokerage account.

 

Bailey’s thoughts – Creates more work and I do not trade secondary CD and there can be a whole bunch of choices and there is a certain amount of risk via the institutions.

Luis shared to have Robert/Bailey are comfortable.

 

Robert has the experience and feel good in the fixed income and so the next treasurer who knows when we move to the next person.

Glenn/Luis – Have concerns around using a third party and stay the course of the CDs and get an excellent rate and we are making a big leap, and we will make more than in the financial crisis from 2009 and the maximizing our dollars.

Bailey will connect with Clinton moving forward. and revisit down the line.

Luis to revisit Robert’s approach down the line and the CDs will move out of the account and we can connect with Robert’s suggestion.

 

Move forward 2 CD strategy and meet in the Summer for Robert’s proposal and break the allocation into 2 CDs and need refreshed rates and have 8 months.

 

Confirm if 150 in CD under.

 

FDIC rules and split 125K from Clinton savings into equal size 2 8-month CDs the team will agree to use the approval (100% approved)

 

Luis Comm’s – quick updates, content projects and analytics

More cohesive on postings and sync with email/social created a calendar for all events (home page) and will coordinate on social and email Stephen and Larry and will share as move forward we need a heads up and we need time and will work together to move.

 

Volunteer (BMM/Stephen/Glenn/Luis) and we want the page to be live for all things social and bring all member traffic there and coordinate in an email for March ’24.

 

Projects from annual meeting – website cleanup and email and created a priority list to tackle and adhocs may appear and working on two things.

Sites clean-up AutoX page and Chris Ryan agreed and more streamlining and cutting fat to provide more succinct info and put a few hrs. each moth to clean the website/content et. an all over the site and not only on the home page

 

Google analytics and we use to track and we seem to get younger and they drive more Macon/Cayan and the mid to late Jan we have not been tracking and asked Brett to help how we can consider and highlight a event, not a big concern and we do not want this issue ¾ times down the line (connected with Brett) and wanted to review plug in updates..

Luis will inform the team of Brett needs to attend meetings.

 

Eventbrite – still an issue (DE/AutoX) there is a concern that we need to use the Eventbrite (Kristin both groups are using Motorsports Reg) and only Mark is using Eventbrite and asked Brett for help, Luis will own the reach out for Brett and will work directly with Mark..

 

Driving – schedules are done and all are in the planning mode Calabogie has 20 of the 30 spots needed to be filled (10 more participants to break even) is March 25th there is some concern  and trying to strategize and Charlie is 90% done with the budget and being conservative we may have 5K as an increase and they are implementing on rates (raise) and has cut back on some of the drivers.. The team is still trying to find ways to increase the cost.

 

AutoX – got dates on the website and they are doing the same each year and expect a little bit of a profit. seem to be able to manage some $$$

 

Ramble/Concourse – mostly full and they still have some rooms and will try to free up if they need to. there may be a potential 5K loss due to food and felt could not increase the cost of food if needed so may loose money if late arrivals.

 

Membership new 31 (4 transfers in) 3 transfer out and others in the normal space and tracking  for the new monthly email (no problems and wants relevant content and will figure out as we get closer and make sure we get the info in a month prior is fantastic will help me to know what I need to add in and spent time on Sunday)

How long – the app is odd, and it is a bit clunky to organize the various parts of the email and that was learning curve and I expect 1 hr. each month and that is a guess and may be able to get down with more time.

 

Dave M had a friend transfer to the region and wants a “welcome letter” and they did not receive any emails. and that happened 1yr. ago and there was no correspondence.

How do you handle – I go through a few times a week and flag and send a welcome email a couple of times a week and I am learning apparently and can add them to the mail list (Anker owned and he will share with Stephen and will help Stephen to get the new members on the list) and Stephen will add manually

 

Mark – Social VP Admin

A few points to bring up and the first event at Porsche Herb Chambers was good a success and it was normal for folks to want to get out in the winter months and always attracts a lot of people and one car was sold.

Refreshments and this will not provide this time around restoration project and the team was working in the restoration and coming up soon.

We are close to nailing down the newcomers meeting in Burlington, Porsche and they will need to rent chairs and asked them to provide refreshments and they do not have an audio format and hand out the hard cards with the QR Code.

How do we capture volunteers, do an online form, and register them capture name/email address.

Luis’ suggestion for capturing volunteers and a way to create a tablet and a google survey for folks to register.

Haggerty as a guess speaker due to him selling insurance – have a conversation around his interest in the history of Haggerty and how they started, and we may charge a speaking fee. and how they can engage with clubs etc. National may be ok with the 65th Event.

 

2nd Wednesday same time and send out.

 

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2024-03 Board Meeting Minutes

March 13, 2024 – Approved not unanimously on 9/26/2024

 

Porsche NER Board Meeting / Started at 6:38pm

Attendance

Glenn Champagne

BettyMae Mosley

Bailey Bishop

Stephen Hall

Mark Shane

Kristin Larson

Luis Rivera

 

Non-Attendance

Robert Jacobsen

Glenn opened meeting at 6:40pm

Glenn – The first national president’s meeting teleconference of the discussed 2 things items;

On May 1st, National dues are increasing from $45 to $56.  This is 1st increase since 2011.  In that PCA membership has doubled since 2011. Vote was overwhelmingly approved in favor.   Glenn recommended we inform our members of the upcoming changes.  Those members who are eligible to renew prior to May 1st may want to take advantage of current pricing.  Stephen/Luis to post on social & email. Glenn to attend the zone 1 meeting next month, Albany, NY. Asked for any subjects/Topics – shoot him an email.

 

Redbook – essential to the club. It is mostly – user IDs/passwords/URLs – needs to be updated. We need to know the hosting company, who owns the URL, PCA NER.org/com.  Some discussion related to storing this in digital secure area .  Glenn mentioned that regions have areas on national servers and is a possibility.

Further discussions around website hosting companies and URL registrations followed.  Key topics included:

 

  • Who are the owners of the URLs and domain names? How are we setup for renewal? Glenn mentioned that most URLS and websites canbe setuo for automatice renewals via a credit card. Kristin pointed that NER does not have a credit card. A debit could be considered. Bailey can focus stay away from a debit card (December 2024 – Owners are not clear, who owns the domains.
  • Visits to various registration sites list unfamiliar Registrations and ownership names such as Name 106 Inc. (free hosting?) no person attached.
  • Robert shared he has never heard of Name.com and he is unaware of this domain owner.
  • org – redirects to Porschenet.com (per Luis) not sure if Brett or sterling setup – the PCANER.org was registered and that redacted for privacy.
  • Google – Who IS per Kristin, this site can tell you whom the owner.



Treasurer Bailey

Quick books and the new cd categorization the balance at the end of Feb $347, 770 down $24K from last year and we know where we lost those funds from last year (DE/Driving)

 

  • 2/20 per the vote and moved the $125 into 2 CDs 65,00 8 months 5.01% and earning a ton more than we had been in the past.
  • Reminder around the subsidies coming from national to complete the form and ensure we have funds to support our members.
  • $50,000 moved money into the CDs and this should be fine to provide liquidity we need – Asset.
  • Income –
  • Bailey remarkd that we actually got a few $$ back from Tupper Manor Gala event!
  • Calabogie – early registration $22K just shy 20 registered
  • Watkins Glenn – participants reimbursed the club for a track clean up based on all incidents and the participants pay us back from the DE event (oil etc.)
  • National on a quarterly basis $8K
  • On March 6th we received an additional Special disbursement $9,500 memberships and the sale of the classic club coup.
  • Expense so far -$28K for Watkins Glenn

Subsidies can be apply for holding certain events, and charitable.

 

Driving Kristin

  • Calabogie is still 20 people and less than 20 days to obtain for 10 more people,.If not and it will get cancelled.
  • Paul skinner sent an email speaking to the Calabogie event/insurance/Educational options for fees in terms of some insurance options.
  • Charlie finalized his 24 budgets, and it makes sense to use the track rates/rentals and essentially used the same number of people in the run group used in ’23. The rates (daily) has increased.
  • Upcoming events
  • 1 Thompson 5/23/24-advanced day/25/26 Memorial Day)
  • 2 events at Palmer.
  • All events are open, and Kristin has tested the system to ensure it is working the way the team intended to.
  • AutoX – should have the contract this week – there is conversation around sound (Chris and NER have already done that so no change) Chris sent a call for instructors for the novice ground school on 5/4.
  • Ramble – Mostly sold out 280+ 150 cars and 15 rooms left.

September 26th Motion to approve March 2024 Minutes

 

VP Admin -Mark

KMC tech session was great. Upcoming newcomers’ event is ready to “rock and roll” and we have had 5-10 new members attending. They have met with Mark and he is excited to share about the events on the calendars.

Registration for Events – mark spoke to difficulties and challenges with registrations on

  • 1st event used the website.
  • 2nd tried Eventbrite was and the only way to register for free if the event is less than 25ppl and that failed, and I could not pay the extra $10 dollars to move to the next tier.
  • 3rd Motorsport Reg – heard we can use for free events and asked if we have 1 account combine with driving/social etc.
  • Kristin feels Auto/DE has 2 separate accounts now and merge the 2 over the winter coming up.
  • Mark wants to be able to create events and needs logon information – Kristin will introduce to Paul skinner/Chris Ryan and have Mark work with them, and they can speak on how to setup and what the best process forward looks like.
  • This will allow a one user/id experience and makes sense for our members to have this as login simplified

Bailey shared the Audi groups uses motorsports Reg for everything and shared you can clone events and use the same template for various types of events.

Porsche & Coffee events live.

Sweetberry farm P&C is live.

Cont. with treehouse brewery, Charlton, MA – Researching 2 other locations for P&C. One has possible use for the Summer Party ‘24

Glenn/Mark visited a new location possibly for the Summer Party – MIT Endicott House located in Dedham MA interesting etc. (more to come)

Glenn asked about the Summer Party – Re-examining to how to proceed moving forward – the event does not attract kids and sure what to do about it.   

  • Mark asked if we still want to do the party? The feel of the party may be a little less with car judging and is asking for thoughts. Board overwhelmingly indicated to proceed.
  • Luis, There’s a wide inventory of events, but the summer party is an awesome way to enjoy yourself and just chill.
  • Can do games, outdoors events (no lawn show for car parking)
  • Other concerns
  • The possibility of a Hagerty speaker is becoming ess likely. The speaker but is willing to do some type Zoom recoding
  • Robert’s offering – SEG Connecticut to do a factory tour similar to Paul Russell and no photos allowed but they could be an interesting visit.

 

Luis Communication

Volunteer Page is up and running – perhaps we can resend (reshare) per Mark’s request.   Keep front and center on the website and send another reminder in a month or so. Glenn has a volunteer for the social media side and pointed ou that Maddox , now living in NY, used his NER experience to land a job at cars.com

Porsche parade and the October concourse are scheduled on the comm’s promo calendar. 

Project – Button up some website edits. Google analytics, tied to this process and is broken and only showing partial data, influences the events.

Will forward what we need from Brett & Glenn.

Recommends Motorsport.reg and will share his thoughts to include.

 

Membership Stephen

18 new members (Feb), 1 transfer in 4 out, and 100 renewals and up over last march and overall, not much of a change and things are steady.

Email this Sunday, first event 10 rooms remaining for the ramble.

Calabogie and do a final push for more attendees.

Link to the volunteer page – And the normal bits/bobs within the email.

Kristin asked for DE/AutoX is open to add a reminder with some dates to push those 2 offerings.

Luis will send a final reminder to sign up.

 

Motion to adjourn, and seconded. Meeting conclude 7:45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2024-04 Board Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, April 10  – Approved not unanimously on 9/26/2024 

Attendees

BettyMae, Glenn, Mark, Kristin & Stephen

Unable to attend.

Luis, Bailey & Robert

Meeting began at 6:35pm

Charlie’s wife has passed on March 30th he wanted to keep low key. Charity to donate MSPCA (services on Friday, April 12th).

Kristin

Calabogie – renegotiated the contract and NER will not loose money on the deal for each add ’l person we keep a little bit of money. (Adam was able to negotiate-Great job!).

More participation a bigger push for other events… the numbers are not a huge concern at this point, and Kristin will assume to get a push via email for DE and NCR first week in Lime Rock. We share each other’s events at the driver’s meeting. Watkins Glen has eighty people, so they are doing great for the event and an 80K rental fee so close… Kristin is not concerned and neither is track committee.

Cross promotion – first Auto X events to help make the DE push for participants.

DE Sponsorship – bronze, silver, levels etc. Charlie will need to clarify/share more insight. Justin has stopped coming to the track, and therefore, has pulled back on sponsorship. Tim Kachel not doing so much and does more club racing, We need to find the person who wants more clients, and it seems all the clubs/shops that do work for DE are all flat out with work and not looking for new business right now.

Autocross – Chris is going to evaluate how the BMW club handles logistics associated with monitoring the sound restrictions.

Ramble seems doing well, hoping the rooms have been upgraded and feeling confident.

Concourse – still in a holding pattern and nothing changed, and will keep the same 2023 schedule etc. so no changes needed.  Porsche Warwick 1 year unpaid and that is what we believe for them to be outstanding on (Kristin will check quick books)

 

Dow Rally – Anker will help.

Thompson Track – did we make any deposits? Kristin will verify (Only Watkins Glen is the only one we have paid thus far one was done the second half of March and this collaborates with Charlie’s timeframe etc.

Glenn asked questions regarding when contacts need to be signed. Kristin said contracts do not need to be signed at the beginning of the year and you need dates set prior to creating the contract.

Palmer Track – we are in good standing for the two events for the discount events and after each event we will receive the final invoice.

Glenn

Candidate for website manager works at Dell and a software Engineer (Ryan) has been a club member for quite some time. He has a strong technical background. Mark and Stephen will be happy to speak to Ryan.

Glenn asked to this forward as soon as possible as soon as possible.

From Brett – We do need User ID/Passwords we need obtain the information. Try emailing Sterling/David and confirm what else we need.

Charity Chair – Someone has raised their hands and is a Lt. Cornel in the national guard two tours of Iraq and lives near Sterling and will trust Sterling. (Christian Neary check spelling) Glenn will finalize the role/clarify on the coordination duties etc… (Loaves and Fishes, Homes for Our Troops)

Robert has picked the replacement and will ask him to send that information out to all… It is Robert’s choice to run point, or we can have Christian to manage… Bobby has chosen a new organization and replacing Homes for Our Troops in terms of club donations for the 2024 Season.

Website build – there is a company doing all the work and this can be an option for us if we get to that point, but we do have this option and can outsource this work and they understand PCA/Regions this can be something we can use as an option.

 

Mark

The Porsches & Coffee event at Tree House Brewing in Charlton went well. Summer Party is progressing and visited two venues. Glenn mentioned that MIT venue didn’t seem suitable

Mark asked Glenn about why we feel MIT not suitable for summer party.  Although the venue is beautiful, the car show location was too far away and might unwalkable for some of our members.

Mark canceled the first Porches and coffee for Chestnut Hill due to the storm at the venue owner’s request.

Sobo held their event, and it was windy/cold, and it was a great turnout… have juggled some dates.

Q Car Care Tech session– June has been finalized (will submit to the website)

Mark recognizes that while The Lava Java Cars & Coffees are not PCA events, they will be treated as if they are, but wants to think through the policy and present at the next meeting for discussion.

Stephen likes the Northboro location.

On the issue of the Summer Party Mark will write up the promotional blurb for Stephen to publish.

Membership Chair

Membership numbers compared to April are a bit better in some respects twenty-three new,  two transfers in,  six left, and (last April 26, 2023), overall it looks like the same 2% increase. Primary region members growing a bit.

The national numbers up 3% from April last year to this year and not bad. Fielding questions/very engaged and interesting month from new members. Had some dialogue with members…

Going forward Stephen will send an email blast near the 1st and 15th of the month (actual dates Stephen will own) and wrap up in October 2024. The board agreed that bi-monthly email blasts will ensure maximum event exposure to members. Steve said that given his bandwidth he is able to swing it, but he will get busy with work…

 

Glenn asked for votes on the below 2 items.

Approve financial – Kristin, Mark 2nd (all approved )

Meeting adjourned 7:26pm ET (BettyMae, all approved)

 

 

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2024-05 Board Meeting Minutes

Monday, May 13th 6:30pm ET – Approved not unanimously on 9/26/2024

Attendees

Glenn Champagne

BettyMae Mosley

Luis Rivera

Bailey Bishop

Stephen Hall

Absent

Kristin Larson

Robert Jacobsen

Mark

 

Meeting 6:43pm

Kristin status

No feedback on ramble (Kristin out) went over and there is a new leader and the ’25 mountain grand view.

AutoX went well, not heavily attended – could have been due to rain/Mother’s Day. Weather (standing outside is not a fun event for folks) and the Dates are auto assigned through the sports club of America. Next event will take place on Father’s Day

Some new rules (strict) noise levels regarding cars and some got disqualified on the first run, so many began to share a car, the driver is not disqualified. Provide some options around how to soften the noise/sound (to quiet the car)

Thompson looking good eighty sign-up for Memorial Weekend, and it looks like there are 7 days remaining and hoping more and will check the numbers throughout the week.

 

Treasurers Report

Not much to report, Some paid were bills. AX  needed new equipment. The increase in assets from last year to this year was due to DE’s pre-pay Calabogie requirements and the quarterly PCA distribtions.

$575.00 increase in interest earned reflects interest earned from our 2 CDs

A bill that is pending motion on the financials and Watkins Glenn 2 payments both in January ’24 27, 640.-00 a $500 difference on the financial and there were some incidents last year, which were carried over and we as a club. Must pay up front and chase down the individuals $1240.00 to see two people had to reimburse the club.

Luis motioned to approve.

Stephen seconded.

All approve, all five members approved.

VP Comms, Luis – New website and comms

Comms have a gentleman Ryan K, smart, analytical and does IT/software engineer at Dell, has shared interest in being the web admin. Brett gave the green light and can support in the transition process.  Brett will begin to not take on more than is needed.

Approve Ryan as the new web admin and.

Luis to let Brett know decision and will to transition to onboard Ryan within 30 days. Further questions followed regarding regarding ownership names associated with the web hosting company, how the URL(s) and hosting is renewed.  Kristin & Bailey confirmed that the NER does not have a credit card, payments could be made by issue a debit to NER’s to bank accounts. As part of this audit, it was agreed that if any of the URLs or hosting plans are owned with personal names, we should change to NER ownership. Glenn reminded that this information will need to be entered into the Redbook

Membership

3 in, Four out, Seven lapses.  Steve indicated that he will have time to send a bi-monthly email blast.

VP Admin

Busy selecting sites for the summer party.

Porsche’s and Coffee at university 8:00am and 40-50 cars showed up and a broad selection of cars/people and that was a good event.

Glenn

According to the bylaws, we must elect nomination committee chair to find next year’s board candidates.  We should discuss bylaw changes as discussed in executive session to allow board members to have a 3yr term vs. 2yrs.

Glenn believes that year 1 is a learning year.  Year 2 the board member is fully up to speed. Then we start the cycle over again

Chair needed / community coordinator (Christian) community partnership manager – someone who can manage our charitable contributions. We ask the club for other members for their input in terms of who we support and not always working through the military sleeve and allow everyone to have a say in the charity for other groups, mental health etc. where does this role fit, and it will report to the president.

Luis recommended.

Bailey second

Votes on the new roles all members approved;  Christian Neary as Community Partnership Manager and Ryan Katlinski as Website Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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