January 2001 Board Meeting Minutes

Location: HMS Motorsport, Peabody, MA
Date: January 3, 2001

1. President's Report (Joe Marko)

• Mike Cox will be the Safety School chair

2. Secretary's Report (Will Farnsworth)

• Review minutes of last meeting and accept.
• Follow up with Suzin on business cards and put up to staff to review

3. VP/Activities Report (Steve Goldstein)

• Activities are not up and running yet. Cindy volunteered for activities? Will work this out.
• General Meeting scheduled for 2/21 at FMW with Tom Sokowski.
• Next meeting is open and will be nailed down soon.
• Another announcement will be made regarding the Holiday Party. Cindy has a list of people.
• Bimmer is in the mail now.
• Stan Jackson said there might be ice racing 1/21.
• Vassilis has volunteered for instructor registrar.

4. Treasurer's Report (Bruce Augenstein)

• Income and expense report - looks like $38K in the bank. Advertising revenue is down 25% from previous year as well as uncollected revenue from advertisers.
• We need to avoid Inserts and Post Cards - they are way too expensive.
• Summer Picnic was expensive too.
• A Budget will be worked on over the next few weeks between Bruce and Joe. Please pass on any budgeted expenditures to Bruce.
• Net income for autocross is down.
• Are there any other capital expenditures that are needed for the board to do there job? Voice yourself.
• Carting is self-sustaining. Need to budget for awards.

5. Membership Report (Barry Tarr)

• 2785 current members, 240 associate members for a total of 3025.
• 71 new members.
• Stickers will be given out by new members.

6. Communications Director Report (Justin Hughes)

• Jan/Feb issue is together. Sent to printer 12/15.
• An idea to incent new people to write for Bimmer would be to offer Bimmer Vests if you write an article - Vests are $45 each, need to shop around for better pricing, Steve Hazard has a couple of venders.
• Can we have more pages than we have? Yes.
• Regalia - kick in machine for processing credit cards - get it done - Joe and Luka.
• Lime Rock School, need to move up date that Bimmer is in mail boxes. Denis and Justin will work issue to make this happen.
• Greg is looking into a new e-mail system to manage email lists better.
• Advertising has fallen by the wayside, Iron Horse will change their ad. F1 will run an ad too.
• Suzin needs to know who has and hasn't paid for advertising. Suzin to find out who will be running in March.

7. Driving Events Report (Luka Serdar/Mike Cox/Denis Friedman)

• Try to finish up books for driving event group for 2000.
• Racing school in October was good. Kumo Tire is looking to sponsor this again. A combined event with NH worked well.
• Schools are 4/3, 5/4 and with NH 4/20 and Canada in July.
• Boston chapter to run O'Fest Drivers Schools. Brittany will be club chair. Mike Cox will spearhead Safety School. Safety School in April?
• Autocross had a big wait list the past 8 events. This is a problem. Looking to run two tracks per event. This would entail $2,000.00 in cones and timing equipment. If we charge $20.00 per event this would help offset the additional cost. Dates are 4/14, 5/12, 6/3, 7/8, 8/26, 9/9, 9/30 and 10/28. Fort Devens is getting popular.
• Mike Cox will do O'Fest autocross. Believe they have scheduled 4 days of autocross. Equipment and "where" are the biggest issues.

8. Karting/Grand Prix Report (Vassilis Kontoglis)

• Divisions are running well. What can we do about awards? Vassilis needs to give board a proposal for the cost of this. See Carlos for trophies.
• Need to get something into the next Bimmer to register for next league. this.

9. Concours Report (Dan Mull)

• None.

11. New Business (Joe Marko)

• Regalia - Stickers are doing the best! Send a SASE for sticker.
• Date for next meeting is 3/15.
• Meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of odd numbered months.

Motion to close.

Minutes prepared by
William Farnsworth,
Secretary BMW CCA Boston Chapter

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