Pan Am Region SCCA
www.panamscca.org
Minutes of the February 2, 2009 Members Meeting
At
Fuddruckers @ Mesa & I10.
The meeting began at 6:55 p.m. on Monday, February 2, 2009In attendance:
Dave Lehrschall Richard Dziak Duncan del Toro Kevin Parra
Deborah Basler John Basler Phil Becker Daniel Acevedo
Chris Grijalva Mark Manzares Rafael Segovia Danny Castillo
Luis Moreno Clovis Green Fred Hernandez Gabriel Castaneda
Deborah Basler John Basler Phil Becker Daniel Acevedo
Chris Grijalva Mark Manzares Rafael Segovia Danny Castillo
Luis Moreno Clovis Green Fred Hernandez Gabriel Castaneda
Secretary’s Report
Minutes of the January meeting were presented and approved.
Treasurer’s Report:
- Deborah Basler reported that we had a balance of $1995.73 as of 01/31/09
- New checks have been received with the new post office box address. Still waiting for a bank statement in the mail. New Post office box for the Pan Am SCCA is P.O. Box 972021 El Paso, TX 79997-2021.
- $28.00 is owed to Daniel Acevedo for the annual lease of the post office box and a new check is to be written to Karl Busch for an expense during last season.
Membership Chairman’s Report:
- 97 members currently with 10 due to expire this month.
- The street tire class will be a single class like rookies or ladies with a multiplier of 0.977
- Racers cannot run in the rookie AND street tire class simultaneously. They must choose one or the other.
- A new class called “JDM” with two sub classes will be created for the import racers who have done popular Japanese spec conversions. Doing the conversions with current SCCA classes would unfairly group them in the Street Modified class.
Solo Chairman’s Report:
- New dates added to the schedule: Feb 15, May 24, June 28 and Aug 9. These dates will allow the club to schedule in the new Drifting racing and a Rally fun day.
- Luis Moreno expressed that the possibility of the facility being double booked even though we have already reserved the facility.
Drift Racing Report:
- The SCCA will not sanction a drift event so it will be run as a solo event. Speeds will be less than 60 MPH for safety.
- Passengers will not be allowed in the vehicle participating in the drift events.
- Team of racers have been trying to sell the drift event coming on February 15th. So far 20 have committed to attend.
- A MySpace page has been setup: www.myspace.com/panamsccadrift.
Club Racing Chairman’s Report:
- $4000 available in the endowment. The endowment has paid out $1200 to help members pay for expenses.
- The Pan Am region gave $500 last year to the endowment and would like to see another donation if possible this year.
- 11 core club racers in the Pan Am region locally.
- Would like to organize the club racing members to show off their vehicles at a solo event(s) to attract interest in club and solo racing.
- Stan Czacki, Mark Kowalski and Jose Gerardo recorded two wins each in the month of January.
- Richard Dziak will race his vehicle in the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Charity event on March 21 & 22.
- 2009 club racing schedules have been posted on the Pan Am website.
- Arroyo Seco Raceway has announced open track days for the 2009 season. Visit www.arroyosecoraceway.com for more details.
Rally Report:
- Clovis shopped for insurance and 4 of the 7 options have been eliminated. Still waiting to hear from the other 3 companies.
- Going to propose April 12th to the other clubs for the Rally fun day at Cohen Stadium. This will eliminate a solo event but can be made up with the additional dates added (see Solo Report)
- Charter information has been completed.
- Phil Becker will not be available to attend the March meeting.
- A new prototype website for the Pan Am region has been setup: www.deltoros.net/scca. A special thanks to Duncan del Toro for setting up the prototype and hosting it on his personal website.
