San Diego BMS CCA

Minutes for March 14th, 2006.

Meeting started at approximately 6:45pm.

Board Members Present:

Maureen Lyall, Jim Patterson, Kim Wright, Ping Gordo, Andre Pantic, Rich Gehring, Gordon Anderson, Dennis Damon, George Georges, Mike Turpen, Connie Patterson, Chris May, Matthew Kogan, Bill Woolard.

Members Present:

Boots Cuatico, Dan Tackett, Jim Lloyd, Tom Newport, Kristen Adams, Rob Walshe, John Driscoll, John Rugg, Sheri Wong, Wilbur Wong, Jason Olliff, Doug Patotzka, Neil Daly, Josie Babin, Ines Pantic, Scott Samson, Mark Robbins, Nick Veler, John Dowd, James Eberhardt, Kevin Munsey, Jurgen Gluhr, Duane Steadman, Steve Robbins, Gary Basey, Patrick O'Hagan.

Guests Present:

Katrina Basey, Matt Shafer, Saranya O'Hagan.

Secretary's Report: Since Kim has yet again forgotten the minutes, she has promised to email them to all of the board members in addition to bringing hard copies at the April meeting..

Treasurer’s Report:

Ping told us that we had roughly $32,222.12 in our account and the CD has approx. $13,472.13.

President’s Report:

Maureen presented Connie with the "Volunteer of the Year" award for 2005.

Newsletter:

George reported that he needs the remaining submissions for the next newsletter in asap. He will be sending the newsletter to the printers by the end of this week.

Auto-cross Chair:

Gordon reminded us that we have an autox coming up this month on the 25th in the west lot. He also reminded is that our next autox will be a 2-day autox on June 3rd and 4th. A motion was carried to invite the Mercedes Club to the autox on Sunday and reserve 10 spots for them.

Driving School:

Rich notified us that the Buttonwillow driving school ran very smoothly with 109 students in attendance. Rich also reminded us that he is resigning from Driving School Head, and that Andre will be taking over next year.

New Business:

There was discussion of possibly having an all-female tech event held by women, for women, in September. More information will become available in the upcoming months.

A motion was made an approved to have Gary Basey represent us at the SD Automotive Museum Car Club Advisory Council meeting.

Andre reminded us that there will be a Poker Run on Sunday, April 23rd, at Continental Motors in Oceanside. More information about this event is posted online. Andre's budget for the event is roughly $800.

Matt notified us that the Street Survival, teen driving clinic will be held on Saturday, May 6th, at Qualcomm Stadium. So far there has been 6-8 entries, and students are encouraged to bring the car they drive on a daily basis. Students must be at least 16 years old and have a learners permit. More information, including registration sign-up, is located online.

Social Events:

Dennis reminded us that our annual Clean Car Contest will be held on Sunday, May 21st. The club voted on, and approved a motion to charge $5 for lunch at the event, and have the club subsidize the remaining portion ($8).

Webmaster:

Our website has been fabulous.

Other:

Dan Tackett led a discussion brought to the boards' attention regarding the possibility of our past election having been run incorrectly. It was eventually voted upon to not re-do the elections, but to elect a committee to edit/revise the By-Laws. This will hopefully prevent any such discrepancies in the future. The members on the committee will be: Nick Veler, Mike Turpen, Andre Pantic, Chris May, John Driscoll, Patrick O'Hagan, Jurgen Gluhr and Maureen Lyall.

There was also a discussion held about possibly offering a discount to CCA members who are currently students. It was obviously a topic that needed more discussion, so further discussion was postponed until the April meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:25pm.