February 2024 Board Meeting Minutes
SCCA Foundation Board of Directors
Thursday, 1-11-2024 8:00 PM Eastern Time
Zoom
PUBLISHED MINUTES
Directors: Jeff Jacobs (Chair); Arnie Coleman (Exec. Dir.); Raleigh Boreen, Jim Weidenbaum, Tere Pulliam, Howard Duncan
Invited: Kristen Poole (SCCA Marketing) Peter Schneider (BOD Liaison); Velma Boreen (Minutes)
Meeting was called to order by Jeff at 8:02 PM Eastern Time.
A motion was made by Jim, seconded by Tere to approve the January meeting minutes. Motion passed. The minutes for January will be forwarded to Rachel to post on the SCCA Foundation website.
FINANCIAL REPORT
Information was presented on contributions and grants year to date
LMS needs to be added to the funding the Foundation provides
A motion was made by Tere, seconded by Raleigh to accept the financial report. Motion passed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Tire Rack Street Survival
Melanie was unable to be on the meeting but provided a report via email
9 schools are scheduled for 2024
The school in Mississippi was cancelled to due loss of site. Work continues on an alternate site for Mississippi
Indy Region will be accepting 30 students
SEDiv meeting went well – 8 Regions indicated interest in hosting a school in 2024
Racing for ALS is interested in helping at events so Melanie will work with them on how they can help.
Working with Heyward Wagner to get the SCCA audit for online. Heyward will work to have better support for the program.
Waivers were discussed.
We will conduct business as usual with regards to our waivers for parents and minor students.
Parents should be receiving information after registering for a school with step-by-step instructions on signing waivers.
Peter shared a link that should take parents/students to the SCCA website to take care of waivers. Will check with Aimee to make sure that this link is ok to give to others.
With Melanie taking some time off, Linda Duncan has offered to help with any Tire Rack Street Survival questions.
Executive Committee
National Convention presentations are being worked on by Chris Robbins and should be available in the next few weeks. Feedback to sessions will also be available for presenters to review.
Divisional Conventions:
Southeast and Northeast Divisions have already held their meetings
Rocky Mountain is this coming weekend and is virtual
Midwest, Great Lakes and CenDiv round out the schedule.
Arnie will be at the Rocky Mountain and Midwest meetings to give a presentation on the Foundation as well as a final push for the two raffles taking place. Raleigh and Velma will be at the Great Lakes and CenDiv meetings representing the Foundation.
Fundraising Committee
Donations to the Foundation were very good for January
Will continue to recognize people making donations on the Foundation website for a year. Discussion continues on how this will happen in regards to amount donated.
The sweepstakes raffle for the Ultimate Sim Racing Rig is open until March 3rd.
May consider doing a social media spot with IRacing being tagged to help boost ticket sales on the Ultimate Racing Simulator Rig.
The Women on Track committee announced a raffle for an SCCA wire wheel pendant during the convention.
Jeff provided a QR code that can be shared at the remaining Divisional meetings to push that raffle.
The possibility of doing another raffle, this time with a sterling pendant, was discussed and will take place at a later time.
Raffle ticket sales have been very good.
The drawing will take place on March 26th.
Communications Committee
Jim continues with website and Facebook articles
Will contact Brian Bielanski regarding his podcasts and add to our digital history.
Jim has contacted REs to help with legacy stories.
Donor Recognition is in the works with a rolling 12-month display.
Discussed using AI for storytelling.
More information and personal than a Google search would offer.
Jim will start using some of the Sittin’ in the Garage articles that Raleigh has done for Clutch Chatter, Indy Region’s newsletter.
Suggested an RE email blast for a final push on the sweepstakes and also legacy stories.
Archives
There have been several queries on how to donate materials or Region records to the Archives.
Discussed the SCCA display in Lincoln at the Museum of American Speed.
The Solo display will remain there until mid-September after 2024 Solo Nationals.
The committee working on the next display have decided that Amateur Road Racing will be up next.
Members with several notable cars have been contacted. There is a good variety of race cars that will be on display.Women on Track
Women on Track
The Convention presentation went well.
Andie Albin is working on finalizing the 31 SCCA women to be highlighted in March for Women in History.
Arnie has a lead on renting safety equipment for those women receiving scholarships that may need to have safety equipment. Tere will follow up with Kelsey Karanges and Emily Brown on this issue.
Region Development Grants
Arnie is having problems with Survey Monkey. Kristen Poole will help him with that situation.
VETMotorsports and Formula SAE
No change with VETMotorsports. Still waiting to hear from Peter Cline on their plans for 2024.
The SCCA trailer will be at Formula SAE in Michigan for both the May and June events.
The Carroll Smith Award will be award at one of these events and is already in the Foundation budget.
If any Foundation members are able to be at either of these competitions in Michigan, it’s the perfect opportunity to “talk” SCCA to the students.
Meeting adjourned at 9:05 PM Eastern Time.
Next meeting will be March 14, 2024 at 8 PM ET.
Velma