June 2025 Board Meeting Minutes
SCCA Foundation Board of Directors
Thursday, 6-19-25 7:00 PM Eastern Time
Zoom
PUBLISHED MINUTES
Directors: Arnie Coleman (Exec Dir.); Raleigh Boreen, Howard Duncan, Jim Weidenbaum, Tere Pulliam, Bob Eddy; Steve Strickland (SCCA Inc. Liaison)
Invited: Melanie Murray (TRSS); Justin Hawkins (SCCA, Finance); Kristen Poole (SCCA, Comms); Velma Boreen (Minutes)
Meeting was called to order by Arnie at 7:02 PM Eastern Time.
A motion was made by Howard, seconded by Tere to approve the May meeting minutes. Motion passed. The minutes for May will be forwarded to Rachel to post on the SCCA Foundation website.
FINANCIAL REPORT - Justin Hawkins
Intercompany funds have been transferred to the SCCA Foundation.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Tire Rack Street Survival - Melanie and Howard
Schedule for schools being worked on
23 schools are scheduled so far for 2025
11 schools have been completed
Video to help parents and minors with online sign up for minor waivers has been completed [watch here]. Soon a video will be available for Regions to use at their local events.
Monthly 30 minutes calls are scheduled going forward with BMW, Porsche Club, Scott Hughes, Bill Wade, Tim Beechuk, Heyward Wagner and Melanie.
Weekly email updates on TRSS will be starting again.
Executive Committee
Operations Manual
Very close to being presented in a final format.
Fundraising Committee
Donations report was reviewed
Spec Boxster has been sold. A thank you letter was sent to Wilwood Brakes and Mike Hamrick for storing the car for the SCCA Foundation at the Wilwood Brakes facility.
Singapore Sweepstakes financial report will be finalized soon.
There is a recap of the Monte Carlo trip on Facebook and the SCCA Foundation website.
2026 Monaco sweepstakes package is being finalized with detail to come soon.
Communications - Jim
Articles submitted to SCCA, Inc., also published on SCCA Foundation website and Facebook
Tire Rack Street Survival connection to larger community and as a way to unite Regions
F1 Monte Carlo GP winner’s story published. Winner of F1 Singapore GP trip announced
Pending
Will post SOLD on Porsche Spec Boxster and will reach out to Texas Region’s Ralph Siebert, purchaser of Boxster, for a potential interview
Archives - Bob
The IMRRC will be announcing their capital campaign on the building in Watkins Glen in September. They will share the financials with the SCCA Foundation prior to the announcement.
IMRRC expects to have all of the SCCA driver’s information finished by September.
The new storage facility will be climate controlled.
The Cameron Argetsinger Award will be given at the banquet on September 4th.
Bob and Jim will be attending that banquet
Bob will be going through the information received from Nick Craw, R. David Jones and others during his time in Watkins Glen.
Bob will be meeting with Mark Steigerwald, John Saunders and Joe Schill also while he is in Watkins Glen.
SCCA Foundation and SCCA Inc. will be splitting the fee for the table at the Cameron Argetsinger Awards.
Will potentially be asking Chuck Dobbs from Area 10 to also attend the banquet.
The number of people requesting information from the IMRRC continues to grow.
Women on Track - Tere
Road Racing committee - Sydney has a call with WIMNA on 6-15-25 to discuss an annual Road Racing Award. Lynn St. James would like to have two awards – one for drivers and another mentorships award for a volunteer.
Velma raised considerable concern with this concept. She will get a report to Tere to bring up at the next call for the Road Racing WoT committee.
RallyCross – Sam raised the question as to whether we had a gender-neutral area for scholarships. We do not. Are there competitors who identify as non-binary or trans? Would they be considered for scholarships thru WoT?
Solo – Chelsea has a meeting scheduled for 6-12 to continue planning for Solo Nationals. The Pay-It-Forward program is not being utilized and they will continue to look at other options for 2026. Chelsea will begin working with the Wendi Allen Scholarship Fund committee in early fall.
Road Rally – no report
Time Trials – no report. Actively looking for a new chairperson.
Region Development Grants - Arnie
·The program is still on hold by the Board of Directors. It has been decided to approve the grant requests from the last two quarters and inform the Regions. Suggestion was made to hide the RDG option on the website.
VETMotorsports / Formula SAE / Museum of American Speed, Lincoln
VETMotorsports
The program for the Vets using TNiA and TT is working. It has started slow but is picking up speed. 2-3 Vets are at each event.
FSAE
FSAE is finalizing plans for the fall meeting for FSAE Teams to be held in Lincoln, Nebraska. They expect 100 teams with 3-4 people from each team attending. The SCCA Foundation has committed $10,000 towards this meeting. SCCA Foundation is hosting the reception on Saturday evening. We will also have a 60-minute presentation and a booth in the hallway of the convention area. Help has been requested from the SCCA National office with a couple of employees who are closer in age to the students. We will have a solid SCCA and SCCA Foundation presence at this meeting. There will also be SCCA Foundation handouts available at this meeting for the students.
The Carroll Smith Mentors Cup from the SCCA Foundation will be presented on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the EV competition in Michigan at Michigan International Speedway. The recipient this year is Prof. John Fabijanic, Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He will also be receiving a $1,000 from the SCCA Foundation.
Museum of American Speed in Lincoln
The SCCA display at the Museum of American Speed looks great. Good comments from visitors.
Currently the plan is to have Mike Cobb do his quarterly president’s report from MAS to show and talk about this display. No date has been finalized.
During Solo Nationals, there will be two evening banquets at the MAS. The ProSolo banquet and the ShootOut banquet will be taking place at the facility.
Old Business
Question was raised again about using Charity Navigator to help the Foundation with what we are doing with Foundation funds.
Meeting adjourned at 8:04 PM Eastern Time.
Next meeting is July 17, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
Velma