SCCA Foundation Board of Directors
Thursday, 3-14-2024 8:00 PM Eastern Time
Zoom

PUBLISHED MINUTES

Directors: Jeff Jacobs (Chair); Arnie Coleman (Exec. Dir.); Raleigh Boreen, Jim Weidenbaum, Tere Pulliam, Howard Duncan, Bob Eddy

Invited: Kristen Poole (SCCA Marketing); Jeff Dahnert (SCCA, Finance); Peter Schneider (BOD Liaison); Melanie Murray (TRSS); Velma Boreen (Minutes)

Meeting was called to order by Arnie at 8:06 PM Eastern Time.

A motion was made by Bob, seconded by Tere to approve the February meeting minutes. Motion passed. The minutes for February will be forwarded to Rachel to post on the SCCA Foundation website.


FINANCIAL REPORT

Information presented was through January, 2024

  • February numbers will be available in the next week

There has been an increase on assets

New report is being used for the programs

Cash investments are healthy

CD % is very good

IMRRC payment is due for the first half of the year

A motion was made by Raleigh, seconded by Howard to accept the financial report. Motion passed.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Tire Rack Street Survival - Melanie

Two schools have been completed so far in 2024

  • Audits for those have been submitted and paid

Ten schools are scheduled

Three Regions are working on getting schools on the calendar

Sponsorship contract is close to being finalized

  • All schools will be receiving sponsorship money even if their event has already taken place

Two Des Moines schools go through the BMW CCA

Indy Region is on the schedule for April 20th with a wait list

  • Bill Wade will be conducting the classroom portion for that school

Tennessee Valley Region working on getting a school scheduled

There is a meeting scheduled in South Carolina for the BMW Foundation

  • Raleigh will get information to Melanie on when and where

Rick Myers is working on a new audit form

Melanie and Howard will be talking with Regions that have already hosted schools

Melanie set up a donation page for her birthday, with donations going to TRSS

  • $780 was donated

Executive Committee

Divisional Conventions

  • The Rocky Mountain Division held a virtual convention

  • MiDiv convention was an in-person meeting

    • Arnie was present at both of these meetings

  • GLDiv was the first weekend in March

    • Raleigh was present for that meeting

  • CenDiv meeting in Milwaukee is March 15-17

    • Raleigh and Velma will be present at that meeting

Donor Email Initiative
Working on a program to do a monthly email to all donors via Constant Contact, keeping them update on Foundation activities for the year and ongoing fundraisers

Operations Manual
Continuing to be a work in progress

Fundraising Committee

Donations to the Foundation were very good

The sweepstakes raffle for the Ultimate Sim Racing Rig drawing has taken place

  • Jackie Mutschler, Houston Region, was the winner. She is a 35-year SCCA member. She won $4,000 of the $16,000 in donations received. After marketing and Sweepstakes expenses, the Foundation should net around $8,000.

The Women on Track committee raffle for an SCCA gold wheel pendant started during the SCCA Convention.

  • The raffle ends on March 18th.

  • Tere announced that a raffle for an SCCA sterling gold wheel pendant will start up after the raffle for the gold wheel is completed. That raffle will go through Memorial Day.

Jeff will work on a QR code for the newest raffle.

Communications Committee

Donor recognition revision on the Foundation website is in the works with a rolling 12-month display

Jim continues with website and Facebook articles

  • Discussed using AI for storytelling.

    • Introduced George Blikas to give an overview of what can be done with AI and finding information in the SCCA universe. This would be more information and personal than a Google search can offer.

  • Kristen indicated that SCCA is moving in this same direction

Jim is working with Philip Royal re: Sitting in the Garage articles that Raleigh has done for Clutch Chatter, Indy Region’s newsletter.

Archives

No replacement for Jenny Ambrose at the IMRRC

Discussed a request from the IMRRC to obtain shelving from Cornell University.

  • A motion was made by Howard, seconded by Bob, to authorize $2500 to pay for transportation and re-assembly of shelving, donated by Cornell University, to the IMRRC. This shelving is to be used specifically for SCCA archives.  Motion passed

Bob’s presentation during the SCCA Convention will be posted on the SCCA website.

  • Will get it sent to Jim and Jeff for posting

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.

    • The committee has four cars secured for the next display at the Museum of American Speed. A C Sports Race, an A Sedan, an F Production and a Formula Atlantic.

    • Raleigh is currently working on a 1989 Mazda that is in California

Women on Track

March History Month is underway and going well.

  • The women highlighted each day are posted on the SCCA Women On Track Facebook page, with a composite of the seven women that week on the SCCA Website.

Region Development Grants

Five Regions submitted grant requests for the first quarter of 2024.

  • Those Regions receiving grants were Central Florida, Lake Superior and New England Region

The Grant committee is working to make sure that all grant requests are known by the Region’s RE and board of directors.

A Zoom call may be needed to make sure that all Regions understand this 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.

Old Business

Nothing

New Business

The Cameron Argetsinger award for August has not yet been announced

There are boxes from Terry Moreland’s wife that Bob will be picking up to take to the IMRRC.


Meeting adjourned at 9:50 PM Eastern Time.

Next meeting will be April 18, 2024 at 8 PM ET.

Velma

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