NWACC Meeting Minutes

September 25, 2011

Kit Carson Restaurant

Chehalis, WA

 

Meeting called to order by President Randy Free at 9:03 AM.  A quorum was established.

 

Officers in Attendance:

President                   Randy Free

Vice President           George Schwartz

 

Clubs in Attendance:

Classical Glass Corvette Club                       Rose City Corvettes

Corvettes de Olympia                                    Columbia River Corvettes

Corvette Marque Club of Seattle  

 

Member at Large:

Dave Kaiser

Mary Hortaleza

 

Secretary Report:

Dave Kaiser stated that the minutes of the August 6^th meeting stated that he had reported that the Mt. Hood group was dropping out of NWACC and that was not his statement.  In fact, they are renewing their membership.  With that correction, the minutes of the August 6^th meeting were approved.

 

Treasurer Report:

Len was not able to attend today, however he had submitted the financial report to the officers by e-mail.  President Free stated that he had reviewed it and felt that it was in order however, since there have been several income updates, suggested that we not approve the report at this time and bring it up under old business later in the meeting.

 

Vice President Report:

George stated that he understood that there is a new club being organized in Portland and also that there is a fairly new club which has been established in Port Angeles named Grays Harbor Corvettes.  They have members who attended the Five Star event, and George is volunteering to attend one of their meetings and give a presentation regarding NWACC.  This led to a discussion regarding clubs who do not belong to NWACC and how they satisfy needs for insurance and other benefits supplied by NWACC to member clubs.  There was also discussion regarding the importance of the representative of each member club to attend NWACC meetings and report NWACC matters back to their members.

 

Old Business:

Randy called for a motion to approve the Treasurer Report since there had been the opportunity to review the figures.  Motion made and carried.  There was discussion regarding our financial condition and, although entry fees have been down this season, NWACC is financially stable.

 

Competition Committee:

George pointed out that we need to set the Autocross schedule in place no later than March 1^st of each year, so individual clubs must have that information to NWACC by that date if they are interested in hosting a NWACC sanctioned event.  George stated that the season has ended and he is working on point totals and ordering year-end trophies.  He pointed out that he had a number of volunteers this year to help with autocross set up and tear out and he wanted to extend a big thank you to those folks.

 

Insurance Committee:

Dave stated that insurance fees are coming in from member clubs and at-large members and are due by October 15^th.  He stated that numbers are down slightly from last year and he expects to pay the insurance company by November 1^st.  Dave also stated that the terms of our insurance will be the same for next year and that Starke Shelby will be an agent of record for us.

 

Annual Banquet:

Meghan stated that the room rate of $79 has been set at the Red Lion.  Roped off space for Corvettes only will be furnished in the parking lot and meeting space for the 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM board meeting has been arranged.  After discussion, motion was made and carried to have NWACC subsidize the dinner costs in order to maintain the $25 cost per person for the banquet.  The registration form will be on the NWACC website soon.

 

New Business:

George stated that he is aware of a program that the Corvette Museum has which allows a Corvette Club to display a banner with their club logo in the Museum parking lot in Bowling Green.  The cost is $350 and the banner is displayed for one year, at which time it is returned to the individual club for their own use.  There was discussion regarding the relative worth of such a thing to NWACC and the possibility of making up a banner locally for display at NWACC sanctioned events.  George will do further investigation into both ideas.  On another subject, George recently toured the new Ridge Motorsports facility in Shelton and was favorably impressed.  He distributed photos of the site and described areas for road-racing, drag racing, and autocross.  George is working on tours of the facility for interested members.  He also wants input regarding locations for future NWACC autocross events in future years.  Randy suggested that we explore securing a date for next year at the Ridge, with the idea of eventually taking more dates.

 

Randy stated that our webmaster has suggested some additions to our website in order to make linking and other additions more user friendly.  More to follow.

 

Next meeting is set for November 5^th at 3:00 PM at the Red Lion in Kelso.

 

Meeting adjourned at 11:00 AM.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 Ken Jones

Ken Jones, Secretary Pro-Tem