LPR Board Meeting Minutes, March 2025

Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie;  Member at Large – Homer Pitner; Membership – Don Minami,  Additionally, Activities Chairs – AX  – Dave Dunwoodie; Webmaster – James Turk; Social Media – Dana Ambrisko; Technical – Peter Ridgway;

Additional:  Bill Bauer

Absent:  Andy Ward, Treasurer; Donald Chaisson, Prieta Post; Greg Sickal, Activities, Hugh Calvin, Tour; Emilie Highley, Hospitality; Kris Vanacore, Charity

LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
March 11, 2025, 7:02 PM to 7:40 PM

Call to Order

President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:02 PM.   

Board Member Reports:

President – Dana Drysdale –

February 2025 Board Minutes:  President Dana asked the Board to approve the February Board minutes. 

Ayes:  5   Noes:  None    Motion Passed

Zone Presidents’ Meeting:  Brian Adkins hosted this meeting at Porsche Sacramento:

• Honore and John were elected to the Zone 7 Hall of Fame!
• Club and Member Development Ideas:
  • Info Tables, etc. at Car Parks, Cars and Coffees – “Hospitality Car Park”, “How to Join PCA”
  • Some new “Charity” ideas – sponsoring a Robotics Club, partnering with Auto Tech @ High School or College
  • “Hog the Parking Lot” contest between regions with annual trophy (new to me)
• Many “Do / Do Nots” for Risk Management & Insurance (presentation to come):
  • No popup drives identified with PCA ever.  Not ever, etc.
  • Watch your social media!  Upside down car, car in ditch example (not us), 102 mph @ AX example.
  • 1 stop for winery tours (someone had a 4-stop winery tour), tour ends at 1^st stops always
• Subsidies – Reminder to apply.  LPR tied for 1^st place (not mentioned, but showed a chart)
  • Brian wants all Subsidies to him, from 1 person – “Subsidy Chair” or pres., expects Board participation – we do fine
• Bylaws Update – Shasta and LPR are the leaders Z7.  Recognized Homer, Amber D and John D.

Subsidy Planning – Let’s correct the below if it is not correct:

 That’s 100% except for a Registry event. 

 Porsche History Day Display Car Update:

• Grille Badges for Display Cars – have these sponsored, working on approvals
• Sign for Display Cars – will ask LPR to sponsor, Peter is coordinating, will need help.  About $1,500.
• Canopies for Display Car Families – Rotary supplying, $1,500, will ask Stevens Creek Porsche to sponsor 
• Display Car Status – About 20 so far; expect another 20 – 30 356 / early 911. 
• Display Cars Needed – 80s and 90s transaxle and 911; 1997 or 1998 Boxster (or close);

2002 – 2005 Cayenne, and 996.  997 / 987 and newer is Stevens Creek Porsche

 Spectator cars will be signed up through a SCP ad and click link, like Fremont.

People can spectate without registering, there is plenty of parking in area.

SCP requests no publicity except to recruit display cars at this time.  Penske review.

Vice President – Honore D’Angelo

Following is our list of events for the year 2025. 

Event to keep in mind and date TBD.

1. Porsche Now Brunch (event with Stevens Creek Porsche) – TBD
2. 2/13/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Beer Thirty – Santa Cruz – Cancelled due to weather
3. 3/13/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga
4. 4/05/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
5. 4/13/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Aptos at Julio Ortiz and Edna Vilozny’s – 7545 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA
6. 5/??/2025 – VA Car Show GTG – Dana will coordinate and finalize a date
7. 5/08/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Beer Thirty – Santa Cruz
8. 5/11/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
9. 6/07/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
10. 6/08/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
11. 6/12/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga
12. 6/22/2025 – Porsche History Day, Sunday June 22, 2025

    Presented by Porsche Stevens Creek and Loma Prieta Region, PCA

    Stevens Creek Porsche Service Center, 16151 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos

13. 7/13/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
14. 7/19/2025 – LPR Summer Picnic – Roaring Camp
15. 8/02/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
16. 8/07/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Beer Thirty – Santa Cruz
17. 8/09/2025 – Dana and Missy’s Pot-luck GTG – Tentative 
18. 8/10/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
19. 9/11/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga
20. 9/13/2025 – Oktoberfest with MBR – Location TBD – PCA 70th Birthday – MBR is working on details, may involve dealer, not so much of a tour this time.
21. 9/14/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
22. 10/04/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
23. 10/09/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Bear Thirty – Santa Cruz
24. 10/12/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
25. 11/23/2025 – Toys for Tots Tour
26. 12/06/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
27. 12/06/2025 – Awards Banquet – BackNine Restaurant in Pasatiempo

Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie

Thank you for your reports in advance of the meeting!

Treasurer – Andy Ward

Absent – Report submitted

Please note that I am traveling from Monday, March 10 through March 31st, and will not be able to attend the BoD meeting. I will be able to process payments to individuals, such as reimbursements to board members for approved expenses, but will be unable to process any vendor payments until my return. I’m not expecting anything that can’t wait until then, but in the event that an unexpected payment needs to be made please see President Dana; he has signature authority at our bank as well as one of the club’s debit cards.

LPR Accounts:

Recap: February LPR Financials

o Expenses: $ 244

o Income: $ 1,615

o Net Income: $ 1,371

Income was: Quarterly PCA Member Rebate

Expenses were: Administrative, Insurance, AX (Speedwaiver), Awards Banquet

Recap LPR YTD Financials, Jan 1 to February 28, 2025:

o Expenses: $ 1,075

o Income: $ 1,899

o Net Income: $ 824

Zone 7 Accounts:

Recap: February Zone 7 Financials

o Expenses: $ 0

o Income: $ 405

o Net Income: $ 405

Recap: Zone 7 YTD Financials, Jan 1 to February 28, 2025:

o Expenses: $ 0

o Income: $ 2,205

o Net Income: $ 2,205

YTD Income was: Income from region concours events

YTD Expenses were: None

Membership – Don Minami

Summary for February

Eleven existing PCA members from our region failed to renew their PCA membership. 

Two members transferred into our region from other regions but two transferred out resulting in a net change of zero members due to transfers. 

Three people new to the PCA chose to join our region. 

The net change in LPR membership was a negative eight (-8) members. This is very troubling if we want the LPR to grow. 

Discussion:  Dana Drysdale was informed from National that there was an error in the auto-renew program.  Unfortunately, this resulted in dropping members.   Try to reach out to these members to renew.

Membership changes

Transfer In 2

Transfer Out -2

Expired Membership.   -11

New Members   3:

Jonathan Moore, Aptos

Stephen Pitzer, Scotts Valley

Daniel O. Walker, Felton

Total Primary Members 375

Affiliate Members 226

Total Region Membership 601

Anniversaries

5 years Mike Humphries

Proposal:  Don proposes we accept the new members.  Second: Homer Ayes: 5   Noes:  None   Motion passes

Activities – Greg Sickal

Absent – Nothing to report

Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner

New bylaws

No update from PCA National

Nominations committee

Started gathering names of potential BOD candidates

Discussion:   If we do not receive a response from PCA National regarding the new bylaws in a few months, may have to submit in the 2026 election.

Chairperson Reports:

Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Co-Chair Homer Pitner

First event is Sunday, March 16, at Crows Landing.    Fingers crossed for no rain this weekend.

I would like to get board approval for this year’s AX budget See below.

AX #1, 7, 8, 9 – Crows Landing.
Site – $2000
Portable – $500
Sandwiches, Chips, Water, etc – $1000
Total – $3500 x 4 = $14,000

AX #2, 3, 4, 5, 6 – Salinas Airport.
Site $2500
Towing $200
Sandwiches, Water, etc – $1000
Total – $3700 x 5 = $18,500

Proposal:  Homer makes a motion to approve AX budget.  Second: Honore   Ayes:  5   Noes:  None   Motion passes

Charity  – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley

Absent – Nothing to report.

Hospitality – Emilie Highley

Absent – Report submitted

Earlier in the month, I made members aware of:

The passing of our friend and a long-time member, Terry Zaccone.   I was not made aware of the date and time for services.

Also, Bill Jump, an LPR Member for years, lost his wife of 65 years in February.   Memorial services for Mary Beth Jump took place on March 6th.   I believe several LPR members were in attendance.

Cards were sent.

Discussion:  Doug Ambrisko is recovering at home with broken ribs and scraps from a bike ride on Page Mill Rd.  Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson

Absent – Report submitted

The Mar/Apr issue was published March 3rd.  Readership had the typical bump on the first and second full day available.   As of March 10, readership is up to 183 readers; or about half of the region’s primary membership total.    With another Dana’s email bump on the 15th, we should see numbers that should approach “normal”. Our reader uptake generally spikes when published, falls off and bounces back up with Dana’s 2nd posting on her email blasts mid-month.   I hope that will be the case for this issue.

Data for this initial update shows that the time folks spent on particular pages was also disappointing.   Average time on the Porsche Bruch article was < 20 seconds.  Same for John D’Angelo’s fine story about his Looks like few readers bothered with the Daytona race article or the tech article about my brake job. 

We’ll see what happens with a mid-month bump from the email blasts.   

All that said, I was really pleased with the variety of content, the flow of the issue and its quality.   Thanks to Dana and Doris Britschgi for their hard work on the issue, and thanks to Carol and George Crialou for their article about the Porsche Brunch and John D’Angelo’s well written article on his new old 911.   

I submitted the July/August issue to the PCA Newsletter contest.  (See cover to recall the issue).  Dana and I debated which issue we should submit, but settled on July/August because it was a good reflection of the quality and approach to our product.  We look forward to the judging comments to get insight for future improvements. 

Dana submitted the cover from the Nov/Dec issue.  That cover photo was good photo-art, capturing the essence of a Porsche Tour with a single image.  The green 912 motoring along the green tree covered road with a single contrasting color (the speed sign) jumps out for emphasis.   Again, we’ll see what the PCA judges think. 

I would like the board to consider bankrolling my access to Adobe Photoshop for a year.   It enabled a dramatic “hero” shot for John’s article on Primo….
Cost.   $22.99 per month.   This would be in addition to the needed access to Adobe InDesign which also runs $22.99 per month.   That would bring publishing costs to $45.98 per month.

Proposal:  Homer makes a motion to approve published costs to $45.98 per month to access Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign   Second: Honore   Ayes:  5  Noes:  None   Motion passes

Public Relations – Dana Drysdale

Nothing to report.   The next submission with be a photo of John and Honore D’Angelo with Hall of Fame Award.

Safety – Open Position

Nothing to report.   No Tours or Autocross events in February.

Tour – Hugh Calvin

Absent – Report submitted

No Tours were conducted during February.

Tours on the Calendar for 2025:  Forest Bathing Tour (15-Jun), MBR Oktoberfest Tour (13-Sep), Jacob’s Heart Tour (20-Sep), Overnight Lake Tahoe Tour (27-28-Sep), Toys 4 Tots (23-Nov), Ole Amigos Tour (TBD).

Social Media – Dana Ambrisko

• Emailer notice sent to membership on February 11th – Thirsty Thursday February 13th cancelled due to storm & weather conditions.
• February Mid-month Blast sent on February 15th
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 509 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 496
• March Blast Update sent on March 1st
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 500 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 487
• March/April 2025 Prieta POST Emailer sent on March 4th
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 502 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 489
• Porsche Parade Registration Open notice with PCA flyer sent to membership on March 7th
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 504 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 491
• March Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around the 15th

Tech – Peter Ridgway

Nothing technical to report.  Been making inquiries regarding tech sessions this year.  So far, no volunteers.

On another note, Fremont Porsche is pushing us to hold more cars and coffee at the dealership.  We/I have signed up to “host” a joint C&C with Diablo on April 6th at the Fremont Hub mall.  This will probably be a very well attended event.   Diablo does some serious social media stuff.  Diablo is also doing all the work.  LPR just has to show up.  I will bring a table and hang an LPR banner.  I could use some assistance
to talk to people and maybe signup new members.  I’m also in touch with the GGR events coordinator as well as Diablo’s event coordinator.   There are some other possibilities to do joint events later this year.  Stay tuned.

Sponsorship update:
10 of 13 sponsors have been invoiced.  We should start collecting checks soon.  I have deposited a $600 check from Don Wise.   Total invoiced so far:  $7200.

We lost BRRacing as a sponsor.   Long story but basically Bruce was not seeing the kind of business he thought he should.  I only know of 3 of us who did business with BRR.  Let me know if any of you did as well.   Bill Weir and I will go back to Bruce with a plan to try and rescue BRR as a sponsor.

I’m still trying to chase down the last two sponsors.  They don’t answer their phones and I hate driving all over just to find them not there.   This is not unusual.   Possibly another $2000 if they renew.

We did sign up a new sponsor:  The Wheel Guy.   He gets great reviews from Dana and Ed T. for repairing curb rash on wheels.  If you have some wheels that need cleaning up, give Brian a call and be sure to mention LPR.

Webmaster – Jim Turk 

1. Almost finalized the Cars and Coffee venues for 2025
   • April 13 – Vilozny Insurance 7545 Soquel Dr STE B, Aptos, CA 95003
   • May 11 – Carpo’s 2400 Porter St, Soquel, CA 95073
   • June 8 – TBD still working on this one 
   • July 13 – Carpo’s 2400 Porter St, Soquel, CA 95073
   • August 10 – Carpo’s  2400 Porter St, Soquel, CA 95073
   • September 14 – Vilozny Insurance 7545 Soquel Dr STE B, Aptos, CA 95003 
   • October 12 – TBD still working on this one
2. More Cars and Coffee news
   • Heard back from Santa Cruz County Parks and Rec department about using a county park for a Cars and Coffee event
   • Asked activities director Greg to contact PCA for liability insurance to satisfy the county’s insurance requirement
   • Checked out the park that I had in mind for an event and am still thinking about whether this is a good idea or not – bathrooms suck, and the cars in attendance will not be visible from the street

1. • I’ll make a decision about whether to move forward with the county parks in the next month
2. Website (WordPress) maintenance
3. Added links to the March – April POST on the menu
4. Put an announcement on the home page for the March AX
5. Put an announcement on the home page for the March Thirsty Thursday
6. Put an announcement on the home page for the March BOD meeting
7. Updated the Club Docs page with the Rev C version of the LPR Bylaws Awaiting Approval by national

Discussion:  Since the Cars & Coffee County location for June and October is not agreeable, Peter suggested changing the location to be at Fremont Porsche.   Peter will confirm the dates with Fremont Porsche.

Old Business:  None

New Business: None

Adjourn Meeting:

Meeting adjourned by President Dana at 7:40 PM