LPR Board Meeting Minutes, April 2025

Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie; Treasurer – Andy Ward; Member at Large – Homer Pitner; Membership – Don Minami,  Additionally, Activities Chairs – AX  – Dave Dunwoodie; Hospitality Chair – Emilie Highley; Tour – Hugh Calvin;  Prieta Post – Donald Chaisson; Social Media – Dana Ambrisko; Technical – Peter Ridgway; Charity – Kris Vanacore

Additional:  Bill Bauer

Absent:  Greg Sickal, Activities; James Turk, Webmaster

LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
  April 8, 2025 7:01 PM to 7:40 PM

Call to Order

President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:01 PM.   

Board Member Reports:

President – Dana Drysdale –

March Board Minutes:  President Dana asked the Board to approve the March Board minutes. 

Ayes:  6   Noes:  None    Motion Passed

VA Hospital Car Show and Lunch, May 24: 

Connected with new contact Julia Victor, she is good and confirming with Security.

Format: Car show, meet the Veterans, lunch from Togos.

Missy and Honore volunteered to go to Togos for pickup.

Togos was a club expense, under $500 last year, could be more with more participants.

Any interest in changing format or questions, please let me know.

Porsche History Day, June 22:

Display Car sign-ups (996 / 986 and earlier) going well – 34 so far. 

We need 70s 80s 90s, transaxle.  356 and early 911 still good to get those, too.

Still some approvals to get from Penske, all is going well.

Updated map and draft car badge attached. (See Appendix A below)

Steve Douglas is our creative genius and idea man, connector to many people.

We can still use more ideas and connections!  Any ideas – please let me know.

SCP requests no publicity except to recruit Display Cars.

Display Car Note – Open / Closed, etc.:  Porsche History Day Display Cars is like Werks Concours.

Cars are not open.  Owners may choose.  We will have signage for this.

Subsidy Planning – No objections received, so this is our plan to date:

That’s 100% except for a Registry event.

See Appendix A for an image of the Heritage Day parking layout.

Vice President – Honore D’Angelo

Two additions to the list of dates:  we have a confirmed date for the VA Car Show which is May 24 10:30 – 2:00.  Also, new location for Thirsty Thursday in Santa Cruz – Balefire Brewing Company – 21517 E Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95062.  See you all tomorrow evening.

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

3/13/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga – great gathering – about 25 people
4/05/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
4/06/2025 – Porsche & Pastries at the Porsche Fremont Hub.
4/13/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Aptos at Julio Ortiz and Edna Vilozny’s – 7545 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA
5/08/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewing Company – 21517 E Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 – Santa Cruz
5/11/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
5/24/2025 – VA Car Show GTG – https://www.va.gov/palo-alto-health-care/ – 3801 Miranda Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304-1207
6/07/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
6/08/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
6/12/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga
6/22/2025 – Porsche History Day, Presented by Porsche Stevens Creek and Loma Prieta Region, PCA
Stevens Creek Porsche Service Center, 16151 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos
7/13/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
7/19/2025 – LPR Summer Picnic – Roaring Camp
8/02/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
8/07/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewing Company – Santa Cruz
8/09/2025 – Dana and Missy’s Pot-luck GTG – Tentative 
8/10/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD

9/11/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga
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.
9/14/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
10/04/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
10/09/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewing Company – Santa Cruz
10/12/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
11/23/2025 – Toys for Tots Tour
12/06/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
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

LPR Accounts:

Recap: March LPR Financials

o Expenses: $ 696

o Income: $ 1,588

o Net Income: $ 892

Income was: PCA Member Rebate, Sponsorship (Don Wise Autowerks)

Expenses were: Administrative, GTG, Autocross

Recap LPR YTD Financials, Jan 1 to March 31, 2025:

o Expenses: $ 1,772

o Income: $ 3,487

o Net Income: $ 1,715

Zone 7 Accounts:

Recap: March Zone 7 Financials

o Expenses: $ 1,488

o Income: $ 390

o Net Income: $ -1,098

Recap: Zone 7 YTD Financials, Jan 1 to March 31, 2025:

o Expenses: $ 1,488

o Income: $ 2,595

o Net Income: $ 1,107

March Income was: Region Contributions to Concours Fund

March Expenses were: Trophies for Zone 7 Awards Event

Membership – Don Minami

Nine members from our region failed to renew their PCA membership (five primary and four co-members). 

Three members transferred out of our region. 

Four people new to the PCA chose our region (three primary and one co-member). 

The net change to LPR membership was negative eight (-five primary members and -three co-members) This is very troubling and the loss of membership is looking like a trend. 

Membership changes

Transfer In                                   0
Transfer Out                               -3
Expired Membership                -9         

New Members             4                          

Robert W Davis, Santa Cruz
Richard Rivoir, Santa Cruz
Kathy Shortley, Santa Cruz, co-member
Remey Grousson, Los Gatos

Total Primary Members           376
Affiliate Members                     224
Total Region Membership       600

Discussion:   In regards to the problem with auto-renew, Dana Drysdale will contact PCA National for an update.

Proposal:  Don proposes we accept the new members.  Second: Homer Ayes:  6  Noes:  None  Motion passes

Activities – Greg Sickal

Absent – Report submitted

LPR Calendar
* NOTE: Email any calendar additions/changes for tours, GTG’s and other events to activities@lprpca.org

Insurance
* Updated calendar with various changes

Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner

New bylaws: No new update from PCA National

Nominations committee: Identified six potential BOD officer candidates, next step is to contact and gage interest

Feedback from BOD on informal poll (summarized responses, I can provide the full responses if needed)

1. What is going well with the region?
   1. Auto Cross, Thirsty Thursdays, GTG and Tours
   2. Communications – Communications that exist are very high quality – POST and Blast.
   3. Governance and sense of governance 
   4. Sponsorship 
2. What would you like to see addressed or are areas of concern with the region?
   1. I would like to see more GTG’s at people’s homes or outside activities (Bowling, Sports games, etc)
   2. January & February hole (no activities)
   3. Member Engagement – We do pretty well, about the same as most clubs. Typically, PCA stays in the range of 16 – 33% participation.
   4. Expand the already successful sponsorship program
   5. Maybe more on Instagram in addition to the current social media platforms
   6. Membership badges – set up a system where members can sign up to get their badges directly online
3. Any good ideas from you folks to add
   1. How about setting up a Survey for the entire membership to get new ideas and suggestions for the club?

Chairperson Reports:

Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Co-Chair Homer Pitner

Today we had Trailer Cleanup/Inventory Day at my house. We had a light showing but 4 of us got it done and ready to go for a new season.

Our 1st AX at Crows went very well with 62 drivers getting 10 runs on a long course designed by Tara Shapowel-Lau.

This weekend will be our 2nd AX and first at Salinas Airport of 2025.

Charity  – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley

Absent – Report submitted

Nothing to report.

 Hospitality – Emilie Highley

Absent – Report submitted

Nothing to report.

Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson

Absent – Report submitted

The mid-March bump in readers wasn’t sharp, but there has been a nice background readership of the Mar/April issue of the POST.   Overall total readers were 268.  Time on pages indicate folks spent time on the Year Calendar, the featured articles on Porsche Brunch, John’s First Love and Tech Corner (brake job).  Not many readers spent a lot of time on the Dayton race.  I still consider coverage of Porsche Motorsports to be integral to the POST’s role reflecting all things Porsche so race coverage will continue — even if only for a portion of the region’s membership — editorial privilege!

Work is beginning on the next issue. (Cover photo below).   Major articles will be our Macan EV test drive, a highlight of Noel Eberhart, an interesting friend of Dana who showed up at a Thirst Thursday at Jakes, Porsche Sprints at Sonoma with interviews with Bruce Todd of BR Racing, and with a friend of mine, Nico Castellaccio of Migliore Motorwerks who will be providing support for a Cayman GT4RS (actually, I’ll meet up with Nico’s wife, Victoria, who has a lot of background information about the sport! — Like, who just bought Wright Motorsports!)

If anyone is going to the Porsche Brunch and would like to search out a STORY… not just pictures, though photos would help, feel free to submit an article and I’ll see if I can get it in the coming issue.  I’ll be at Sonoma for the Sprints.

Public Relations – Dana Drysdale

Photo of John and Honore in regards to Hall of Fame of award is expected to be in Panorama and the Prieta Post.

Safety – Open Position

Ed Tefankjian submitted the LPR AX Trailer Safety Checklist/Inspection report for 2025.  All was in serviceable condition.

Tour – Hugh Calvin

No Tours were conducted during March.

re: The Overnight Tour to Lake Tahoe.  We need accommodations and a place to eat after we arrive, and we’ve identified both.  

The Lodge requires LPR to sign a contract to reserve a block of rooms and guarantee 80% of the rooms we need.  We’re planning to limit the Tour to 16 cars, so we need to occupy at least 13 rooms.  The Lodge wants each party to make their own reservations at least a month before the Tour.  After that, they will release any rooms not reserved.  If we don’t meet the 13 reservations obligation a month before the Tour, LPR would be on the hook to pay the difference at around $250/room.  I’d like to get the LPR Board to underwrite this contract. 

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

Here is the Social Media Chair report for the April 2025 Board Meeting:

• March Mid-month Blast was sent on April 15th
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 505 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 492
• Sharing a message from PCA – PCA Club Racing at VIR & Projekt964 Auction info. sent March 21st
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 506 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 493
• Zone 7 Concours Detail & Judges School announcement and info. sent March 28th
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 509 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 496
• April Blast Update sent on April 1st
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 502 Total Num Opted out = 12 Total Num sent = 490
• Announcing Car Control Clinics on April 26 & 27 at Alameda NAS sent April 2nd
  • Emailer Statistics
    • Total Num Address = 502 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 489

April Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around the 15th

Tech – Peter Ridgway

Renewed an old contact for last year and we might have another new
sponsor BUT…
I’d like to discuss tonight.  It’s Beeline Motor Club in Santa Cruz.  
I’m usually reluctant to sign multiple sponsors that service a small
geographic area and we already have Hayes European.
Usually I like to check with the existing sponsor to make sure they are
OK with it.  I haven’t had a chance to visit yet.  Had a lot of personal
issues last month.

Anyone heard of Beeline Motor Club?  They have a nice website and
supposedly do great work.

Discussion:   Positive response to include Beeline Motor Club as a sponsor.  They work primarily on older, unique and fun cars, so will not conflict with Hayes European.  Peter, Andy, Honore, and Dana will plan a visit.

Discussion:  Update on Porsches and Pastries:   About 260 cars.  Our booth stood out, and we have a potential to have 4-5 new members.   Separate note:   Diablo Region may propose gathering Tour chairs with the other regions to discuss tips and practices.

Webmaster – Jim Turk 

Absent – Report submitted

1. Website home page additions
   • Added PCA national ads for
     • SIM Racing
     • Projekt964 Fundraiser Auction
     • Spring Raffle
   • Easter Parade
   • Porsches and Pastries event
   • April AX announcement
   • April LPR Cars and Coffee at Vilozny Insurance in Aptos
   • Concours Detailing and Judging classes
2. Website maintenance
3. Cars and Coffee venues locked in
   • After the April 13 C&C, all remaining LPR C&C’s will be at Carpo’s in Soquel.

Old Business:  None

New Business: None

Adjourn Meeting:  Meeting adjourned by President Dana at 7:40 PM