LPR Board Meeting Minutes, February 2025
Table of Contents
Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie; Treasurer – Andy Ward; Activities – Greg Sickal; Member at Large – Homer Pitner; Membership – Don Minami, Additionally, Activities Chairs – AX – Dave Dunwoodie; Hospitality Chair – Emilie Highley, Webmaster – James Turk; Tour – Hugh Calvin; Prieta Post – Donald Chaisson; Social Media – Dana Ambrisko; Technical – Peter Ridgway; Charity – Kris Vanacore
Absent: Greg Sickal, Activities; Emilie Highley, Hospitality; Don Chaisson-Prieta Post; Dana Ambrisko, Social Media; Peter Ridgway-Technical; Kris Vanacore-Charity
LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
February 11, 2025, 7:02 PM to 7:21PM
Call to Order
President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:02 PM.
Board Member Reports:
President – Dana Drysdale
January 2025 Board Minutes: President Dana asked the Board to approve the January Board minutes.
Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion Passed
LPR Nominating Committee: We have a Nominating Committee!
Thank you to Board for participating in the “New Bylaws” method to appoint the Committee.
Homer will take it from here, including checking in with you on this process.
Plan, if OK with Board, is to have Homer wrap up the New Bylaws with PCA and Policies and Procedures, I will help him. This year’s Nominating Committee should have no work on Bylaws and Pol & Procs.
Porsche History Day: June 22 at Stevens Creek Porsche Service Dept.
16151 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos, CA 95032
Scope: 125+ registered (some recruited) Display Cars, mostly 996 and earlier, schwimmwagen, etc.
200 – 250 spectators. Anticipate PCA and PCNA participation, PCNA said so.
Hours: Display Cars check in 7:30 – 9:30AM; Public 10AM – 2PM.
Food, beverages for Display Cars provided by Stevens Creek Porsche (SCP).
On site mimosas, etc. by a local charity. Probably 1 – 2 food trucks.
Volunteering so far: Parking – Peter Ridgway helping, many more needed; Charity – Honore contacted Kris and Kathy, Morgan Autism will have a booth; Display Car Check In – Honore and Missy Drysdale, need 1 – 2 more; Trailer Parking – John D’Angelo researching sites; Badges and Signs – Need 1-3 more, John D’ Angelo and Dana so far; Display Car Food – SCP / Mariah Hutchinson; History Display – Will contact Kris; Volunteer Coordinator – probably! Chair – Steve Douglas and Dana – also recruiting, curating display cars.
Draft Site Map: See attached. SCP wants to go for a big deal. Comments? Discussion?
9/13/2025 PCA 70th Anniversary / Oktoberfest: Mark McMahon and MBR working on site.
May not be a tour, may be a destination, then a lunch. Possibly at / around dealer.
356Car (Northern Cal 356 Registry) is in Monterey for breakfast at Black Bear Diner, may join us.
Safety Chair: Have 3 candidates for Safety Chair, working on it.
This is a good introduction to Chair / Board work because our observers do so much!
By email:
Proposal: Per Prototype process – Dana Drysdale nominates Homer Pitner to be Nominating Committee Chair Second: Honore Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion passes
By email:
Proposal: Per Prototype process – Dana Drysdale nominates Honore D’Angelo, Peter Ridgway, and Dave Dunwoodie to be on the nominating committee. Second: Andy Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion passes
Vice President – Honore D’Angelo
The only change is that we will hold May 8th, Thirsty Thursday, at Balefire Brewery, 21517 E Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. Dana Drysdale, Peter Ridgeway, Jim Turk, Andy Ward and I had a trial run “Thirsty Wednesday” and it turned out to be a very nice location with lots of parking. I have sent out messages to change the location on the Calendar/Post/Blast and Facebook.
Events to keep in mind where dates are TBD.
1. Porsche Now Brunch (event with Stevens Creek Porsche) – January or February.
To be added to events – June 22, 2025
2. 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 Gato
2/13/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Beer Thirty – Santa Cruz – Cancelled due to weather.
3/13/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Jakes of Saratoga
4/05/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
4/13/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Aptos at Julio Ortiz and Edna Vilozny’s – 7545 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA
5/??/2025 – VA Car Show GTG – Dana will coordinate and finalize a date
5/08/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewery – Santa Cruz
5/11/2025 – Cars and Coffee – TBD
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, Sunday June 22, 2025
Presented by Porsche Stevens Creek and Loma Prieta Region, PCA
Stevens Creek Porsche Service Center, 16151 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gato
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 – Beer Thirty – 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 – Bear Thirty – 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
Just a heads up that I will be traveling in Europe next month, from March 10 through March 31st. If there are any expenditures that we can plan in advance that would be helpful. And assuming Dana is willing I can put him in charge of the checkbook while I am away, in case we need to make a payment to an entity or business. I can make reimbursements to members via the mobile application, which takes care of many if not most of our payments. But we don’t have that set up for external entities.
LPR Accounts:
• Recap: January LPR Financials
o Expenses: $ 831
o Income: $ 284
o Net Income: $ -547
• Income was: Awards Banquet
• Expenses were: Awards Banquet, Administrative, Autocross
• Recap LPR 2025 Financials, Jan 1 to January 31, 2025:
o Expenses: $ 831
o Income: $ 284
o Net Income: $ -547
Zone 7 Accounts:
• Recap: January Zone 7 Financials
o Expenses: $ 0
o Income: $ 1800
o Net Income: $ 1800
• Recap: Zone 7 2025 Financials:
o Expenses: $ 0
o Income: $ 1800
o Net Income: $ 1800
• YTD Income was: Income from region concours events
• YTD Expenses were: None
Membership – Don Minami
Membership totals declined slightly during January. I assume this is a seasonal thing because
PCA is reporting many new members joining during the beginning of February.
I continue to struggle with gathering information from the PCA mainly because I am trying to use
an iPad to navigate through a Windows centric world. Gratefully, Jim Turk has been guiding me
though the byzantine catacombs of PCA.org, One Drive, iCloud, Google Drive, et al.
And our email service, Roundcube, doesn’t seem to like iPads either. Bottom line is my iPad Pro
is a knife in a gun fight.
Boy! Am I a grumpy old fool? Yes, but I will persevere or maybe breakdown and buy a PC.
Membership
Transfer In 1
Transfer Out -1
Lapsed – 5
Life Members
Total Primary Members 378
Affiliate Members 231
Total Region Membership 609
Test Drive Participants 3
New Members
Wenstrand, Mike L
Los Gatos, California 95032
Transfer From: Golden Gate (GG)
2022 911 Targa 4 GTS
Anniversaries
5 years Mike Humphries
10 years Sal Brogna
15 years Kris Brekke
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
* Received insurance for all 2025 autocross dates
* Updated calendar with various changes
Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner
New bylaws
Received feedback from PCA National on 2nd draft of LPR bylaws. Minor changes and corrections made and
resubmitted 3rd draft on Feb 7th.
Nominations committee
No activity as of yet, pending response from BOD. I would like to remind the BOD that we are operating under the
current bylaws where the member at large chairs the nominating committee. The proposal put forth was to
prototype the new process in advance of new bylaws approval and implementation in 2026.
Chairperson Reports:
Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Co-Chair Homer Pitner
Nothing to report. Looking forward to March 16th AX #1.
Charity – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley
Absent – Report submitted
The Charity Committee will begin reaching out to Morgan Autism Center and Jacobs Heart to request their presence at the June 22nd Porsche Historic event. We would like for our charities to have a table/booth set up with media, etc. Kathy Musser will work with Jacob’s Heart. Kris Vanacore and Emillie Highley will work with Morgan Autism. Our first step is to ask them to save the date with whatever details we can provide them at this point. Stay tuned for updates!
Hospitality – Emilie Highley
Absent – Report submitted
Nothing new to report this month.
Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson
Absent – Report submitted.
The Mar/Apr issue is in work with a cover story about the history and essence of the Porsche Brunch —Alices in Woodside by the Grialou’s (with some packaging by the editor) and a recent addition of a “remembrance” story by John D’Angelo — thank you Honore for suggesting John help the POST with this article, which is being shared with the Early 911S Registry magazine, “The Esses”. My review of the 2025 Daytona 24 Hours Race and a Tech Article about doing a front brake pad and rotor job on a Cayman (pretty much the same as 997/991 Carerras). The Editorial is about my adventures with Waymo in San Francisco.
We should be getting into more LPR-centric content when we have some tours and more Thirsty Thursdays perhaps, and maybe a couple surprises on more local Porsche racing and car information.
I will not be able to attend the meeting (again) as I’m still double booked with a Graphic Design class (somewhat of a disappointment, but will continue to soldier on for a while.
Public Relations – Dana Drysdale
Nothing to report.
Safety – Open Position
Open Position for Safety Chair.
No current tours or Autocross events, so no safety reports were needed.
Tour – Hugh Calvin
There were no Tours in January.
Tours on the Calendar for 2025: Forest Bathing Tour (15-Jun), Jacob’s Heart Tour (20-Sep, tentative), Overnight Lake Tahoe Tour (27-28-Sep, tentative), Toys 4 Tots (23-Nov), Ole Amigos Tour (TBD), Joint Tour with MBR (13-Sep).
Social Media – Dana Ambrisko
Absent – Report submitted
• January Mid-month Blast sent on January 15th
o Emailer Statistics
Total Num Address = 510 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 497
• Additional Jan/Feb 2025 Prieta POST Emailer sent on January 21st
o Emailer Statistics
Total Num Address = 511 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 498
• February Blast Update sent on February 1st
o Emailer Statistics
Total Num Address = 513 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 500
• February Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around the 15th
Tech – Peter Ridgway
Absent – Report submitted
Sponsorship invoices are being delivered this week. Andy should have income to report next month.
Webmaster – Jim Turk
1) Upgraded the website WordPress version from v6.1.7 to v6.4.5 (we are still way behind the current version of WordPress, 6.7 – soon to be 6.8, but it’s a start)
2) Performed maintenance on website tools
3) Worked on finding a venue for 2025 Cars and Coffee
Working with new owner of Carpos in Soquel and a couple of other venues
4) Supported the membership chair for member badge requests