LPR Board Meeting Minutes, December 2024
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Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie; Treasurer – Andy Ward; Activities – Greg Sickal; Member at Large – Homer Pitner; Membership – Kathy Musser, 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: Emilie Highley, Hospitality Chair; Peter Ridgway, Technical; Kris Vanacore, Charity
Additional: Don Minami
LPR BOARD
MEETING MINUTES
December 10, 2024, 7:00 PM to 7:30PM
Call to Order
President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:00PM.
Board Member Reports:
President – Dana Drysdale
November Board Minutes: President Dana asked the Board to approve the November Board minutes.
Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion Passed
Brunch at Porsche Now: We need to pick a Sunday in February for this.
Slot Car Saturdays (or during week): Zero interest from New Member mailing.
Board members, just let me know if you have an interest by Email.
Porsche History Day: Includes 356 Registry, other participants.
Could be a Cars and Coffee. Idea is a big celebration of Porsches.
Here are potential dates: May 10,11; May 24, 25; June 7, 8; June 21, 22
Will be a morning event, possibly through lunch.
Discussion: This will take place at their new Service Department at Stevens Creek. Their Sales Department is in another location.
Zone News:
Awards: Zone has some submissions for Zone awards now.
Any other ideas, please let me know immediately.
Updating Board Roster with PCA: That’s for me, will do as soon as meeting completes.
Zone Awards and President’s Meeting: 2/22 or 3/1. Save the date!
70th Anniversary Reminder: 9/13. We have Oktoberfest planned as our celebration.
Vice President – Honore D’Angelo
2/01/2024 – Toys for Tots Tour – we had 20 people attend, 10 cars and it was a beautiful day filled with generous folks, a nice drive and good food.
12/07/2024 – Awards Banquet – BackNine Restaurant in Pasatiempo – we had 45 guests – it was a very fun event and all came together pretty well.
Discussion: As wonderful as the party was, there are members that are interested in having the Awards Banquet at another venue for 2025.
Following is our list of events for the year 2025. All has been added to the calendar thanks to Greg!!!
Events to keep in mind where dates are TBD.
1. Slot Car Saturday – January or February – Dana has details to follow.
2. Porsche Now Brunch (event with Stevens Creek Porsche) – January or February.
3. Porsche History Day – Steven Douglas’ project / idea – May – Stevens Creek’s new Los Gatos shop.
2/13/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Beer Thirty – Santa Cruz
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 – Beer Thirty – 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
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 – TBD – PCA 70th Birthday
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 Pasatiemp
Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie
Thank you for your reports in advance of the meeting!
Treasurer – Andy Ward
Discussion: We are basically going to break even. There were two checks for Crows that were never cashed, so these amounts were credited.
Membership – Kathy Musser
New Members from PCA (1)
Mark Wardas from Santa Cruz, 2018 911 GT3 Touring
Transfers in (1)
Dave Roberts from Golden Gate, 1965 912
Transfers out (0)
Non-Renewals for the month of November (8)
Member Renewals for the month of November (20)
Total Membership for the month of November:
Primary Members 373
Affiliate Members 226
Total Members 599
Anniversaries
5 Years
Phillip Stanger
10 Years
Kent Goheen
20 Years
Andy Ward
Proposal: Kathy proposes we accept the new members. Second: Honore Ayes: 7 Noes: None Motion passes
Activities – Greg Sickal
LPR Calendar
* Updated the calendar with various additions and changes
* Email any calendar additions/changes for tours, GTG’s and other events to activities@lprpca.org
* Held planning session for 2025
* Entered all activities from planning session into the calendar
Insurance
* Will be submitting insurance for all 2025 autocross dates this week
Discussion: Greg will follow-up with Peter about Tech Sessions for 2025
Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner
Homer submitted an updated ByLaws draft by email, retiring Member-at-Large and removing Communications Director and adding an appointed Nominating Committee Chair.
Proposal: Homer proposes that we submit the updated Bylaws to PCA National for approval. Second: Sheila Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes
Nothing more to report.
Chairperson Reports:
Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie
Nothing to report except that our AX Schedule for 2025 should be solid now.
LPR 2025 AX Schedule
Mar 16th – Crows
Apr 12th – LPR – Salinas
Apr 26/27 School – Alameda
May 18th – Salinas
June 14th – Salinas – LPR – Zone 7
June 15th – Salinas – GGR – Zone 7
July 13th – Salinas
Aug 9th – Salinas
Sept 13th – Crows – GGR – Zone 7
Sept 14th – Crows – LPR – Zone 7
Oct 11th – LPR – Crows – Kill-a-Kone
Nov 9th – Crows
Charity – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley
- Update on Kill-A-Kone. LPR raised $5,000 for Morgan Autism (thank you Kris for pursuing this info to report)
- Toys for Tots – Toys collected from the tour were delivered to Joey Childs at Silicon Valley Moving & Storage. Additional toys collected at the Awards Banquet will also be delivered.
Note: This toy drive was started (and made famous), by Joey Childs when he was a high school freshman, he is now a freshman at Oklahoma University in Business!
Thanks to Joey and those of us that have donated toys, there will be many children enjoying a Merry Christmas.
- Mark your calendars. . . Jacob’s Heart Tour has been set for September 20th. . . 2025!
Hospitality – Emilie Highley
- Thank you all that continue to visit June Iles – visits mean a lot and memories of the past mean so much to June!
- Angie Reed is doing well and has completely moved in with her daughter Laura – Angie appreciates all that remain in touch with her.
- For those of you that attended the Awards Banquet and spoke with Doris Britschgi, she is doing well since her thyroid surgery. She did experience some damage in her vocal cord, but is hopeful that will help and she will be singing again soon!
Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson
The audience for the Nov/Dec 2024 issue has leveled off with no new audience. The total audience that viewed the issue was just shy of 300 readers with 338 views (this counts the times I go back to the issue now and then). I still consider this readership pretty good.
We have renewed our annual contract with the publishing software for 2025.
Work on the next issue, Jan/Feb 2025 continues again with the help of proofreader Doris Britschgi. I’m now using technology to ease her burden by running text through AI (Antropic Claude) for spelling, grammar and syntax. The AI program is the same that is used for technical articles with English Second Language authors — which Doris thinks I qualify for every time she sees my un-edited copy! Doris claims this is helping… YEA.
I’m thinking of taking a class in Graphic Design at the local Adult Education. Can’t hurt.
Things may get tight on schedule with the holidays. Thanks for your patience.
Public Relations – Dana Drysdale
Have not seen the picture of John and Angie in the last Panorama issue. May send in our Awards Banquet picture(s).
Safety – Open
Hugh submitted Safety Report Toys for Tots tour on December 1.
Discussion: Kathy stated that Johnny will take on Safety Chair for 2025 as long as Ed Tefankjian will do all the Autocross safety reports.
Proposal: Dana Drysdale proposes that approve Johnny Musser as Safety Chair. Second: Kathy Ayes: 7 Noes: None Motion passes
Tour – Hugh Calvin
BoD authorized Tour fee waivers for tours in 2024.
Toys for Tots Tour was held on 1-Dec
Hugh sent in Observer’s Report.
Toys for Tots Tour (1-Dec) was the last Tour of the year!
Tours on the Calendar for 2025: Forest Bathing Tour (15-Jun), Lake Tahoe Tour (28-Sep), Ole Amigos Tour (TBD), Oktoberfest Tour – with MBR (13-Sept), Jacob’s Heart Tour (20-Sept).
Social Media – Dana Ambrisko
- November Mid-month Blast sent on the 15th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 508 Total Num Opted out = 12 Total Num sent = 496
- Emailer Statistics
- Reminder to attend the LPR Planning Meeting for 2025
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 509 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 496
- Emailer Statistics
- Reminder to RSVP for the LPR Masquerade Ball & Awards Banquet
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 512 Total Num Opted out = 13 Total Num sent = 499
- Emailer Statistics
- December Blast Update sent December 1st
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Addresses = 502 Total Num Opted out = 10 Total Num sent = 492
- Emailer Statistics
- December Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around the 15th
Tech – Peter Ridgway
Absent – To be advised.
Webmaster – Jim Turk
- Home page updates
- Updated the Join the PCA membership rates