March 2024 Board Meeting Minutes
SCCA Foundation Board of Directors
Thursday, 3-14-2024 8:00 PM Eastern Time
Zoom
PUBLISHED MINUTES
Directors: Jeff Jacobs (Chair); Arnie Coleman (Exec. Dir.); Raleigh Boreen, Jim Weidenbaum, Tere Pulliam, Howard Duncan, Bob Eddy
Invited: Kristen Poole (SCCA Marketing); Jeff Dahnert (SCCA, Finance); Peter Schneider (BOD Liaison); Melanie Murray (TRSS); Velma Boreen (Minutes)
Meeting was called to order by Arnie at 8:06 PM Eastern Time.
A motion was made by Bob, seconded by Tere to approve the February meeting minutes. Motion passed. The minutes for February will be forwarded to Rachel to post on the SCCA Foundation website.
FINANCIAL REPORT
Information presented was through January, 2024
February numbers will be available in the next week
There has been an increase on assets
New report is being used for the programs
Cash investments are healthy
CD % is very good
IMRRC payment is due for the first half of the year
A motion was made by Raleigh, seconded by Howard to accept the financial report. Motion passed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Tire Rack Street Survival - Melanie
Two schools have been completed so far in 2024
Audits for those have been submitted and paid
Ten schools are scheduled
Three Regions are working on getting schools on the calendar
Sponsorship contract is close to being finalized
All schools will be receiving sponsorship money even if their event has already taken place
Two Des Moines schools go through the BMW CCA
Indy Region is on the schedule for April 20th with a wait list
Bill Wade will be conducting the classroom portion for that school
Tennessee Valley Region working on getting a school scheduled
There is a meeting scheduled in South Carolina for the BMW Foundation
Raleigh will get information to Melanie on when and where
Rick Myers is working on a new audit form
Melanie and Howard will be talking with Regions that have already hosted schools
Melanie set up a donation page for her birthday, with donations going to TRSS
$780 was donated
Executive Committee
Divisional Conventions
The Rocky Mountain Division held a virtual convention
MiDiv convention was an in-person meeting
Arnie was present at both of these meetings
GLDiv was the first weekend in March
Raleigh was present for that meeting
CenDiv meeting in Milwaukee is March 15-17
Raleigh and Velma will be present at that meeting
Donor Email Initiative
Working on a program to do a monthly email to all donors via Constant Contact, keeping them update on Foundation activities for the year and ongoing fundraisers
Operations Manual
Continuing to be a work in progress
Fundraising Committee
Donations to the Foundation were very good
The sweepstakes raffle for the Ultimate Sim Racing Rig drawing has taken place
Jackie Mutschler, Houston Region, was the winner. She is a 35-year SCCA member. She won $4,000 of the $16,000 in donations received. After marketing and Sweepstakes expenses, the Foundation should net around $8,000.
The Women on Track committee raffle for an SCCA gold wheel pendant started during the SCCA Convention.
The raffle ends on March 18th.
Tere announced that a raffle for an SCCA sterling gold wheel pendant will start up after the raffle for the gold wheel is completed. That raffle will go through Memorial Day.
Jeff will work on a QR code for the newest raffle.
Communications Committee
Donor recognition revision on the Foundation website is in the works with a rolling 12-month display
Jim continues with website and Facebook articles
Discussed using AI for storytelling.
Introduced George Blikas to give an overview of what can be done with AI and finding information in the SCCA universe. This would be more information and personal than a Google search can offer.
Kristen indicated that SCCA is moving in this same direction
Jim is working with Philip Royal re: Sitting in the Garage articles that Raleigh has done for Clutch Chatter, Indy Region’s newsletter.
Archives
No replacement for Jenny Ambrose at the IMRRC
Discussed a request from the IMRRC to obtain shelving from Cornell University.
A motion was made by Howard, seconded by Bob, to authorize $2500 to pay for transportation and re-assembly of shelving, donated by Cornell University, to the IMRRC. This shelving is to be used specifically for SCCA archives. Motion passed
Bob’s presentation during the SCCA Convention will be posted on the SCCA website.
Will get it sent to Jim and Jeff for posting
Discussed the SCCA display in Lincoln at the Museum of American Speed.
The Solo display will remain there until mid-September after 2024 Solo Nationals.
The committee working on the next display have decided that Amateur Road Racing will be up next.
The committee has four cars secured for the next display at the Museum of American Speed. A C Sports Race, an A Sedan, an F Production and a Formula Atlantic.
Raleigh is currently working on a 1989 Mazda that is in California
Women on Track
March History Month is underway and going well.
The women highlighted each day are posted on the SCCA Women On Track Facebook page, with a composite of the seven women that week on the SCCA Website.
Region Development Grants
Five Regions submitted grant requests for the first quarter of 2024.
Those Regions receiving grants were Central Florida, Lake Superior and New England Region
The Grant committee is working to make sure that all grant requests are known by the Region’s RE and board of directors.
A Zoom call may be needed to make sure that all Regions understand this situation
VETMotorsports and Formula SAE
No change with VETMotorsports. Still waiting to hear from Peter Cline on their plans for 2024.
The SCCA trailer will be at Formula SAE in Michigan for both the May and June events.
§ The Carroll Smith Award will be award at one of these events and is already in the Foundation budget.
If any Foundation members are able to be at either of these competitions in Michigan, it’s the perfect opportunity to “talk” SCCA to the students.
Old Business
Nothing
New Business
The Cameron Argetsinger award for August has not yet been announced
There are boxes from Terry Moreland’s wife that Bob will be picking up to take to the IMRRC.
Meeting adjourned at 9:50 PM Eastern Time.
Next meeting will be April 18, 2024 at 8 PM ET.
Velma