THE JAGUAR'S ROAR - Nation's Capital Jaguar Owners Club

Club Business
JCNA AGM 2010 Summary
The Jaguar’s Roar April,2010 5
John C. Larson
The JAGIN club (Jaguar Association of Greater Indiana) threw a
swell party for the Annual General Meeting. Business meetings of
the JCNA Board of Directors on Friday, March 26 and the Saturday
meeting of all club representatives were interspersed with a variety of
activities: a convivial reception and buffet at the Stutz Bearcat
Museum; a tour of the historic and magnificently-preserved Union
Station; a sighting of the world’s only XJ13 Jaguar racing machine
from 1966; and a captivating, first-person account by Gary Bartlett of
his reconstruction of a historic XKSS racer and its fateful crash in
the 2006 running of the Mille Miglia.
This report focuses on the business accomplished at the 2010 AGM,
and its implications for local clubs. The fun sidebars, and the 1,200-
mile, roundtrip commute to the AGM remain for another telling.
The JCNA is a confederacy of local clubs. The primary role of the
JCNA is to support the operations of local Jaguar clubs by providing
standardized regulations for Concours d’Elegance, the rally and the
slalom functions. After all, you cannot have national competitions
without national rules. Also, the JCNA offers various technical,
procedural and business supports along with the publication of the
Jaguar Journal, the world’s oldest Jaguar magazine in continuous
publication since 1955. These resources, along with the JCNA.org
website, enable member clubs to maintain consistent rules in their
club events, allow for the resolution and arbitration of disputes, and
provide other resources for maintaining technical expertise,
communications and camaraderie with other Jaguar clubs throughout
North America.
Attendance.
The JCNA comprises 62 local clubs in the USA, Mexico and Canada.
From this total, 51 clubs sent representatives to the 2010 AGM, and
10 other clubs were represented by proxy votes. In the governance of
JCNA, each club is designated two votes in the AGM proceedings.
In addition, the JCNA is divided into six geographic regions, each of
which has two regional delegates with one vote per delegate. The
immediate past-president and the representative from Jaguar Cars
also have one vote each.
NCJOC's John Larson, John Masters and Sherman Taffel at
AGM. "Objects in This Photo Appear More Serious Than They
Are."
Outgoing JCNA President Steve Kennedy is Awarded a Silver XK120 in Recognition
of his Two Years of Service.
Membership
Maintaining and expanding club memberships is a local and a
national interest. The JCNA saw a 5.6 percent decline in
memberships from 2008 (n = 5,853) to 2009 (n = 5,525). Over that
same period, the NCJOC reported a decline of 2.3 percent from 2008
(n = 220) to 2009 (n = 215). Over the two-year period from 2007-
2009, the JCNA reported a decline in memberships of 7.8 percent,
and NCJOC reported a decline in memberships of 11.2 percent. At
the same time, the sales of Jaguar cars nationally reported a decline
of 19.4 percent from 2008 to 2009. Clearly, local Jaguar club
membership roles are influenced by new-car sales only to a moderate
degree.
Local clubs have an interest in maintaining their current active
memberships, and in cultivating future memberships. These two
objectives may overlap to a great extent, but may also diverge in
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Larson and Taffel Receive the "Dealer of the Year Award" on
behalf of Rosenthal Jaguar from JCNA President Steve Kennedy.