Slipstream - March 2006

Maverick Minutes
by Jan Mayo
to join Rocky.
VicePres, Mark Gluck, opened the meeting a
bit before 7-ish for Pres Rocky Johnson. Rocky had
told us that he would be absent for the February
Board Meeting but he failed to explain that it would
be because he was skiing in Colorado for an entire
month. Since nearly everyone else on the board
was present I wasn't alone in missing the invitation
Going around the room Tom Snodgrass reported on the
schools. The Ladies/Teen autocross school has at this point 14
ladies and 1 teen signed up. AX 101 has 32, AX102 has 36 and
TT103 has 17 (numbers provided by Wendy). 40% are Porsches
and 60% are non-Mavericks or Maverick members driving another
car. He has enough volunteers for instructors and workers so is
feeling well prepared. Attendees will be informed of their acceptance
during the following week. For the Club Race, they are working
on the flyer for advertisement and Tom reports that John
Sandusky is working on the application. Tom has a Club Race
Committee meeting scheduled for March. Bob Benson says they
need more workers.
Lanean Hughes said there would be a Hope Shelter Board
meeting the following evening. She attended the PCA National
Board meeting last weekend and said the 2008 Parade would be in
Charlotte, NC. The Membership website is being worked on and
she says Maverick Region needs to get back in the habit of
submitting nominations for the National awards. There will be a
PCA tent at the IMSA race that will be covered by Maverick and
Lone Star members. Information concerning this will come from
Bryan Henderson our 2006 Zone Rep. Lanean is also working on
getting Dunlop Tires to sponsor something for Zone 5.
Teri Davis said the Rally School had a fantastic turn out of 40
people. She has trophies for the remainder of the Rally Program,
the next being March 25. Teri reported that the Portland Parade is
planning a Porsche Driving Experience. It will be in half day
increments over 3 days.
Charlie Davis has been working on the Truxter carburetors and
is putting off working on the new box for holding, charging and
transporting the radios till the carbs are done. The fire extinguishers
are at Mayo Performance being inspected by William Fletcher.
William will do the recharging and repairing of ten extinguishers for
$180 - $200. There are two Halons that he can recharge for $394
each. We're going to hold off on these. The rules committee is
prepared to help people with understanding the new classifications
and will be present at the Autocross School Pre-Tech events which
will be held at Autoscope and Mayo Performance.
Bryan Bell participated in Park Place’s Cayman experience and
reported that it was a grand event. Bob Benson interjected that the
second weekend was equally as good other than the rain made the
tire usage a little less dramatic.
Ed Gross is still working on getting the Goodie Store up on the
Maverick Website. He and Tracey were pleased with the turnout at
the New Member Party in January with nearly 100 guests but were
concerned that only 8 were actually New Members. As this is not
really the results this party is supposed to generate, the topic will be
re-addressed before next year’s party. There was some discussion
about contacting new members and email addresses and what
information is currently available to Joel (membership chair) vs
what he has actually been able to access.
As this discussion died down Tracey picked up reporting that
the Wine Tasting evening was a great success and everyone had a
fabulous time. She utilized the PayPal system created by Chris
Alvarado of Hill Country (THANK YOU, CHRIS!) as the wine
tasting was a pay in advance evening. Tracey is looking down the
road for future events such as possible a Cowboy and/or Ranger
game. She's full of great ideas, so stay tuned.
Michael Wingfield has 207 drivers registered for the Feb 25/26
long track DE at MotorSport Ranch with a waiting list for Green.
The April DE registration opens the day before, Feb 24.
Maverick membership is at 1168 per Joel Nannis. He has a 100
page membership list and has updated his records. He gets a hard
copy every 6 months.
Bob Benson has been participating in an on-line discussion on
setting up an on-line voting system. There are a variety of systems
available and the committee is making progress.
Bill Dawson thanks Michael for his work on the on-line
registration. The February long track event looks like it will be
successful even with the added expenses for additional equipment.
Jack Farr is continuing to promise the track will be ready for our
use. Bill along with a team of 5 or 6 others worked with Jack on the
placement of the new corner stations and everyone feels the
locations will be good for both directions around the track. Two
existing corner stations will be moved for better driver sight and
worker safety.
Dennis Chamberlain is working on the Club Race 2006 flyer. The
January Happy Hour at Salt Grass had 38 people present. February
will be at Uncle Julios and he's working on some ideas for March.
Joe McGlohen says "We're Safe."
Treasure Jeff Atkins says the checkbook is in good shape. The
PayPal system is going well but he has some questions concerning
it's usage by various different events.
Secretary Jan continues to work with Bobby Archer for the
Truxter loaner helmets but has been given a 6 month reprieve from
Safetyman Joe as the 2005's are still not available.
Wendy is concerned on the delivery time of Slipstream. The
delays are within the Dallas Post Office and there doesn't seem to
be anything we can do about that. The board will discuss some
other options even to going back to doing the labels and delivering
the sorted/documented bags to the delivery center ourselves again.
Back to the beginning with Mark Gluck reporting that all of
the February events are insured and he has submitted the
paperwork for March. Discussion on the Bylaws came up again
along with the definition of Quorum and the continuing debate on
how we are to get together enough members to satisfy the rules of
a quorum.
The meeting was adjourned and everyone split into little
mini-subgrouplets for continued chatter.
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