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Maverick Minutes: January Board Meeting By Renee Farinella, Region Secretary January 2, 2013 Greetings to you from me, as your 2013 Maverick Parliamentarian. Thank you to everyone for your support, and I look very much forward to serving as the club’s Secretary and bringing you a summary of the minutes from the board meetings each month. The first meeting of the year started promptly at 7pm with a welcome from our board President John Hamilton. He began by introducing two visiting guests, Marlee and Craig Shaw. We were glad to have them there, and hope their interest in participating continues to grow! Any Porsche owner is always welcome, and we encourage everyone to consider bringing and sharing your experience and insights on how to increasingly value our efforts on behalf of all members and aficionados! John then announced that he sent an email to PCA National to support and recognize a recent promotion of our Region Membership Chair, Lisa Steele, to National Membership Chair. Talented folks continue to move forward from the Mavericks! Kudos! Your contributions and smile will be missed! Good luck; we are very proud, and know you will do a great job. Another of our volunteers has gotten grabbed up and will serve as a Club Race Scrutineer at the National level: Joel Nannis. Great work by, and great opportunity for, each of you. We are grateful for your service! Membership Chair Lisa Steele said we are now at 2,215 total members. PCA is still growing nationally, with 1,800 new members annually nationwide. Maverick Region was a significant part of that growth, with an increase of 144 members last year in our region alone. Drivers’ Ed Chair Lori Mauthe asked again about where we are at with promoting our club through the relationships we have with the area Porsche dealership. The application process appears to be a sticking point, but Lori is working on developing a smooth process, so that awareness is increased, more Porsche owners know about the club, and have the opportunity to join! Gareth Maurice is our new VP. Welcome, Gareth! We are glad you are with us, and excited about your fun and insightful contributions. He began his report by thanking DE Chair Lori Mauthe and Autocross/Time Trial Chair Travis Howard for providing the dates for this upcoming year’s events. This takes a lot of work to coordinate and nail down! Please look for updates on the Maverick website for this information. We also talked about the best places to get this information out to members, and to promote the events. Lori created business cards containing the DE dates to distribute at other Maverick as well as non-Maverick events. Treasurer Jim Falgout reminded everyone that forms need to be submitted for expense reimbursement. Brendan Eagan is helping out with on-line calendar. Travis Howard, now the Autocross chair in addition to Time Trial Chair, began his report by addressing complaints regarding issues the Mineral Wells venue has, like gravel. We had previously been using a 10-year-old sweeper. Richard Diller went out on his own and bought a replacement, which was previously owned by the Navy! So, this additional equipment added to Ray Kelly’s rolling blower, means the gravel issue has been successfully addressed! Mineral Wells is considered to have an “aggressive” surface but good size, and its location (45 miles west of downtown Ft. Worth) is more convenient for members living on the west side of DFW. However, the new Autocross venue, Dallas Raceway in Crandall (25 miles southeast of downtown Dallas) is more convenient to those on the east side of DFW. The venue became available in late 2012, is bigger than the Pennington Field lot, and has a great concrete surface. Travis proposed the need for new timing equipment, since ours is now 11 years old. AX-Ware is the most popular software, used by Equipe Rapide and other clubs. We are taking a look at the cost of refurbishing our current system, which requires a person to manually log times. The Maverick website needs updating. Lori Mauthe is working on getting the Drivers’ Education information online updated as well. The rules need updating, too. Travis said the rental check will go to Mineral Wells this month. At this point in the meeting, Gareth Maurice mentioned that he was driving by DFW airport and saw a parking lot near Amon Carter Blvd, which he thought could be a possible viable AX/ TT site option. Lisa Steele replied that we had issues with the city when that was tried years ago. Someone else asked about the Texas Stadium lot as well. We imagine that, as enterprising as the Cowboys are, that option might be pretty expensive, but the question is being looked into further. 6
Robyn Howard, AX/TT School Chair and Registrar, is working on getting Mayo Performance to sponsor the Autocross series again. Public Relations Chair Linda Bambina thanked all the Slipstream content contributors and said that she very much appreciates timely delivery. Also, she is thrilled about her idea for the Mavericks to host a Driving Friendships “Getaway Weekend.” Brendan Eagan helped with the route. This fun weekend is targeted to drive from West, Texas (a Czech community north of Waco) to Fredericksburg, then back to DFW, with the dates set as Feb. 15-18. John Hamilton added that he appreciates the “inclusion” element. This adds a dynamic option value offering to the club. John Harvey mentioned the giantwild-pig-walking-in-the-middleof-the-road on a route checkout (only in Texas, right?! Love it!) story, the photo of which he plans to submit to Panorama. I mentioned at this point that I thought this was a great idea, because it is so regionally and culturally relevant. We are always seekin’ to represent with excellence! Christy Payne and Lisa Steele are meeting with a candidate to take over Christy’s soon-to-be-vacated Social chair position. John Hamilton requested that we keep Myra Sutton in our prayers as she endures a second round of chemotherapy. Lori Mauthe said that the 2012 DE season ended on a high note. Joel Nannis will still help us with Drivers’ Education, even though he is now on the National Club Race staff. DE will have a committee meeting on January 7 to develop the 2013 plan. There will probably be two more meetings this year. Rose Gohlke will be handling the hospitality for Drivers’ Education. Lisa Steele also passed her DE instructor certification! Lori asked that I help create and develop ideas to promote the DE events. The April DE will coincide with a Sunday Drive, continuing the tradition of the Sunday Drives introducing other aspects of the club to the tourers. We will continue to promote Big Brothers Big Sisters. They will be with us for two DE events. Jim Buckley’s team’s requested improvements (A/V) were well received. Lori requested $3,000 for these to transpire. John asked for more details from her in email form. We were $16,000 in the black for DE. This will be addressed further at the Feb meeting, pending a P&L report. John Harvey has the Intro to DE Sunday Drive scheduled for April 21, did a pre-drive, and said it continued on page 11 DECEMBER TRIVIA It’s Easy to Play: Play here for fun and education and find the answers below OR Play for prizes on the web at http://mav.pca.org, with the answers and winners to be posted here after each month’s contest has closed. Thanks to Jerry DeFeo for putting this and the Web Trivia together. Congratulations to our November Web Winner, Gerald Zinn, who got all 5 correct. Honorable Mention goes to Bob Bowland, who also got all 5 correct. The winner was chosen by random drawing. Gerald will receive a $25 gift certificate to 1. Thieves have recently been stealing Porsche Xenon Bulb headlights so much so that a judge has approved a class-action lawsuit against Porsche for the design. In what US City did this take place? a. New York City b. Miami c. Los Angeles d. San Francisco Source: http://tinyurl.com/stolen-porsche-headlights 2. Which Porsches have been primarily hit by the headlight thieves? (Be sure to keep your car locked in the garage, or sleep in it, armed!) a. 911s & Caymans b. 911s & Boxsters c. Panameras & Cayennes d. 911s & Panameras Source: http://tinyurl.com/stolen-porsche-headlights 3. Why are they stealing these headlights? a. Sell the exotic metal for scrap b. Retro-fit to older 911s c. Light up poppy fields for night harvesting d. Growing Marijuana Source: http://tinyurl.com/stolen-porsche-headlights 4. What Porsche models are most Porsche magazines and experts now recommending as the “Best Porsche Bargain”? a. 1974-77 911s b. 1973-76 914s c. 1977-82 924s d. 1983-85 944s Source: 2012 Excellence Porsche Buyer’s Guide 5. Porsche Zuffenhausen has used many different numerical series for their cars, but only ONE Porsche was ever in the 800 Series. What was it? a. 801 Spyder b. 802 2.5L Formula 2 c. 803 Diesel Tractor d. 804 Formula 1 Source: Porsche - A Tradition of Greatness by Richard Langworth, p 167 Answers: 1) b 2) c 3) d 4) d 5) d February 7
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