May 2023 Membership Meeting
SCCA – Susquehanna Region
- Meeting called to order on May 25, 2023 at 7:42pm
- Minutes from the April meeting were approved as posted
- RE Report: Melissa Mauro
- No report
- Treasurer’s Report: Alan Lesher
- Autocross, Rallycross, RallySprint, membership & sponsorship income, distribution, and YTD figures were reviewed.
- Membership report: Melissa Mauro for Greg Szczyrbak
- 6 new members
- Total membership is 491 total members
- Communication Report – Website and Squeal: Jake Limm
- Website still works, but we are currently looking at potentially jumping to a new host for the site
- Sequel went out successfully
- Google Analytics – action will be needed in the future to make sure that we can continue to pull data
- Markus has login information for the google account associated with this feature
- Facebook update: Mellissa Mauro for Jason Felty
- For the main Facebook group, the following number of new follower were:
- 36 approved
- 13 declined
- For the rallycross group there was:
- 16 approved
- 10 declined
- 1 blocked
- For the main Facebook group, the following number of new follower were:
- Autocross Report: Chris Brown
- First two events went well – some insignificant incidents occurred, but overall things went well. Overall, it was a good start to the season.
- There have been many requests from members to duplicate the last course at a future event (in dry weather), so over the next two events Rob might redo some elements of that course
- Going to try giving out worker assignments will be given out the morning on the registration table.
- Other regions will actually write worker assignments on the wristband.
- This is a work in progress, and the club will continue to refine the process. Discussion to be continued.
- Rallycross Report: John Roscinski
- 43 competitors at the last event. Considering we had less Chiefs in attendance than normal, things went very well.
- The York Rake works well on our course, John would like to keep it for track upkeep.
- Discussion about grid cones – RallyCross needs grid cones to be set in chronological order on race day, but Autocross program does’t use those the same way.
- After autocross events, the grid cones are out of order because they don’t use the cones the same way RallyCross does
- Autocross will try to keep those in better order when stacking them in the truck after events. If that becomes too much of a hassle, the club may just buy 25 new grid cones so rallycross can just keep the numbered grid cones separate for their use.
- Road Rally: Adam Dellinger
- Adam reached out to leadership of South Mountain Partnership to explain the concept of a scavenger hunt style road rally, and gauge their support for things like prizes from the community, or help with promotion
- Leadership of the partnership was very interested, and was going to run the concept by the relevant committee for thoughts, and get back to us by mid-June.
- The event date is October 21
- Old business
- Timing computers
- Various models and options were discussed
- MS Surface can work with wifi with our own hotspot
- A few autocross chiefs need to provide shirt sizes before we can put in the order.
- Timing computers
- New Business
- Hosting service needs to be changed
- Live Timing is unreliable
- New options will costs a little less (as low as $5.25/mo to $16/mo)
- New hosting needs cPanel
- Kenny said that if we do switch hosts – we have paid for the full year so we will use some “value” in what was already pre-paid
- Motion to switch the web host to a cheaper/better service passed
- Club welcomes representatives from Hanover Toyota, the club’s newest sponsor
- Hosting service needs to be changed
- Meeting adjourned at 8:38pm
