Meeting Minutes: October 2023

October 2023 Membership Meeting

SCCA – Susquehanna Region

• Meeting called to order on October 26, 2023 at 7:02pm
• Minutes from the September meeting were approved as posted
• RE Report:
  • No report this month
• Treasurer’s Report: Alan Lesher
  • Autocross, Rallycross, membership & sponsorship income, distribution, and YTD figures were reviewed.
• Membership report: Adam Dellinger on behalf of Greg Szczyrbak
  • 8 new members since last meeting
  • Total membership is 469 total members
• Communication Report – Website and Squeal: No report
• Facebook update: No report
• Autocross Report: Melissa Mauro
  • Chris Brown will be away at last event. Anyone that can help during the day would be greatly appreciated.
  • Over the last several years, the club provided certificates to the 3 winners of match tour event. Certificate value is $45 each.
    • Melissa asked for a motion to continue to offer these certificates for this year.
    • 5 voted in favor, 2 board members were absent
• Rallycross Report: John Roscinski
  • Had 31 competitors attend what essentially turned into a mud event
  • Core team did some additional work to the York Rake. Still needs a little more work on the off season, but overall it’s still working well for the course.
  • Core team will work to compile season points soon
• Road Rally: Mike Chilcote
  • Road Rally was last weekend, and it went very well.
  • 17 teams competed
  • Some attendees that attended Big Hill Ciderworks cars and coffee event were looking through promotional event for the club – it was good outreach for the club.
• Old business
  • No old business
• New Business
  • Secretary announced Board members nominations for 2024
    • Regional Executive, 1 nomination: Melissa Mauro
    • Assistant Regional Executive, 1 nomination: Mike Chilcote
    • Treasurer, 1 nomination: Alan Lesher
    • Secretary, 1 nomination: Adam Dellinger
    • Director, 1 nomination: Andy Bierach
  • No in-personal nominations were provided at the meeting.
  • All nominees accepted.
  • No election will be required this year as there were not contested positions.
• Banquet
  • Lisa Leatherly has been looking for new potential venues
  • Lisa got a quote for the River Room at the Susquehanna Club
    • It will be a little over half price compared to last year’s banquet. Package would include 2 drink tickets per person, everything else over that for drinks would be cash bar.
    • Requires $1000 deposit
    • Feb 24th would be the date of the banquet
    • Melissa requested a motion for the Region to move forward with the meal/alcohol package that includes 2 drink tickets per attendee
      • A vote was held: 5 voted yea, 2 absent
    • There will be a banquet planning meeting evening of 11/30
      • Since we do not have an official club photographer, it will take a little work to find pics of each car.
• Good and welfare
  • The individual affected but the incident at the last autocross is now home from the hospital, and undergoing physical therapy and doing well and is in excellent spirits.
• Meeting adjourned at 7:39pm