August 2023 Membership Meeting
SCCA – Susquehanna Region
- Meeting called to order on August 24, 2023 at 7:13pm
- Minutes from the July meeting were approved as posted
- RE Report:
- No report this month
- Treasurer’s Report: Alan Lesher
- Autocross, Rallycross, RallySprint, membership & sponsorship income, distribution, and YTD figures were reviewed.
- Open call for informal financial review: Melissa is still working on finding accounting-minded individuals to help with an informal financial review, and there are couple folks that have been identified to help
- Membership report: Greg Szczyrbak
- 8 new members since last meeting
- Total membership is 473 total members
- Communication Report – Website and Squeal: Jake Limm
- Website: active users – 920, and new users – 867
- Jake and Natalie continue to work on simplifying website content
- Squeal went out successfully, had a 40.61% open rate, 16 clickthrough rate
- 953 emails delivered
- Facebook update: Jason Felty
- For the main Facebook group, the following number of new follower were:
- 20 approved
- 3 declined
- 2297 total membership
- For the rallycross group there was:
- 11 approved
- 4 declined
- 1373 total membership
- For the main Facebook group, the following number of new follower were:
- Autocross Report: Rob Springer
- HACC event was cancelled at the last minute – moving forward if we want to consider another event at HACC – club leadership will need to meet face-to-face meeting with all involved parties on the HACC side.
- Will look into this for an event for next season
- 30 Susquehanna members at Pocono last weekend – that event went well
- HACC event was cancelled at the last minute – moving forward if we want to consider another event at HACC – club leadership will need to meet face-to-face meeting with all involved parties on the HACC side.
- Rallycross Report: John Roscinski
- Had an event on the 12th – 32 people signed up, which is a little lighter than normal
- Overall the event went well. Might need to add some help for future event, especially another Safety Steward
- York Rake is still working out well for course maintenance
- Road Rally: Adam Dellinger
- Still waiting on updates for the grant
- Natalie Limm has drafted some fantastic graphics for us to use for promotion
- Registration page on motorsportsreg has been started – will be live very soon.
- Polaris slingshots – Still need to get a hold of National level staff regarding if these are allowed as vehicles that can participate in the road rally.
- Old business
- Web server updates – club still needs to pick one. Jake will send available options to Marcus for feedback, and they will provide final choice to Melissa
- Timing computers – purchased and delivered. Have been formatted.
- Corvettes at Carlisle – we made postcards with Susq events on them to drop off for promotion of our events. Will try to drop them off on Friday.
- New Business
- Potential venue for a cars and coffee in Gratz. Greg S will lead conversations with potential site owner.
- Meeting adjourned at 7:52pm
