Meeting Minutes: March 2023

March 2023 Membership Meeting

SCCA – Susquehanna Region

• Meeting called to order on March 23, 2023 at 7:32pm
• Minutes from the February meeting were approved as posted
• RE Report: Melissa Mauro
  • Farm show has been back and forth on dates for both programs but we are close to signing and releasing those dates to the public

• Treasurer’s Report: Alan Lesher
  • Autocross, Rallycross, RallySprint, membership & sponsorship income, distribution, and YTD figures were reviewed.

• Membership report: Greg S
  • 16 new members
  • Total membership is 485 total members
  • Cars and Coffee April 16, organizer reached back out to Greg. Wanted to see if we wanted to participate
    • For $50 we could have a tent with a couple cars
    • Accelerate Auto will be the location of this season opener
    • They had 400 cars at last event
    • Bethlehem Cars and Coffee will be on the same date, we are not sure of the draw to the other event
    • Greg made a motion to spend $50 on the vendor spot, Andy seconded, motion passed

• Communication Report – Website and Squeal: Jake Limm
  • Website traffic is little bit of gain over use and unique uses
  • The Squeal had 45.5% open rate & 4.7% click through
  • 2% increase in new users

• Facebook update: Jason Felty
  • For the main Facebook group we had:
    • 2% growth
    • 5 declined
    • 3 blocked
  • For the rallycross group we had:
    • 1% growth
    • 10 approved
    • 1 declined
    • 1 blocked

• Autocross Report: Melissa Mauro
  • Rules were discussed at planning meeting and we intend to have no signifiant rule changes

• Rallycross Report: John Roscinski
  • Still waiting for farm show to give green light on event dates
  • Anticipating 7 events this year

• Road Rally: Mike Chilcote
  • If we can get 4 cars to run ,we will, but right now only 2 are signed up

• Old business
  • New Laptops
    • Mike got some quotes – will email out to Board Members
  • at planning meeting we were talking about new chief shirts for chiefs and chairs
    • moisture wicking material – tshirt style
      • Crazy Dog quoted $27/shirt
      • Melissa made motion no than $675 for shirts
      • Motion passed unanimously

• New Business
  • Timing Canopy
    • current appears to be in poor condition. It leaks when it rains.
    • if we can get a 10×10, the walls that we have will work with it.
    • this would be the one for works for both programs
      • Motion to look into new shelter up to $750 dollars approved unanimously

• Meeting adjourned at 8:22pm