WWSCC Report – Season is getting ready to start. The final slush event (ACE) was held. Things went fairly well as there was a very
light turnout. There was heavy rain for
most of the day. The slush banquet was
last weekend with about 25 – 30 people in attendance. Free pizza, pop & cake were enjoyed by all. The UWSAE event will be the first
championship event in late April.
Equipment
Report – Brian was not in attendance.
Novice
School Report – There are three spots still available. The class is capped at 50 students. Jackie is still looking for more
instructors. She is also looking for a
timing focal. She mainly needs the
display and is not sure whether we will actually be using the computer or not. The entry fee for the school will also
include the first event on April 30th.
Event Chairs - We still
need chairs for the following events:
May 19th
Practice (Packwood)
August 18 – 19th
National Tour (Packwood)
October 21st
Event #8 (BMP)
2007 Specialty Chiefs –
Thanks to this year’s Specialty Chiefs:
Course – David Lewis
Waivers – Tim Irwin
Equipment – Brian Norton
Timing – Glenn Austin and
Enrique Garcia
Workers – Keith and Kristi
Brown
Scoring – Jodi Fordahl
Registration – Jason Spore
and Brianne Green
Tech – Mary Lee and Charles
Aggenbach
Grid – Glen Hernandez
Trophies – Amy Olson
Novice Chair – Jackie
McInnes and Chris Kmetz
Safety, Insurance,
Sanctions – Gretchen Everett
Course Designers – Still a
few openings for course designers, especially the Pro courses. Please contact David Lewis if interested.
Dates:
March 25 (BMP) – Jake and
Shalyn
April 1 (BMP) – Joel
Ferguson
May 19- 20 (Packwood) –
East/West challenge to be run by a NWR Member only.
May 27 (BMP) – Gretchen
Everett – Jodi Fordahl
June 23- 24 (Packwood) –
Scott Miller; Event – Jerry Lamb will cover the practice on Saturday
July 14 – 15 (Packwood) –
Amy and Karl; Event – Ron Bauer will cover the practice on Saturday.
July 22 (BMP) – Mary
Lee/Randy Ayers
August 18 – 19 (Packwood) –
National Tour
August 25 - 26 (Packwood
Pro Solo) - Keith and Kristi Brown
September 2 (BMP) – Dick
Willy
October 21 (BMP) – Jackie
McInnes/Kevin Dietz
NEW BUSINESS
New Treasurer Laptop -
Unfortunately, the treasurer’s laptop has died. A motion was made to spend up
to $1200 to purchase a new one. The
group requested that Lou Ann shop around to get the best deal, not just
automatically spend that much money. A
motion was made and seconded.
Three Run Competition –
Dick Willy introduced himself to the group and gave a detailed clarification of
how this committee works and what we must do to ensure that we are upholding
the bylaws and rules of the SCCA organization.
He feels that at last
month’s meeting a mistake was made by introducing the change we made to the way
we are scoring our competitions for 2007.
The change did not follow our historical policy of introducing new rule
changes at the December rules meeting.
The floor was opened for discussions that would help us all understand
the history behind how and why we got to the point we are at right now. Several points were raised – low attendance
levels, economical influences, the fact that we lost the core Kent site, the
increase in traveling necessary for running in Packwood because we don’t have
many different sites. Dick also reminded
the group that after reviewing the numbers from last season we had a total of
157 novices with 75 novices running ONLY one event. This is a nice reminder that although it seems we have a ton of
novices running on a regular basis very few of those people run on a regular
basis.
Dick would like to make the
following recommendation – The group votes to overturn the rule that was
adopted at last month’s meeting and that the topic be tabled until the 2007
December rules meeting. There is
nothing officially written that explains the difference between a rule and a
policy but the bigger issue is what precedent are we setting by randomly
changing rules outside of our “regular” December rules meeting? A motion was made and seconded to recede
anything that was decided at the February meeting regarding the number of runs
that will be used to score events in the 2007 season. It was also discussed that rules should be voted on by SCCA
members ONLY. A vote was taken and
there were 15 people in favor of the motion and 9 votes that opposed. The motion passed.
A second motion was made
and seconded that all annual competition based rules be presented and voted on
at the predefined December rules meeting only.
A discussion was held and points were made that we cannot make a rule
stating that we can’t make a rule when necessary. It was also pointed out that this motion only covers “competition
rules” and not safety or administration issues. A question was raised as to what the definition of “competition
rules” actually was. A discussion was
held and no clear definition was decided.
A motion was made to table this motion and discussion until next month’s
meeting to give people an opportunity to come up with that definition.
Meeting was adjourned at
8:40 p.m.