WWSCC Report – Keith was
requested to make it clear that NWDE decided to cancel their event due to lack
of volunteers in the club which would take away their ability to hold a high quality
event. Ladies practice was held on August 4th which was well attended. The Miatacross event was held on August
5th. BEAC/Enduro was held on July 29th.
Both events were voted on and approved for championship status.
Evo & Pro – (Keith
Brown) – Only six or seven people
haven’t paid for their spots yet. There are a couple of vacancies for Phase 2
for both Wednesday and Thursday. Instructors will be Ann and Andy Hollis, Tom
Kotizian, Kevin Dietz, Karl Coleman, and Jr. Johnson. They are renting several different pieces of equipment from
several different clubs for the dial-in school. Everything is going fine.
PRO - He needs some membership numbers and contact information for a few
key people, mainly Bob Forsberg. They
have agreed in principal with the youth group to host the Friday night social
event. They will probably be doing the
same thing as last year with hamburgers and hot dogs. A decision was made to enforce the no alcohol on site rule, so
there will be none available on Friday night.
There will be no official “first timer” instruction available prior to
the event. Cindy Jensen may do a talk
for novices, but there will be nothing as involved as the program that was
available last year.
National
Tour – (Brian Norton/Jess Lynch) 250+ entrants already signed up. National office will not be waiving late fees
due to a good turn out. Brian and Jess
are doing an incredible job of informing everyone of everything that is going
on. They are going to be responsible
for organizing parking and will be creating spots that are chalked, so there
will not be anyone blocking anyone, or parking crazy. The gates will be open at 10:00 a.m. The group said again what an incredible job the two are doing
with this event!! They cut a great deal
with IGA in town to get a ton of bottled water for all three of the
events. The grocery store will be
providing flats of water for less than $4.00 each, and will also be providing
additional products at below cost. The social is coming together very
nicely. Due to the high number of
entrants, we are reaching the maximum number of people that can attend the
Saturday night social event. They cannot
allow more than 300 people in the firehouse.
It was decided that if people are camping overnight, there will be a $20
donation for each weekend, plus another $20 for the week in between the
events. Brian is hoping the Test n’
Tune is squared away, but isn’t really certain. Other key people involved with this event felt that things were
coming together fine. Scott is going to
do a course, and we have Safety Stewards.
Charles was curious what time tech should be opened. Jess would like permission to give away four
certificates for a FREE regional event.
A vote was taken and approved.
An
announcement needs to be made that entry into the mill for these events will be
for SCCA members and their crew only.
This is a site restriction enforced by Angus and as far as anyone knows,
it hasn’t changed. A few people had a problem with this because it isn’t the
same way that SCCA runs their events, but Jerry reminded us that until we get
revocation of the policy from Angus, we must continue enforcing it.
NT
Test & Tune – (Jackie and Erika) neither were in attendance, but Dick
reported in their place. The event start
time had been moved up so that we can get the course set-up and have a Safety Steward
available at 3:30 p.m. to approve the course.
Tee
shirts for Pro & NT – We had a few design submittals, but all entrants
backed out at the last minute due to different reasons, so Dick did the design
himself. The shirts are in production
and all is moving forward. The cost of
each shirt will be just over $10 so we will be selling them for $15 a
piece. He will be producing enough to
sell at both events (about 180 each).
Drifting
Program – Russell O’Conner was in attendance and reported that he is lobbying
for support and volunteers for this program.
BMP Course Design Taxiway
Guidelines – After the last event, Bud contacted David Lewis asking for an
electronic copy of the guidelines because both he and Karen Babb would like to
review them. Bud had a couple of
suggestions for revisions, but David has not contacted him for the last
month. Bud feels there is definitely
additional work that needs to be done to these guidelines, along with review
from both our key course designers, and Safety Stewards. He would like to
recommend that we suspend the statement in the guidelines that says the course
should be biased towards the runway because this decision in itself creates
additional problems and until the review and approval this shouldn’t be
happening. A motion was made and
approved with one No vote. It was also discussed
as to whether we should look into purchasing additional equipment that would allow
us more distance between the start, finish, and timing van. This means we could
create courses that do not require the taxiway at all.
Camping on-site at Packwood
– This was covered in above discussions.
Packwood lighting – Sean
spoke with Angus. The hope was to get
lighting done by the NT. Angus was
going to take it to his boss, but Sean has not heard anything in response. Ron Bauer reported that the Oregon region
would be willing to contribute if our region is going to pay for this.
Event #6 timing discrepancy
(Glen Hernandez) – At event #6 Glen finished his run, was handed a timing slip
which matched the time that was shown on the display. At the trophy presentation he was in the place that he
expected. When the results for this event
were published he noticed that his best time did not reflect what was recorded
at the event. He does have a video tape
of the time being announced, and the timing slip. He contacted Mary Lee, who in turn contacted Jodi Fordahl. Unfortunately, Jodi has not returned
anyone’s call. Dick reminded the group
that the timing card is being filled out by a person and that person could have
written the time down incorrectly. The
group felt that Glen
shouldn’t worry because
Jodi typically keeps the timing cards and this should be handled. If Jodi cannot prove any differently, then
the group agreed that we should use Glen “evidence” and change the final
results.
New Timing Equipment - A
motion was made to purchase an additional pair of receiver/emitters. One was hit this weekend, and one eats
batteries very quickly. Motion was
voted on and approved. Glen H. brought
up the idea of using rechargeable batteries rather than regular ones. Glenn Austin felt it wasn’t really necessary
because we really aren’t using that many batteries. The group felt that we should be looking at the same type of
batteries that we are using for our Pros.
This was discussed and will definitely be looked at if and/when we move
to a wireless type of system.
Meeting adjourned at 8:58 p.m.
GOO