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July 19th, 2012, 06:46 PM
MRA GENERAL MEETING


Meeting Called to Order by: Tony Baker @7:00pm

Next Meeting Date/Time/Location: @ 7:00pm,
Walnut Room
3131 Walnut Street
Denver Colorado, 80205
(303) 292-0529
www.thewalnutroom.com
Previous Minutes:

Officer’s reports:
 President: Tony Baker-Welcome to the May Meeting.
 Hope you had a good experience for the 1st race
 Had some challenges but Ray stepped up & looks like everything worked out
 We will look at the financial aspect.
 Whatever you did to get yourself or your friends signed up worked we appreciate it!
 New configuration- have had requests to run it that way again next year, it changed breaking points & lap times
 Talked about running west course turn 13 CW bunker could be in a bad place
 We would like to look at running Full 2, west 1 & north 1 for 2013
 Had to pump up the air fence, flag was flying proud! Able to give props to gene & his family
 Crossing hot pit, you have to have a photographer pass, or race licenses, unless you’re a board member no need to go over the wall we have an ambulance
 Speeding in the pits is not tolerated… we will continue to in force it
 Had someone push their bike in counter course not a good idea or safe! CW have the radios you don’t if someone had to start from hot pit lane or had a late start you could get very hurt! Don’t want that to happen
 We hope to have the schedule on one side & the main expected of rules
 Garages are a hot thing looking forward to PPIR
 We decided to extend online registration to midnight May 14th! We sit well enough that there is no thought to cancel PPIR

 Vice-President: Jim Wilson
 Sorry To those who were in the office on Sat the schedules & some forms were not there. We will have those next time
 Contingency, got the results from Jen
 Checking for wrist bands we have them on hand
 Shannon is out of town! If you’re wanting a garage there are instructions online & an Email blast was sent
 Full day track day Friday… might possibly have one Sunday. 1/2day Friday? Will find out
 RV spots- handled at the gate 1st come 1st serve


 VP of Rules & Tech: Carl Sorensen-
 Things went smooth bikes looked good keep them that way!, If you crashed over the weekend double check your bike!
 Clean bikes go through tech faster

 Treasurer: Lisa Gaimara-
 Nice to see new faces out here
 We are in the black by 1300 we had 127 racers on the track! We went into the weekend with 106 signed up!
 Did we make more per rider this year? Yes we did!

 Secretary: Jen Grosse-
 See me after the meeting for novice hours


 New Rider Director: Jeff Brown –
 We had 17 super street racers- props to them no one fell down! 1st time that has happened
 Thank you to the instructors. We only have so many board members! We couldn’t do super street without them
 Props to all the novice racers NGTU< NGTO, AGTU no one crashed in turn 1 or turn 2 on the 1st lap
 Continue to promote! They get the gate way drug into them & the licenses up
 How long can you be a super street racer? long as you want
 How many super street races do you have to do to get a licenses? 2 complete races
 Speeding in the pits is a safety issue!
 Racers noticed that spectators weren’t paying attention to where the racers are but we have to watch them can we announce something.
 Making a racers push their bike for the entire weekend for speeding? We have steps that we take so it could get to that point but we do give warning, fines etc….
 Have a sign saying CAUTION MOTORCYCLES! We control our motorcycles not them so if we control our bikes then we are covering our asses!
 At the gate have them say to be cautious

 Track Marshal: RayRay Gaimara-
 Thank you to everyone for being positive about the track change
 We announce at the riders meeting only %30 have their fire extinguishers out!!! EVERYONE needs a fire extinguishers!!
 New guys read the RULE BOOK older guys pull them out of their totes or trailers
 Fine people? We are not here to make money on rule breakers! It is a safety issue
 Superstreet- they need one. Is it in the documentation? We should add that in there
 Wanting stuff---- We are still looking for a 4wheeler we need it desperately!! It is a tax write off
 Make a donation into the safety fund of $50 in the comment section put for 4 wheeler maybe we can get enough money to buy one!

 Rider Reps:
• PR: Louden David – Media distribution reached over 47 location
• Thanks to Aaron Fisk for the help
• May 11th HPR bike night May12th BMW of Denver May 13th Motorcycle expo by
• May 17th Grand Prix bike night, Little Ricci’s need display bike
• May 19th Fay Meyers
• June2nd RMK bike night
• E-Display-@ Fay Meyers they have given us a lot of positive feed back will be making 2 more
• Superstreet keep getting them to come out! Louden raced every one in 2009! word of mouth is the best! Scooter News Samantha Coleman wrote an article about the MRA

• Rulebook: Shannon Moham –


• Contingency/Press: Scott Rybarik- Give huge props to safety crew & ambulance crew! Ray thanks for putting together a great team!
• RRW press release went out today
• Whichcall.com/mra a smart phone site that updates the calls every 5 sec it will only have the current list & not the previous list! USBA helped with his! We have had some feed back look forward to have that live & active @ the next few rounds!
• Trophies: Aaron Fisk New trophies!! Like them??? Yes there were none left over! They have their date on them! Thanks to everyone in the MRA & crew
• Sponsor Superstreet Certificates has the dealer on the bottom of each one! 100 free passes for the sponsors!


Committee Reports:Pueblo?? We sent a letter did not get a response received a press release that they will give it a month before they have things on the track!
HPR- stuff still not setting very well might have to tear up 6 & 8 to put down concrete however the transition is not that easy! Hope you enjoy the new curbs! Will keep the website updated
Brownie- Props to Glen & Mike for all of their hard work! They did the best they could on Friday!

Abate is giving out Superstreet flyers after all of their classes!! YAY!


Unfinished Business:
New Business:
Announcements:
Adjournment: Absent any objections, meeting is adjourned.