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April 8th, 2013, 10:21 AM
MRA GENERAL MEETING


Meeting Called to Order by: Tony Baker @7:00pm
Wednesday February 6th 2013

Next Meeting Date/Time/Location: Wednesday March 13th 2013 @ 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 Feb meeting
 Not really a lot going on
 firming up contracts
 Contracts for HPR & PPIR are signed but the contract for Pueblo has not been signed
 Pueblo doesn’t know who is going to be managing it.. we are on the schedule which is good but are unsure if it will happen
 Judy Fasst was being considered not sure about that yet… Tony has someone he get’s info from but nothing is happening as of right now
 PPIR & HPR confirmed
 At HPR we are still doing full course, north course, full course, north course
 We Race PPIR twice & Pueblo once hopefully

 Scott Rybarik has stepped down from Rider Rep Press Contingency, he is going to work on his race program for next season
 Thank you Scott for all of your hard work & dedication to the club
 Scott has helped get things set up for the new race management system.
 Kevin Finnegan has now stepped in as Rider Rep Press Contingency
 Thank you Aaron Hearsh & Sam Coleman for applying for this position they did a great job in their interview. We had then do a mock write up Press Release, Plans for the position. They all did great!!

 4hr endurance is Round 2….. last year we had it at Round 3. This year there was a conflict for schedule so we are working with what we can.


 Thank you for coming out tonight…
 New members Welcome to the MRA great club we are a big family


 Vice-President: Jim Wilson-
 The MRA got a new race management system hopefully getting it up & running by March 1st for licensing..
 We are starting testing within the next couple of weeks
 Watch you mail for a postcard from the MRA, email & FB for details

 Contingency
 We have 2 returning contingency sponsors

 Abate Officer training meeting
 About a week in a half ago we did a presentation at the Abate officer training meeting… Abate is a sponsor in the MRA
 Aaron, Hot Carl, Louden, Kevin, Rachael & Jim were all there
 We brought 1 of our new e-displays they were blown away by it… They are really Happy to be on board again this year

 VP of Rules & Tech: - Carl Sorensen-
 If you need any help or have any questions let Carl know.

 Treasurer: Rachael Zell-
 2 track deposits down
 HPR needs more money soon & we also have the 2nd half of the Racewurx payment
 We have retired the Gene Bazil fund.. it has now become the safety fund
 Now that the money has been transferred we are writing a Check for the new 4 wheeler
 Once licensing has opened Rachael will be a lot happier
 We currently have around 28k

 Chris Dale ?What is the contingency plan if the Racewurx system fails…??? Jim--we will go back to the old system we will have applications & entry forms
 Tony has been doing some testing he has had a lot of success as of right now we are pretty close to having things up & running

 Secretary: Jen Grosse-
If you have changes to personal info let Jen Jen know
Please Novice hours after the meeting

 New Rider Director: Jeff Brown –
 If you have any questions hit him up

 Race School
 Instructors look for an email tomorrow
 When is the School? April 12th & 13th
 Friday night class at fay Meyers & school on sat
 Friday night classroom session doors open @ 6 pm

 Track Marshal: RayRay Gaimara-
 Ray has been begging & pleading for money so we can get a new 4wheeler
 We have had the same 4wheeler for 17yrs
 The trailer got bigger so we needed a new one
 Safety fund has $ 2829 in it & we have now spent 2800 for the new 4 wheeler
 Kawasaki Brute 750 4x4, Got it from Tri-city Huge Thank You to them!!!
 The safety fund is based on donations… If we don’t get donations we can’t buy some of the things that the Corner Worker & Equipment manager need to purchase things so the race day can run as smoothly as possible

 Rider Reps:
• PR: Louden David – Public relations Rider Rep.
• Louden is the guy that you need to see if you would like to work off your Novice
• We were at the Motorcycle show & swap meet this last weekend… Abate invited us to share their booth. We had a great turnout spoke to a lot of people.
• Thank you ABATE for all of your support
• Would like to THANK ALL of the volunteers individually but can’t remember everyone’s name we had 12 or so volunteers…. several board members showed up as well to show support
• When we went to the Abate Officer training event we brought an e-display ABATE wants 10 displays to put out, they had a lot of questions but they really liked it

• Upcoming events
• International Auto Show in March…. Louden will be speaking with Glenn about the details
• If you would like to volunteer for this event or future events please watch for info on the Marketing & PR Forum
• If you would like to volunteer but are shy & don’t want to talk to people we have some 2 for 1’s left from last year that we need this seasons schedule put on them.
• Thank you Chris Burford provided us with stickers of this seasons schedule to put on the 2 for 1’s
• Have 2 boxes it takes about 4 hours to put the stickers on.. they do have to be straight so can’t drink too much

• Data collection
• We sent out an email to SuperStreet Rider was hard to analyze didn’t
• Why are people not becoming racers…. They said it’s too expensive… If you know of a way to become a racer & keep the costs down let Louden know so he can send out an email about it.

• CW email- Asking why they do it & If they have stopped why?
• Most do it for the racers not the money
• They Love being at the track & watching the racers
• If you see a CW at the track or an event talk to them buy them a beer
• They want to get to know he racers & have a good time too

• FB- New likes
• The marketing has grown
• If you see something on the FB page
• Share it on your page

• Huge THANK YOU to Chris Sorensen, Louden gave him a video & Chris did work on it & had it back to him in 1 day!!!

• Rulebook: Shannon Moham
• Rulebook is done & finished
• Will post a version online without the advertisements, we will pull it down later to AD them.
• Carl was on people about banjo bolts & safety wire things; he will still be looking at those things this year.
• Safety wire your Cameras as well
• Please stay on things to make sure your bike is safe throughout the season
• Timing & Scoring
• Cleaning up the red flag portion of the Rulebook
• If you cause a red flag you will go to the end on the last completed lap… if you were 5th & there were 20 riders on the track but only 10 were on the 5th lap you would place 10th for the race.
• If there is a restart & you got your bike re-teched you would start from the back of the grid.
• If you have any questions please let Shannon know

• Contingency/Press: Kevin Finnegan “Ginger”-
• Scott is going to finish some things up
• They are in the process of changing things over
• We have created a new email & phone # for this position, it will pass from year to year with whoever is in the position.

• Trophies: Aaron Fisk
• From a rider rep standpoint if you have any questions please ask anyone of us… even anyone on the board.
• We are all HAPPY to help with whatever we can

• Sponsors
• We have 26 race classes we try to firm those
• Whoever sponsored the class year gets 1st rights of refusal
• 18-20 classes locked in if you know someone who is interested in sponsoring the class Please let Aaron know
• Stragity 250 race you booty off
• KTM stuff coming out & Yam stuff as well
• Would like to get all of those together
• Production classes

• We are looking for CW new & returning
• When we send out an email we reach about 1000 people
• We reach ab0ut 160 through FB so tell everyone you know to check out our FB pages
• Have trophies from banquet see Aaron for your plaque if you placed top 5 in any class.
• Thank You


Committee Reports:
Still some time to put ads in the program about 3 weeks
Racer thank you ads great way to Thank your family, friends, sponsors & anyone that may have helped you out from the 2012 season that you want to be recognized.
Thank You All for coming out to the meeting tonight.

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