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May 9th, 2017, 10:38 PM
MRA General Meeting Agenda
March 8th 2017
General Meeting


Meeting Called to Order By: Jim Wilson @ 7:00pm
Time & Location: 7:00 PM; The Walnut Room
Next Meeting Date & Time: April 12th 2017 @ 7:00pm

Previous Minutes:
Committee Reports:

Ø Report of Officers:

Ø President: Jim Wilson
Ø Welcome to the March General meeting
Ø We are a little less than 3 weeks from the Race school & 6 weeks till Round 1 at Pueblo
Ø License membership –
Ø Early Bird pricing $225 ends in 1 week March 15th save yourself $50
Ø On March 16th Price goes up to $275
Ø Difference Between Associate Membership & Crew pass
Ø Both get you in the gate
Ø Associate Membership- Gives you voting rights
Ø Crew Pass- no voting right

Ø Gate entry is $12

Ø School coming up April 1st
Ø Had a few people bring up the location of our general meeting……
Ø The board will take it into consideration on where we might go in the future
Ø Laci our treasurer has worked very hard to get a budget done for 2017
Ø We haven’t had a budget in years so this is a very good thing!!
Ø Thank you LACI!!!!!!!
Ø Registration will open the week following the raceschool

Ø Promote the MRA on your social media…. Share our posts, tell your friends, word of mouth & social media is our best advertising!!!!

Ø Vice-President: Brad Morris
Ø Membership is going well we have had about 100 people renew
Ø Early bird ends March 15th $225 on March 16th goes up to $275
Ø Raceschool has 13 people registered- We have several interested but not paid yet.
Ø 2017 Licenses will be at the raceschool for pick up. Will mail them out after Raceschool
Ø 2017 License is good till April 2018
Ø Contingency-
Ø We have KTM & BMW contingency this year
Ø Worked on getting something new but nothing panned yet.
Ø All will be listed on the website in about a week

Ø VP Rules & Tech: Brett Leveque
Ø Still running strong on loaner gear
Ø Things are working great
Ø We have people that will be using them at the race school
Ø If you have old gear you no longer want or need please consider donating it to the MRA Loaner Gear program
Ø Novices you are required to do 4 Novice hours every year
Ø You can help out Brett at Tech, Rick on the track
Ø Brett needs help with Tech at the Raceschool for any Novice that want to get your hours done early.
Ø Brake lever guards will be required for everyone in 2017
Ø We will be more hardcore on Race numbers this year. Rick will talk more about it.
Ø Ambulance for safety reasons
Ø Trying to work on a podium that we can store in the MRA truck & take track to track.

Ø Treasurer: Laci Lukchy
Ø Really excited we got the budget done!!!
Ø We have about $5900 in the operating account
Ø $2k in paypal
Ø Reserve account $50k
Ø Hurry & buy you License that is money that goes towards track Deposits, insurance, etc….
Ø 2017 MRA T-Shirts
Ø Mr. Baker is doing the shirts again. They are white this year & we have a Ladies style.
Ø Will have them at the raceschool
Ø We will post a link to order your shirts
Ø Please pre order you shirts for 2017

Ø Secretary: Jen Grosse
Ø Novice Hours- Every Novice is required to complete 4 Hours of service to the club. We have several different opportunities to get them done.
Ø Attending monthly General meeting you get 30 min per general meeting up to 2 hrs. The remaining 2 hours must be completed doing something else.- See Jen Jen
Ø Friday night & Saturday morning Tech- VP of Rules & Tech Brett Leveque needs help at tech on Friday nights & Saturday morning contact him for further details
Ø Air Fence setup & tear down, We have 11 sections of air fence we need to set up & tear down at PPIR & Pueblo. Conatact Track Marshal Rick Grosse
Ø Unloading & Loading MRA truck- We have several items to unload & set up on Friday afternoons. On Sunday after the race day we need help packing up & loading everything. Conatact Track Marshal Rick Grosse
Ø Dealer/ Sponsors Open houses- We need a few novices to work open house events for Motorcycle dealerships & Class Sponsors contact Rider Rep Public Relations John Borst


Ø New Rider Director: Jeff Brown
Ø Raceschool coming up April 1st Classroom March 31st.
Ø Instructors meeting this weekend
Ø Please sign up before the raceschool we need to know the amount of instructors needed.
Ø We do take walk ups but it makes it much harder to secure instructors.

Ø Track Marshal: Rick Grosse
Ø Novice hours were brought up we are going to be using a lot more Air fence this year.
Ø We will use all 13 sections at PPIR. We want to set up Air Fence Thursday night so it’s safer for the track day.
Ø Pueblo & PPIR are the prime time to get your hours done.
Ø If we have several people we can get it done faster.
Ø We need help with Teardown Sunday evening as well
Ø Spread the word you can get you hours done in 1 weekend
Ø Volunteer Corner Workers We pay our Corner Crew cause they are Valuable to us.
Ø We have some CW Crew that will be racing this year so we need some new people!! Tell your friends it’s a great way to make extra cash & watch the action close up.

Ø Numbers-
Ø It is a safety concern we must have the ability to read your number clearly.
Ø Take a look at the Rulebook for what you can do. We don’t mind the color pin stripe around your numbers but if it’s a 1in color stripe we will ask you to change your numbers.
Ø It’s ultimately up to Brett but we will work together on this.
Ø Rick & Brett will have each others backs


Ø Rider Reps.


Rules: Shannon Moham
Look at the rule book
We are getting them printed they should come with your license
If you have any questions please contact Shannon
All classes you can run slicks except Production cup




PR: John Borst
All of our print media is done
2 for 1’s are done Thanks Mr. Baker
Posters went to the printer Monday
We need some help getting media delivered to shops if you want to help out please contact us




Trophies: Warren Cook
We go out & Solicit sponsors here are you 2017 sponsors

We met on Monday selected the trophies for 2017
2 classes not sponsored Thunderbike & Stgto
Prices $800 per class
Owner of Damage Control would like to sponsor a class

· Press: Jim Brewer
· Doing the website going to update sponsors & contingency stuff


New Business:
Ricky Orlando- Thank you adds in program are $99
Trophy sponsor- we have 1 class left
What do you get when you sponsor a class……2 passes to the Banquet, Print & web media 100 spectator tickets,10 superstreet passes & 2 crew passes
Pueblo- Tentative track day April 8th
PuebloTrack day April 15th
HPR has motorcycle lapping this Sunday & every weekend Tentative (Based on sign ups) till the season starts
April 1st HPR Open lapping & Race school

Tony Baker-
If you ride on the street keep some 2 for 1’s in your jacket they fit perfect between the seat & tank
We have the Superstreet program mention it people might come out.
70k 2 for 1’s printed!!!!



Unfinished Business:


Committee:
Adjournment:
“Unless there are any objections, meeting is adjourned.