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JenJen
October 7th, 2009, 03:34 PM
MRA GENERAL MEETING
July 2009

Meeting Called to Order: 7:00pm
Meeting Chair: Glenn Conser

Next Meeting Date/Time/Location: 2009 7:00pm, Walnut Room

Previous Minutes:

Officer’s reports:

FININCIAL DISCUSSION ALL OF THE BOARD: Glenn,Tony,Ray,Lisa,Jen,Mark,Jim,Jeff,Mike,Donna,T immay!

 Insurance has gone up since last year. From $1100.00 to $4000.00

 Cost for a race weekend is about $25000.00

 What are we going to do from this point forward.

 The Board is sorry that is has come to this to promote the club

 We need people to come to this event

 Need a lot of spectators.

 We do not want to cut out safety so we are going to use 20 to 22 CORNERWORKERS.


 ?Corner worker Pay does not include

 $4000.00 for a total for corner workers.

 NOVICES: Donating money would have way more value than working off the hours.

 Having a novice work off their hours can be difficult with training and all.

 We don’t want to deter people from racing.

 Sponsor a corner!! Buy your novice hours for $50.00

 There is no real savings with racing.

 John B- Do a fundraiser??

 For those people who would like to donate please donate it to the safety fund at this point.

 Please let us know of your ideas along with completing them!

 PR help it is a big push in Jan and Feb then it dies after the first race.

 ??Chicane have their own class. Scott says his riders are not race ready.

 Do a class the day before? Would be to difficult

 A year ago riders were upset about running a school the same day as a lapping day.

 Tammy believes that this could be a great thing.

 Give the school riders the sptsman class at the end of the day.

 Lisa says give them a discount.

 Tony says will it produce more riders ??

 Will do another post card to let our members know we need them to come to the track.For race 8 and 9?

 Wyeth:Can we give our riders a choice if they would like to pay the difference

 To put the club in the position of being short could be detrimental

 ?? We need to have the option for the street riders. If we do that we could get more riders

 Jim: What gets riders into riding? How many of you got into racing cause of friends? Most did.

 If we tell our friends that we will help them we will generate more riders


Where have all of the expert rider
Most of our riders are struggling with money & the economy Makes it hard to race!!

Donna would not like to have street guys on the track during a MRA weekend due to safety.
Dave M Have we reached out to other clubs for help.
Jeff- We have tried that with MOM they said most of their guys would need a garage they do not have the things like our riders do!

Raise rate?? We would not like to do that do to the fact that our entries our way down.
No one knew that Hastings would be such a disaster.
We were not in bad shape going into Hastings.

Lisa- Why did we cancel PPIR? It costs 12000.00 to race at PPIR that does not include the garages.
Kathy Burke- The board made the right decision to cancel PPIR
The MRA is not just about the 12 Board members. It is about all of our members!

 Tell your friends to come out and race. If they know the MRA could not be there next year there is a higher possibility they will come out.

 Treasurer—Lisa

 Did a general summary of the expenses.

 Cost was never high from the beginning.

 Have to pay insurance and Track deposit with the rider money

 Only made $1000.00 from the school

 Race 1 was a profit

 Race 2 was a good profit

 Race 3&4 was what killed us the Ror pay out for that race was $10000.00

 Race 5 was not a lot of profit

 Race 6 had 90 riders so that was another huge loss

 Rider Reps:
• Donna Bowden – Forum- Done- Buy 2 get 1 Flyers
• Thank you preminunim blend for his offering to help us out and he is not even a member.
• John B- Give a press release he will give it to who he knows.
• Ryan burke- Contact 9 news

Glenn live band out there on sat night John B will donate a Keg
Dominic Medina- We need to work with the dealers to get them to add us to their Commercials.

Committee Reports:

Unfinished Business:

New Business:

Announcements:

Adjornment: Absent any objections, meeting is adjourned.