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November 1st, 2009, 03:19 PM
MRA GENERAL MEETING
October 14th 2009
Meeting Called to Order: 7:00pm
Meeting Chair: Glenn Conser
Next Meeting Date/Time/Location: November 11th 2009 7:00pm, Walnut Room
Previous Minutes:
Officer’s reports:
President –Glenn Conser
Nominations will close shortly.
President
Tony Baker - accepted
Ryan Burke - accepted
Glenn Conser - decline
Chris Coonshead - accepted
Scott Rybarik - accepted
Secretary
Jen Grosse - accepted
Kristina Meyers - decline
Kate Tinworth - accepted
VP of Rules and Tech
Ben Fox - accepted
Ray Gaimara - decline
Bart McKiernan - accepted
Track Marshal
Kip Book - decline
Nick Gibson - decline
Kyle Isker - decline
Tim Young – accepted
New Rider Director
Jeff Brown - decline
Ricky Orlando - accepted
Mark Schellinger - accepted
Rider Representative
Mike Applehans - accepted (Press/Contingency and Trophy)
Jim Brewer - decline
Jeff Brown - accepted (Trophies and PR Committee)
Jason Curdy - accepted (Rulebook)
Casey Dragos - accepted (Rulebook)
Chris Fuller - accepted (Rulebook and Trophies)
Wyeth Jackson - accepted (Trophy and Press/Contingency)
Shannon Moham - accepted (Rulebook)
Donna Turner - accepted (Trophy and PR Committee)
Jim Wilson - accepted (PR Committee and Press/Contingency)
Jeff Winter - accepted (Rulebook and PR Committee)
Nominations are now closed!!!!!
Send Ballots to Boots not to the MRA mail box!!!!
Boots is the Proxy
Proxy Meaning- you send your ballot to Boots he will bring it to the meeting. If you decide to change your vote after you have sent in your ballot you can call Boots to have your vote changed.
Schedule for next year
Have it posted next weekend
Total of 8 rounds
5 races @ HPR
2 races @ Pueblo
1 race @ PPIR
NO HOLIDAYS
HPR lapping days for the winter
HPR lapping days are posted online at the HPR website
If a lapping day is canceled you will call the HPR # (NOT GLENN’S CELL PHONE!) the recording will say if the track is closed due to weather
Vice-President—Tony Baker
Big thing is The miller series has contact us to do a combined event
Meaning that they come up here we go there
We would race with them get points in their series. They would get the same with us
Some of our odd ball classes would not be run.
Gridding Mix the grids mesh the rows
Logistically- wouldn’t be tough. Concerns about our members showing up as well as canceling their races as well as us canceling a race.
Hastings only had 67 that paid. Needed our members to go they did not show & that impacted the MRA drastically.
To get our members to participate-would the members go?? How is it going to impact our members? Getting the Max amount of members to show up at the current 8 races that we have could be difficult much less asking them to travel.
??Drop a race?? Would hurt the club more economically
??Are there any over lapping classes that are about the same?? Not sure would have to check on that. Brown-They have mainly the same classes as we currently do. They just have different names.
Ben Fox-The thing about dropping a race is if we have our races and people choose not to come they could drop that race.
If our members drop a home race the MRA loses money.
Everyone who chases Championships it could hurt them if they don’t go to the Miller race.
Fred- thinks it is a good idea.
Brown spoke to the Miller Board- Their turn outs been average of 60 riders. He feels that they will not come here since they have such a low turn out.
That’s what killed it the last time. Their members don’t like the fact we don’t have garages
Tony-Nude ran the middle track series that is a travel series & they did not have good turn outs plus not many of our members wet to those races.
Maybe we do this for 2011. Recession is not done yet.
We should do full Reciprocity for other clubs so we can get other riders to join us.
The guys that are going to go to miller are going to be champ riders.
Everyone Likes the Reciprocity idea.
Brown-A lot of riders might not show.
Work on Scheduling Contingency so that if any MRA guys/girls want to race out there can go.
They ran A lot special deals for the last miller race. They do not have to pay a lot for their track. They basically break even for the M.O.M. series. We had 2 expert riders at the last race.
Keith Eastin won the Novice class. Aaron Arillia got 3rd in Novice
If there is a target weekend the riders could team up to go out to Miller.
We usually have a good group that goes to Miller every year.
Tony-Unless we have anyone who wants to force going to miller we should not make our members go.
Scott Rybarik-Reciprocity should be for all clubs.
Ben- The riders that come from out of state we should have them write an article for RRW.
Disalvo-Said he loved the track. Have him write a thing about HPR.
Banquet Situation-We are still not sure places want us to pay for the place
Ticket sales go to Trophies If we have to pay for the event the MRA will lose a lot of money, Trophies are not cheap.
Brother BBQ WANTS TO HAVE US THEIR!!!!!!!! We are a lil concerned about space.
The banquet pays for the trophies. We are going to look at a place down the street. They may work with us.
May Farms- Would like us to tell them a set amount that would come through the door. No way to have a set amount. We are still looking.
Working on it will let our members know.
Nothing going on with contingency. Waiting to hear from a few places.
None of the big guys has answered as of yet.
Any of the candidates would be great for the President they have life, racing, business etc experience. Any of them would do a great job.
VP of Rules & Tech – Ray-Ray Nothing Cheat all you want
Treasurer—Lisa-Home sick
Haven’t spent any money still have 18
Secretary—Jennifer Grosse
New Rider Director—Mark Schellinger –
Shane says hello. Went to Barber- Wyeth came home with a 2nd place. Everyone did well.
Was very cool. Open space for Monday school tell your friends
Track Marshal— Timmay!
Rider Reps:
• Donna Bowden –
• Have things in the works for PR getting ready for next season. Focused on getting new members & spectators!
• Jim Brewer – Gone through the rule change discussion has summarized into categories.
Class additions and modifications
• Street bike class/Beginner class
• Production classes
• Remove Sportsman
• Allow RORU bikes to ride up to RORO
• Combine RORO & RORI
o Create a two race format for the combined class.
o Keep RORO style payouts
• Novice class restructuring
o Novice classes equal to expert classes (MWSS/SB novice Etc for SS&SB classes
• Lengthen Endurance, Practice etc
• Add 850cc twins to MWSS
• Twins Class modifications/additions
o Add 700cc twins to STGTU
o Add 850cc twins to STGTU
o STGTU becomes Thunderbike/middleweight Twins
• LWGP becomes Lightweight Twins
Procedure & tech rule modifications
• RORO & RORU qualifying
• Remove the 1 year as an expert for ROR eligibity
• Eliminate RORU payouts
• Only top 5 novices eliminated form novice class
• Add forced upgrade to novices finishing top 10 in amateur & endurance classes
• Eliminate wiring of exhaust springs
• Novice to Expert Advancement
• No points for not finishing the race
• Change of Novice hours, community service
Walnut room hosting the rule change meeting! Thank you Johnny B!!
The rule change is going to be sent out soon!
Oct 24th Noon to 5 @ the walnut room!
Come to the meeting so you can have a say.
Will send out a notice to our members Via E-mail.
• Mike Applehans-Nothing
• Jeff Brown - Nothing
Committee Reports:
Unfinished Business:
New Business:
Announcements:
Adjornment: Absent any objections, meeting is adjourned.
October 14th 2009
Meeting Called to Order: 7:00pm
Meeting Chair: Glenn Conser
Next Meeting Date/Time/Location: November 11th 2009 7:00pm, Walnut Room
Previous Minutes:
Officer’s reports:
President –Glenn Conser
Nominations will close shortly.
President
Tony Baker - accepted
Ryan Burke - accepted
Glenn Conser - decline
Chris Coonshead - accepted
Scott Rybarik - accepted
Secretary
Jen Grosse - accepted
Kristina Meyers - decline
Kate Tinworth - accepted
VP of Rules and Tech
Ben Fox - accepted
Ray Gaimara - decline
Bart McKiernan - accepted
Track Marshal
Kip Book - decline
Nick Gibson - decline
Kyle Isker - decline
Tim Young – accepted
New Rider Director
Jeff Brown - decline
Ricky Orlando - accepted
Mark Schellinger - accepted
Rider Representative
Mike Applehans - accepted (Press/Contingency and Trophy)
Jim Brewer - decline
Jeff Brown - accepted (Trophies and PR Committee)
Jason Curdy - accepted (Rulebook)
Casey Dragos - accepted (Rulebook)
Chris Fuller - accepted (Rulebook and Trophies)
Wyeth Jackson - accepted (Trophy and Press/Contingency)
Shannon Moham - accepted (Rulebook)
Donna Turner - accepted (Trophy and PR Committee)
Jim Wilson - accepted (PR Committee and Press/Contingency)
Jeff Winter - accepted (Rulebook and PR Committee)
Nominations are now closed!!!!!
Send Ballots to Boots not to the MRA mail box!!!!
Boots is the Proxy
Proxy Meaning- you send your ballot to Boots he will bring it to the meeting. If you decide to change your vote after you have sent in your ballot you can call Boots to have your vote changed.
Schedule for next year
Have it posted next weekend
Total of 8 rounds
5 races @ HPR
2 races @ Pueblo
1 race @ PPIR
NO HOLIDAYS
HPR lapping days for the winter
HPR lapping days are posted online at the HPR website
If a lapping day is canceled you will call the HPR # (NOT GLENN’S CELL PHONE!) the recording will say if the track is closed due to weather
Vice-President—Tony Baker
Big thing is The miller series has contact us to do a combined event
Meaning that they come up here we go there
We would race with them get points in their series. They would get the same with us
Some of our odd ball classes would not be run.
Gridding Mix the grids mesh the rows
Logistically- wouldn’t be tough. Concerns about our members showing up as well as canceling their races as well as us canceling a race.
Hastings only had 67 that paid. Needed our members to go they did not show & that impacted the MRA drastically.
To get our members to participate-would the members go?? How is it going to impact our members? Getting the Max amount of members to show up at the current 8 races that we have could be difficult much less asking them to travel.
??Drop a race?? Would hurt the club more economically
??Are there any over lapping classes that are about the same?? Not sure would have to check on that. Brown-They have mainly the same classes as we currently do. They just have different names.
Ben Fox-The thing about dropping a race is if we have our races and people choose not to come they could drop that race.
If our members drop a home race the MRA loses money.
Everyone who chases Championships it could hurt them if they don’t go to the Miller race.
Fred- thinks it is a good idea.
Brown spoke to the Miller Board- Their turn outs been average of 60 riders. He feels that they will not come here since they have such a low turn out.
That’s what killed it the last time. Their members don’t like the fact we don’t have garages
Tony-Nude ran the middle track series that is a travel series & they did not have good turn outs plus not many of our members wet to those races.
Maybe we do this for 2011. Recession is not done yet.
We should do full Reciprocity for other clubs so we can get other riders to join us.
The guys that are going to go to miller are going to be champ riders.
Everyone Likes the Reciprocity idea.
Brown-A lot of riders might not show.
Work on Scheduling Contingency so that if any MRA guys/girls want to race out there can go.
They ran A lot special deals for the last miller race. They do not have to pay a lot for their track. They basically break even for the M.O.M. series. We had 2 expert riders at the last race.
Keith Eastin won the Novice class. Aaron Arillia got 3rd in Novice
If there is a target weekend the riders could team up to go out to Miller.
We usually have a good group that goes to Miller every year.
Tony-Unless we have anyone who wants to force going to miller we should not make our members go.
Scott Rybarik-Reciprocity should be for all clubs.
Ben- The riders that come from out of state we should have them write an article for RRW.
Disalvo-Said he loved the track. Have him write a thing about HPR.
Banquet Situation-We are still not sure places want us to pay for the place
Ticket sales go to Trophies If we have to pay for the event the MRA will lose a lot of money, Trophies are not cheap.
Brother BBQ WANTS TO HAVE US THEIR!!!!!!!! We are a lil concerned about space.
The banquet pays for the trophies. We are going to look at a place down the street. They may work with us.
May Farms- Would like us to tell them a set amount that would come through the door. No way to have a set amount. We are still looking.
Working on it will let our members know.
Nothing going on with contingency. Waiting to hear from a few places.
None of the big guys has answered as of yet.
Any of the candidates would be great for the President they have life, racing, business etc experience. Any of them would do a great job.
VP of Rules & Tech – Ray-Ray Nothing Cheat all you want
Treasurer—Lisa-Home sick
Haven’t spent any money still have 18
Secretary—Jennifer Grosse
New Rider Director—Mark Schellinger –
Shane says hello. Went to Barber- Wyeth came home with a 2nd place. Everyone did well.
Was very cool. Open space for Monday school tell your friends
Track Marshal— Timmay!
Rider Reps:
• Donna Bowden –
• Have things in the works for PR getting ready for next season. Focused on getting new members & spectators!
• Jim Brewer – Gone through the rule change discussion has summarized into categories.
Class additions and modifications
• Street bike class/Beginner class
• Production classes
• Remove Sportsman
• Allow RORU bikes to ride up to RORO
• Combine RORO & RORI
o Create a two race format for the combined class.
o Keep RORO style payouts
• Novice class restructuring
o Novice classes equal to expert classes (MWSS/SB novice Etc for SS&SB classes
• Lengthen Endurance, Practice etc
• Add 850cc twins to MWSS
• Twins Class modifications/additions
o Add 700cc twins to STGTU
o Add 850cc twins to STGTU
o STGTU becomes Thunderbike/middleweight Twins
• LWGP becomes Lightweight Twins
Procedure & tech rule modifications
• RORO & RORU qualifying
• Remove the 1 year as an expert for ROR eligibity
• Eliminate RORU payouts
• Only top 5 novices eliminated form novice class
• Add forced upgrade to novices finishing top 10 in amateur & endurance classes
• Eliminate wiring of exhaust springs
• Novice to Expert Advancement
• No points for not finishing the race
• Change of Novice hours, community service
Walnut room hosting the rule change meeting! Thank you Johnny B!!
The rule change is going to be sent out soon!
Oct 24th Noon to 5 @ the walnut room!
Come to the meeting so you can have a say.
Will send out a notice to our members Via E-mail.
• Mike Applehans-Nothing
• Jeff Brown - Nothing
Committee Reports:
Unfinished Business:
New Business:
Announcements:
Adjornment: Absent any objections, meeting is adjourned.