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JenJen
September 5th, 2010, 07:27 PM
MRA GENERAL MEETING
August 11th 2010

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

Next Meeting Date/Time/Location: September 8th 2010 @ 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! Thanks to Johnny B for letting the MRA use the Walnut room!
 Last race was awesome turn out good!
 111 entries for the endurance!
 Lot of people from out of state!
 Let Lisa talk about financials!
 We did make money not as much as we had hoped!
 Average rider numbers were down due to the fact a lot of people rode endurance
 3400 spectators
 We have done great with advertising all of our events
 In past we have not had a lot of spectators
 Sign up early
 Registration for round 7 will close the Friday 1 week before the race
 July last year we had no money & Feb was the same
 We have 40000 in the bank
 You can enter for all of the races you do not have to wait for a round to be over. If you do auto pay it will run on wed or Thursday
 Email Blasts of a survey being sent out
 Please respond so we have the riders input on what to do for schedules n other stuff
 Will we do another 4hr endurance? Yes besides it being changed for 3hrs it was awesome only 1 fall down
 Toyota liked it & next year we promoted it
 SS we still need to run that so that we can get new riders
 Now that we know what it was like to hold that weekend
 ROR pay out go up? We are not ready for that
 We made some big cuts this year but we had to do it for the good of the club
 Entries are the same
 Bank account needs to have a reserve
 Revenue has been the same as last year
 We live to serve our members but we do not want to run the club into the ground
 Would like to end his term with 50000.00 in the bank
 Talking about Equipment repairs things that have been put off
 The Board has been talking about that in detail!
 Transponder system
 Repairs made is covered for 2 year
 The next thing that breaks will be something that they did not touch
 The thing at Pueblo when peoples laps were missed some people were protested other were not done in time
 Did not occur at HPR
 Next time we will not have Drags
 Judy Fasst has communicated with us about Friday track days
 ? Next year for CW day can we have it set up so that the members can watch?
 They packed up the truck then they went to get the stuff
 Make it more of an event than the way that we did it!
 Disappointed with the turnout at the Band n BBQ event
 There are 2 boxes left of programs if you would like some please let us know

 Vice-President: Scott Rybarik-
 Coming soon to your mail box or email will be a survey so we can get your input about what we can change!
 Will you be faster? NO have reached peak fastness

 VP of Rules & Tech: Bart McKerinan-
 Don’t Cheat!
 Clean your motorcycles give them a bath
 Spectators are due to the fact Jim Wilson has been working so hard

 Treasurer: Lisa Gaimara-
 We are still trying to figure numbers
 40000.00 in the bank
 During the off season we have to pay banquet n track deposits
 21928.00 in pre entry
 6600 just with the endurance
 We have 3400 paying gate w/2for1
 554 spectators that entered
 158 sign ups
 Average per rider 210.00-215.00 per rider it is lower due to the fact a lot of people only ran the endurance
 We paid all the Corner Workers that worked on sat & came back sun they got an extra $20
 We pay per bike so our track rental went up.
 Toyota how did they become the sponsors
 Paid for Trophies they gave us a thousand Toyota wanted to take the event on.
 Loved atmosphere on hot pit people came out of their trailers


 Secretary: Jen Grosse-
Novice hours will be posted in the race day office

 New Rider Director: Mark Schellinger –
 SS Class Novice race licenses they only have to do 2 Super Street races
 6 racers have bought a licenses
 Will Super Street impact our annual new rider school?
 We did not have as much of a loss since we did open practice!
 We have had in the past a big school with 30-40 people getting their licenses then nothing all season now we have the 30 plus some throughout the season
 Presentation for all these guys outside

 Track Marshal: Timmay!-
 We had a big turnout of CW n they all got paid we will only pay the first 22 that sign up or show up with Tim if you are 23or more you only get free lunch


 Rider Reps:
• PR: Jim Wilson –
• Last 2 weeks been getting flyers out
• Do not want to be stuck with all these things

• Rulebook: Casey Dragos –
• Rule change meeting coming up
• Wyeth new class
• Grubbs Super Sport
• Oct 1st is when the deadline is for rule change
• Post it Rule & change section
• Make club better? Members or racers!

• Contingency/Press: Wyeth Jackson-

• Feel good about the press out of state riders said they saw the press n how good of a club we are.
• Rules Committee Formula 40 class hope you will all support it!
• It is run all over the country
• Will put the stuff together


• Trophies: Jeff Brown
• Formula 40 most of our fast guys are 40 n over
• Formula under 30

Committee Reports:
HPR track manager- Glenn Conser
Carports are up at HPR 15x20 has RV pedestals
Parking behind it is yours.
30amp-125 3 day weekend
50amp 150 for the weekend
Lowered the prices for RV spots!
You can drop your RV spot to get a carport spot
Difference between new & old pricing
Ted Winning- Track assistant he was the biggest help His mother had a stroke he will be leaving to take care of the family business
CAMA Board- people will come out here n there he got it done
Mike Applehans will be taking Ted’s title Facility manager
Glenn will still be the main contact
Budget is down a little we are working on marketing the track is in no way going under
Having a water system? The carports are the end of the big investments
Have taken care of the needs, Classroom, Bathrooms, Shade, place to eat, Pavilion
It is a lot of work to get a well tap about 20000 just for that
50000.00 For a treatment plant
He has a guy he pays to drive n get the water from deer trail.

Have to have a water treatment thing due to the fact we are a commercial property
100200.00 For those car ports!
Water Quality test? Yes because we are a commercial we have to have a treatment plant!!!!
Priority- Septic system

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