April 2018 General Meeting Notes

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April 2018 General Meeting Notes

MRA General Meeting Agenda
April 11^th 2018
General Meeting


Meeting Called to Order By: Jim Wilson @ 7:30pm
Time & Location: April 11^th 7:30pm The Boardroom
Next Meeting Date & Time: May 9^th 2018 @ 7:30pm The Boardroom

Previous Minutes:
Committee Reports:

Report of Officers:

President: Jim Wilson

• Welcome to the April MRA meeting
• Big crowd tonight
• We did sign the boardroom as a class sponsor they are now the sponsor for MWSS
• Show your support even outside of MRA events. The Boardroom is open 7 days a week
• The Board got new shirts Defy graphics printed them
• Defy graphics is one of the sponsor for Prodution cup
• They are also making all the trophies for production cup
• MRA Tshirts
• We have our MRA t-shirts here tonight
• They have the 45^th season logo on it
• Season Programs
• Programs are available tonight
• Huge Thank you to Ricky & Racing publications for all your hard work
• Thank you to all the sponsors & everyone who put Thank you ads in there.
• Last night we tried to open registration & racewurx went down
• We raised hell to get it back open. Hopefully it stays up
• We have started looking at replacing racewurx
• There are not many options
• We need something with a more reliable support system than what we have now
• We have heard your frustration & we defiantly understand
• Racewurx is a 3^rd party vendor we have had it for a number of years now.
• MotoReg-The one thing that motoreg doesn’t have is grids
• Pre entry for round 1 will close April 30^th at midnight
• PPIR is our 1^st round of the season its coming up in about 2 ½ weeks
• We will be sending the announcement about What you need to know for round 1
• Friday trackday at PPIR
• Pricing is about the same $150
• Will have MRA staff out there working
• We will need to deploy air fence on Thursday night if you are there we could really use the help
• PPIR Replaced the timing loop, we are hoping we can get down there to test
• There’s only 2 clubs that use PPIR timing loop RMVR & MRA
• RMVR is going out there before us so they will be the first ones to know if it doesn’t work
• We will send out the need to know Wednesday May 3rd
• Power hook ups probably the same $100 per spot based on 1^st come 1^st serve
• Walls are in the same spot as last year we are going to deploy every section of air fence
• We have reached out to Road racing world action fund for more air fence but unsure if they will send us any
• The Bleachers are still there
• Every year we do the schedule we talked about if we want to go back to PPIR
• There’s a Moto America event in Utah the same round as our Round 4 in July at Pueblo
• They moved it after our schedule was already released
• Ricky Orlando was inducted into the motorsports hall of fame. Congratulations Ricky
• MRA was inducted 5-6 years ago

Vice-President: Jeremy Alexander

• Race School
• Wait list for the race school is at 23 people
• We have had a few people drop cause of the weather
• The weather is looking betterish
• Licenses were mailed out you should be getting them any day now
• Rulebook, sponsor sheet, 2 for 1 tickets, chicken hawk & Licenses
• Will keep contingency posted online

VP Rules & Tech: Brett Leveque

• “Loaner Gear”
• Got around to doing inventory on everything we have a lot of stuff
• Have updated all the forms
• We have a good handful of stuff that we couldn’t exactly use so I have listed some stuff on craigslist. Money will go to the safety fund
• If you are going to have numbers designed check with me first
• Novices Yellow background black numbers
• Experts White background & black numbers
• It’s important to be able to read the numbers for several reasons, scoring, safety, medical etc.
• Helmet needs to have your rider number on it as well, along the Chin line on both side
• If you need to do your novice hours talk to brett about Friday night tech. its filled up for round 1 alreadybut could use help at every round
• We have rulebooks
• Read the rulebook
• Call or text Shannon if you have any questions
• Hopefully everyone has their bikes all cleaned by now

Treasurer: Laci Lukachy

• Finances
• We are doing good if you want more details please feel free to contact Laci
• We are a little bit down on memberships numbers compared to where we were at this time last year.
• We will get a more after the race school
• Take a look at the Refund policy
• If you’re canceling you must send an email
• If you have any questions about how credits or refunds work contact Laci

Secretary: Jen Grosse

• Zach Vasquez made you all some Reuseable grid stickers.
• We will have them up in the raceday office
• Zach paid for those himself so be sure to Thank him
• Registration is open if you have any problems please contact me
• Novice Hours
• Every Novice is required to do 4 hrs of service
• You can earn your Hours in several ways
• 1.) Attending general meetings 30min per meeting for up to 2 hours the other 2 hours must be done doing something else.
• 2.) Friday night Tech- Contact Brett Leveque
• 3.) Air Fence set up or tear down at PPIR & Pueblo rounds- Contact Danny Lee
• Unloading & loading MRA truck PPIR and Pueblo- Contact Danny Lee
• Cornerworking- Contact Danny Lee
• 4.) Events & Open houses- Contact Cindy Wulf
• 5.)Setting up trophies- Contact Warren Cook

New Rider Director: Jeff Brown

• Race school is full….
• Question What would it take to have a 2^nd school?
• We would need 50 or more paid people, we already take a loss at the raceschool
• The school is still on we are talking about the weather
• We have a waiting list if you want on it see Jeremy
• Superstreet is the other way to go. If you take
• Ricky Orlando can do licensing superstreets you are eligible for your license
• Jeff can do 1 on 1’s those spots are limited
• For superstreet don’t procrastinate pre register
• Jeff can license a couple people up before round 1
• Contact Jeff if you’re interested

Track Marshal: Dani Lee Clements

• Novice 2 opportunities
• 1.) Next sat April 21^st Jen & I are going to meet at Brighton Radiator to do a clean out of the MRA truck.

• 2.) Air fence set up at PPIR

Rider Reps.

• Rules: Shannon Moham
• A lot of talk about the rulebook
• If you have questions please contact Shannon
• We are going to do a beta test at round 1 for our new practice schedule
• Groups will be A,B,C, & D
• Broken down by times
• D group production cup guys
• You are responsible for policing each other
• The times are based on race pace
• If you have questions contact Shannon

• PR: Cindy Wulf
• All of the E-displays are stocked
• We have several upcoming events
• Fay Meyers block party if you want to work an event contact Cindy

• Trophies: Warren Cook
• All trophies for round 1 have been ordered
• We have a few classes left open
• If you or someone you know wants to sponsor a class upi can send them my way.
• Friday night trophy set up

· Press: Jim Brewer
· Update the forums
· If something doesn’t look right let Jim know


New Business:
We have 3 classes left & the 4 hour endurance
If you want to take some programs go right ahead
The people that help make this happen are the sponsors

HPR Friday motorcycle lapping day has been cancelled


Unfinished Business:


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