Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA Board Meeting was called to order by RE Paula Diehl at 7:12 PM and Conroy’s Public House
Board Members attending: Paula Diehl, Greg Cheney, Jessica Dorn,Josh Huff by phone, Max Bear, Daniel Rowland, Josh Holsworth, Chris Kern
Board Members not in attendance: Phil Meredith, Al Hermans, Ed Nicholson, Bill Johnson
SECRETARY’S REPORT: Greg Cheney
Max made a motion to approve the minutes; Josh Holsworth seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Jessica Dorn
Jessica has submitted the 2024 budget by email to the BOD
January 2024
| Starting Cash | $14,907.27 |
| Income | $2,598.81 |
| Expenses | ($7,704.76) |
| Ending Cash | $9,801.32 |
| Starting CD | $86,006.62 |
| Ending CD | $86,072.07 |
| Ending Balance | $95,873.39 |
Daniel made a motion to approve the Treasurer’s report; Max seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
SOLO REPORT: Al Hermans
We have the following dates confirmed.
April 6 & 7 – T&T; Event #1
May 11 & 12 – Exhibition Event(s) @ Hedge Hollow
May 18 & 19 – Event #2; Event #3
June 8 & 9 – Novice School; Event #4
June 30 – Event #5
July 27 & 28 – Starting Line School; Event #6
August 17 & 18 – Street Survival; Event #7
September 22 – Event #8
October 13 – Event #9
October 27 – Event #10 (Halloweenie)
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: Paula Diehl
647 members for the Region. We should try to push membership more at events.
Get a link to membership application on MSR when registering
Was eligible for Large Region award but got beat out. All we need is to get more weekend members to go annual.
KVRG REPORT: Chris Kern
Hedge Hollow event was discussed. It is Mother’s Day. Lots of activities planned. TT, Solo Sprint, Regional Road Race.
Full steam ahead for events
RALLYCROSS REPORT: Max Bear
The 3/3 T&T was a benefit for Unnaturally Aspirated. 29 drivers participated.
We will have 3 sites. I-35 Speedway, Thunder Valley Speedway and Ray Rocks.
Budget is ready. Max will email it.
| March 3 | Test & Tune | Thunder Valley |
| March 24 | Event 1 | I-35 Speedway |
| April 28 | Event 2 | Thunder Valley |
| June 22-23 | Event 3-4 | Ray Rocks |
| July 14 | Event 5 | I-35 Speedway |
| Aug. 25 | Event 6 | Thunder Valley |
| Sept. 15 | Event 7 | Ray Rocks |
| Oct. 6 | Event 8 Endurocross | I-35 Speedway |
| Nov. 10 | Event 9 | Thunder Valley |
| Dec. 8 | Event 10 | Ray Rocks |
WEBSITE REPORT: Ed Nichols
Ed investigating cloud storage 2nd Chris. Passed unanimously.
Below are site analytics for kcrscca.org for the period 1/28/24-2/26/24. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 12/28/23-1/27/24:
Total Visitors: 5,917 | -4.1%
The number of visitors that accessed the website
Daily average: 197
Sessions: 6,322 | -4.2%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 210
Total Page Impressions: 24,583 | -13.8%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions Per Session: 4.07 | -6.6%
The average number of pages of the website that are visited per session
Top 5 Most Frequently Visited Pages:
- Home page
- /our-racing/rallycross
- /our-racing/road-racing
- /autocross/autocross-schedule-and-results
- /our-racing/autocross
Bounce Rate: 2.47% | 5.1%
How many visitors left the website right after the landing page without any further interaction with the website.
Top 5 Key Words:
The keywords/phrases with which the website was most commonly found in search engines.
- rallycross
- road racing
- autocross schedule
- rallycross schedule
- road racing schedule
All Pages of Origin:
Where site visitors came from, i.e. whether they were transferred to the website from search engines, social networks or online directories, for example.
- Direct: 20.73% | -40%
- Search engines: 58.76% | -4.7%
- Social networks: .09% | -4.3%
- Others: 20.42% | 3.4%
Awards Banquet
Banquet was excellent. We support reserving it again for next year.
OLD BUSINESS
Bylaws Review – Paula handed out recommended additions to the Operations Manual. Board is to review and discuss at the next meeting.
We need to add information on electronic voting for the board to the operations manual.
NEW BUSINESS
Greg gave an overview of the Marketing Seminar put on by Andie Albon at MiDiv Convention should be viewed by all board members. It is in our individual portal at my.scca.com.
Greg also discussed his conversation with Arnie Coleman, Director of the SCCA Foundation. He said the SCCA Archives has imaging equipment that they can use for our KCR Region scrapbooks and historical archives. We would get a digital copy and the books would be stored by the Archives. Bob Eddy is the contact for the Archives, beddy@sccafoundation.org.
Midiv Convention was good.
KCR is appointing Roy Lopshire to MiDiv Road Racing Committee. Board Josh Holsworth motioned, Max 2nd.
Discussed a road rally this year. Gimmick vs TSD. Paula will work on dates.
July picnic? Possibly a June picnic in place of our June general meeting.
Paula created a book with the annual awards listed so they won’t get lost.
Call for motion to adjourn – Josh Holsworth moved to adjourn, Max Bear 2nd. Ended 8:25 PM