Yes, the club has folded due to nobody stepping up to most of the Exec positions. It was quite sad really.

As per usual, it seams, the usual few had had to step up again to assume the roles of running the club. I find it quite pathetic that a club of 300 people has to keep calling on the same people time and time again to do the same roles.

I wish I could have put my name back into the ring but work requirements will limit my availability this year, and I already have enough to do to assist with making the race weekends happen.

That being said, we need some volunteers to step up this year to help out in 2 key areas, Registration and Timing & Scoring. Without either and no one races. Registration is a Friday evening, and Sat & Sun morning role that is extremely social as you get to see and talk with all the drivers (I don't know if that's always an incentive or not), and you get to work in a warm (or cool) dry, and mostly bug free environment. The process is easy to learn and anyone with basic computer skills can master it in no time. Drivers! Get your wives, girlfriends, mistresses, whomever, out to help! This way they don't have to hang around your pit all weekend.

I want to go racing too, so I need at least 2 people to step up who are at least slightly computer techy and also want to work in a similar environment as Registration (warm/cool, dry, less bugs, free lunch and dinner, great view of the racing, etc). This role does require some technical know-how when things go wrong, but is an easy process once you get the hang of it. This is not an option, we need the help now to be ready for the season.

So what happened last night, well Ray is back in as Pres, Roland as VP-Ops, Laurie Kaerne as VP Admin, Sheryl Mawdsley as Treasurer, and Grandma 'The Mexican' Gayle is back in as Secretary. There's also some other changes with regards to track ops and stuff but that's coming out in an announcement later.

Rant over.. thank you for you for your time.

10 years, cool I'll be around for the last race !

.. and probably have to at least double race entry fees.

Another approach is what ICSCC does which pays a stipend (I thing that's the right word) for certain jobs/roles within the organization. The website admin, sound officer, and a few others receive a small payment for their services to help offset their travel and other costs. ICCSC also has a $15 per entry driver levy for every race to help pay for it. I'm not a fan of 'paying' volunteers, however keeping their involvement cost neutral in order to encourage more people to make the trek out to Mission to volunteer on the race weekends may be a good starting point.

I have to agree with Pam and John.  One of the reasons I had to give up being treasurer was the time committment it required.  I was putting enough hours into the job on a weekly basis that it was basically a part time job.  I have mentioned the idea of creating a company to manage the track and pay dividends to the SCCBC.  There would be increased costs to the club if this was pursued, but it would free up a large amount of time for the executive, and possibly allow for more club members to step up and serve on the executive.

The San Francisco region of the SCCA created a limited company to operate and maintain Thunder Hill, and most of the profits are reinvested in the track.  As long as the SCCBC continued to invest any dividends received into the facilities and continuing operations, I don't think there would be any implications to our society or tax status.

The operating company would probably only require a full time manager for the race season, and the month before it starts.  The one thing to consider is that there will be fixed costs to cover every month, regardless of the number of events that are booked in the month.

Basically you need one person in a small office in Mission that only need to be there as a part time paid person who can do track rental, answer driver training questions, deal with custom car club, book and organize washrooms, catering trucks for weekends, security, ambulance......
Basically everything that needs to be done before the race weekends and rentals.

I would think that this would take a pretty big weight off of the executive. I also think there is a way to pay this person if they were another Company . ie - SCCBC ltd.
No different than paying for an ambulance, sweeper.....

Although if we built offices and garages in the paddock at least we would get washrooms, wouldn't we?