SCCA Board of Directors meeting minutes [Sports Car]

The SCCA National Board of Directors met in Topeka, Kan., Friday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. The following members participated: Jerry Wannarka, Lisa Noble, RJ Gordy, Michael Lewis, Dick Patullo, John Walsh, Bill Kephart, Todd Butler, Bob Lybarger, Phil Creighton, R. David Jones, Robin Langlotz and Marcus Merideth.

The following SCCA, Inc. staff participated in the meeting: Jeff Dahnert, President/ CEO; Richard Ehret, Vice President Finance; Howard Duncan, Vice President Rally/Solo & Special Projects; Terry Ozment, Vice President Club Racing; Eric Prill, Vice President Marketing and Communications; Colan Arnold, Vice President Member & Region Services; Doug Gill, General Manager, Technical Services; Aimee Thoennes, Executive Assistant; Peter Lyon, Risk Management.

Erik Skirmants, President of SCCA Enterprises, and Tom Campbell, President of SCCA Pro Racing, participated in the meeting. Bob Dowie, CRB Chairman; Jim Wheeler, Member of the CRB; and Steve Hudson, SEB Chairman participated in the meeting on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011.

The secretary acknowledges that these minutes may not appear in chronological order and that all participants were not present for the entire meeting.

These minutes for SportsCar are a truncated version of the complete minutes, including only motions. Full minutes are available in the December FasTrack.

PLANNING COMMITTEE

MOTION (Kephart/Walsh) that the Board of Directors endorse the presented plan for Club Racing including the pilot series to be run in 2012 in Rocky Mountain, Southwest and MiDiv and to instruct the staff to identify waivers from the GCR and Ops Manual required to implement this pilot. Plan will be presented for approval to the Board of Directors at the December 2011 meeting. PASSED unanimously.

MEMBER SERVICES

MOTION (Merideth/Noble) to approve implementation of multi-year membership and multi-year licensing as presented. PASSED Unanimously.

SOLO AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

MOTION (Walsh/Jones) to approve Solo rules package as presented Appendix A. PASSED unanimously.

CLUB RACING

The following items have full detail in Appendix B of the minutes available in December 2011FasTrack News.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the following rule changes to the GCR listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED unanimously.

MOTION (Merideth/Patullo) to accept the rule changes for Formula classes listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED unanimously.

MOTION (Kephart/Creighton) to not accept the motion #3101 for FB listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Merideth/Patullo) to accept the rule change #3577 for F500 listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Merideth/Patullo) to accept the rule changes #5444 and 5499 for Grand Touring listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to accept the rule changes for Improved Touring listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the rule changes to Super Touring listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the rule changes to Production listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the rule change #3808 to American Sedan listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the rules changes to Showroom Stock and SSC listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the rule changes to Spec Miata listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the rule changes in Sports Racing, CSR, Touring and Spec MX-5 listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the car reclassifi cations in Improved Touring and Production as listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED Unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Walsh) to approve the rule change #4350 to the GCR listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED 10-3. Opposed Gordy, Merideth and Jones.

MOTION (Walsh/Creighton) to approve the following rule change #2673 to the GCR listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED. 12-1. Opposed Langlotz.

MOTION (Patullo/Merideth) to approve the following rule change #4668 to the GCR listed with full detail in FasTrack. DEFEATED 3-10. Opposed: Lybarger, Jones, Langlotz, Wannarka, Walsh, Lewis, Kephart, Butler, Creighton.

MOTION (Kephart/Noble) to approve the following rule change #5204 to the GCR listed with full detail in FasTrack. PASSED unanimously.

MOTION (Langlotz/Creighton) to waive GCR section 1.2 Section D in Appendix B to allow the Atlanta Region to sanction three national events in 2012 as presented in the Briefi ng Book. PASSED. Opposed Merideth, Gordy and Lewis. Abstained Wannarka.

MOTION (Langlotz/Creighton) to waive GCR section 1.2 Section E in Appendix B to allow the Atlanta Region to hold three national events at Road Atlanta in 2012 as presented in the Briefi ng Book. PASSED. Opposed: Merideth, Gordy and Lewis. Abstained Wannarka.

MOTION (Kephart/Butler) to accept the GCR changes needed to support the Super Tour, specifi cally item 3.1.2 and 3.9.3. PASSED unanimously.

MOTION (Patullo/Lybarger) to delete the language in GCR Section 3.1.7 requiring Board approval for Rationals. PASSED unanimously.

MOTION (Gordy/Lybarger) To suspend the 2.5 rule for two years (2012 and 2013 seasons) and allow the CRB, with Board approval, to manage the National classes. PASSED 9-3-1. Opposed: Langlotz, Patullo, Lewis. Abstained: Wannarka.

MOTION (Jones/Langlotz) to approve exceptions to GCR scheduling requirement in order that Houston Region, Lone Star Region and Texas Region each be allowed to hold four Nationals during the 2012 season. PASSED 11-0-2 Opposed none; abstained Wannarka and Noble.

MOTION (Kephart/Creighton) to approve exceptions to GCR scheduling requirement in order for Colorado Region and Continental Divide Region be allowed to hold four Nationals during the 2012 season. PASSED 9-0-4 Opposed none; abstained: Lybarger, Wannarka, Noble, Butler.