Minutes for Badger Bimmer BMW Club Board Meeting
Mader's Restaurant – 3rd Street Downtown
Sept 11, 2003
Attendance: Jeff Joy, John Lofgren, Paul Szedziewski, David Schnitzer, Mustafa & Laura Emir, Don Gawronski, Joe Conway, Steve Werner, Mike Clemens, Greg Smith, Chris Fredette & GF.
Call to Order: 7:10 pm by Jeff Joy
Secretary's Report: Approved
Treasurer's Report: $70,720.87 (incl. Many OFAST deposits) approved
Membership: 23 new members, 870 total members
Old Business:
Annual Dinner – At Jack Pandl's Bayside, no updates available
OctoberFAST: The club has $25,790 for the school so far. More instructors are needed. 37 people have signed up for dinner at Siebkens. Inquiries continue to come in
- Advanced 22
- Instructor 18
- Intermediate 17
- Novice 17
Go Car Driving Events: Jeff Joy will contact Clarence B. re: the West Bend go cart facilities
Fall Tour: Steve Werner has last years itinerary and is looking into options. He will post info. To the email group and contact O'Reilly's as a possible starting location
Club e-mail list: Mike Clemens has taken over the e-mail list, and opened up discussion regarding creating another forum in addition to the e-mail list. This forum could be linked to the web page.
Nominating Committee: Jeff appointed John Lofgren, Greg Smith and himself to the committeee.
Open positions will be Vice President, Secretary, and 2 board seats (Mike's and Paul's)
New Business:
The BMW CCA chapter congress will be May 21-23, 2004 in Keystone, CO. Chapter President, Treasurer and Membership Chair ar to attend. Paul Sz will be the club membership chair.
Crisis Response Plan – According to the plan from national, we need to have in place at least one chapter spokesperson ( not the President). This person should be a good communicator and someone who remains calm under pressure and can follow the guidelines set forth by national. Mike Clemens was nominated and approved for the position.
ZF Public Service Awards application for 2004 are supposed to be simpler. We should discuss a charity to work toward supporting for the upcoming year so we can apply for the matching funds. – No viable options were immediately available so it was tabled for discussion in November.
There will be a national technical event instead of Gateway Tech. It will travel to interested host chapters. Does B.B. want to do this? Scott Blazey, our regional VP will chair a committee organizing this event. – The board expressed interest in hosting this event, but would prefer to watch the evolution of the event over the next year to validate the interest level.
The Susan Komen Fund will drive 17 BMW's to Minneapolis on 9/26. Jeff was to verify the driver reservation system.
Steve Werner brought information regarding Logo wear from Lands End. Joe will follow up
Greg Smith wants to rebuild the web site with content management which would allow flexible security access. This upgrade would allow authenticated users to upgrade the site, plus Forum integration,. Automatic uploads and Article Manager features. The 1 time fee of $300 was approved
The meeting was adjourned at 8:29 pm. The next meeting will be held on Oct. 9th at Mader's German restaurant on North Old World 3rd Street, downtown, at 7 pm. Come and join us. Board meetings are open to ALL MEMBERS!
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