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HomeMy WebLinkAboutenfield dirt diggers board of directors minutes 1977aR 10 ENFIELD DIRT DIGGERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS February 21, 1977 PRESENT: Ed Thompson, Biff Newhart, Tom Westervelt, John Smith, Sue Thompson Meeting was called to order at 7:45 p.m. John brought up the fact that the Club as a whole was lacking in attendance at the regular Club meetings. John made a motion that the Board of Directors be appointed as the nominating committee to replace all officers and two board members(Ed Thompson and Bill Williammee). The motion passed unanimously. John then made a motion to nominate all present officers and board members except for Treasurer for the year 1977. The motion passed unanimously. Roger Cornish was put up for nomination as Treasurer.lt was then decided that the following nominees would be presented to the Club at the March 1 meeting and that nominations would be taken from the floor: PRESIDENT: Ed Thompson VICE-PRESIDENT: Brian Marion SECRETARY: Sue Thompson TREASURER: Roger Cornish PIT STEWARD: Ken Hubbell REFEREE: Tom Westervelt(John Smith -to FINANCIAL SECRETARY: Helen Smith BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Ed Thompson Bill Williammee fill in when Tom races) Biff pointed out that a lot of club members probably don't know or don't remember that Club dues are due now. He suggested that we should be sure to bring it up at the next club meeting. Biff asked about changing the cost and privileges of Club membership. John reminded everyone that changes would have to be brought to the next club meeting (March 1) for all members to discuss and then cards sent out before the April meeting stating the changes and then finally voted on at the April meeting. The fact was brought up that with the present $10 membership fee the club is losing around $7.50 per member at the gate. It was finally decided that dues would be kept at $10 each with the privilege of getting into all the club races free being replaced with a clause stating that if members came to the track the week before the races or worked on the day of the races they would receive a free gate ticket. John Smith will write up an official wording of this new clause to be presented to club members at the March I meeting. There was discussion on various changes and ways of running the track. John suggested that the front field along side of the road be set aside for spectator parking and that all tickets be sold at the front entrance only. Ed stated that starting this year all riders have to have their helmets (including medical release form) with them when they bring their W bikes up for inspection. Helmets will be inspected for proper -readable r and riders own numbers along with having the medical release form inside the helmet. These are two new rules released by the Western New York Sports Committee for 1977. John said that he would be going up to the Sports Shop up in Dryden to see about this years trophies. Biff said that he would talk to a guy up at Ide's bowling lane about trophies. John figured that we would probably �. need the same amount of trophies that we used last year. It was decided to write to E. BROOX RANDALL AND SONS INC. INSURANCE(1132 North Vine St., Hollywood, California 90038) to get a copy of their 1977 brochure on Auto Racing Liability Insurance. A motion was made and passed unanimously to send out postcards reminding members of the March I club meeting. Biff suggested that we should base membership fees on a sliding scale. This would work by raising the dues a couple of dollars each month after January. It was decided to include this in the clause that John would be writing up for the March I club meeting. Ed volunteered to go down to Brooks Drug Store to see if the club could order some medical tubing(a rubberband for the start). John reported that DeMerle Hoag said he would be willing to help us build a starting gate for our start. Ideas were brought up about the gate but nothing came of them. ,John reported that the trailer at our track had been visited by vandals who had broken all the light bulbs in the trailer plus the big kitchen window and a few of the smaller side windows. The vandals also pushed over all the refrigerators and one outhouse. 1 There was discussion on changesofthe Track. John suggested that the Club _ buy at least three more roles of snow fence to put up on the front corner(in front of the refreshment stand) to keep the spectators back away from the track. Biff suggested piling bales of hay around the corner. Ed suggested putting horse fence up to keep the spectators back and the bikers on the track. Biff asked if there wasn't something the club could do to change the area around the start to avoid crowding of bikes and riders. Ed said that the Western New York Sports Committee was tring to get all the tracks to use the clothes pin method of lining up bikes which would help and plus we just needed more help to keep the bikes back . John brought up the point that the club needed to make some kind of arrangements for an ambulance this year. There was discussion on getting some qualified technician's for a medical back up crew when the ambulance has left. Biff suggested that maybe we could advertise for some help. It was suggested that someone go talk to someone on the ambulance crew up to trumansburg to see if we could get some help from them. Tom said he would try to talk to someone about it. John said that County Ambulance said they could provide us with a stretcher and oxygen tank. John asked the Board members if they still wanted Helen to check -on having some kind of Dinner to raise some money for the Club. It was unanimously decided to go ahead on the Dinner. It was also decided to check up on printing calendars with advertising and our race dates for 1977 on them. Al Board of Directors page 3 February 21, 1977 a It would depend on if we could find people who would like to advertise on the calendars which would pay for them. Ed reminded the Board that someone would have to go up to see Jerry at Goldsport to get $10 from him for advertising for him at the track. John brought up the fact that we still had not received any money from Rider Sport for the sponsoring of the WTKO broadcast at the track. A motion was made and passed unanimously to adjourn the meeting. The meeting adjourned at 9:45 p.m. Sue Thompson, Secretary VrJ 40