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Steel City Drag Club MINUTES
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STEEL CITY DRAG
CLUB GENERAL MEETING
HELD AT THE McBRYDE TERRACE CLUBROOM
ON
TUESDAY 12th FEBRUARY 2008
AT 8.45pm
PRESENT: Peter Datson, Lia Kuhn, Mark Kuhn, Mandy Harding, Scott Hubner,
Barry Jackson, Peter Jackson, Hernan Tosti, Kaylee Thompson, Barry
Brooks, David Rix, Jim Higgins, Ron Matthews, Danny Garde
APOLOGIES: Mark Habel, Greg Brown, Dave Brown, Bruce Brassington, Andy
Zang, Rob Rath.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Opening Balance $13,622.01
Income $39,357.00
Expenses $35, 672.95
Closing Balance $17,306.06
Liability to M & L Kuhn ($25,849.67)
Final closing Balance -$8,543.61
12th Jan Race Meet 18th Jan Street Meet
Income $15,391.00 Income $3,464.50
Expenses $ 9,094.21 Expenses $2,258.96
Closing Balance $ 6,296.79 Closing Balance $1,205.54
PREVIOUS
MINUTES
FIRST: Barry Jackson
SECONDED: Lia Kuhn
All in favour: Carried
BUSINESS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES:
· With the next Street Meet most spectators are happy to pay $5 or gold
coin donation as entry fee for spectators and most of the drivers that
Mandy spoke with are happy to pay $10-$20 for licenses to race their
mates.
· Peter Datson advised the club that the financial books are currently
being audited.
· Barry Jackson still needs to get race dates to Phil Stone of the
Whyalla Tourism Office.
· It was asked if the Armco got fixed and yes Rodger Weste welded the
Armco on Friday 11th January.
· We need to make sure the beer booth has lights as at the Jan 12th Race
Meet it was operating in the dark. This needs to be plugged in with the
urn and Cold room to a portable lighting tower or generator; this will
help to stop tripping the power.
ACTION: We need to get an extra Gen Set for the Tri-Series to be able to
plug in the Beer Booth, Urn, and Cold Room, and an extra lighting tower
for the toilets behind the canteen and car park.
· We need to address the check list for race meets, as this will help
with the set up and clean up of all the facilities. This will also help
to see if we are missing any equipment that should be at the track.
ACTION: Mandy has several checklists, she will type them up and send
them to all the committee to see what has been missed or may need
updating.
NEW BUSINESS:
· We have been informed that one of the flood lights is out and needs to
be fixed before the tri-series.
ACTION: Peter Jackson to take care of this.
· Working bee needed 1st March. Mow weeds, weed spray and if we have on
a Saturday we can have the work for the dole participants in attendance.
Peter D is going to organize some equipment from Martelco. We also need
a gate in opposite the return road booth, but this cannot be done until
we put a pole in along the top of the fence.
· We were informed that the speaker under the Ambo shelter is not
working, this needs to be working so they can hear what is happening.
This has been put on the list for jobs to be done at the working bee.
· Jim Higgins has organized an air conditioner for the canteen free of
charge from the old Whyalla Hotel. Jim will need help to get it down and
he will organize the equipment needed to get it down. Jim was advised
just to notify anyone that he needs of when he will require their help.
· We need to lay some concrete to the toilets and also under the tank;
some help will be required to do this. Peter Datson is looking into
organizing this.
· It was suggested that we move all the equipment that has been getting
stored in the toilets into the container at the track. This was actually
done at the clean up after the Street Meet on Jan 18th . All equipment
that was for the canteen is now in the canteen and the rest is now in
the container.
· Ron Matthews got a carton of beer from the club for Sherrins Hire for
filling our water tanks.
· Ron has got a sponsor that may help with the next Street Meet. He will
get back to us on this.
· Peter Jackson told the club that Portland South Coast Race Way is
certainly worth a look if you are ever over that way.
· It was suggested that we try and get some people to go to Alice
Springs to support them at the Easter Weekend.
This would be a fantastic club trip and a great way to support the guys
that traveled all the way from Alice Springs to Whyalla.
· There will be a Club Display at Motor Show on Saturday 16th February,
anyone wanting to display their cars give Peter Datson a ring.
· Mandy to print an A5 flyer for the Tri-Series to hand out at the Motor
show and Membership forms.
· Peter Datson again said a big thanks to Tracy, Kaylee, and Mandy for
top effort for past two meetings. Also a top effort put in by everyone,
he is pleased with what everyone does.
· Mandy went around with donation tin at the Street Meet and collected
over $600 and all the lights at start line were working well.
· Street meet on Jan 18th caught us by surprise and was a huge learning
curve for the club and the canteen sold out. Peter again thanked
everyone for their efforts and was very pleased with how it turned out,
ACTION: It was discussed that we need to have the drivers briefing as
this will stop a lot of the drivers doing burnouts and speeding as they
are not aware of the rules. The spectators also need to be made aware of
the no alcohol in pits; this can be rectified by having someone on the
pit gate as in normal race meets.
It was also suggested that maybe hold the next on a Saturday to allow
more time for Scrutineering and have set cut off times. Also need to
have the drivers briefing and we may have to look at paying canteen
crews for this as well since there was only 4 people in the canteen. To
be discussed further prior to next Street Meet.
· Robert priced up some shade sails for the spectator mound and will get
back to us in regards to prices.
· It was discussed about ladies toilets not being able to keep up with
the usage as the ladies will not use the portable toilets.
ACTION: We will see if we can get ATCO toilet block this time to try and
get the ladies to use these and this may help with overflow of ladies
toilet.
· There were concerns that some cars are running slicks and that they
may be too fast for the street Car Challenge Bracket and should be moved
to the Super Street Bracket. This was discussed and they can run slicks
if slower than 7 seconds.
Next Meeting: Tuesday 4th March 2008 at 8.30pm
Meeting Closed: 9.13pm
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