OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – BUSTERS BARBEQUE, TIGARD, OR. JANUARY 11, 2005 No meeting as there was no quorum. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – BUSTERS BARBEQUE, TIGARD, OR. FEBRUARY 8, 2005 President TJ Janss called the meeting to order at 8:10. MINUTES: Motion to accept the minutes from December. (No quorum in January.) Second. Motion carries. OLD BUSINESS NEW LOGO – Novice working on it, Tom Young working with the person who designed the original. SCHEDULE CARDS – here, plus posters. SIDECARS – here in April and July. SPONSORS – Talking with shops and manufacturers to sponsor a specific class. What is involved with that? Banner space, advertising in Trackside, the race named after them for the entire year. End of year would be a money payout class. No sponsorship packages yet, but will have a minimum. CONTAINER – Cleaned up, radios out, freezable items gone. GEEK – Going well. Software going well. AMB, no contact yet but found out WMRRA doesn’t want to do it, so probably not cost effective right now. There are loops in the track already. CCS/WERA will require it in the future. Cost is about $300 per unit, 99% accuracy. Perhaps have club cover the cost via a one time charge for receiver unit? Perhaps WMRRA doesn’t want it because they also use the Spokane track. GPRU - June NEW BUSINESS NEW BOARD MEETING LOCATION – Canyon Pearl in Beaverton. CONTINGENCY – Tom Young working on it. SWAP MEET – Mike and Rob went, handed out schedules, PSSR info and Pocketbike info. Lots of interest especially in Pocketbikes. PIR USERS MEETING – Prices increased 20% across the Board. Trying to look at different areas for spectators, bought old bleachers to put up, will do a new sign on I-5. Vehicle bridge, talked about impact areas for MC racing on a new bridge. Track paving – 2 million to pave entire track, needs to generate its own revenue. Other ideas to generate revenue. Want to do an oval for speedway racing. Will have power in rear of the pits because they’re moving the lights. Want to have a waterproof area for results, grids, etc. Noise issue – new things trying to use the track, neighborhood may not allow it for several reasons. BUDGET – Frank presented the budget. Explained that everything over 1.5K has to go to General Membership for approval, but by allowing the budget to be approved, it allows known costs to be pre approved. Also, ’04 was a 5 race year, and ’05 is a 7 race year. Discussion regarding line items. Board has asked the General Membership for approval of the budget. MOTION TO APPROVE – SECOND. AYE – 20, NAY – 0, ABSTAIN – 0. Motion carries. ASIT – Starting a new team for Pocketbikes. Have a first response person. Brandon Arment has been working with Nextel to get a cell phone deal, will be working with the Ambulance company to get an experienced person every time, working with EMT trainees to come out. GEEK – Going great, will still run both systems for first race, still have logistics issues. Web page is new, good response to it and the classifieds. ATTENDANCE – How to get people into our area? What about creating a general swap meet area on the grass outside the bottom of the footbridge? Perhaps use the SFRC promotional stuff, finish a ride at a different part of the track every time. Will do an additional page insert inside the raceday program “how to use the track”, which SFRC is putting together already. MONEY CLASSES – Board voted to eliminate money classes. NEW GENERAL MEETING LOCATION – Kell’s Irish Restaurant. 112 SW 2nd in Portland. A parking lot is right behind it, trying to get some discounts for it, Max is a block away. Kids can be upstairs. Will try a trial period for 3 months, see how it goes. MOTION: Move the general meeting location. SECOND. Passes with one abstention. NEW SPONSOR – SIDI – Motonation – work with contingency and class sponsor. Adjourned at 10:20 pm. OMRRA GENERAL MEETING MARCH 8, 2005 Called to order at 8:11 pm LOGO: Still being worked on. Looking at 2006 for completion. SCHEDULE CARDS : Will be available at future meetings and at race dates. SPONSORS: Money classes eliminated. Looking into having shops provide sponsorship. Several shops already lined up to sponsor some for the classes. $3500 for sponsorship at $500 per class per race could get the shop some season tickets, banners at track, 1 day passes in trackside and tickets to banquet. This package is subject to approval by the board. CONTINGENCY: Will be completed by next board meeting and should be posted by first race. CONTAINER: getting cleaned out. GPRU: 125 and 250 on their schedule. Road Racing World to have articles on all GPRU races. PIR USER MEETING: the increase in user fee will go toward fund for new spectator bridge. Planning on going over turn 8. Once up, Old bridge will come down. Power may happen on back side of pits. ASIT: New team for Pocketbikes. Still working on paramedic training program. Working on protocols to assist ambulance drivers when responding to incidents on tracks. GEEKS: New web site page up. Questions should be directed to webmaster. Old archives are available but are by special request. NEXTEL: moving forward. Equipment to be used with sponsorship of ASIT by NEXTEL. New computer system should be up and running by next race. Discussion and explanation on difference between Dbcom and AMB Meeting adjourned at 10:03 pm OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR APRIL 12, 2005 President TJ Janss called the meeting to order at 8:03 pm. MINUTES: Motion to accept the minutes from March. Second. Motion carries with 2 abstentions. OLD BUSINESS: SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE – It has been put together, and we have a brochure to go out to shops and dealers to solicit sponsorships. CONTINGENCY – Tom Young and Janice Logan will put together the information for the web. NEW BUSINESS: UPDATE ON BRAD – He has had tremendous. Support – have raised several thousand dollars, lots of donations of food, hotel rooms, transportation, etc. Listed in RRW, the website, have a PayPal site for him. AMA and WERA posting on his condition. Physical condition is guarded stable. No visitors yet, when he’s more healed. Also, plan on visiting him AFTER the beginning part of his recovery. Don’t overwhelm him, but don’t forget about it later on. PMC – Open House this Saturday. TOR – Issues around communication during TOR – will continue to refine. CALLS GIVEN – How calls are timed right now, how were they for racers? Seemed OK, but couldn’t hear due to speakers not working on inside tower. Also, heeds to be very clear to the racers what the timing is. Lengthy discussion. Perhaps add the timing to the calls made. PA – Will work on getting it to work like it did last year, if not better. FOOD CONCESSIONS – We had 43 on Friday, 32 on Saturday, and 23 on Sunday. Working on ways to make it go smoother. ASIT – No new Pocketbike Team – ASIT is close enough to respond quickly, can call their own Ambulance. Working with the EMT program and with Metro West, and it’s going very well. Still working on getting communications for ASIT, trying to get OMRRA a set, versus using a member’s personal radios. GEEK – New web page up, still working on outgoing news list. New software is up and running, had a glitch, and will get it worked out. Research on connections between towers, possibly have track help out with cost, whether we want to rent it out, and have the pits “hot”. Long discussion about AMB equipment – still learning. KUDOS to all working the track this last weekend. Saw us through completely professionally. Thank you! PIT WALL – Next race weekend, MUST have a yellow wristband on. We will be very strict about it. Tend to be a lot of just spectators out there versus actual working crew. Could have to bring the actual racer with them, other options. Really need to keep it down to just timers. Also, when the grid is not hot for a while. Look to officials for their cue when this is appropriate. MOTION: Wristbands will not be issued unless they have a stopwatch and/or pit board, and will have the racer # on it. Further discussion on how people get access to the bands. Lengthy discussion on how to do this and enforce it. Motion withdrawn. MOTION to adjourn at 9:27. Passed. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR MAY 10, 2005 President TJ Janss called the meeting to order at 8:04 pm. MINUTES: Motion to accept the minutes from April. Second. Motion carries with 2 abstentions. OLD BUSINESS: SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE – Talked to Sobe, Red Bull, Bi-Mart, Toys R Us. GI Joes and Beaverton Honda will be talked to. Working with Cycle Trader also. BRAD UPDATE – He’s in rehab at Beaverton Rehabilitation at 11850 SW Allen Blvd. Wants day visitors. OMRRA has passed on all the contributions it’s received so far. There will be a fundraiser auction at Kell’s on Wednesday, May 25th at 7:00 pm. Have lots of items donated – do Silent Auction and Raffle. Hoping to get food and beverages donated. TOR: Went well last time, got people across the track. Need new info for web site and shops. CALLS – Speakers were fixed, could hear much better. WAVES – Decided to do waves as follows: Open Supersport, Open Supersport Senior WAVE Open Twins Superbike 650 GP Twins WAVE 250 GP WAVE 450 Superbike 750 Superbike, 750 Superbike Senior WAVE Open Twins Supersport GRID POSTINGS – Announce over PA when a change has been made. Note that the ones posted are subject to change, and please verify at the Pit Out Board. STARTER – Need one. Will be posted on Sportbikes.ws, and they will contact Janice at the office, who will then pass them on to John Acerbi. STORY FOR THE OREGONIAN ON BRAD AND HIS DONATION – Mark Wigginton suggested that it would be a great human interest story – Christopher Locatell will contact John Foyston. POCKETBIKES – We have someone interested in being Race Director, is in the police academy until 8/1. Last race weekend, Pocketbikes went to an AMA race and there were 150 pocketbike racers. Got feedback regarding how leading and good our association is. ASIT/GEEK – ASIT – it wasn’t busy at the last race – great! GEEK – had problems, have identified them all. Still talking about dBcom/AMB. Used new backboard. Hospitals and Metro West are on board with it. We are at the very forefront of safety and tight ships for a race. Perhaps we should get this information out to other groups. NEW BUSINESS: FILM CREW AT TRACK – TV Program, ½ hour, working with Fox and UPN. STOLEN BIKE STORY – Will feature in Trackside. Anonymous Donor put up $1,000 for return of a stolen bike. It was claimed successfully! PIT WALL – Lengthy discussion – each year, each team permitted one vest for a member. Teams can purchase the bib/vest, but must do print/sign for a wristband. Wearing the vest is not enough. Discussion on why people need to get to pit wall? Perhaps a limited number of vests available for visiting and new racers. Need to self-police. Discussion about what is a team – the rider, or the bike number? Racers have a lot of wear and tear on their wristbands – they need to be durable. Also, have a list of rules and regulations for being on the wall with a pass. Suggestion to just implement and then work it out. What about vendors? MOTION to adjourn at 9:55. Passed. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR MAY 10, 2005 President TJ Janss called the meeting to order at 8:04 pm. MINUTES: Motion to accept the minutes from April. Second. Motion carries with 2 abstentions. OLD BUSINESS: SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE – Talked to Sobe, Red Bull, Bi-Mart, Toys R Us. GI Joes and Beaverton Honda will be talked to. Working with Cycle Trader also. BRAD UPDATE – He’s in rehab at Beaverton Rehabilitation at 11850 SW Allen Blvd. Wants day visitors. OMRRA has passed on all the contributions it’s received so far. There will be a fundraiser auction at Kell’s on Wednesday, May 25th at 7:00 pm. Have lots of items donated – do Silent Auction and Raffle. Hoping to get food and beverages donated. TOR: Went well last time, got people across the track. Need new info for web site and shops. CALLS – Speakers were fixed, could hear much better. WAVES – Decided to do waves as follows: Open Supersport, Open Supersport Senior WAVE Open Twins Superbike 650 GP Twins WAVE 250 GP WAVE 450 Superbike 750 Superbike, 750 Superbike Senior WAVE Open Twins Supersport GRID POSTINGS – Announce over PA when a change has been made. Note that the ones posted are subject to change, and please verify at the Pit Out Board. STARTER – Need one. Will be posted on Sportbikes.ws, and they will contact Janice at the office, who will then pass them on to John Acerbi. STORY FOR THE OREGONIAN ON BRAD AND HIS DONATION – Mark Wigginton suggested that it would be a great human interest story – Christopher Locatell will contact John Foyston. POCKETBIKES – We have someone interested in being Race Director, is in the police academy until 8/1. Last race weekend, Pocketbikes went to an AMA race and there were 150 pocketbike racers. Got feedback regarding how leading and good our association is. ASIT/GEEK – ASIT – it wasn’t busy at the last race – great! GEEK – had problems, have identified them all. Still talking about dBcom/AMB. Used new backboard. Hospitals and Metro West are on board with it. We are at the very forefront of safety and tight ships for a race. Perhaps we should get this information out to other groups. NEW BUSINESS: FILM CREW AT TRACK – TV Program, ½ hour, working with Fox and UPN. STOLEN BIKE STORY – Will feature in Trackside. Anonymous Donor put up $1,000 for return of a stolen bike. It was claimed successfully! PIT WALL – Lengthy discussion – each year, each team permitted one vest for a member. Teams can purchase the bib/vest, but must do print/sign for a wristband. Wearing the vest is not enough. Discussion on why people need to get to pit wall? Perhaps a limited number of vests available for visiting and new racers. Need to self-police. Discussion about what is a team – the rider, or the bike number? Racers have a lot of wear and tear on their wristbands – they need to be durable. Also, have a list of rules and regulations for being on the wall with a pass. Suggestion to just implement and then work it out. What about vendors? MOTION to adjourn at 9:55. Passed. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR JUNE 14, 2005 President TJ Janss called the meeting to order at 8:40 pm. MINUTES: Motion to accept the minutes from May. Second. Motion carries with 1 abstention. OLD BUSINESS: BRAD UPDATE – Fundraiser went well, raised about $4,000. Healing, but still needs some assistance. Also doing some things to assist giving his wife some relief and relaxation. TOR: Updated flyers on the web, will go to shops. Trying to get a sponsor for it. POCKETBIKES: Have a new race director, Mark Morton. Great past weekend, 27 pre-entries, need to look at new area for them at PIR due to increase in numbers. Discussion regarding how to stretch the pits, how to grid based on current limitations of the grid. Several comments on how much fun, everything falling into place. There is an Invitational at McMinnville in September. Discussion regarding who will pay for it. GEEK – Covering for dBcom this weekend as Kevin Proctor is out of town. Will be revamping the medical form. Web site is moving along. ASIT – Need trailer for electronics, etc. Radios are now coming through. WEB SITE – Talking about what issues go to Jeff and what Pocketbike issues he can handle, how to send information to the web site. PIT WALL – Bibs will sell for $50/year, have USGPRU ones coming in, $20 for the weekend. Working to figure out what to do with regular racers. Discussion regarding how many people have specifically asked. Will work with folks who want them for the regular races. NEW BUSINESS: GRASS VALLEY RIDE – lots of bikes made the trip, talked about issues to be worked on at the track for bikes. Lengthy discussion on track and personal safety issues, scheduling issues, track makeup, infrastructure issues, etc. MOTION to adjourn at 10:04. Passed. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR JULY 12, 2005 NO QUORUM, NO MEETING. Discussion topics: Brad Hochhalter now home, try to arrange help with yardwork and transport for him to and from Physical Therapy and other appointments. Working on TOR and race sponsorship. Pocketbike – new track configuration. Still working on getting radio personalities on the Pocketbikes. Web site being moved to our server. Outgoing info list needs software on our server. PITS – Still need to work on keeping support vehicles out of the pits. GEEK – teething process, getting better, fine tuning things. Have a team doing manual backup, still need to train another team. ASIT – still need an enclosed trailer. Rules Committee – Board will establish a committee, will meet very soon. Lengthy discussion regarding vintage bikes using the festival curves. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR AUGUST 9, 2005 Meeting was called to order by President TJ Janss at 8:08 pm MINUTES: Motion to approve minutes from June. Second. Passed with 1 abstention. OLD BUSINESS: Brad Hochalter Update – Brad was at the meeting and gave an update on himself! Yeh! Still doing Physical Therapy, look good. Still need help with appointments, getting there and back. Will have more surgery on his left wrist, and they will take pins out of his foot at that time. TOR – Flyers are not out at the shops. POCKETBIKES – Updating the Pocketbike website. Will be worked on by Jeff Lavallee, Michael and Jennifer Lenz. Technicalities need to be worked out. There will not be a McMinnville Invitational as previously planned. PITS – It is OK to PARK on the grass when pitting, we just can’t rip it up with bikes riding through at a fast pace. NEW BUSINESS: Opened Nominations for Board for 2006. NAME POSITION 2ND? ACCEPT? TJ Janss President Y Tentative Yes Christopher Locatell Vice President Y Yes Janette Carey Member At Large Y Yes Simon-Pierre Smith President Y No Frank Berthold Treasurer Y Yes Dave Salmi Vice President Y unknown John Acerbi Member At Large Y Yes Dave Herring Rider Rep Y Yes Tony Martinez Worker Rep Y Yes Roxanne Pense Secretary Y unknown Rob Tatom Member At Large Y Yes Nominations remain open until the end of the riders meeting on October 23. FUNDRAISER – There will be a fund raising carwash, put on by the Pocketbikes, for Brad Hochhalter. It will be on September 3rd at the Les Schwab on Lombard St. TRIBUNE ARTICLE – There will be article in the 8/19 issues of the Portland Tribune. GEEK – Trying to organize websites, trying to get both OMRRA and Pocketbikes on the same service provider. Scoring etc, going well, still procedural snafus, but getting it figured out. ASIT – Doing well – will have their spot in the pits marked off with cones, tape, paint, etc. RULES COMMITTEE – Have had 2 meetings so far, another one Wednesday night. 23 issues on the discussion list need to be hammered out, still need working and pro/con arguments. Talk about having qualifying on one day, racing the next. Discussion regarding AMB system, when/if we’re going to buy it. Still under a Board motion to migrate to AMB. Will be deciding before renewals of numbers are required. Deadline for new ideas is the 4th meeting, which is the week of 8/15. A reminder will be sent to the list. ASPHALT – What about a fundraiser to pave the Pocketbike track? Precedent set by SCCA paving the area in the outside pits. We will work on it. GRIDS – Have tried the 1G/MP/4P gridding, will go back to the MP/1G/4P grid and see how it works now. BY LAWS MEETING – 2 have been held, almost done. Have found templates to go off of. 2 or 3 more meetings and they should have something for the Board to review before it goes to a membership vote. AUGUST RACE – All end of day traffic must exit through the gate at Turn 9. Drags will let us run late, but will be starting up VERY soon after we end our day. PRE RACE CHECKLIST – Asked about scoring, statistician, equipment, etc. THANK YOU – from Elena Myers and her family. Felt very supported, will be coming back up for the September and October events. MOTION TO ADJOURN: 2nd. Meeting adjourned at 9:36 pm. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR SEPTEMBER 13, 2005 PRESENT: CHRISTOPHER LOCATELL, TJ JANSS, GAYE GRABILL, JOHN ACERBI, SIMON-PIERRE SMITH, SVEN BOEHRINGER, FRANK BERTHOLD, JANETTE CAREY, CHRIS HOWARD, PIRKKO HAAVISTO, BRADFORD DUVAL, MIKE MCDONOUGH, ROB TATOM, MICHAEL LENZ, TONY MARTINEZ, DALE JOHNSON, RAYCE LOGAN Meeting was called to order by President TJ Janss at 8:19 pm MINUTES: Motion to approve minutes from August. Second. Passed. OLD BUSINESS: POCKETBIKES - New web site up, looks great. PITS – No more dirt bikes in the north area of the pits – it’s getting better. FUNDRAISER FOR BRAD – Pocketbikes held a carwash – Brad showed up, so donations were given directly to him. RULES COMMITTEE – Will make a presentation at the next Board Meeting. Issues on ballot are several. Ballots will be sent out and can be voted on/turned in at last race. GRIDS – Order should be 1G/MP/4P BYLAWS – Still Meeting RACER – AFM/CCS/WERA still not allowing Elena Myers, 12 year old racer, to race with them. USGPRU will allow anyone 12 and over to race. We are getting a lot of exposure for OMRRA. NEW BUSINESS: GEEK/ASIT – Communication difficulties ironed out, software fine, grid issues solved, new computer here. ASIT still needs a trailer or shelter for rainy days. BIKE AT LUNCH – got permission for a metrakit to run at lunch on Saturday. NOMINATIONS: NAME POSITION 2ND? ACCEPT? TJ Janss President Y No Christopher Locatell Vice President Y No Janette Carey Member At Large Y Yes Simon-Pierre Smith President Y No Frank Berthold Treasurer Y Yes Dave Salmi Vice President Y unknown John Acerbi Member At Large Y Yes Dave Herring Rider Rep Y Yes Tony Martinez Worker Rep Y Yes Roxanne Pense Secretary Y unknown Rob Tatom Member At Large Y Yes Luke Morgan Member At Large Y unknown Chris Howard Vice President Y unknown Bradford Duval Member At Large Y Yes Christopher Locatell President Y Yes Mike McDonough President Y No Mike McDonough Vice President Y Yes Carlos Rojas Vice President Y Yes Nominations remain open until the end of the riders meeting on October 23. RIDERS MEETING – Stress NO WEAVING!!! Also talked about riders taking the checkered flag and slowing up before the white flagged riders are done racing. METRO MOTORCYCLE POLICE OFFICERS – Maybe do a TOR? Chris is still talking with them. POCKETBIKES – Scissor lift for pictures is a go. Possible Endurance race at McMinnville in October. Paving at PIR – need to get all parties to talk about it. Track could take some of our rent and put it towards the cost of paving a new track for Pocketbikes. Working a deal with GameCrazy to set up a tent with game stations. ENDURANCE – 2 bibs per team will be issued. MOTION TO ADJOURN: 2nd. Meeting adjourned at 9:55 pm. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR OCTOBER 11, 2005 Meeting was called to order by President TJ Janss at 8:10 pm MINUTES: Motion to approve minutes from September. Second. Passed. OLD BUSINESS: BYLAWS – Still meeting. GEEK – Pits will be going live. BIKE AT LUNCH – Will try to run on Saturday again, at lunch. Trying to see what this bike will do for laptimes, looking into the possibility of a new racing group. NOMINATIONS – Still open. RIDERS MEETING – Still covering the no weaving issue, have new check list. No riding backwards on pit lane. NEW BUSINESS: POCKETBIKE RULES – Will be done soon after the banquet. Friday and Saturday practice is done under PKA, with OMRRA racing on Sunday. Tony Martinez will be Race Director, Michael Lenz the referee. 2 possibilites for Race Director for next year – Ron Gray and Brandon Arment. LAST RACE – On Sunday, the sun sets at 6:11 pm. Must stay on time. RULES COMMITTEE – done early, already have a couple of issues for next year. Possibly have meetings more often. INVOLVEMENT – Discussion on how to get more involvement from vendors as well as racers, who may feel that perhaps because they aren’t specifically invited they aren’t welcome. Our vendors are very intrinsically involved in this club, and we need to look at improving the relationship. Perhaps invite versus requiring a meeting, but need to get them involved. Through Rider Rep get to all classes and to vendors. Ask all representatives to come for their own benefit. Have the Board be more responsible to itself and having communication with the riders and vendors. What about making it more incentive to get a number plate? This issue was brought up in the rules committee. Administrative changes would need to be made. What about points and trophy system – how to make it easier for a spectator to understand the number plates. Want to see the club be open and available to all racers – try to understand why racers don’t come back, and figure out why and change it. MOTION TO ADJOURN AT 9:45 – Seconded. Meeting adjourned. MOTION TO ADJOURN: 2nd. Meeting adjourned at 9:55 pm. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR NOVEMBER 8, 2005 Meeting was called to order by President TJ Janss at 8:06 pm MINUTES: Motion to approve minutes from October. Second. Passed with two abstentions. OLD BUSINESS: BYLAWS – Three quarters of the way done. NEW BUSINESS: FROM EMERGENCY BOARD MEETING: Ballot Issue: Sent out ballots to all members for next person as Member At Large. Protest: Protest of Josh Bryan at the October race. Appeal from Josh Bryan was granted. Special Award – Keith Pinkstaff award for exemplary sportsmanship. Sponsorship – put together a committee for various classes. Justin is working on the dollar amounts, and what things to offer. Different costs, classes, different things to offer them. BANQUET – 11/19, Doubletree Lloyd Center, Donations plus auction items, some silent auction. NEW BOARD – Appreciate all the new Board Members trying to show up at the December meetings. AMB – will implement the system this year. Will change finish line along with that. Need to advertise to racers and give them information. First thing on agenda for the new Board. Tom Young will be gathering information. There is a sliding scale from AMB. Need people to run it. AMB will provide training for us and there are local clubs who know how to run it. POCKETBIKES – will have a meeting with Mark Wigginton to try to map out the new PB track. ASIT – Will have a year end wrap up meeting. Christopher concerned about replacements if volunteers need to leave. The racers need to know what is required for when they go through ASIT. Make sure that all racers know what is expected. Can’t stop the “rumor mill”, but can do something to help dispel it. 3 Positions needed for Pocketbikes – Race Director, Rider Rep, Referee. CARDS – Rob Burch won the card contest, will have his photo, plus the #1 plate holder, and a Pocketbike. PIR – improvements still in the works – paving in ’07, bridge still being worked on. MOTION TO ADJOURN: 2nd. Meeting adjourned at 9:23 pm. OREGON MOTORCYCLE ROAD RACING ASSOCIATOIN GENERAL MEETING – KELL’S RESTAURANT, PORTLAND, OR DECEMBER 13, 2005 Meeting was called to order by President Christopher Locatell at 8:00 pm MINUTES: Motion to approve minutes from October. Second. Passed. OLD BUSINESS: BYLAWS – Still working, almost done AMB – Board passed motion to move ahead – seeing if contacts from last year are the same, still working on it. Plan to put a fee in with the license apps to get the funds to purchase the units in bulk. POCKETBIKE – Meeting at the track – Michael Lenz has new track possibilities at PIR, still working on it. 250K is initial thought of cost for areas. Perhaps a ribbon path – could be used for picnics, then pull tables for races. ASIT – Still looking for a trailer, still working on radios. POCKETBIKE RACE DIRECTOR – Brandon Arment nominated and seconded. SCHEDULE CARDS – Need to pick pictures and get them printed. NEW BUSINESS: GENERAL MEETING GUIDELINES – Were read and passed out. Talked about the questionnaire that was handed out. Opportunity to give feedback anonymously – only person to see names attached is office. DYNO – Someone willing to come out and set up at the track. Received good feedback. TRIUMPH ISSUE – Where 675 should race, talked with several clubs, allow in 600 Supersport and 600 Superbike. Horsepower don’t appear to be a threat, fits into those classes. Thruxton – air cooled, retro twin Triumph. Currently racing in AHRMA. Perhaps develop the class within another class until enough riders are there. POCKETBIKES – Do general members want more say in Pocketbike issues? PB’s brought in 10K net. Pocketbikes have brought value to the future of OMRRA. Encourage to come and race, and be a part of it. We are a role model to the kids, and they contribute financially. Important to attend and let their view be known. Perhaps not have all the OMRRA races be Pocketbike races as well. May work better. Feel that Pocketbike members shouldn’t have a say in big bike issues, and vice versa. Perhaps separate rule books? SECTION N – No personal issue, just penalties to discuss. Look at the questionnaire. Question #1 – what does “standard” mean? Do we have a responsibility to set a standard? Some discussion about what sorts of responsibility do we have? Harm to and harm via association, not made news, seems to be an issue with the hotel and what is their perception. Perhaps being blown out of proportion, but able to rectify the situation. Did it make the situation better because of our response? Absolutely yes. If we didn’t take the actions we did, we would not be welcomed back. We are listening to all of you, and listening so that the Board can make a decision based on what members feel. Perhaps try to make a positive step, bring motorcycle information to schools, etc. Rulebook is very flexible on penalties, trying to make it more specific. At what point does OMRRA become involved in personal lives? Perhaps can go way beyond that night with the name. Can adversely affect in a lot of ways outside. Look at the up effect that we can do – show the good things we can do. We should take care of in house. Have members been professional in conduct? Do as we have in the past, but banquet is entirely different than other events. Not here to make decisions, here to get input and feel from the General Members, try to get a feel for the future. These questions should be a guideline for all future incidents. Have to live by the rules, have to suffer the consequences. Judge on an individual basis, however the perceptions go on. Public in this situation is the hotel, conduct has not been rectified, are being allowed back so not unbecoming in public. Not being allowed to race due to actions that happen off the track seem hard, maybe flexible penalties. Spin this into positive things. Everyone appears to have done their part; the hotel having us back speaks volumes. Behavior should not have happened, night too long. Board needs to structure events differently. What kind of behavior do we want to promulgate? We are an association that has been around for 34 years. Many different views and types of feedback were heard. MOTION TO ADJOURN AT 9:30. SECOND. MOTION TO ADJOURN: 2nd. Meeting adjourned at 9:23 pm.