September 9, 2017

Board of Governors Meeting Minutes ......................................................................................................................................... 1-14

Meeting Representation. .................................................................................................................................................................. 15

NCCC Financial Report – Profit & Loss through September 2017 (contact your club governor) ........................................... 16-19

NCCC Financial Report – Balance Sheet through September 2017 (contact your club governor) ........................................... 20-21

NCCC Financial Report – Charity Program through September 2017 (contact your club governor) ............................................. 22

NCCC Grants & Scholarship Profit & Loss through September 2017 (contact your club governor) ............................................. 23

NCCC Vice President Membership Report for September 2017 .................................................................................................... 24

NCCC 2018 Renewal Instructions ............................................................................................................................................ 25-27

FCOA Membership and Director’s Report for September 2017 ............................................................................................... 28-29

NCCC Committee Meeting Minutes: RE, RCD, RMD, Charity, Convention Steering September 2017 ................................ 30-41

NCCC Reports: IT, NCM Ambassador, Public Relations, Publications, Sponsorship, Social Media ............................................ 42

NCCC By-Laws Change Proposals (RE-2017-01 thru RE-2017-05) ........................................................................................ 43-54

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING Chairperson: Dave Heinemann

Time/Room: 3:00 p.m. **Please Check Signs.

REGIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chairperson: Kathy Brisbois

Time/Room: 7:00 p.m.**Please Check Signs

FINANCE COMMITTEE Chairperson: Betty Parks

Time/Room: 6:00 p.m.**Please Check Signs

REGIONAL COMPETITION COMMITTEE Chairperson: Dale Samuelson

Time/Room: 6:30 p.m.**Please Check Signs

CHARITY COMMITTEE Chairperson: Michelle Cantelmo

Time/Room: 7:00 p.m.**Please Check Signs

REGIONAL MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Chairperson: Amelia Workman

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CONVENTION STEERING COMMITTEE Chairperson: Jack Wilson

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HOSPITALITY ROOM Chairperson: Jeannie Ruston

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EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING Chairperson: Dave Heinemann

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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CORVETTE CLUBS, INC.

GOVERNORS MEETING MINUTES

Sheraton Westport – St. Louis, MO

NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING

November 11, 2017

At Sheraton Westport Plaza

314-878-1500 or 888-627-7064

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National Council of Corvette Clubs, Inc.

September 9, 2017

Annual Meeting Minutes

Dave Heinemann welcomed everyone and all recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Dave

asked if everyone had a copy of the agenda. Dave then called the NCCC Annual

meeting to order at 12:30 PM. Betty Parks, NCCC Treasurer, gave status that NCCC is

very sound financially, reported the cash on hand from the Balance Shet and that the

NCCC Balance Sheet is provided on the front table of the meeting room.

Motion made by Alan Morris, 2nd by Arnie Bailey and approved by all to close the

annual meeting.

September 9, 2017

Governors’ Meeting Minutes

Dave Heinemann called the September 9, 2017 Governors meeting to order at 12:32

PM. Introduction of National Officers. Introduction of Regional Officers. Dave

reminded all that you will be recognized on the floor to speak if you step up to a

microphone and identify yourself first.

Motion made by Arnie Bailey, 2nd by Alan Morris and approved by all to approve travel

payment for Proxy officers in attendance.

Motion made by William Benna to approve the Meeting Minutes as printed from the

May 6, 2017 Governors Meeting.

Officer Reports

Dale Samuelson – VP of Competition:

The Competition Committee met last night with ten RCD’s and three proxies present.

We reviewed the 2017 competition program and use of the database with no significant

problems noted. Top 5 Men, Women and Clubs are as follows:

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Dale Samuelson – VP of Competition (continued):

MEN WOMEN CLUBS

1. Rene Cardenas-3005 1. Carolyn McLemore-2881 1. Cornhusker CC-15180

2. Jack Alexander-2352 2. Nelda Mitchell-2114 2. Corvette Cleveland-9818

3. Rodger Mitchell-2000 3. Wanda Buck-1777 3. Elkhart Vette Set-8921

4. Brett English-1866 4. Carolyn Samuelson-1569 4. Buckeye Corvettes-7546

5. Larry Lichtenwald-1717 5. Betty Parks-1479 5. Windy City-7517

There have been two Record drag races since the last Governors meeting. A ¼-mile

record drag race held at this year’s convention in Bowling Green, KY on Aug 22nd with

one record set in Group IIA, by Fred Garvin with an altitude adjusted time of 11.23.

The very first 1/8-mile record drag race was held at Raceway Park of the Midlands on

Sep 4th with two records set, one in Group IICL by Steve Walling with an altitude

adjusted time of 8.54, and the other in Ladies Group IICL by Dena Walling with an

altitude adjusted time of 8.66. We discussed one clarification paraphrased as follows:

The rulebook currently says that the registration form must be completely and truthfully

filled out. The question is whose responsibility is it to insure that this form is

completely and accurately completed and what are the penalties if the form is not

completed. The committee stated that the responsibility for a completed registration

form lies equally with the competitor and the host club. The penalty for failure to

properly complete a registration form to the satisfaction of the host club is to not allow

the competitor to compete. We discussed several proposals for the 2019/2020 rulebook.

One proposal was considered safety related. Rulebook Section 5.12, Item 8 currently

says “Answers to questions, clues, and similar items should be a minimum of 100 yards

beyond any turn so that the driver and navigator are completely finished with all driving

safety issues involved in making the turn safely before they must start following rallye

instructions again. The request asks for the word “should” to be replaced with the word

“must”. This was accepted unanimously because it is safety related it will go into effect

immediately. The Competition Committee adjourned for regular business at 8:15 PM.

After the Competition Committee adjourned a committee of 5 RCDs heard a protest in

accordance with the rulebook. All parties involved have been or will be notified of all

final decisions. Mark Hanlin, Michigan Region Executive and Calhoun County

Corvettes Governor, stated for the record that the Michigan Region is opposed to the

decision of the committee due to the impact on the region financially and on possible

loss of membership. Dale reported that the vote by the committee was unanimous to

uphold the rule as written even though they felt personally that it was not in the best

interest of the membership.

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Amelia Workman – VP of Membership:

Amelia reported that the RMDs were represented by 14 RMD’s and/or Proxy RMD’s at

the Friday night meeting. Please remember those NCCC members dealing with

hurricanes in Texas and Florida. NCCC has received two inquiries from potential new

clubs, one in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and one in Pennsylvania. The membership

report is available on the front table and shows NCCC has 19,021 current members

which is an increase of 738 members over this time last year. Amelia provided database

tips for Governors for entering info into database. DO NOT enter members into the

database unless you have received payment. Release the members and mail the check

for new members as soon as possible. Send your member an email prior to entering

their email into database to verify accuracy. Take care in entering accurate email

addresses. If your club is changing Governors, please be sure to change that

information in the database. DO NOT choose Primary for new members. Always use

New Primary or New Spouse for new members. 2018 Renewal Season: New members

will continue to receive a hard card, patches, sponsorship info packet. Renewing

members will be receiving an email from this email address

Membership@corvettesnccc.org. Each member will receive a confirmation email as

soon as the Governor updates that member’s database record. Any member that does

not have an email address the renewal email will be sent to the club Governor who will

be responsible for getting it to the member. The database process will remain the same

as prior years. Please remind your membership to allow emails from all

corvettesnccc.org addresses. Contact Amelia if you have members that do not receive

the membership renewal email. The database will be shut down on October 15th and

will come back up on October 18th. Your club will have to be all green by the 15th of

October. On the 18th the renewals can begin to be entered. December 15th is the drop

dead date for renewals set by National Council. RMD’s can set an earlier date to allow

them time to process. Remember to access the Governors’ User Guide in the Members

Only Section of the NCCC website. Amelia reported that 854 new member packets

have been sent out since the last meeting. She has received requests for 185 license

plates. Lifetime membership packets have been processed and are current. David

Goebel put his email address in for couples in his club that don’t have email. DO NOT

DO THIS as it will cause any email address in the database more than once to not

receive any NCCC emails. If a spouse does not have an email address in the database,

the renewal email will go to the email address of the primary member. If neither has an

email address in the database, the renewal email will go to the club governor. Amelia

and your RMD’s are here to help you with any questions or issues in the renewal

process.

Dave Heinemann reminded us about the hardship program and that a club Governor can

submit to the Director of Charity for financial help for any member affected by the

hurricanes (Harvey & Irma).

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Chris Reitz – Secretary:

Nothing to report.

Betty Parks – Treasurer:

Review of financial statements and the YTD Budget. We are currently over income

budget by about 4K to date. However, we may end up slightly lower at year end income

budget because the only income left is new members processed between this meeting

and year end. We are 23K below budget in expenses YTD and 108K by year end.

Betty does anticipate we will be at the projected net profit or better at year end.

Jack Wilson – Business Manager:

Jack gave many thanks for all your cards, letter and emails. Jack is doing really well

health wise. In Jeannie Ruston’s absence, Jack read shuttle times and thanked Tom and

Chris Reitz and Teresa Eller for filling in hospitality and at today’s meeting. Jack

reported there have been seven reportable insurance incidents this year. One that has

been processed as a claim and one that is pending. Nothing major that would cause

additional insurance risk. The breakdown of these reportable incidents are as follow: 2

autocross, 1 weather, 2 car shows, 1 club meeting and 1 after event party. Jack relayed

an NCCC event where a hired service resulted in twelve injuries. If you are hiring an

outside contractor, be diligent that the company/person being hired is fully insured and

request a Certificate of Insurance. Simon Reiffer, Capital City Corvette Club, asked

about hiring a caterer and should they request a Certificate of Insurance (COI) and Jack

answered yes. Brian Greise from Legacy Insurance will be here at the November

Governors meeting. Jack reminded Governors that COI requests need to be a minimum

of two weeks in advance of the event. There has been a spike in clubs waiting until two

days prior to the event to request the COI. This could result in the COI not being issued

in time for your event.

Convention Steering Committee

Congratulations to the 2017 Bowling Green Convention Chairs and Co-Chairs on a

successful convention with attendance of 516 people. Cindy will give the financial

results when she comes up to talk about the 2019 Convention bid. Jerry Brittner will

address the 2018 New Orleans Convention. If you are entertaining submitting a bid for

2020, you will need to have your proposal submitted by May 2018 Governors meeting.

After reviewing three qualified candidates, Nancy Bailey was selected by the

Convention Steering Committee to be the 2018 Convention Treasurer and will be

appointed later in the meeting. Nancy also headed up redacting the Convention

Treasurer information from the Convention Policy and Procedure document and created

a detailed Convention Treasurer Guideline document. Gene Gau and Jack Wilson have

done the site visit for the 2019 Denver Convention Proposal and are in complete support

of the proposed facilities.

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Governors Meeting Location (2019 thru 2021):

Jack received only one meeting location bid from Westport Sheraton for 2019, 2020 and

2021. Under the current contract, the rate for 2015-2017 were all $109/night and 2018

will be $112/night. The rate for 2019 will be $112/night and for 2020 and 2021 will be

$114/night. Jack researched major hotel chain rate increases over the last several years

and found the industry average was 2% each year and pointed out that the rate at

Westport Sheraton through 2021 (7 years) has only gone up $5.00/night or 71 cents per

year. Jack got a tour of the new 13,000 sf entertainment facility the hotel is opening on

Tuesday. This area includes a large bar, shuffle board, walls full of television, lunch

and dinner. Simon Reiffer, Capital City Corvettes, requested a couple of handicap

accessible rooms be included in NCCC’s block of rooms, as the hotel indicated there

were none included at this time. Continuing improvements are being made by Sheraton

in how our reservation process is being handled. There is a form on the NCCC Website

that was provided by the hotel for making reservations.

Kathy Brisbois – Parliamentarian:

Kathy thanked her 2017 Newsletter Judges Larry Pagliaro, Debbie Haskell and Larry

Bebe. Kathy read the seven participating clubs, newsletter titles and editors below.

CLUB TITLE EDITOR

Competition Corvette Assoc The Checkered Flag Fred Dugach

Corvette Club of Iowa Sportsmate Dave Howard

Corvette Supersports Corvette Under the Radar Debra Rudy

Corvettes of Temecula Valley Valley Vette View Judy McIntosh

Cowtown Corvettes C.T. Lowdown Paul Jackson

Longhorn Corvette Club BULLetin Leeland Heins

Nashville Corvette Club Tire Smoke Roger Boychek

These folks all did an excellent job. Kathy would like to encourage more clubs to enter

this competition because there are so many great newsletters out there. The process has

been changed so that we now accept on-line newsletters submissions. The rules are out

on the NCCC website so start planning now for next year. The 2017 Winners are:

Place Club Title Editor

1st Nashville Corvette Club Tire Smoke Roger Boychek

2nd Corvette Club of Iowa Sportsmate Dave Howard

3rd Cowtown Corvettes C.T. Lowdown Paul Jackson

Congratulations to these fine clubs and editors for their accomplishments.

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2017 Convention Awards:

The President’s Award was presented to Pat Kelly. The Don Hoskins Award was

presented to Jack Wilson. The Past President’s Award was presented to Jerry

Limpaugh.

Denny Luther – Director of Public Relations: Denny, David and Linda Goebel went in and remodeled the NCCC display at the NCM.

All of the items in the olds display have been distributed back to those that donated

them. The club patches that were in the old display were taken by Joan Thomas to add

to the NCCC history. The next item for updating is the NCCC video that is next to the

display. , Denny Luther, Joan Thomas, Mad City Vettes and Mark Hermann, Mid-West

Corvettes are working on updating this video. Remember the Family Helping Family

database and think about signing up if you are not yet in the system. If anyone has a

high quality, high speed video from outside of a car participating in a high speed event,

please consider sending it to Denny Luther or Joan Thomas for use in the NCM video.

Elaine Heretta – Director of Publications:

Elaine has extended the deadline for the next issue of Blue Bars to September 15th for

articles from Regional and National Officers. When entering member information into

the NCCC database, please go to USPS.com, left top click on tools, click look up zip

code and enter the member’s address. This will then provide the exact USPS mailing

address that should be used for entering into the database. Please take care when

entering address and email information into the database. The information is only as

good as the accuracy of the person entering.

Debbie Lindsey – Director of Sponsorship:

No written report was provided. Debbie wants to thank the sponsors who support

NCCC every year. Michelin North America, Mid America Motorworks, Eckler’s,

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Condon Skelly Insurance, Zip Products, Corvette

Central, Corvette Atlanta, Haggerty Insurance, Carlisle Events, Paragon Corvette

Reproductions, NCM Insurance, Novistretch and Legacy Insurance who have combined

to donate to date $37,250.00 in cash and approximately $16,000.00 in door prizes.

Doug McMahon helped produce a brochure for approaching sponsors. Insurance panel

at convention was informative and successful. Haggerty is interested in providing

support for clubs car shows. If your club is planning an event, contact Debbie who will

pass your club information on to her contact at Haggerty who will get you in touch with

a representative local to your club. Debbie started this position in 2000 and has been

honored to serve in this position for 17 years. Her impending grandson has helped her

make the decision to step down from this position. Thanks to Debbie’s effort hard

work, NCCC has a great relationship with our current sponsors and Debbie will help in

the transition as much as possible. If you are interested in this position please submit

your application to the NCCC President. Dave pointed out how well liked and

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Debbie Lindsey – Director of Sponsorship (continued):

respected Debbie is by our sponsors and that she has raised close to half a million

dollars for this organization in her tenure. An email was sent out via the NCCC email

system with an offer for $100 off on Michelin tire. www.tirebuyer.com/NCCC will take

you to the website for this offer. The offer is good thru the 15th of September.

Michelle Cantelmo – Director of Charity:

Michelle reported the following scholarships and awards were presented at the

convention in Bowling Green Kentucky this year. There were 37 Scholarship

Applicants, with 26 completing the entire on-line process. They will be tweaking the

online process for next year, as there were a couple of bumps along the way. Michelle

thanked here Scholarship Committee, Joe Vasta, John Cantelmo and Elaine Herretta for

all their work in reviewing all 26 applications. The ten scholarship recipients are as

follows:

Scholarship Recipient Region

Sue McGee Scholarship Samantha Cvallaro Florida Region

Sue McGee Scholarship Corrine Ebner Indiana Region

Mid America Motorworks Scholarship Mariah Fillenworth West Region

Kimberly Fast Scholarship Ryan Lee Indiana Region

Judy Yanko Scholarship Brian Jewsikow Southeast Region

Ray Meeseman Scholarship Allison Laber East Ohio Region

Windy City Vettes Scholarship Mackenzie McGann Midwest Region

Wind City Vettes Scholarship Matt Weaver Indiana Region

NCCC Scholarship Taylor Benning Road Runner Region

NCCC Scholarship Kylee Luther West Region

Congratulations to all of the recipients who have been notified. The Roger Clancy

Award was presented to Debbie Lindsey. Three awards were given for selling the most

2017 Charity Raffle Tickets were presented to:

NAME PLACE

Gary Kelly 1st

Debbie Lindsey 2nd

Michelle Vasta 3rd

NCCC received a plaque from St. Jude, whose fiscal year runs June 1 thru May 31. The

plaque is for our donation last year of $10,400.00 ($7,000.00 from 2016 raffle and the

balance from club donations received at the Governors meetings).

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Betty Parks – Treasurer:

Betty reported that the Charity and Grants & Scholarship reports provided at the

meeting will differ by $50.00 from those attached to the meeting minutes. Betty

reviewed the Grants & Scholarship YTD financial report and indicated that the ten

checks for awarded scholarships had not yet been accounted for in her reports but would

be in the report attached to these minutes. This report will show more expense than

revenue due to the Ray Meeseman scholarship has not yet being funded due to Sharon’s

auto accident. Betty asked for help from the Michigan Region in getting this reconciled.

Betty then reviewed the Charity YTD financial report that indicates 1200 total tickets

were sold. Keep in mind that some of the 2017 tickets were sold in November 2016 and

the report you are reviewing is strictly a calendar year report. Once the 2017 raffle

winner has made a decision on what he is taking, a financial accounting for the

complete 2017 raffle will be provided. Betty reminded officers that per the Standing

Rules, Regional Officers are only entitled to reimbursement if you attend both the

Friday night meetings and the Saturday Governors meeting.

Charity Committee:

The committee met at 7PM with seven members present. Terms and conditions check-

off list for the raffle winner procedures continue to be worked on. Michelle emailed

four applicants from the 2017 online scholarship program that had also completed the

paper process the prior year for their input. Their response was very positive for the

online process and gave her a couple of suggestions for improvement. Review of the

Grants & Scholarships program revealed it needing updating and they will be working

on that this year for 2018. Donald Campbell, Corvettes International in the Carolina

Region was the 2017 raffle car winner. He’s in the process of pricing a new Grand

Sport. 1200 tickets were sold, so assuming Donald takes the certificate for the car, the

anticipated donation to St. Jude at this time is approximately $3,500.00. The tricky tray

items at convention raised $1,951.00 for the Grants & Scholarship program. The

committee discussed at length last night the 2018 raffle and made the decision to

continue the raffle for 2018. Michelle is hoping to recruit the help of the RE’s with help

in distributing tickets to sell by their region clubs. Awards will be given to members

who sell the most tickets that will be given out at convention. The early bird cash

drawing is continuing this year at the Sep, Nov, Feb and May Governors meeting and at

convention. You could win up to $400 and up to 15 free raffle tickets. Meeting was

adjourned at 8:30 PM. Howard Curtis, Elkhart Vette Set, challenged those in the room

to make cash donations for St. Jude. Those in attendance stepped up to the tune of

$1,175.00. 2018 raffle tickets are for sale at the head table. There will be a cash

drawing of $100 and 1 free raffle ticket of the early bird ticket sales.

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Pat Kelly – FCOA Director:

Pat said she was speechless at convention after being presented with the President’s

Award. Her report was available on the front table. Please make sure you are using the

current FCOA application form that indicates a $10.00 fee. You can go onto the NCCC

website and fill out a form to make any address changes for FCOA members. Michael

Bell, Hoosier Corvette Club, donated a box full of over 50 Nascar hot wheels to raise

funds for FCOA via an EBay auction or silent auction. Bruce Blunt, Badger State

Vettes, donated $800.00 to FCOA.

Walt Jenkins – Director of IT:

Accomplishments since the May meeting. Joe Vasta is almost complete with the form

for requesting bug fixes and enhancements. Walt announced the results of the 2017

Website Contest as listed below. The top three clubs were presented with awards at the

convention.

Club Name Place

Capital City Corvette Club 1st

Sunburst Corvette Club 2nd

Cowtown Vettes 3rd

Cornhusker Corvette Club 4th

Central Colorado Corvette Club 5th

Route 66 Corvette Club 6th

Competition Corvette Association 7th

Nashville Corvette Club 8th

Corvettes of Minnesota 9th

Victor Valley Vettes 10th

The monthly President’s Message is now being delivered to 11,200 email addresses

valid in the NCCC database. Adding the comment section in the member database file

is being used by Walt for entering bad email addresses. The responsibility for

correcting email addresses now lies with the membership committee. Website

organization and appearance updating is still in process. Prepared for soft copies of

renewal cards is in place and ready for renewals to start. The NCCC website will be

moving servers the first week of January will not be able to be accessed during this

week. All mail boxes on the nccc.com domain have been removed. All NCCC email

communication from this point forward will be from the .org email addresses.

Biographies and pictures for officer candidates should be sent to Walt Jenkins for

posting on the website prior to the October 1st electronic voting. You will have to

change your favorites and/or distribution lists to the www.corvettesnccc.org domain

addresses. Members Only password will change at beginning of the year.

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Teresa Eller – Director of Social Media:

Her job is to put out pictures or stories about club activities and events. She needs your

help in posting these events. Teresa has received good comments from people who saw

all the posts from convention. George Kimble, thanks Teresa personally for all of her

work on the Facebook group and making everyone feel welcome and connected.

David & Linda Goebel – National Corvette Museum (NCM) Ambassador:

The Ambassador Report was provided on front table. Another successful year at the

NCM MSP with 77 NCCC sanctioned competition events New go-cart track is up and

running. Dave reviewed the overwhelming number of NCCC members who are the

biggest number of supporters of the NCM. David Goebel thanked Denny Luther for his

perseverance is getting the NCCC display updated. Dave Heinemann reported that

settlements have been reached with all the property owners except 1, known as the

Crump property. The NCM MSP has agreed to buy the Crump property 16+ acres for

$500K in lieu of building a required wall which will end up being a wash financially.

403 convention attendees visited the NCM. Only 100 of these visitors were members of

the museum. Michael Bell’s Grand Sport has been in the museum for a little over a

year.

Cindy Urenda – 2017 Convention Treasurer:

A little over 500 people attended convention. The MSP track tour was very popular.

The Music Jamboree and Gibson tours were very popular. The eclipse was pretty cool

too. The bands were great and the party themes were fun. As a group, we consumed 28

kegs of beer, 44 boxes of wine and 1196 cans of soda. The end financial result is

expected to be about $16,000.00 profit. Kudos to the Yankos and the Murphys.

Cindy Urenda – 2019 Denver Convention Chair:

Rocky Mountain Region invites you to the 60th annual NCCC Convention July 7th

through 12th, 2019 in Denver Colorado. A packet handout was available on the front

table (copy attached). Rocky Mountain Region hosted conventions in 1979, 1999 and

2009. This will be the Diamond Anniversary of convention. They are not planning a

lot of ‘tours’ because there is so much to do and see in the area and they want you to be

able to do what you want to do. There may be a tour planned to Blackhawk Casino one

day. The Crown Plaza will be the host hotel. Lots of parking, large rooms, big

convention center and shuttles within 5-miles of hotel. The cost will be very similar to

what it was for 2017 Convention. The high speed event will be held at High Plains

Raceway with elevation changes, off camber turns and a monster straight away.

Trailers will be able to be dropped at the Front Range Airport after the high-speed

events where the low-speed events will be held. Drag racing (Record Drags, Bracket

Drags and Matching Time Drags) will be at Bandimere Speedway. Plenty of parking

for motorhomes at the hotel and they would also be able to be left at the high speed

track. Yes or No vote will be on you electronic ballots.

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Betty Parks – 2018 Proposed Budget:

Please make sure that you are timely in getting payment for new memberships deposited

into the bank or sent to the NCCC Treasurer. There has been a slight downward

adjustment to the membership income because of the current numbers this year. New

officers will require adjustment to mileage calculations based on the person elected.

The IRS does not issue their calculation for mileage reimbursement until later in the

year. The other unknown entity is insurance. The impact of the hurricanes could have a

detrimental affect on the insurance industry. The budget has a 6% increase in it for

insurance. This budget does show a profit of about $4K. Please keep in mind that it

may be adjusted to show a higher profit at the November meeting if better information

is available at that time.

Bernyce Molenda & Jerry Brittner – 2018 New Orleans Convention Co-Chairs:

Jerry wants to invite everyone July 15th-20th, 2018 to “Nawlins” (New Orleans). Take

Interstate 55 South until it ends and turn left to the host hotel. Host hotel is 7-miles

from the airport and 7-miles from the French Quarter. They are focusing on the tour

and vacation aspect of this convention since only about 20% of our members participate

in the competition events. Look for an email from the convention team with more

information in the next month and monthly going forward. Tentative schedule should

be available on the website within the next month. Contracts have been established with

all the venues. Registration will open for this convention on February 1st, 2018. Dave

Heinemann appointed Nancy Bailey for 2018 Convention Treasurer.

Tom Reitz – Nominating Committee Chairman:

Presented nominees Bill Docherty and Joe Eller for VP of Competition. Seeing no

nominations from the floor, Motion made by Alan Morris, 2nd by Joe Orrico to close

nominations for VP of Competition

Presented nominee Rita Robinson for Secretary. Seeing no nominations from the floor,

Motion made by Jim Bartuska, 2nd by William Benna to close nominations for Secretary

Presented nominees Debbie Schafer and Gary Foster for Sergeant at Arms. Seeing no

nominations from the floor, Motion made by Alan Morris, 2nd Michael Bell to close

nominations for Sergeant at Arms.

Presented nominee James Walton for Business Manager. Seeing no nominations from

the floor, Motion made by Debbie Lindsey, 2nd Joe Orrico to close nominations for

Business Manager.

Candidate speeches were given by Bill Docherty, Joe Eller, Rita Robinson, James

Walton and Debbie Schafer. Tom Reitz, Nominating Committee Chairperson, read a

letter from Gary Foster who was unable to attend. Copies of all speeches and/or

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Tom Reitz – Nominating Committee Chairman (continued):

handouts that were provided at the meeting are included as attachments to these

minutes. All candidates were properly nominated and accepted. Please be sure to place

your vote for each of these positions on the electronic ballot starting October 1st.

Bylaw Changes – Kathy Brisbois, Parliamentarian:

1. Distribution of cards to read cards and materials (see RE-2017-01 attached)

2. Change annual meeting from held at annual convention to held during the 3rd

regularly scheduled Board of Governors meeting (see RE-2017-02 attached).

3. Each club must be represented at no less than three of the regularly scheduled

Board of Governors meeting (see RE-2017-3 attached).

4. Convention bids will be submitted at the 3rd regularly scheduled Board of

Governors meeting (see RE-2017-4 attached).

5. Change from a club can only be represented one to twice on the same Executive

Board (see RE-2017-5 attached).

These changes in detail will be available on the ballot and are included as attachments to

these minutes.

Member Memorials:

George Kimble read the names of the members in memoriam since the last meeting and

the poem he wrote called “The Long Drive Home” (copy attached).

NAME CLUB REGION

Jill Lex County Corvette Association East Region

Frank Delviscio III County Corvette Association East Region

Don Bobbitt Anderson Corvette Association Indiana Region

Roger Andrews Central Illinois Corvette Club Midwest Region

David Rich Central Illinois Corvette Club Midwest Region

Gerard “Jerry” Schroeder Corvettes of Minnesota Midwest Region

Mary Williams Central Illinois Corvette Club Midwest Region

Jim Cleveland Calhoun County Corvettes Michigan Region

David Banks Miracle Strip Corvette Club Southeast Region

Tom Blount East Tennessee Corvette Club Southeast Region

John Clark Miracle Strip Corvette Club Southeast Region

Debbie Hash East Tennessee Corvette Club Southeast Region

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Jerome Seavey East Tennessee Corvette Club Southeast Region

Lewis Crowder Oklahoma City Corvette Club Southwest Region

Terry Keeper North Iowa Corvette Club West Region

Keith Caupp Corvette Troy West Ohio Region

Bill Huffman Corvette Troy West Ohio Region

Richard Marlowe Corvette Troy West Ohio Region

Dave Weaver Corvette Troy West Ohio Region

Denny Luther was the winner of the $100.00 for the early bird raffle drawing.

50/50 drawing with $203.00 to the winner Ron Scott.

Motion to adjourn by Joan Thomas at 3:48 PM

Respectfully Submitted, Chris Reitz NCCC Secretary