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Minutes
of the District 11 Meeting held Tuesday May 29, 2007
Meeting was called to order by President Jim Barnhart
with 14 present. Those in
attendance were Ruth Hughes, Henry Swartz, Wayne Olson, Marie Barnhart,
Janet Fout, Sheryl Blum, Art Pickelheimer, Joe Collins, Mary Hamilton,
Les Wolfe, Bill Kaeppner, Bill and Mitzi Barnes.
Minutes from the previous meeting were read and
approved with the following corrections:
It was left out in the previous minutes the money that Mitzi has
been saving the district by doing cards at tracks when she can and saving
on postage and envelopes. The minutes also did not state that we were
down $1600 from this time last year.
Old Business:
Wildwood Lake
did not change the harescramble they had running against GNCC. They had the ok from the AMA. They have another event running against
harescramble. Les Wolf,
representing WWL, present at this meeting states WWL does not understand
why they should have to reschedule when they scheduled this at the
sanction meeting. They don’t
plan on rescheduling. The AMA
doesn’t recognize the events as conflicting events.
Treasurer’s report: Joe reports expenses were
up. Big expense was April’s
newsletter invoices. We saw $1000
improvement over the last month mostly due to increased revenue. The check written at the end of January
for the Buckeye Series is still outstanding. Ask Mitzi to check with Cheryl to find
out why hasn’t been cashed.
Office Report:
Mitzi stated 260 new memberships.
She could not give breakdown for each division, due to a program
problem. Mitzi talked about some
of the problems with the tracks not running D11 recognized classes. Mitzi ask if wanted to extend
scholarship since no submissions received. Mary made motion to extend deadline to
July 1. , Joe 2nd motion.
Voted on, 11 approved 1 opposed.
Motion passed will post on home page of website the new
deadline. Mitzi also ask why the
southwest series was not marked on each of the events in the series and
if it would be ok to do so. It was
decided it would be ok to mark them.
Motocross Report:
Sheryl reported tracks not doing good job at signup. One rider rode in 16-24 for 6 races and
he is only 15. We need to send him
a letter telling him to quit riding in that class. Tracks are combining classes they
shouldn’t be combining on gate.
There are reports of one track running a race without an ambulance
on site. Sheryl will speak with
them. She felt a lot of riders are
sandbagging. She may check with
other districts to see if they have ridden in A class in their district.
Harescramble report:
Marie didn’t have too much to report. There have been several events. Mitzi got a complaint in office about Hocking
Valley’s harescramble. Marie has handled it.
Enduro: Charlie
absent.
Road: Mary
didn’t have much to report.
Buckeye Beemers has a district rally coming up June 3. Mother’s day event was not well
attended. Congress is same weekend
as Thrills in the Hills so there will be a few people (herself included)
that won’t be able to help out much the Thrills weekend.
Hillclimb: Ruth had hillclimb 6/23 & 6/24. Ruth submitted a proposal which is
listed in new business of minutes.
GP Report:
Henry reported that Brimstone had GP decent turnout. Question as to who was tracking points
for GP this year and Mitzi stated she is tracking them.
Congress Report:
Mary will continue to talk with AMA about notifying the district
of cancellations. Also mentioned
that each division needs to submit proposals to AMA for changes they want
to see happen.
Off Road: Dan
absent
ATV Congress:
Kim absent. Bill K feels
there needs to be more involvement in ATV off road. The riders who ride for pleasure get
better and decide then to race which then supports the district. Need to find out if Kim is going to get
more involved and if not needs to be replaced.
Newsletter: Jayne reports next newsletter deadline is
June 20. There will be a tribute
to Charlie Rees in next newsletter.
Questioned as to why Buckeye Series does not have to pay for ad in
newsletter since D11 now has to pay to be a part of series. Janet stated
it should be free as previously agreed upon. She also stated that D11 should be
paying $1.00 per rider at their event and they haven’t been. Mary commented that as far as she knows
there was a criteria set but not contract between D11 and Buckeye Series.
New Business
Jim mentioned Cheryl Willard (secretary) has missed 3
meetings as of this May meeting.
Rules state she should be replaced. Would like to check with her to see if
she is still interested in holding position. Jim ask Mitzi to ask her since she
seems to have the most contact with her.
Marie got a letter from Brad Wilson wanting to ride B
class even though her has ridden A class.
He wants a letter from district saying it is ok because he states
AMA and Racer Productions say it is ok but it is not OK with district.
Joe brought up the unofficial D11 website using D11
logo. Should we ask them to remove
it since we have it copyrighted.
Joe ask if we should make donation to Hospice of Dayton
for Charlie Rees. Mary made motion
to donate $50 which was 2nd by Henry. Voted on, approved 9-0.
Proposal submitted by Ruth Hughes:
#05-07
Chapter VIII Hillclimb
Section A
Change the 0-250cc in stock class to 0-400cc
stock. Change 251cc stock to 401cc
& up stock class.
Proposal submitted by Amy Eastman:
#06-07
Article III Motocross
Section A
Due to lack of participants in the Quad 2 stroke class
revise this class to become solely Quad “C” class division
and revise Quad 4 stroke to become and “A/B class division. This would allow a true beginner quad
class and allow a separation of skill levels therefore increasing
participation in both classes.
Proposal submitted by Sheryl Blum
#07-07
Should proposal #06-07 fail change the following:
Due to lack of participants in Quad 2 stroke
throughout the district. Remove
Quad 2 stroke from class list as a D11 recognized class for year end
awards.
Ruth made a motion to adjourn. Second by Sheryl.
Recorded by Mitzi Barnes, office manager.
C petitions approved:
Colby Levan 575922
Dustin Rue 404937
Joshua Smith 229887
Curtis Evans
728030
Taylor Clark 962218
Sam Horn NEW
C petitions denied:
Preston Colter 498924
C J Saporito
659745
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