Board Minutes – March 2020

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Corvettes of Bakersfield, Inc.

Board of Directors Meeting

03/04/2020 at Lorene’s on 23rd St.

Call to order:  6:00 PM by President Larry Young

Present:     Larry Young, Bill Dean, Adrian Medina, Virgil & Kim Miller, Danny Ellison, Liz Zaninovich, and Carl Lange.

Absent:       Dave Kielty and Betsy Slauson.

Guests:       Linda McNitt and Chris Espitia.

Minutes:     Danny moved to approve minutes from the last BOD meeting. Adrian seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Financial Report:  A copy of the past month’s financials were distributed.  Within all of the accounts, the club has $22,131.39.  Carl and Larry recently opened an account for the 501(c)3 arm of our accounting at Valley Strong Bank.  This will provide a “cleaner” means of accounting our business.

Club Logo:    Bill is still working on it.

Streets of Bakersfield:  Larry had Virgil share with the board the contents of a meeting he attended earlier today.  Marking the streets is going to be time consuming and possibly challenging.  Currently, the Chalk Team consists of Steve Taylor, Mitch Townsend, Steve Dallons, Annie Bailey, Mark Pucilowski, David Kielty and Virgil Miller.  More volunteers are needed (8-10) to direct participants to their parking spots.  Will try to enlist more at the general meeting next week. Tony Castiglione, with the Streets of Bakersfield, will have vests for the volunteers.

Gambler’s Classic 2021:  Do we have someone that wants to lead it?  Linda McNitt suggested maybe we do it on a smaller scale or have it at a local hotel.  She also suggested a casino night one night and maybe a poker run on a second day.  There was a lot of discussion.  Liz suggested putting it out to the club at the next meeting.

Leap Year Day Run:  Thank you to Virgil and Kim Miller for the fun and successful run.

Newsletter:  Larry wants a monthly or semi-monthly digital newsletter that can be sent out to all members.  He wants contributions for it by all board members.  Nothing definitive was established by the board.

Upcoming Events:  The Loading Chute in Creston on 3/28/2010.  Roger Buckles will take the lead on this. Friday Night Graffiti at the Firehouse Rosedale Station has started back up beginning 3/6/2020.  Thursday Night Cruise-in at Chuy’s on Rosedale Highway has started back up.

Kim will be out of town for the General Meeting.  Someone is needed to take the minutes at the general meeting.  Liz volunteered.

Adjourn:     7:10 PM

Board Meeting – February 2020

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Corvettes of Bakersfield, Inc.

Board of Directors Meeting

02/04/2020 at Lorene’s on 23rd St.

Call to order:  6:01 PM by President Larry Young

Present:     Larry Young, Bill Dean, Dave Kielty, Virgil & Kim Miller, Danny Ellison, Liz Zaninovich, Betsy Slauson, and Carl Lange.

Absent:       Adrian Medina.

Guests:       Linda McNitt and Chris Espitia.

Minutes:     Dave moved to approve minutes from the last BOD meeting. Carl seconded the motion. Motion passed.

NCCC Governor:  Linda McNitt has decided that she would like to continue as the club’s NCCC Governor.  Larry accepted her offer.

Monthly Meetings:    Larry advised that Three-Way Chevrolet is having employee training for the next couple months (maybe three) and the meeting room won’t be available.  Those signed up for refreshments won’t need to bring them.  If you are signed up to bring raffle prizes, please plan on bringing them.  We will meet at Round Table Pizza at Gosford Rd/White Ln.

Club Logo:    Bill has received eight proposed designs and will stop taking submissions next month.  Vote will be in March.  Virgil will post them on the website and give the link to Adrian to post on Facebook.

Street of Bakersfield:  Carl advised we have nine tickets that need to be sold for $50 each.  We also need a chalk team of five people for 3/20 and 3/21/2020.  Danny will make a sign-up sheet  to pass around at the general meeting.  Two COB members are needed for the Saturday Cruise, 3/21, after the show.  This will be put out to the general membership on Tuesday also.

Gambler’s Classic 2021:  Are we going to pursue this?  This will be put on the agenda for the General Membership meeting.

Impromptu Events – If the events are going under the Corvettes of Bakersfield  name, the president needs to be “in the know”.

Nominations:  Bill sent out a letter and job descriptions to the membership.

Larry is having surgery 3/11/2020 and will be out of commission for a couple weeks.

New Business:  Linda McNitt presented meeting results from the last NCCC meeting.  NCCC only want a calendar of events from clubs.  To and from meetings (Board and General) and events are covered as long as they are on the calendar.  The next NCCC quarterly meeting is in Ventura the second weekend in May.  Linda suggested that if we put a run together for the Ventura area that weekend, the NCCC meeting could be an option for attendance for anyone going on the run.

Adjourn:     7:10 PM

Board Minutes – January 2020

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Board of Directors Meeting

01/07/2020 at Lorene’s on 23rd St.

Call to order:  5:55 PM by President Larry Young

Present:     Larry Young, Bill Dean, Dave Kielty, Virgil Miller, Adrian Medina, Danny Ellison, Liz Zaninovich, Betsy Slauson, and Carl Lange.

Absent:       Kim Miller.

Guests:       Linda McNitt.

Minutes:     Liz moved to approve minutes from the last BOD meeting. Adrian seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Finances:    Carl passed out the Treasurer’s report. Total of $25,349.99. Carl will open an additional checking account at Kern Schools Federal Credit Union to use for all 501(c)(3) monies.

Christmas Party 2020:   We are looking for a new location for the 2020 club Christmas Party. Larry will look into a friend’s hanger at the Shafter Airport. Danny will talk to River Lakes Golf Course.

Events Chairperson:      Danny is looking for someone to take over the PowerPoint presentations for the general meetings. Danny will continue if needed for the rest of his elected term.

Storage Unit:    Larry set a date of Saturday, January 25th, at 10:00 am to clean up and organize the club’s storage unit. Larry is looking for volunteers.

Club Logo:    Bill reported no one has submitted any logo ideas.  Bill will remind everyone at the general meeting that there is a $100 prize for the logo that is chosen. Bill will give it one more month.

Bakersfield Car Club Council, Inc.:  Larry reported to Chris and Betty of the BCCC that COB wished to remain neutral at this time. The BCCC agreed and have continued to send Larry their monthly schedule.

Street of Bakersfield:  Dave Kielty reported the Streets of Bakersfield will be a 5-day event. Wednesday – Motor City will sponsor a party at Motor City. Thursday – Registration and Crystal Palace . Friday – Driving Events and sock hop at Minter Field. Saturday – car show. Sunday – Time trials at Minter Field. COB is still marking parking spaces for the car show, volunteers needed.

Gambler’s Classic 2021:  We still are receiving requests and inquiries for Gambler’s Classic. We will present this back to the membership again.

Monthly Refreshments and prizes:  We only have a couple openings for the year to fill.

Events:       SLO Vettes would like to participate in our annual wine run. They have been referred to Tony and Chevy for further discussion.

C8 Update: Carl indicated that GM was to start making the new corvettes the first part of February. Carl is expecting his C8 delivery around mid-year.

NCCC:         The club’s NCCC dues have been paid.

Board Officers:     Bill took a poll of current board members as to if they were planning on running for another term.

Adjourn:     6:45 PM

Board Minutes – November 2019

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Corvettes of Bakersfield, Inc.

Board of Directors Meeting

11/5/19 at Lorene’s on 23rd St.

Call to order:  6:00 PM by President Larry Young

Present:     Larry Young, Bill Dean, Dave Kielty, Virgil & Kim Miller, Adrian Medina, Danny Ellison and Liz Zaninovich

Absent:       Betsy Slauson and Carl Lange

Guests:       Chris Espitia and Linda McNitt.

Minutes:     Liz moved to approve minutes from the last BOD meeting. Bill Dean requested to amend the minutes to reflect that the Christmas Party will be on 12/14/2019.  Bill Dean seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Finances:    Carl, via Larry, wants to create a third account for donations.  Subject is on hold until the next meeting.

Veterans Parade:  We are 49th in the parade.  The route has been shortened.  It will probably be 11:00 before we line up.  Meet at 9:00am.

Bylaw Amendment:  Voted 3-2 to go to 1-year terms across the board.

Christmas Party:  We are now dealing with Elements Venue and Banquet Centre, Inc for all beverages.  Cost:  $595 for set up and to furnish all beverages.  Members will pay for their drinks at the party.  We to pay the $595 set up fee still.

Bakersfield Car Club Council, Inc.:  Danny and Larry met with Chris, Betty and Larry of the BCCC.  In 2020, Street and Super Cruze will not have conflicting dates, however, all future years will conflict.  BCCC promote three shows, the Super Cruze, Chuey’s and Reason for a Cure.  The BCCC is not a car club, but a Council of Clubs.  Do we want to get back with the BCCC?  A lot of discussion followed.  Membership has already voted NO.  We’ll stick with that and stay neutral.

Gambler’s Classic:  A group of members was approached at a recent event in Prescott, AZ regarding the future of Gambler’s Classic.  The event has been missed by other clubs.  There was a lot of discussion.  We will take this back to the membership again.

Club Logo:    It was suggested, that with the advent of the C8, we create a timeless logo for the club.  Larry handed a sample to Virgil and put him in the lead of the subject.  Suggestion was made to put an incentive out to club members to come up with a new logo ($50 or $100).  Bill will present this at the general meeting, offering $100.

Storage Shed:    Danny and Larry went over there and said it was filled STUFF.  In January, they’d like to get everyone together that has put STUFF in the storage unit and go through it and get rid of anything that is not needed.

New Officers:  Nominating Committee is headed by the Vice President.  Need to start thinking about upcoming elections.

Treasurer Report:  Larry shared that there is total of $25,996.89 in both accounts.

                   Linda McNitt present an invoice for the dues, $25.00.  Larry will turn it over to Carl.

                   Liz asked why do we need so much money in our account?  What do we do with it?  Danny explained, in the past, it has been used for seed money for Gambler’s Classic.

Events:   Danny advised that Tim Garcia recently passed away.  There is no will and it is unknown who to get in touch with.  Members will look into it further.

                   1/12/2020  Brunch  will throw out to membership to see who wants to host it

                   11/12/2019 General Membership meeting

                   11/20/2020 Corvette Owners’ Breakfast

                   NO meetings in December

Street of Bakersfield:  Per Dave Kielty, they are going out to Minter Field and have three different events planned.  There will be four (4) days to the event.  Someone from COB has to be at every Street of Bakersfield meeting or they can kick the club out.

Liz shared that there will be a Route 66 carshow/fun run in Kingman, AZ the first weekend in May 2020.

We need to get a Toys for Tots box at the next general meeting.  Linda will handle.

Adjourn:     7:14 PM

Board Minutes – October 2019

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Board of Directors Meeting

10/1/19 at Lorene’s on 23rd St.

Call to order:  5:59 PM by President Larry Young

Present:     Larry Young, Bill Dean, Dave Kielty, Virgil & Kim Miller, Betsy Slauson, Danny Ellison, Carl Lange and Liz Zaninovich

Absent:       Adrian Medina.

Guests:       Chris Espitia and Linda McNitt.

Minutes:     Liz moved to approve minutes from the last BOD meeting. Betsy seconded.  Motion passed.

Veterans Parade:  Are we going to participate?  We will wait until the general meeting to hear from Tony Ennis before making a decision.

NCCC:         Linda McNitt is our new NCCC governor.  Linda and Greg Brott have plans to get together on Thursday to discuss the role.  Larry shared his experience at the 9/14/2019 meeting.

Christmas Party – This year’s event will be held on 12/7/2019.  Dues to our insurance, the club cannot provide liquor to the members.  Larry advised that we have hired Jason Brower of Party Brokers to serve alcohol at the party.  He has insurance and a liquor license and meets NCCC requirements.

Veterans Charity Car Show:  Virgil advised that logistics-wise we are on track.  At this point, there has not been very many entries.  Virgil contacted Yolanda Atkinson regarding t-shirts.  She said she needs 2-1/2 weeks notice along with the number of shirts and sizes in order to place our order.

Christmas Parade:  No corvettes this year.

By-laws:     Kim Miller spoke to Zelma regarding the possibility of amending the 501(c)3 bylaws to align the length of terms for officers.  Zelma said it only had to be approved by the executive board and documented in the meeting minutes.  General membership does not need to be a part of this.

                   Further discussion ensued amongst the board members suggesting that the term of the Treasurer should be a two-year term while the other officers could remain at a one-year term.  Kim said she would put together a couple options for the board to consider and get it to Larry as soon as possible.

Financial Report:  Larry passed out the report (Carl had to leave early).  Between the two accounts, we have $25,547.99.

Membership:  We recently lost a member, Steven Mathias Jr.  There will be a wake on 10/6/2019 at The Firehouse on White Ln.  It has been requested to have some corvettes there.

                   Larry would like to see one specific person (director) be responsible for taking care of cards, flowers, etc. when there is an occasion such as this.  Betsy will order flowers tomorrow.  Also, as an update, Barbara Compton is doing better, per Larry.

Adjourn:     7:11 PM