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By Ron
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This month's NER Board meeting took place at the home of Treasurer Karen Adams. In attendance were Steve Ross, Steve Boris, Steve Berry, Susana Weber, Karen & Doug Adams, Andy Jenks, Barbara Collazzo-Noonan and yours truly. This particular meeting was called to order at 7:38 PM. Maybe it was due to last month's extended cold streak or perhaps it was the absence of Dave Weber, but either way, this particular get together was a bit less frenetic then usual. Steve Ross led off with an update on the results of the first meeting of the Autocross committee. Top of the list was the situation at Devens. Both Steve and NCR's autocross chair, Colin Blake, attended a meeting with several other clubs and the Devens’ authorities. Devens has relented and will allow unregistered cars to participate. The primary concern relates to noise. Unfortunately, they've yet to develop any standards that could be reasonably implemented. The SCCA is taking the lead to attempt to produce some manageable and enforceable guidelines for this year’s events. Suffice to say that all future autocrosses will be muffled events at which we expect that we will be forced to take some sound level measurements to ensure compliance. To that end the board authorized the purchase of a sound level meter. Steve also reported that Drew & Carol Ley were in the process of designing the summer rally. The DE program is on-track, with a minor bump in the road occurring with LCMT. The event had to be shifted one day forward which means loosing Saturday, which now becomes Thursday and Friday. Susana Weber reported that most of this month’s effort centered on finding and engaging a venue for the 2004 Annual Dinner. The board discussed the merits of the two finalists as well as the notion of moving the dinner into January from the traditional time in early December. Although we were somewhat split on this issue, Steve Ross reminded us that the bylaws require that the annual dinner be held in December, so ultimately that notion was dropped. Although no decision was made as to the location, both choices were more than acceptable. Cost and taste tests will likely decide the issue. Karen then followed with this month’s treasurer’s report which the board subsequently approved. Steve Berry had nothing new to report on the membership front. Things might have ended peacefully right then and there, but there ensued a rather long discussion led by Karen as to the pitfalls, complications and general irritations related to the installation of an online transaction system for the web site. It appears that while on-line transactions ease the burden on the membership, it would seem that it could increase the work level for those behind the scenes. The technocrats among were somewhat surprised to learn about these complexities and in the end Andy took up the gauntlet to determine if the process could be simplified. And so we adjourned at 9:24 PM, and agreed to reconvene next on Thursday the 18th of March at the home of Steve Berry. Not perhaps the most exciting of our gatherings, but then this is the dead of winter. I'm sure things will heat up as we move into spring. |
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