HEART OF AMERICA MODEL A FORD CLUB

Board Meeting

June 7, 2005

 

 

 

1.      Approval of the May Board Minutes: Lance Burton made a motion that the May minutes of the Board meeting be approved as written and Lynn Lackey seconded the motion. A vote was taken and the motion carried.

 

 

  

STANDING REPORTS

      

1.           Publications Director: Lynn Lackey reported the newsletter was being mailed the week of June 6th to the membership.

 

 

 

 

 

2.           Membership Director: There are 121 members as of June 1, 2005. Lance will develop a new members package to give to all new members as a welcoming package of sorts including but not limited to, a letter from the president welcoming the new member, history of the club and cars, interesting stories etc.

 

3.           Activities Director: Glen Spielbusch reported there were 12 cars from the club in attendance in Sedalia. The mayor made a blunder and thanked the Blue Springs Model A Ford club for coming instead of the Heart Of America Model A Ford Club. This was of concern to some who attended as it should have been. The club officially is not the coffee club of Blue Springs and it is important the club be recognized correctly. The Shrine club event at Harrah’s was not well received-enough said! Wheels for Healing had only 60 cars and not well attended-The event was termed a bust. Next year the group will be looking for a new location to hold the event. We of course would like to participate in the event as it was a good fund raiser for our club. Lake Lotawana will hold an event on June 18. There is $5.00 entry fee to show your car. Jim Streetby will lead the event and it is not a sanctioned Heart of America club event.

 

There was a discussion on what is sanctioned versus what is not a sanctioned event. Lance Burton made a motion that we have a designated description in the newsletter as what is needed to be sponsored or sanction event versus one that is not. Chuck Haber seconded the motion and after a short discussion, it was decided that Glen Spielbusch being the activities director he would bring the event to the board and he would then notify Lynn Lackey of what is sponsored and those not sponsored or sanction. The type of event would then be posted in the newsletter. The motion carried. 

Chris Launer notified the board the Martin Luther Lutheran Church event would be pared way down to an evening event only and the club would still need to hold a event for July. Glen would look into a possible location for the meeting/picnic. A motion was made by Larry Sparks to allow Glen to pick a location and to notify the members at our meeting of such location due to short time to set up. Lance Burton seconded the motion and motion carried.

 

Glen Spielbuisch said there will be a tour on September 10th to be called The Missouri Tour-that will encompass Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri. This will be a week-long tour sponsored by Bob Hess. Lance Burton made a motion we sanction the fall tour and Glen seconded. The motion carried.

 

4.           Treasurer: Chuck Haber presented the treasurers report and the club did make money on the Parkville Model A appreciation days event.

 

 

5.           Plain Old A’s: Nothing to report

 

 

 

6.           Other Reports Not Listed. None

 

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

1.        Review and recommendations concerning the Swap Meet Update: Larry Weigum needs approval for doing next year’s event. He would would like to do hourly drawings next year to keep people at the event. Larry Sparks made a motion that we make Larry Weigum the Chairman of the 2006 Swap Meet once again due to the success he brought to the event this year. Lance Burton seconded the motion and a discussion followed. The motioned carried and Larry will begin working on a date for the event.

2.        It was also discussed that we would look into A. Having Swap Meet meeting, B. Have a Shriner’s booth to make some money on food. And C. Lookj for other events where the club could raise funds.

 

3.        Review and recommendations concerning the Parkville event: The animal shelter picked up their money but left all the dog food. It was unloaded at the fire station and was still there 2 weeks later. Mr Spawn was aware of this concern and will address it for next year.

 

 

4.        2008 MAFCA Regional Meet: No update Bob Hess will get with Jim Spawn to get hotels set-up and hold meetings to finalize some of those plans. It was noted there is still lots of stuff to do for this event to be a success.

 

 

5.        Other items of old business agenda not listed: Discussion on a list of people who know how to work on model A’s and or can offer knowledge to other members. It was decided that the people wanting to know these types of things should be directed to our technical director-Bob Hess. Chuck Haber made a motion that a list of those who can do work be given to Bob Hess and he should approve anyone on the list as the Technical Director. Larry Sparks seconded the motion and the after a brief discussion the motion carried.

 

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

1.        July event in place of 50th celebration at Martin Luther Lutheran Church.

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED

 

 

 

2.        Storage shed for swap meet things and a storage unit for monthly meeting supplies. Chris agreed to talk to the pastor at our meeting location to see if we can have a location to store our club items. Lance agreed to store the stuff until a permanent location or solution could be identified. This will be brought to the attention of the club at our next meeting by Chris.

 

 

3.        Presidential concerns. Chris is concerned that our club members might be opposed to change, such as changing the cars in manners to upgrade the transmissions, brakes etc. Our president wants to make sure all the members needs are being addressed and we remain sensitive to those on both sides of this issue.

 

4.        Other items of new business: None

 

 

Meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM