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The meeting of the Northern Late Model Racing Association was called
to order by President, Brad Seng, on Saturday, February 19, 2000, at 3:50 P.M., at Bonzers
Restaurant, Grand Forks, N.D. Roll was taken with the following in attendance: Jenny Welin, Steve Anderson I, Steve Anderson VP, Tom Corcoran, Bruce Hart, Dale Skytland, Jon Bittner, Sherry Amundson, Brad Seng, and Desiree Hapka. MISSION OF NLRA: Organized and Established for the Betterment and advancement of Late Model and All Racing. AGENDA 1. MSP (Corcoran/ Hart) to accept agenda 2. MSP (Anderson/ Skytland) to accept past Minutes 3. No financial report was given OLD BUSINESS 1. President’s Report: Brad discussed the point fund and working with the sponsors along with Desiree Hapka to finalize the point fund. We are working not just at finalizing the sponsor list but also the collection of monies. We also discussed the cups and the procedure for making this work. These are being developed by the sponsorship committee. 2. Vice President’s Report: Steve deferred his report until we moved to point fund dis- cussion. 3. Western ND Report: Tom Corcoran had discussion with Johnny Johnson who is working on details for shows out west. More details will be in the works. 4. Point Fund: There was much discussion revolving around what was happening with the point fund and sponsorships. There was confusion between Jenny Walin and her responsibilities as well as Jerome Gerszewski, Brad Seng and Steve Anderson. We requested the following: 1) Who has been contacted 2) What has been collected so far 3) What is going to happen in the future 4) What has Brad and Steve done as far as contacts and collections 5) What overlap is there between what Jenny, Jerome and Steve have contacted 6) Desiree’s desire to help with the project and see it to completion 7) The need for Jenny and Desiree to sit down after the meeting with Steve and coordinate where they are currently at and what direc- tion they are going to head. 8) The time frames with which this point fund will be finalized 9) The placement of ads and the printing of the program and tickets MSP (Skytland/Bittner) That the President of the Grand Forks JC’s be contacted and brought to the Executive Board meeting (Feb. 28, 2000, 6:30 PM at the Fireside on Gateway) to make sure they are informed and well aware of what is happen- ing and what their plans are. MSP (Skytland/Anderson) That the purchase and administration of the picture can holders be refereed to the sponsorship committee for their planning. 5. Rules: Brad and Tom discussed the meeting with Wayne Anderson and the ability to go to your pit area for repairs/ tire changing. Consensus was to move forward with these discussions with some given perimeters. Brad and Tom also talked about incentives for increasing the purses for each class. This is up to the speedway and only a discussion point. We talked again, about the 2000 season, point fund and level of expectations how points are accumulated for shows and that we are a “club” and NOT a “sanctioning” body! 6. Competition Director: Tom Corcoran is finishing up the 2000 “tour” schedule which will be somewhere between 10 to 14 additional shows! This does not include the 20 (plus 2 LM Spls.) for River City.The list will be closer to completion by the end of March. PRIORITIES FOR 2000 SEASON 1. Point Fund 2. Shows and Schedule 3. Communication 4. Out of Town Members and how to bring them together 5. Advertisement and Promotion NLRA ON THE WEB...http://members.aol.com/nlratour...all information, meeting announcements, minutes and agendas and any other information is found on this site courtesy of Troy Powers and the 20/20 Web site! Thank you Troy! Next meeting Monday, March 13, 2000 @ Bonzers in Grand Forks. MSP (Corcoran/ Thompson) to adjourn at 6:13 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Jon Bittner Sec./ Tres., NLRA |