2006 | 2005

Governance Presidents Message February 2005 Dennis Rood The first board meeting of the year was held at Barrier Porsche in Bellevue on Monday January 3 with about 25 in attendance. The new board introduced themselves and their backgrounds and current Porsche they are driving. These included Boxster S, 968, 993, 944, 911 and 996 (with a 997 on the way) models. Some have multiple Porsches in their families including 928s and 356s as well. There was a lot of beginning of the year items to deal with. One was a budget being due next month. Another was trying to find a new ad manager as Rawlee Ridgeway has gone back to work at Boeing to build the 7E7 right. We also need a rally chairman and VP Dennis Coplen, who has had a lot of rally experience, is researching this area and other clubs we might be able to join that already have schedule in place and with whom we might have multi-marque events. When he gets the information together, we will advertise for a rally co-coordinator. This means you may not have to put a lot of rallies together but rather manage relationships and schedule for other club rallies already being run. If anyone would like to volunteer for that position please let Dennis or me know. The end of January is the National PCA winter meeting in San Diego . I won't attend that but will send my proxy vote with Linda Bein, our Zone 6 rep. The Zone 6 presidents meeting is in Portland March 18-20 and I will be attending that. This is a chance for us to learn how we might have inter-region events, learn from what they are doing that we can improve on or add for our club and especially find out from the Portland club how we can be of help for the 2006 Parade they are hosting there. I am quite sure we will be asked to manage and operate the autocross as we did at the Boise Parade in 2002 and do every year for the Canada West Club/PNWR Whistler Weekend. This year Nancy and I will be social chairman but we have found two new co-chairs for tours , Larry and Sherrel Nelson. They were proposed and voted into this position at the January board meeting and will be coordinating and leading this effort for 2005. See my last tour column for introductions and more information on Larry and Sherrel. Thanks for volunteering. While these are the quiet winter months without a lot of driving events, review the calendar in the front of the Spiel or on the PNWR Web site and plan for the events you want to attend. If you want to meet some fun people and see how your club runs come to a board meeting some first Monday of the month. If you have a home you like to host a wine tasting social in June, let us know about that. Also, I hope by the time you read this you have registered for (January 18) and have received approval to attend the 50 th anniversary of PCA Parade in Hershey Pennsylvania from June 25 to July 1. Most of all, plan to sign up for one of Bill Bauer's Driving Skills classes. See my last tour column for more comments but trust me, you will have a lot of fun and be very glad you did. Hope to see you soon at one of our next events.