Generations Corvette Club

December 17, 2011

Union St. Bistro, Concord, NC

Called to order at 8:13 pm by Chris Patton, President.

No additions or deletions to minutes and minutes accepted by members.

Bart Richards, VP-Membership:  No new applications

107 members as of today

Will send a new roster after 2012 dues are paid.

Bart asked members if they are comfortable with the size of the club and the fact that about 33% of the paid members participate regularly.  Members discussed selectivity of membership in the future.

Paul Silvia, VP-Automotive:  Wooden tribute plaques are still available for purchase.

Next Car Care Day will be in February.

Debbie Rather, Treasurer:  $3371.37 in account and $21 for charity.  Debbie thanked the members for letting her be treasurer as she is outgoing treasurer.  Will transition to Linda Silvia in January.

Melissa Patton, Events Coordinator:  Thanked everyone for coming to the Christmas party.   Calendar will be rolled out the first week of January on the website.  Will be set up on a rolling 3- month period in advance to avoid multiple cancellations as happened in 2011.  Melissa encouraged members to give her meeting location suggestions and event suggestions. 

Chris Patton reminded members that Google notification of upcoming events will begin in January.

Melissa said the January meeting may be at the restaurant that used to The Junction near Steel Creek.  More to come.

Rich Spina, Officer-at-Large: Would like to arrange Checkers game in March.

Will drop off donated items to USO on Monday.

Greg Tilley, Public Relations/webmaster:  We participated in six holiday parades and carried 19 pageant queens in all.  St. Patrick’s Day parade club display may be down to 6 cars, but we will need cars to drive pageant queens.   More to come.

Seymour-Johnson AFB will have their next air show in 2013.  Greg will look at Blue Angels/Thunderbirds schedule for 2012 to see if they will be close by and let members know if opportunity comes up for club to attend.  (Update:  Officials at Shaw AFB, SC, declined our offer to provide Corvettes for their Thunderbirds air show in April.)

Needs more stories for Word on the Street page of the club website. 

Needs new pictures from everyone for Showroom page.  Per Chris, the old photos will be removed and new photos uploaded when provided.

Patti Spina, Secretary:  Donations for Christmas Angel family were taken to Salvation Army.

Will need charity chairperson volunteer for 2012 as Patti will not be able to fulfill this role due to school obligations.

New Business:   Chris Patton thanked Debbie Rather for her service as treasurer and presented her with a gift from the club.   Welcomed Linda Silvia as new treasurer.

Members of the Year for 2011 announced:

Female:  Carolyn Richards

Male:  Richard Thomas

Meeting adjourned at 9:00pm.