Monthly Meeting Minutes February 17, 2020

31 Members in attendance

CMGC President Dean Hickenlooper opened the meeting at 7:0 pm. Dean recognized memberJim Wales of Chicago. Jim is the owner of 1976 yellow MGB.

  Swap Meet
Jim Evans noted that the Swap Meet is only a couple weeks away and the vendor response is lighter that it has been in past years at this time. This year we opened to other sport car marques. Jim passed around a sign-up sheet for assistance in setting up and manning the entry doors during the event.

Car Projects:
Bill Kalafut is currently working on the recently purchased MG -YB.

  Project Car – Dean noted that the MGA car is at a point to be sold AS-IS. The car is drivable with new brakes and running engine, still much work to be done to make it a road-ready car. Kim Tonry was asked to take a number of pictures for the sales brochure

CMGC Annual Business Meeting
A complete summary of the Annual Business Meeting can be found on the CMGC website in the ‘members only’ section. You will need the member name and password.
http://chicagolandmgclub.com/home.html

- 2019 Summary – Dean Hickenlooper – 2018 saw several initiatives accomplished with a few still on-the-table for the new year.
- Membership - Victor L’Heureux - Membership increased slightly to 250 members at years’ end with 24 new members joining the CMGC in 2019. Our current renewals to-date for 2020 total 169 members. This is slightly less than previous year’s renewal progress. There are potentially 85 current members that have not yet renewed their membership to-date.
- Regalia - George Phariss – First new items are Club Logo sew on and Iron on Patches. Continue to look for new products. Looking for other means of making name tags as well as coming up with a semi-temporary name tag that we give to each new member when they join the club. Began the process of getting rid of old inventory such as glassware through our 50/50 raffle process.
- Library - Bill Mennell - For calendar year 2019 we spent $41.76, $31.29 for books and $10.47 for shipping. In 2019 37 books were added, mostly thru donations. This brings the total number of items (books, DVDs, VHS, and CDs) to 254. This includes some duplicates.New this year the library inventory is on a computer spreadsheet, which will be emailed to the members periodically.
- Website – Victor L’Heureux - The club web site seems to be soldering along and doing its job as intended (since 1998), hosting about the same number of worldwide visitors as is common in recent years. It is regularly updated on demand for upcoming events and reports of past events, and the new issue of the club newsletter every month. Our 22nd-year seasoned website is quite popular on the world scene, like the world

premier MG club web site. This is largely due to interest in prior technical events and the Tech Tips articles, reflecting what people need to restore and maintain MGs. Total cost of the web site server account and domain name registrations is just shy of $200 per year (mostly for the server account fee), or about $0.07 per month per member.
- Driving Events – Jamie Schafer - 2019 was the 7th year that the Vintage MG Car Club of Chicago and the Chicagoland MG Club shared the Driving Events, the combined calendar offered a variety of driving events and participation continued to increase. The 18 events saw 134 different members participating 216 times. These numbers went up a bit (11 more participants).
- Driveline - Victor L’Heureux - The CMGC Driveline was successfully published and distributed via two methods of delivery to over 250 members and other MG car clubs monthly. The average publication contains 20 pages of club activities and articles.
- Treasurer Report – Jim Compton – The year ended with $6,259 in checking, $18,251 in savings for a total of $24,510 Club is no longer operating at a deficit. Net cash flow is positive.

Break/ 50:50 raffle – CMGC member Tim Lange was the winner of $31 and allowed the amount to rollover to next month. Bonnie Guest was the winner of a ‘Sales/Service’ plaque.

Driving Events
Upcoming Driving/Social Event Schedule (additional details of these events are in the March Driveline issue)
March 24 – Indoor Racing School - Blackhawk Raceway
April 19 - Swap Meet - Jim Evans notes this is the 24th Annual event for the club and need the support of members to make it a success. A sign-up sheet was passed around. 60 of the possible 100 vendor booths have been sold; this is less than last year at this time.
April 18 - Spring Tune-up, Dave Bralich and Bill Mennell
April 26 - Volo Car Museum road trip
May 9 - Car Care Safety Clinic for Seniors, Lisle, IL Jim Vondran
May 15-17 - Spring Tour—TBD – Ric Maitzen
May 17 - Miata Autocross I, Boomers Stadium, Schaumburg, IL
May 30 - LaGrange Pet Parade/MG Parade

2016 Club Awards
The following awards were presented:
Safety Fast: Success in competitive driving – Kevin L. Carlson

Maintaining the Breed: Commendable efforts in restoration work – Pat Guest

Ambassador at Large: Promoting goodwill towards the club through contacts with other organizations – Doug G. Clark

New Members of the Year: Enthusiastic contribution from a new member – Rich Wood

Cream Crackers: Contribution to the MG community – Melissa Gonzales

President’s Award: Special Appreciation – Jamie Schafer

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