President Roger Tooker called the meeting to order at 7:32 and welcomed everyone to the meeting.

The Secretary stated that all meeting minutes had been posted and all Board members were present and accounted for.  

Guests: Dave Myers 2000 blue C5.

New Member: None

Vice President Report-Janet Sakakibara commented on the following upcoming events:

• Memorial Day Tour the Beymer’s are hosting.   Going to Victoria, Canada. May 27^th – May 30th or May 31^st return. Staying at the Harbourside Hotel. The Victoria Club to put on a few events for us. The Victoria Club sponsors are putting on a car show on Sunday.   The Victoria Club is doing a meet and greet. Saturday lunch.

• Memorial Day – Reno tour hosted by Joe Ficcadenti promises a lot of gambling, sun and fun. Vicky stated they are staying at Silver Legacy and the room rate is $129.00 and you need to make your reservations.  

• June 4^th Car tour to the Lemay Auto Museum with over 300 cars in Tacoma and is hosted by Sharon and Wayne Simmons. Bring your own lunch.  Private Tours of the Car collection and the private collection of Mrs. Lemay.   Meet at 6:30 at the first rest stop leaving at 7amis a Picnic lunch so bring your own food. in Washington-price is $25.00 per person.  Starts at 10 am and lasts 2 ½ hours, then lunch then tour the private collection.  Also the Simmon’s episode on People’s Court will be at noon on Friday.

• June 11^th Golf Tournament. Dave R. spoke Nick Trujillo 9 hole tourney shot gun start at 1pm. Free food and playing at Sandalee Golf Course in Tualatin.  Bring putter and balls.  $14.00 and the cart is $9.00 enough for everyone.

• July 2^nd Ms. Oregon BBQ at the Gette’s in Seaside.

• August 6^th Parade for Chataquaqua Parade. Bring Candy.  10am at Gladstone HS.

• Presidents Mystery Tour Sept. 9^th – 11^th. Roger stated the he needed to know by the end of this month who was going as the place requires a $75.00 deposit for each room by June 8^th.  The event will be under $300.00.

Vice President Janet stated that she wanted to bring up one more event as she wanted all members to be on the same page with the Classic.  The Cohen’s have declined to chair the Classic on April 29^th and Chuck Spittle resigned on May 13^th from running the Auto Cross and Track Day; and the Parfitt’s have declined to do the road tour all out of respect for the Cohen’s.  Janet stated that Karen Reid volunteered to run the Classic. However, the VP wanted the members to understand where the club stands and have all the facts as to whether we do or don’t have the Classic.  Janet stated that a contract was signed for the Banquet at Red Lion and since we are within the 60-90 cancellation time period there will be a fine if we cancel.  Janet deferred to Karen Reid to talk about the fines as she had a copy of the contract.  The fines will be $5,100 for the banquet and $4,278 for the block of rooms for a total of $9,578.00 as of today.  We have made a $1,000 deposit and we stand to lose an additional loss of $8,378 if we do not have the Classic and cancel now as we are within the 60-90 day cancellation policy. It was also noted that we may have major fines at PIR if we do not cancel the track by Friday, May 27^th as well.  If we try and have just a show and shine and banquet we still stand to lose a lot of money as we do not have one person signed up for the Classic as of this date according to the Cohen’s.  Janet asked Roger if he had anything to say.  Roger stated that he warned the Board members not to bring up the issue of questioning Alan about the checkbook and his behavior towards the board or there would be repercussions and then he stated he didn’t know anything about discussing the Classic at this meeting. 

Karen stated that since the Classic is almost upon us and Chairs are dropping like flies that the Classic needs to be discussed. Karen wanted to remind everyone this is about the Club and not about everyone’s petty differences. She stated we can’t use the current flyers because several events have been cancelled due to the lack of Chairs.  Karen Reid spoke about the contracts.  We have guaranteed a minimum of 200.00 at $40.00 each per attendees at the banquet alone.  The money maker for this event is raffle and track day.  If we go forward, we have to spend some money to try and make some money since there are no registrations to date. Karen stated if you want to give it back to the Cohen’s then do it so the club doesn’t take a huge loss. The Cohen’s declined to run the Classic.  

Dave R. stated we need a point of order and people needed to be recognized before they speak. 

Motion: John Moist recommends canceling the Classic and taking our losses now.  Several members second the motion. John stated that we have been talking about the classic and a rainy day issue for years.  Hopefully the Red Lion will cut us some slack and not charge us the full cancellation amount.

Discussion began:

Chuck stated that he would get us out of the Track Day Contract but needs a letter with the signatures from all of the board members before Friday.  Vicky McCoy provided a typed letter cancelling the RCC Classic with a place for all of the board member’s signatures and dates. All board members signed the five copies to be provided to the Red Lion Hotel, NWACC and PIR according to Vicky.

Anna Weese asked who is going to get RCC out of the contract at Red Lion.  Anne Cohen suggested she would.  Anna stated that a board member should go with her.  Brian Dion stated he has been in the Hospitality business for years and offered to go with Anne on the next day, Thursday.  Anne Cohen seemed confident she could get RCC out of the Red Lion contracts.  Anna Weese cautioned everyone that due to the economy and Hotels and tourism hurting as well as everyone else that it was no sure thing that the Red Lion would accept just the $1,000.00 deposit  and let us out of the rest of the contract.

Robin Foyer asked if all of the cancellations can be done by the next board meeting and brought up to let everyone know what is occurring regarding the contracts.  Alan stated everyone in the club will know in the next few days as it will be finalized and they will send out an email to everyone! 

Dave asked how much money we have to pay the debt if we do not get out of the Classic Contracts.  Linda Connors stated we have approximately $14,000.00 currently in the bank and we have around $5k allocated with an unallocated balance of around $8,900.00 for the rest of this year. If we have to pay theses fines it will bankrupt the club.  Linda Connors quoted the Cohen’s  “that if the board wants to scrutinize the Classic then the Cohen’s won’t have anything to do with running the classic”.  Anne Cohen signed two contracts with Red Lion.  Per our By-Laws only the Treasurer and the VP or President are the only persons that can legally sign a contract on behalf of RCC. It was suggested that we get out of the contracts based on the legal loophole if we absolutely have to.  Pat Hutton stated that the Cohen’s did the Classic for 13 years and it was implied that they could sign the contracts.   Linda Connors stated she read the By-Laws and it was this board’s agenda this year to get them updated by the policy committee. In doing do, it protects all of us, the Board and the RCC members.  All we wanted to do is to update the By-laws. A member asked if we could get our NWACC Insurance money back and Chuck stated that our NWACC Insurance is third party and is not just for our Auto cross and track day.

John made a motion to call the question to end debate. The motion was second by several members.

Motion to cancel Classic was voted on and resulted in 31 for cancelling the classic and 1 for continuing the classic show.

Next we discussed the Inventory at the Cohen’s house that needs to be removed.

Anne asked who on the board had contacted them to remove the inventory items from their house.  Linda Connors stated that no one has as Chuck Spittle stated at the last board meeting he didn’t want to deal with it until after Mother’s day and it would be no problem to get the inventory from them within the next month.  Alan stated that all the raffle prizes and the RCC Inventory could be picked up after Memorial Day.  Alan suggested that Linda C. pick up the inventory Wednesday June 1^st at 10am.

Larry Duhrkoop suggested that we get the timing lights as well the inventory at the Cohen’s so that all inventory is in one place. 

Linda Connors made a motion that the Club gets the entire Inventory in one place including the timing lights.

Gary West seconds the motion.  Discussion began.

Pat Hutton wants to know what the hell is going on and if there is a power struggle going on.  Linda Connors stated that she took her position of  being a board member seriously, if there are questions from general members that she needs to seek out the answers in order to clear them up with the board and get everything opened and above board so that all members know what is going on.  Linda Connors stated this is not about a power struggle it is about running the club per the By-laws for the good of every member not just a few members.

The timing lights are used as a backup for NWACC. He rents them out at $125.00 a day. The question was asked if he ever rented them out and Chuck Spittle stated he did rent them and gave the money to the last Treasurer and she should have it.

Call the question to end the debate by John Moist. For the motion 12 and 15 opposed the motion to get the timing lights from Chuck Spittle so that all inventory is in one place. Since the motion failed the timing lights will stay with Chuck.  

Past Events:

• Cruise to Maupin, OR on May 14^th.  Anna Weese won 1^st and 2^nd Place in the Blind Poker run totaling $75.00 and Gary Scholl won third place for $20.00.  Connors won the Special Blind Poker for a rafting trip for two down the Deschutes River.   Dave Raahahn stated that Isa his friend drove his Corvette for the first time and on the way back met up with a Smokey got a ticket.

Treasurer Report: Linda Connors gave her report. 

Merchandise report:  Dave announced that he has hats for sell at $15 and $10 for a t-shirt.  Display on the coat rack.   

Member Profile:  Nothing to report.

Newsletter:   Nothing new to report.

NWACC Report: Shelton Auto crossing per Vicky, it was the first NWACC event of the year and it was very wet. 

National Corvette Museum –Nothing to report.  

Old Business/Unfinished business: John Moist has a problem with emails so if anyone is computer savvy please see John.

John Moist made a motion that we put in writing that Alan be given one warning with a letter of reprimand and if he does it again he is out of the club.  Several members second the motion. Moist stated that if we don’t do something we are setting a precedence that anyone can talk to anyone else in the club like Alan did and get away with it.  

Gordy Peterson stated that Alan did blow up on a Cruise and he came over and apologized to him and Margo in Miami.  Rod Smith stated that the only reason other events were brought up was to show a pattern of Alan’s past behavior.  Pat Hutton stated that we had 60 members that voted at the last meeting that no action could be taken against Alan and that you can’t do this suspension. Linda Connors stated that there is no remorse for his actions and that he has not tried to apologize to her or anyone else.  Pat Connors stated that he respects Gordy but that the club is serious about this. Alan is out of control. Jim Peterson stated that he felt the general members were calling for a suspension at the last meeting even the members that were speaking on behalf of Alan.

Dave stated that Policy Committee is working on a Code of Conduct and suggested that we amend the motion.

John Moist amended the motion that we put Alan on a six month suspension. Rod Smith seconds the motion. Question was called to end the discussion and the vote was taken:  19 voted for suspension and 7 opposed.  Motion Passed.

Roger stated that he did ask Alan for the check book back within the past months as well as did Anna Weese.  

Laura Tooker stated that the board cannot convene a secret meeting. She implied that the general membership was not pre-notified of the meeting and that the vote was illegal.  Anna Weese and Linda Connors stated that we didn’t know what she was talking about as the President suggested the Classic Audit meeting on the second general meeting in January 2011 be held one hour prior to the general meeting and he was present along with all the other board members for those discussions and suggestions.  

Alan asked what suspension meant.  Jim Peterson read Article 11 section 5 Expulsion of the By-Laws which states that Suspension means no voting privileges, no mailings and no activities without the Board of Director(s) approval. 

Karen wanted to make a statement and addressed some of Pat Hutton’s questions and stated that this behavior from Alan has been going on for a very long time.  She also stated that the Web site needs to be updated regarding the Classic and that someone needs to contact Nancy.   Roger stated he would contact our sponsor.

New Business: June 8^th drawing for Ms. Oregon.

Buy Sell Swap Trade:

• See Alan Cohen for the following items: Tires:  two stock run flats near new $200; two Hoozier R6 325x30x19 good rubber/little hard $100 for both;  (2) + (2) set of Hooziers R6 325x30x19/295x30x18 Lots of life $500.00; Set of custom wheels + Michelin R5-2’s Z06 305x30x19 and 235x25x20 Cost $6K sell for $2,400.00; Rotary commercial lift with rolling jack 12,000lb in perfect condition you move $5,500.00. He also has the graphics for a 2003 pace car.

• Dave Raahahn selling his 1985 Black Vette for $7k and his 2007 for $40K with only 14,000 miles. Buying a fishing boat if anyone know of one.

• Pat Connor’s is selling many cars. – 1957 Vette -80K, 1969 Vette- $35K, 92’ Vette for $10K and 26’ Model T for $10K, all original.

• Gordy Peterson has a C5 new glass hard top for $900.00

Good of the Corvette- nothing to report.

Raffle was held.

Ping Pong Ball: $ 25.00 to Guido…second meeting in a row.  

Motion was made to adjourn the meeting and meeting was adjourned at 9:38 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Anna Weese, Secretary