Officers Present: Lori Smith, Ginny Barnard, Rusty Barnard, Kenny Strode, Freddy Miller, Stacy Miller, Rod Johnson, Greg Pettit, Noah Tipton, John Vaughn, Mark & Cathy Hanes.

Officers Not Present: Robin Pettit, Tony Feger  

Members Present: Deric Sweitzer, Reggie Smith, Lisa Tipton, Jeff McCarthy, Tyree & Leslie Campbell.

The meeting was brought to order at 1:00 pm.

Introduction of 2008 ALQMA Board
Rod Johnson introduced the 2008 Board of Directors.

President – Rod Johnson
Race Director – John Vaughn
Track Director – Fred Miller
Treasurer – Greg Pettit
Secretary – Stacy Miller
Tower Director – Unfilled
Safety Director – Noah Tipton
Tech Director – Rusty Barnard
Novice Trainer – Mark Hanes
Concessions – Ginny Barnard
Publicity – Cathy Hanes

Rod stated that John Vaughn has decided that he will be race director if nominated. Ginny Barnard made a motion to nominate John Vaughn as race director with Kenny Strode seconding the motion. Motion passed. Rod then stated that John does not wish to take care of the track and would like to ask someone to make a motion to nominate Fred Miller as track director. Mark Hanes made a motion to nominate Fred Miller as track director with Noah Tipton seconding the motion. Motion passed.

Treasurer Report: Greg went over the treasurer’s report and answered questions. He talked about how much was brought in for the concession stand and the tower at the Shorey Shootout coliseum race. He then talked about the 2007 banquet. The club is $600 ahead after all the expenses were paid.

Discussion followed regarding the point races and drivers getting trophies at these races. It was decided that we would keep it as we have been doing with novices getting participation trophies as long as we have enough donated.

Rod then stated that he would like all officers and members to look over the detailed treasurer’s report that was given at this meeting and would like for it to be approved at next month’s meeting. All directors and members agreed.

Old Business:

LAST MEETING MINUTES
Rod read the minutes from the October meeting.

2007 COLISEUM RACE
Rod stated that overall we had a good program and everything went well.

2007 TRACK WORK FEE – POLICY (3 NIGHTS AT THE TRACK, TWO 3 HOUR REGIONAL SHIFTS, TWO 3 HOUR COLISEUM SHITFS
Discussion followed regarding the 2007 track work fees. We had only 10 families fulfill their responsibilities so Kenny Strode made a motion that the track should keep the remainder of the work fees. We will discuss this further at the next meeting.

New Business:

CHAIN OF COMMAND – CODE OF CONDUCT – OFFICERS MUST KNOW THE RULES
Rod stated that he would like all of the officers to know the rule book inside and out before the racing season starts so that if a member has a problem then any officer can answer their question.

RCP’S – NEARLY 50 – NO COPIES MADE, CAN VIEW ONLINE AT www.quartermidgets.org
There were 43 RCP’s that were discussed and voted on. A separate sheet will be attached with the votes.

2008 ALQMA RACING SHEDULE – TENTATIVE – START THINKING OF THE ARRIVE & DRIVE
Discussion followed regarding the 2008 schedule. Rod stated that if anyone sees a problem to bring it up at the next meeting.

2008 TRACK WORK FEE
Rod stated that he would like to wait to see what the Regional Board decides at their January Regional meeting and everyone agreed. We will discuss this further at the next meeting which will be after the Regional Banquet.

POTENTIAL PURCHASES FOR 2008
Discussion followed regarding the Coke cooler breaking down and the Coke contract that we still have. Rod stated that they would like to buy a bush hog mower for the tractor. No decisions were made.

Mark Hanes made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 3:55 pm with Greg Pettit seconding the motion. Motion passed.

The next meeting with be on January 26, 2008. No destination for this meeting has been decided.

Officers Present: Lori Smith, Ginny Barnard, Rusty Barnard, Kenny Strode, Freddy Miller, Tim Hicks.

Officers Not Present: Rod Johnson, Greg Pettit, Robin Pettit, Jamie Goodie, Jo Pruitt, Tony Feger  

Members Present: Deric Swizter, Robert.Vaughn, John Vaughn, Reggie Smith, Wayne Runyon, Randy Rexroad, Don Hyland.

The meeting was brought to order at 2.10pm.

Treasurer Report: Ginny went over treasure report. THQMA sent over $100.00 for Scott Rider Race. We have 20 plates left. Purchase of gill from Randy Rexroad for 1000.00. We still owe fairgrounds for Nov race 872.63

Ginny made the motion to except the treasure report. Everyone second.

Old Business:

All by-law changes will need to be turned in by July.
Randy Rexroad stated that we need to place in the bylaws a work requirement of 4 hours for all club members. Ginny told Randy to write it down and bring it to the next meeting with him.

Kenny Strode motioned to change the $80.00 work fee to exempt any couples that are officers at the same time from this fee. Second by Hylan motion passed

Scale House will be finished Wednesday. It will be like Greenville, Bunker hill .Tim said that they had trouble with theirs in ground. Kenny said that they will not have the same problem.

Semi Trailer is being finished today. Thanks to Kevin Hughs, John Barnard.
Tim motioned to purchase Kevin a Ryan’s gift card for $40.00. Ginny Second: Passed

Tim Hicks voiced his concerns about to much money is being spent. He thinks that we do not need to send out the newsletters but send all members an e-mail. Tim stated that the newsletters were never approved to be sent out. Rusty stated that we have had positive feed back off the newsletters. He also stated that about everything that has been done at the track today has been donated to the track. Rusty told Tim that if that was his concern then the club should have never purchased the tractor for $17,000.00 or the trailer for $1500.00 which wasn’t approved by the members. And if all the club members would have known about it then we could have found a cheaper trailer and a cheaper tractor.

Don Hyland and Kenny Strode made a motion to send out newsletters to those who wish to receive them and for those that wish to have them e-mail. Kenny second motion: passed

Lori said that if they would like it e-mailed to them that is fine. She also stated the website needs to be updated more often. Which currently the website has things on it that is three years old.

Lori stated that we will still be selling Coke products.

Don asked when the sponsorship money needed to be in by. Ginny said that it needed to be in by May 5th. Don stated that he has one. As of today we have 250.00 for sponsorship and Campbell and Salvator stated they would do one. Ginny told everyone to please go out and get sponsors for the point races.

Arrive and drive will be next weekend and we will need to have more cars and people to help. Kenny said that he will bring one of his cars and Pettit told Ginny that he will see if he can get one of their cars up here.

Paid parking was brought up but tabled at this time for the next meeting.

THQMA donated $100. for Scott benefit races and. Tim made a motion to send THQMA  a 100.00 check to THQMA for Shidler’s benefit.

Kenny made a motion to send all the drivers a Birthday card for $2.00 for the concession stand.

Ginny made a motion to adjourn at 3:52

Officers Present: Lori Smith, Ginny Barnard, Greg Pettit , Kenny Strode, Rod Johnson, Freddy Miller, Jo Pruitt and Robin Pettit

Officers Not Present: Tim Hicks, Rusty Barnard, Jamie Goodie, Tony Feger

Members Present: Jason Tipton, Noah Tipton, Robert Vaughn, John Vaughn, Reggie Smith, Russ Marsh, Chris Marsh, Wayne Runyon, Tyree & Leslie Campbell, Larry Salvator, Kenny Bell, Randy Rexroad, Deric Swizter, Don Hyland

Treasurer Report:
Greg went over the treasure report. Ginny made the motion to except the treasure report. Fred Second

Frebruary Minutes: Approved by Fred Miller second by Ginny

Old Business:
Banquet: Kenny talked about the banquet hall in Sherman we can get for 275.00 the rec center is 300.00. Don Hyland made a motion that we keep the banquet at the Rec center and Leslie Campbell second : Passed

By law Changes:
Ginny passed out a New proposed By-Laws with the Regional Rep in them to the members.

Rod made a motion that all by law changes must be in by July 30th second by Ginny.

Year Book or CD:
Club members voted to do the Year books for this year. Bruce Combs will do all the printing and Ginny can bind them together.

Novice Training:
Kenny held his first novice training class at Fast Lane Kart Shop. He had 17 new novices and he said that there are 5 more that did not show up.

Scale House:
Kenny talked about the scale house area. Some members was looking into maybe moving the scale house straight off the concrete to help with the congestion in that area. Price of concrete will be the same if we poured on top of old slab. Don Hyland made a motion to move the scale house and Greg Pettit second.

Play Area Equipment:
The Club is looking for equipment for the play area that can be donated to the club. Pettit said they may have a swing set that can be donated Deric said that he would donate a semi of wood chip, Randy said that he has a basket ball hoop that he will donate.

New Business:
Tree Stumps: Russ Marsh has removed some of the tree stumps and is planning on removing the other soon.

Work Days :
Will be working each weekend March 17th, March 24th, April 7th

$80.00 WORK FEE:
If the $80.00 work fee is not paid then we will not receive any trophies or points. If they run a points race and the work fee is still not paid then they will loss those points even if it is paid after that. Greg made a motion to all fees must be paid at the beginning at sign in. Tyree Second along with Don Hyland Motion carried

T-Shirt:
Tyree Motion that we do T-shirt for the regional and have Aaron Hammel do them we need to get sponsors for the back of the shirts. Cost of sponsorship is $100.00.Second by Ginny motion carried.

E-mail From Karen Adams:
Rod made a motion that the region needs to take the $5.00 loss on the states race. Hyland second and the motion carried. Also club voted to Pill draw at sign in. This will be taken to the regional meeting.

Arrive & Drive :
Would like to know who will be working and who is bring cars?
Marsh will be bring one of his cars, Smith will bring some of theirs.

Trophies for Scott Rider Race:
Tyree Said that Scott have some BMX trophies that he would like to donate back to the track for this race. Tyree will get with him and get more info from him.

Donations to the track:
So far we have had Staff Carpet donate carpet for the tower, Prairie Wholesale donated the Shingles, Earl’s Construction donated the Sheeting for Roof.

Trophies:
We will have Mr.Goldsberry make this years trophies providing that he can keep it about the same price or cheaper. Rod Johnson made the motion Tyree Second. Motion Passed.

Paid Parking:
Tyree would like to see paid parking. Tyree made a motion to have this placed in the newsletter to get some feed back from the other club members. And have it voted on at the next meeting.

A motion was made to adjourn and second.

Next club meeting Date April 7th at 2:00 at the race track.

Important Dates

Officers Present: Lorri Smith, Ginny Barnard, Rusty Barnard, Greg Pettit, Kenny Strode, Rod Johnson, Tony Feger, Freddy Miller, Jo Pruitt and Jamie Goodey

Officers Not Present: Tim Hicks, Robin Pettit

Members Present: Mr. Tipton, Mr. Vaughn, Reggie Smith

The meeting was brought to order at 2:10 p.m.

Treasurer Report:
Greg went over the treasurer report. Some of the new restrictor plates came damaged from QMA. The red restrictor plates were damaged. The blue restrictors are fine so far. The club spent $700.00 on the restrictor plates, Rod Johnson thought that was excessive.

Ginny made the motion to except the treasurer’s report. Everyone seconded.

Old Business:
Talked about how we are going to work off the $80.00. Ginny made the motion to work it off in the concessions. Kenny seconded the motion.

There was more talk about charging $5.00 extra for racing at our track if you are a non Region 5 member.

Ginny has lots of trophies that have been donated to the track. Rod had mentioned that giving every child in novice a trophy will hurt them in the long run, especially after they move up and they won’t be getting a trophy so easily. As of now all kids get a trophy in the novice class.

We are going to schedule the banquet at the Rec Center and keep looking for a different place that might be more suitable.

New Business:
Copies of the old bi-laws were handed out along with the new bi-laws for the members to look at and go over at a later meeting.

Rule changes were also passed out. One definite rule change is that there is no more tire treating allowed.

Kevin Hughes was unable to get the trailer out from the track.

Jo Pruitt is our new concessions director.

Ginny mentioned that for birthdays we should give the drivers something from the concessions. Jamie talked about adding names and dates of their birthday to the news letters. Ginny will get a list of all the members so far from Greg.

We talked about whether or not we should go back to the paper yearbooks or keep getting a DVD made at the end of the year for the banquet. The topic got tabled for a different meeting. We as a club wanted to get more members’ thoughts on the subject.

Novice training will have its first meeting at Fast Lane Kart Shop on March 3rd.

Kenny Strode will be pouring the concrete for the scale house as soon as the weather is nice.

Greg has a swing set he has donated to the track, everyone thought the best place to put it would be behind the bleachers.

Tony Feger is going to get the regional safety sheets and is wanting all members to have their cars checked for safety before the first pts. race. That included all the new rule changes. He wants to make sure that our track is safe for everyone.

A motion was made to adjourn at 3:25 p.m.

Next meeting will be held the second weekend of March at Wendy’s in Lincoln or at the race track if the weather is permitting. Check the website for details.

Important Dates

Officers Present: Lorri Smith, Ginny Barnard, Rusty Barnard, Greg Pettit, Robin Pettit, Kenny Strode, Rod Johnson, Tim Hicks, Tony Feger, Jamie Goodey

Officers Absent: All Officers Present

Members Present: Lea Ann Johnson, Reggie Smith, Fred Miller, Wayne Runyon, John Vaughn, Mr. Vaughn

The meeting was brought to order at 7:30 p.m.

Treasurer Report:
Greg Pettit explained the report, how he had set it up. There were no questions regarding the report. Rod Johnson mad the motion to accept the report. Kenny Strode seconded the motion.

Old Business:
Trailer: Kevin Hughes offered to take away the old storage trailer. Kent Johnson is going to bring the new trailer in as soon as the old one is removed.

2007 RCP: At our last meeting a vote was done on the 2007 RCP. At the regional meeting the 2007 RCP were passed like our track voted on.

New Business:

Schedule Changes to our racing schedule:

1. Arrive & Drive is scheduled for April 14th, and the 15th will be the rain date. We need club members to volunteer their Quarter Midgets and their time to make sure the Arrive & Drive is a success.
   
2. 1st Point Race is scheduled for May 12th. Sing-ins for this race are from 10:30 to 11:30 AM
   
3. May 19th race sign-ins are at 10:30 to 11:30 AM
   
4. A benefit race for Scott Rider was approved for May 5th all entry money is to be donated to the Rider family
   
5. Oct 6th is a make up date for rain out dates if not needed will be a regular race night.
   
6. There is a WORK DAY scheduled for January 21st we would appreciate any members participating in this work day.

Meeting Discussion:

The regional representative was discuss whether as a club we needed a regional rep. Greg Pettit made the motion and Kenny Strode seconded the motion. Regional rep is to be added to the by-laws.

Rod Johnson talked about getting our Bi-Laws revised through out the year and then vote on the new Bi-Laws at the banquet.

All full membership members will have to pay $80.00 at their first night of racing along with their entry fee. After the member has worked in the concession stand, in the tower and on work days during the racing season they will then get their $80.00 returned. We will need to finalize a work program at the next meeting. The club is trying to come up with a point system to work off the $80.00 fee. This information will be given to the club members at a future time.

Ginny went over the outline of the point races. Kenny made a motion when totaling the points for all 5 of the point races, only the 4 top races should be counted and the worst race be dropped. Greg Pettit seconded the motion. Motion Carried.

Ginny talked about getting sponsors for trophies for the point races. She wants the kids to get a trophy on the race night for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as usual and then get the normal point race trophies at the banquet. The club would need to get $3000.00 to $3500.00 to sponsor the 3 trophies on the race night. The deadline was made for May 5th to accumulate the money for the trophies. If we don’t make the deadline then we will continue to present the trophies at the banquet at the end of the point race series. Jamie Goodey made the motion to try to get sponsors for this program. Lorri Smith seconded the motion.

Rod Johnson is chedking into a new location for our banquet.

Reggie Smith is checking to see if the insurance covers the tractor where it is stored.

Ginny made the comment the tower roof is leaking. She is looking into getting donations for the repairs of the roof. We do know that sheeting is needed. Fred Miller said he would fix the roof when we had all the supplies.

Ginny made the motion to adjourn the meeting and everyone seconded it.

Fred Miller was voted in for Track Director and Lisa Tipton for Assistant Tower

Important Dates

Officers Present: Rod Johnson, Lea Ann Johnson, Fred Miller, Stacy Miller, Matt Pearson, Shelly Pearson, Kenny Strode, Jamie Goodey

Officers Absent: Tony Weyant, Don Hyland

Officers Present: Rod Johnson, Lea Ann Johnson, Tony Weyant, Fred Miller, Stacy Miller, Don Hyland, Matt Pearson, Shelly Pearson, Kenny Strode

Officers Absent: Jamie Goodey

Officers Present: Rod Johnson, Lea Ann Johnson, Tony Weyant, Fred Miller, Stacey Miller, Jamie Goodey, Don Hyland

Officers Absent: Matt Pearson, Shelly Pearson, Scott Rider, Kenny Strode

Officers Present: Rod Johnson, Lea Ann Johnson, Matt Pearson, Shelly Pearson, Tony Weyant, Fred Miller, Stacey Miller, Scott Rider, Jamie Goodey, Kenny Strode, Don Hyland

1. Cacellations will be posted on the website by noon on race day.
2. There will be no qualifying points given...just sign-in and racing points.
3. There will be no tie-breakers.
4. Race dates are 05/06, 05/27, 06/10, 08/12 and 09/09.

Officers Present: Rod Johnson, Lea Ann Johnson, Matt Pearson, Tony Weyant, Fred Miller, Stacey Miller, Scott Rider, Jamie Goodey

Officers Absent: Shelly Pearson, Kenny Strode, Don Hyland

1. Concrete work is planned for additional staging and at the scale house. Plan to do work in March during track cleanup days
   
   
2. 2005 Shorey Shootout – Had a great turn out and everything ran pretty smoothly. The concession stand arrangement this year went very well. All members worked their respective shifts or donated their $40 to have someone else work their shifts. The track came out pretty good financially and will deposit some of the profits in the building fund and use the remainder to pay the club charter and 2006 track insurance.
   
   
3. Thanks you to all those who worked the Shorey Shootout event,(ie. scorers, judges, pit stewards, race directors). The success of this event is the result of hard work by our members and it shows.
   
   
4. The concession stand last year turned a great profit thanks to Margie and Stacy.
   
   

1. The Treasurer and Concessions officer postions were left unfilled due to all nominations being turned down. Tony Weyant was appointed to Treasurer and Stacy Miller was appointed to Concessions. Tony and Stacy accepted their respective appointments.
   
   
2. After Tony's Treasurer report, a motion was made to go ahead and purchase the timing display unit which will be similar to the Taylorville's timing display.
   
   
3. The 2006 Race Schedule was discussed and approved with the revision of two dates. All sign-ins for Saturday Night races will be from 3 -4 pm as it was last year with the exception that the sign-ins for day races will be 10:30 – 11:30 am.
   
   
4. The 2006 Regional Dates were set at the 2006 Regional Meeting with the only change being the MSLQMRA Regional being moved a week earlier (July 8 & 9) to avoid coinciding with the Gasoline Alley Nationals (July 12 – 15)
   
   
5. Scott Rider had questions regarding the club's tech tool inventory which is believed to be non-existant, especially for teching the Honda motor platform.  After discussing tech tool package prices, Scott agreed to do some more research into this topic which will be discussed in
   
   
6. Spring Track Clean-up Days – Middle to Late March
   (sooner if possible)
   
   
7. Track Improvement Items
   
   1. Clean Trailer Out – Toss anything we don’t need
      A new storage trailer is being looked into for $1200.00
      
      
   2. Concrete for Staging and Scales
      
      
   3. Continue the outside fence in turn 4 around to straight-away
      
      
   4. New PA System with Speakers for Light Poles
      (Track Infield)
      
      
   5. Correct Plumbing Problems in the track infield - run hydrants up the sides of the light poles in the infield
      
      
   6. Overseed Infield
      
      
   7. Replace or flip damaged track wall boards
      
      
8. Kent Johnson has volunteered to trailer both tractors back to his shop to get the fluids changed and fix any problems on either one. He may take the culti-mulcher to get it ready to go for this season – Replace any bad bearings, weld any cracks in the frame, etc.

Motion to adjourn was made by Matt and seconded by Lea Ann.

Next meeting will be scheduled for late January.

Officers Present: Tim Hicks, Shelly Pearson, Matt Pearson, Tony Weyant, Rod Johnson, Lea Ann Johnson, Fred Miller, Stacey Miller, Kenny Strode and Shannon Hardy

Officers Absent: J.R. Onken, Jeff Harris, Randy Knoblauch, Margie Knoblauch

Officers Present: Tim Hicks, Shelly Pearson, Matt Pearson, J.R. Onken, Tony Weyant, Rod Johnson, Fred Miller, Stacey Miller, Margie Knoblauch, Kenny Strode

Officers Absent: Lea Ann Johnson, Tony Weyant