by Holly Johnson | Sep 23, 2025 | News
Present: Justin Medler, Robby Rosselli, Holly Johnson, Kelly Duchsherer, Rick Huber, & Wayne Johnson. Meeting called to order at 6:58pm.
Not Present: Scott Joern
Guests: Tiffany Aho, Roy Miller
Minutes: The August 25, 2025 meeting minutes were presented and motioned with second to accept as written. All in favor. Motion carried.
Treasurer’s Report: The Treasurer’s Report was presented for discussion and review. Motion with second to approve/pay the bills. All in favor. Motion carried.
Race Weekend Recap: Overall, Motor Magic seemed to be a success.
Old Business:
- 2025 Sponsorships have all been paid.
- INEX Legends Dirt Nationals & IMCA Stock Cars (Oct 9-11, 2025)
- Vendor space availability (question was emailed) discussed.
- Trophies ordered through Brittany Beck with Lowe’s Printing.
- Reserved pit stalls graphic was finalized before releasing.
- Order of Events was discussed.
- Driver Registration was discussed and went active during the course of the meeting.
- End of Year Awards Banquet & Elections (Oct 25-26, 2025)
- There will be an after party at The Landing.
- Kristi Rosselli will be the emcee.
- Scott Lovejoy will do a slideshow of action shots from 2025 season
- Social at 5pm-6pm, Dinner at 6pm-7pm
- Room at Fair Center – FFA Hall (same as last year)
- Ticket prices for the banquet were set.
- HOF Induction Ceremony specifics
- Slideshow: HOF during induction portion (Kadi Ruby to create)
- Kadi Ruby requested approval to purchase jackets, trophies and lifetime card for HOF Induction Ceremony. All Board of Directors in unanimous agreement to purchase items.
- The Board was in unanimous agreement to spend $1000 at Wal-Mart for on items for Kids Zone.
- Silent Auction items – spreadsheet in the Google Drive to track items donated, by whom, business name, approx. value
- Holly to make a flyer for banquet – include Kid Zone and Qdoba for catering
New Business:
- Tracy Summers membership approval was granted via text on 8/11/2025 with yes vote given by all Board members.
- Kadi Ruby fine for $250.00 for pitcrew entering racing surface on 8/30/2025. Voting via text message on 8/31/2025, 5 Board Members indicated Yes, 1 abstained.
- Guest: Tiffany Aho & Roy Miller
- Articles of Incorporation provided, indicating that the Nodak Race Club is a Nonprofit Corporation in North Dakota.
- Two board positions were eliminated in 2016/2017 when two Board members quit at a regular meeting; however, it can not be determined if proper procedure was followed to eliminate them.
- Request made to revert back to original Articles of Incorporation, as well as align the By-laws to match. Tiffany and Roy indicated they would support/assist with revising the Articles of Incorporation, to submit 10 days in advance before the general election meeting on October 26th.
- 2026 Nodak Speedway Schedule was discussed. Discussion about moving toward more electronic ticket sales in 2026, including getting scanners for MyRacePass ticket takers to use in the grandstand and pit trailer.
- There are promoters in upper level, national racing series contacting the Club to put on specials at Nodak Speedway.
Next Meeting: The next board meeting will be on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 7:00pm at Smalls Racing HQ.
Meeting Adjournment: Motion with second to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 9:57pm.
by Holly Johnson | Sep 23, 2025 | News
Present: Justin Medler, Robby Rosselli, Holly Johnson, Rick Huber, Scott Joern, & Wayne Johnson. Kelly Duchsherer attended via phone. Meeting called to order at 7:02pm.
Guests: None
Minutes: The July 22, 2025 meeting minutes were presented and motioned to accept as written with second. All in favor. Motion carried.
Treasurer’s Report: The Treasurer’s Report was presented for discussion and review.
- RDO bill was received by Kelly today.
- Gravel delivery charge still needs to be ran.
Motion with second by to approve/pay the bills. All in favor. Motion carried.
Race Weekend Recap:
- Nothing specific was discussed.
Old Business:
- Outstanding 2025 Sponsorships was discussed.
- Motor Magic (August 29-31, 2025)
- Too Dark Designs doing on demand printing under the Grandstand.
- Draw/Redraw was discussed. Automatic redraw through MRP was discussed, and some people complain about doing it that way.
- Draw pill at pit trailer at check in. Two chances at pill redraw can be made by each driver for $10/each.
- Top 8 redraw for feature. Scott will do poker chips redraw, likely in the tech area.
- No tech inspectors this weekend to save money.
- Pitman’s race Friday and Saturday – received $2500.00 to hold race. Saturday is tentative. Try to find out if pitcrew guys will be racing at the pit trailer when they sign in.
- Compacts – have some additional sponsors that will bring cash to add to payouts as well as a specific additional amount for hard charger cash. Message received on Facebook about Sport Compacts and if they could run their car from another sanctioning body. Motor Magic is non-sanctioned but IMCA rules apply.
- Motor Magic item amounts in Square were reviewed.
- Local driver approached 3 Board members on Sunday at the races and requested to run all 4 classes. Discussion occurred about historical running of cross classes. IMCA rules apply. He can run one open wheel and one fendered class.
- Fedyk Family spoke with Robby. They will get an announcer read to Rick Huber and Jen Rivinius said she will read it. They will hang a banner on Saturday as well off of the catwalk.
- Joren Boyce requested that a parade lap in memory of Butch Boyce occur on HOF Night (Saturday).
- Tractors in front of grandstand from Gooseneck.
- Touch-A-Truck event on Saturday (arrive at 11am, 12pm-3pm) of Motor Magic. Scott will contact Mason, and if not then Wayne will ask Tex with the Rural Fire Department. Justin will ask Fluffy for a Concrete Mobil cement truck.
- INEX Legends Winter Nationals & NOSA Sprints (Oct 9-11, 2025)
- Reserve pit stalls – release next week
- Supporting local class will be IMCA Stock Cars with normal purse. Board of Directors in unanimous agreement.
- Brittany Beck – Justin talked to her last week and she will put an Order of Events together. Projected expenses and payouts were reviewed.
- Practice Thursday, October 9th will be open to anyone.
- End of Year Awards Banquet & Elections (Oct 25-26, 2025)
- Consider bringing in an entertainer or someone big for the banquet (Dueling Pianos or Ron Hornaday), or have an after party at The Landing.
- Miscellaneous
- Check from NDSF Demo Derby received on 8/17/2025.
- Robby will get MarketPlace Foods gift cards this week to hand them out at the end of the season.
- All track equipment appears to be in good working order. The door handle on Big Wheels needs to be fixed at the end of the year.
New Business:
- 2026 Grandstand Tickets donated to Underwood School – 10 Adult tickets & 20 Children’s tickets
- Scott will order 2026 tickets ordered from Lowe’s
- Shirts – slogan shirts quote from Center Point $1065.00 with Nodak logo on front and slogan on back.
- Discussion occurred about WOO Duel in Dakotas that occurred this past weekend.
- Discussion occurred about Holly’s post on Facebook on 8/24.
Executive Session: Executive Session motioned with second with Holly Johnson not present at 8:47pm. The Executive Session ended at 8:59pm.
Next Meeting: The date and time of next board meeting was not discussed.
Meeting Adjournment: Motion with second to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 9:00pm.
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