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MEETING MINUTES 6/24/2025

Present: Justin Medler, Robby Rosselli, Kelly Duchsherer, Holly Johnson, Rick Huber, Scott Joern, & Wayne Johnson. Meeting called to order at 8:36pm. 

Guests: none

Minutes: The June 17, 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:

  • No updates discussed.

Old Business:  

  1. Track Equipment
    • Equipment repair discussed, and informed we will be purchasing another Big Wheels. 
  2. 2025 Sponsorships: outstanding sponsorships were discussed.
  3. WOO Late Models (June 29, 2025)
    • 17 committed drivers
    • Bismarck Radio Advertising – $720 for four days of radio advertising for the event this week, equaling 60 ads. Four Board Members indicated support for this expense via text on 6/18/2025. 
    • Grandstand tickets vs Pit Pass: Holly requested, with pit trailer volunteer support, that no exchanging grandstand ticket for pit pass after ticket has been purchased. Board agreed. Will be closing the pits to the grandstand at 4pm. 
    • Board Members’ family members get in for free. Two volunteers will get 2 Outlaw tickets for their help painting. 
    • Traffic Control for Event:
      • We have the key for the drag strip and will open up as many exits as we can. Put cones up on the drag strip to prevent going North on the drag strip. Keep the SE gate open/don’t block with trailers. 
    • XPressMart ticket WOO ticket sales (gave them 500 tickets). 
    • Wayne and Robby will tech inspect. Justin will tell Canadian tech inspectors not to come. 
    • Bravera – Robby will get a list for wristbands.
  4. Dakota Classic Modified Tour (July 6, 2025)
    • Mod tour grandstand tickets – $20/each
    • XPressMart will not be selling tickets. 
    • Kelly has reserved all required hotel rooms for DCMT personnel. 
  5. Miscellaneous
    • Justin still needs to sign for the safety deposit box. 

New Business:

  1. 2025 Memberships – Three people purchased club memberships on 6/15/2025. Transactions for memberships were processed on that day, and per club by-laws, memberships after June 1st must have board approval.
    • Approval from the Board for issuing memberships to them was granted on 6/22/2025 via text, with approval given from five Board Members. 
  2. North Dakota State Parade
    • 5k Run – approved BW logo today via email, $275 advertising fee to have our logo on the tshirts
  3. August Grandstand Ticket prices – will be same as regular season.
    • Pit Trailer for All-Stars of August: $150 driver registration for $4K to win class each Sunday in August + $30 pit fee ($180 for drivers), with $30 pit fee for other classes and pit crew. 
  4. HOF Expectations/Yearbook – Yearbooks have been ordered, however, two Board members expressed frustration with them being ordered two weeks behind schedule. Yearbooks didn’t used to be ready until the banquet in the fall, even as recently as 2015-ish. Requested that the Club does a better job communicating their expectations of the HOF. Expectation set that the yearbooks be out by the end of May; however, many factors play a role in accomplishing that (volunteers to cover Racenight duties, rain out nights, drivers’ class rotation & some classes of cars unavailable). 
  5. Question raised of whether the Board of Directors are currently bonded per by-laws. It was determined we are not currently bonded. Will research and obtain bonds. 
  6. NDSF will be using the Souvenir trailer during the fair, and will purchase totes for us to keep our merchandise in while they use it. They are also going to be storing our merchandise while our trailer is being used. 
  7. Wall/front stretch tear down after DCMT July 6th
    • Scott Joern has gotten volunteers in the past. Will ask Satrans & Dana Brandt.
    • 1 ⅛” socket on 1-1/16” wrench, ¾” bolts – Wayne can bring more impacts for us to use.
  8. During the fair break, Board will be meeting to discuss the banquet. 

Next Meeting: The next board meeting will tentatively be on Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 7:00pm at the track. 

Meeting Adjournment: Motion with second to adjourn the meeting. All in favor. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 9:39pm.

Meeting Minutes for 3-19-2018

3-18-2018

Meeting Minutes

March 19, 2018 Board Meeting Sleep Inn
Present: Bob, Jami, Dale, Brandon, Stu, Adam, Robby
Guests: Val Horner, Ron Huettl
Brandon called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm.
Dale made a motion to approve the March 12, 2018 meeting minutes. Stu seconded. It was approved.
Enduro contract is signed for the State Fair. Nothing changed. The same guys are doing the truck and
tractor pull.

Accountant. Lyle will put up with our version. We don’t want him to switch to the desk top version. He
could do payroll on his own though. It will still need to be put into Quickbooks. Bob would like to do
something. It took him and his sister 4 hours to reconcile the checkbook. If we switch we should do it
now. There were things duplicated in there also. Deb had some things happen when she started doing it
also. He puts things in as an educated guess. That scares Ron. If you have questions ask Ron. Check out
last years if there are questions. Lyle will work with online stuff. We can give him accountant access. He
is already hired as an accountant. He needs less hours in it though or we will go broke otherwise. Try to
transfer it to someone else in a year and half will be a challenge. We have hired him. Dale made a
motion to give Lyle all the rights in Quickbooks. Bob seconded. It was approved.

Booster Night. Bob said full booster night. Dale said full also. Bob spoke with a couple of people who are
all for it. They need to understand where we are coming from. Mandan does a half booster the first
night. What about the Sport Compacts? They don’t race the first night. Do we want to do it the first
night or the first night you showed up? What about having each class on their own night? Robby says
just do the first night we race. What happens if the first night is the Sunday of Memorial Day? We have
to pay the Tougher then Dirt Tour. Bob made a motion to do a Full Booster night the first full points
night of racing. Whatever night that may be. Jami seconded. How do we promote it? Do we put it on
the schedule? Post on Facebook? No the bashing will start right away then. We can post it the week
before it happens. Motion carried 3-1. 1 did not vote. We can say it at the pit meeting also.
Insurance. Kristy gives quotes. We have done other insurance before. Robby and Brandon are talking to
Kristy.

DarnTV replay. There is a business out there that may be interested in having a replay night at their
business. Their logo would be on it. How much are we willing to sell this for? 15% back to Nodak? Do we
want a monthly price? $3,000 all year long? $200 one time use? $700 a month? They could buy a week
or the whole season? You could eat/drink at this place and watch the races from Sunday. We aren’t
doing anything with it anyway. It could get popular. They might be able to commit to a percent then a
set amount. We can promote that? We need to start there. Why would others do it? They see
someone’s name there and want their name there. The clips on Monday could have the sponsor from
the weekend. We could say its coming out Tuesday night at the Landing for example about the replay.
Highlights on Monday with the nightly sponsor. They will promote it and we need to also. Racers may
go. We could hand out kids tickets/ hero cards there. Race cars could be there also. 15% goes to Nodak
or $200 a night. Discuss with them what thinking. 15% is a good deal. Other places have used it. Or go a certain number?

$300 per night. Or so much for the month or year. $3000 for the year? $1000 a month?
We can work out double headers also.

Tim Snyder. The memorial started to cover final expenses. We have done $50-100 in the past on
flowers. He raced here for quite a few years. Stu made a motion to send a check of $100 to the Tim
Snyder funeral. Seconded by Robby it was approved.
Trophies. What doing? Plaques or not? Brandon was ok with them. Stu would like different wood. Ok
with going with it? Yes we are ok.
Volunteer shirts. Robby found some we could get for a one time set up fee of $30-35. And they will be
$25 a piece. It will take 5-6 weeks for them. They would say official on the back and Velocita and we can
do whatever we want on the front. We don’t have enough IMCA shrits. We can buy more. Adam is going
to see what price they are. We could make it a sponsorship deal. We get 6 free ones from IMCA. IMCA
shirts are $40 a piece. When we are broke matching shirts doesn’t do much. How many additional ones
do we need? Stick with IMCA deal.

Marketing. WGO and Adam spoke about retiring Speedbump and changing the mascot. We would
decide mascot and they would pay for it, Mobile 1. Maybe they would do the official shirts. $500 isn’t
enough for the Mascot. If the Landing does a night for $3,000 and someone else does the mascot for
$500. It doesn’t work. Who will be the mascot? Nothing with a tail Stu said. Suit is wore out and the
head is trashed. Its 27 years old. Need more then $500 to change it. Something nice is about $8,000.
Who is going to be in it? There is a girl who may be interested in it. Would like a commitment from her.
Put word out looking for someone. We could roll out at Wild about Wheels. Stu had an idea for Randy
the Racing Ram. That’s not enough money. Maybe if they were providing the person to do it.
Simes 250 posters were $380 and 2,500 pocket schedules for $495. We can do 1,000 pocket ones for
$425. He is checking into other prices also. Adam is going through Vista Print for the season passes.
Bowling Alley fund raiser. Do we want to post on Facebook? Yes. Its April 23, 2018 from 5-9. Bowling
alley does post it as well. They are working on the Marketing Partners. He is still talking to the radio and
tv.

Larry met with Brandon about dirt weekly.
Financials. Bills. IMCA $535 (licenses), Tim Snyder memorial $100, Motor Magic $300 (t-shirts), Wissota
$520 (late model sanctioning fees). Robby made a motion to pay the bills. Seconded by Bob. It was
approved.
Dale made a motion to adjourn. Seconded by Jami.
Meeting adjourned at 8:41 pm.
Next meeting will be Monday, March 26, 2018 at 7:00 pm at the Sleep Inn.