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March 3, 2012 "Street Meet" Agenda

Call to Order

Officers' Report


Old Topics
---- COM Members Attending NCCAR and Carlisle
---- Obtaining more COM enlistment cards

New Topics
---- COM 1st Car Show Discussion
---- List: Area Car Shows attended by COM Members

Adjourn Meeting

 

Hopefully; everyone can find another xfire driver to bring! Canvas your area and make it happen!!

 

I've only seen one other crossfire in the past 3 months. It is an Alabaster coupe. I've seen it twice on interstate 270 .......once heading into work and once heading home. No way to catch is eye or throw a card out at him (too much traffic and too far away). So, unless a real opportunity arises, I'll likely be on my own.

 

Running a Car Show: It's not rocket science but it'd still be a good idea to have some basics thoughts in mind prior to our March meeting. There are books on this (not saying we need to get one but -- obtaining general ideas and having discussion on expanding them might be a good way to start. Anyway, some initial thoughts.

How to Run a Car Show

Depending upon the type of car show there are a variety of things to consider. Type of show: Open to all, open to Mopar, etc. Open to all year? Cars only?

What it takes to organize a show and make it successful depends on your goal. Personally, I think we need to be open and flexible on our first show and make it clear what our goal is (Charity, fun, etc.) Also, depending on if we are doing awards, we need to be very clear on rules and judging. Alot of people are serious about these things and we don't want to **** anyone off. While we need to have clear rules and categories, we also should keep it simple so there is latitude for how we plan to rate the cars.

To make it a success, we need to pay attention to the details and make sure it's well organized (schedule, etc.) It is equally important that they have a good FUN experience so their work of mouth advertising helps future shows grow even faster.

As with any event a plan is required. Securing location, money /budget, sponsors, insurance?????, etc. We need a timeline, commitments from members to get things done (assign the work), schedule for completion of tasks including clean up,

To better organize the event, the required activities will fall into three categories: Pre-show activities, Show Day activities, and After Show activities.

As soon as we know what we're doing we need to start our marketing campaign and getting the word out. We don't need to provide every detail in the marketing because things will evolve over the course of developing the plan, but.......we do need a theme, date, time, location, and a few other key items to draw interest (awards, charity, etc.). Also, need to understand our key target audience.

Anyway, just some initial thinking.

 

I saw a red convertible, tag said MOEJOE... never seen the MAWA tho

 

Great and valuable information. I guess we know now who's goign to be the organizer for the first COM event. LOL.

 

I second the vote for PNA to Organize first COM event, What say the President.
Paul you know we will all help.

Dave

 

Yes we will all help, but, did PNA say he actually wanted to take the lead on the show? One big reason the Maryland Mopars club is folding is that they made one guy do all the work and cheerleading for the club. That and well people just didn’t show up to events like they had in the past. I don’t see that happening with COM, but we don’t need to let it start. Who wants/gets what car show duties can be discussed and assigned at our March meeting. By being a transplant to Maryland I don’t have as many contact as you guys do, but I’ve been to enough car shows to know what work is needed, and I'll do whatever I can to help. I have a buddy who is a DJ, and he may be interested in providing entertainment for the show, if not he has two classic mopars that he will bring if he is free the day of our show. so please everyone attend the March meeting so we can get the car show duties taken care of. if you can’t make it, PM me letting me know that you can’t make it, and what duties you want at the show. To be fair all COM members will have a duty at the show. so if we don’t hear from you and you miss the meeting don’t get mad at us if we have you directing traffic all day, or have you to clean up the trash when everyone leaves after the show

oh wait this is an official posting.........

THE PRESIDENT HAS SPOKEN

 

Great comments by all, is our secretary taking these notes down, or should I be forming these discussions into an agenda since the Mach GTG is at my house?
What say yeah Pes.?

 

I think that since you are providing the house and provisions for the meeting you shouldnt have to take notes, maybe just internet and a computer so we can check this forum hahaha. as far as the secretary taking notes, i think the meeting outline that ichon provided, PNA's notes and anything else that may come up should be printed out and brought to the meeting. and every one that attends bring something to take notes with, pen/paper, laptop, phone, something.

 

Here's the initial agenda and I'll keep taking minutes/notes etc. until Wyatt obtains his CICCI membership. I spoke to him to day and he should have it shortly. I mention that he needs to start taking notes and view the posts more often. PRES...I think oit may be better to let everyone list their volunteer assignment wish list here so everyone will have an idea who's doing what just in case someone has to step in.

 

PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME OR SUGGESTION TO THE LIST BELOW. tHE MORE WE ACCOMPLISH HERE THE LESS WE'LL HAVE TO DISCUSS IN MARCH. THANKS FOLKS.


COM CAR SHOW ASSIGNMENT VOLUNTEER LIST

Advance Crew ----
Categories/Ballots ----- Chas
Awards ---- jediracer
Club Banner ----
Lane Assignments/Directing ---- Chas
Clean Up Crew ---- Chas, srt6-xfire
Flyers ----
Entertainment Coordinator ----
Food and Drinks Coordinator ---- srt6-xfire
Location Coordinator----
Member(s) Coordinator ----

 

as a reminder only, Board Members, remember whatever you post here, copy and paste at CICCI. We have members that check one but not the other and viceversa.

 

I think what ever leads up to the March meeting will be critical in having a productive meeting ---- and certainly I'm happy to help coordinate -- but as Jason indicated, we'll need support from everyone.

I do plan on sending out a survery (if you will) to the COM board and members to see if we can get some clear direction and commitments on a few key items. Chas has started a great list for people to begin signing up for and I'll take that a step further and add to the list as well. I will try to pull together my survey this weekend and post it / attach it.

A couple very key things we'll need to decide on are the date and location. We'll need to consider a number of factors to help with this but one key factor is availability and commitment of our COM members to be at the event. The farther out in the future the more likely it is we can all block off the date and make the commitment to be there.

More to come soon.

BTW - I finally saw another Xfire. It was on Monday heading up 270 north and exited on 27 North towards Damascus. I couldn't get next to it or catch the drivers attention (my minivan is fast but ........). It was a SSB coupe (just like mine) and clean and appeared to be in really good shape (almost as good as mine ) Had Maryland plates. A missed opportunity.

 

I agree....we can discuss the two major components of the car show here :date and location because we need everyone's input and it will allow us to finalize or commit to both on March 3rd. PLEASE POST YOUR SUGGESTIONS FOR A DATE AND LOCATION HERE. Post as many suggestions as you wish. The COM Board will select a location based on the members' choice and participation, and will announce the date and location on March 4, 2012. Thanks, Chas

Member/Date(s)/Location(s)

Chas/August 4 or 11/Downs Park, Pasadena, MD

 

COM CAR SHOW ASSIGNMENT VOLUNTEER LIST


Advance Crew ----
Categories/Ballots ----- Chas
Awards ---- Jason
Club Banner ---- Provided by CICCI
Lane Assignments/Directing ---- Chas
Clean Up Crew ---- Chas
Flyers ---- Jason
Entertainment Coordinator ----
Food and Drinks Coordinator ----
Location Coordinator----
Member(s) Coordinator ----



Once we have some ideas I can send them to CICCI, so we can get our banner, and the money to use for the show. Since we are a regional chapter we are allowed $100 to use for our event. Awards, dash plaques and goodie bags all cost money. so we need to decide what we can spend on awards and what we can spend on the location. Also if anyone knows of business that want to help sponsor the event, by helping with the cost, and being allowed to advertise, or giveaways, or anything, that would be great.

 

Location at a mall or store or restaruant would be good because the establishment/s will get some exposure and business out of the event. Offsite sponsors that can bring things onsite for advertising exposure and for possible business would be good too. Notifying those roving food trucks of the event may serve them and our event well.

One other thought is advertising. We should change "Flyers" to Advertising. We can do flyers, mailings, e-mailings, and other car club announcements, etc. I will help with some of that as well.

 

here are two good sites that we can use to get our info out there.

Car Show & Cruise Guide home page

CAPITAL CRUISIN'--National Capital Region Car Cruise and Show Information

 

I got this email from Justin's Performance Center.

Hey,
Just wanted to get intouch with you guys and see if we could work together on hosting events. I didn’t know if you guys would be interested in like a club dyno day or anything. Also if your interested we can offer your club a discount on labor.

Just give me a shout if your interested

Aaron
Justins Performance Center

They are located at Millersville MD, right off of I-97