2025-02-22 BOD Meeting Agenda

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MODEL A FORD CLUB OF AMERICA

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

LA HABRA, CA

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025

8:30 AM PACIFIC TIME

AGENDA

President

  1. Call to order
  2. Pledge of Allegiance
  3. Welcome & Introductions/Sign Attendance Sheet
  4. Installation of new board members
  5. Recording Meeting – One person be recognized, state your name and speak one at a time
  6. Motion (1): Approval of the December 11, 2024 meeting minutes (David)
  7. New signatures needed for Ethics Policy
  8. Importance of keeping members data private
  9. Participation in Model A Days 2025
  10. Flying Quail
  11. 2025 Goals – Grow the Club, visit Social Media sites, visit nearby chapters
  12. Specialty Equipment and Marketing – SEMA 2025
  13. Constant Contact
  14. Review Actions Pending from previous BOD meeting
  15. Other

Vice President – Happy Begg

  1. National Conventions:
  2. 2026 – Pendleton, Oregon/Blue Mountain A’s
  3. 2028 – Open
  4. National Tours:
  5. 2025 – Virginia/Dallas Chapter
  6. 2027 – Open
  7. National Awards Banquets:
  8. 2025 – Mobile, Alabama/Gulf Coast Model A Club
  9. 2026 – Open
  10. 2027 – Visalia, CA/Charter Oak Chapter
  11. Calendar
  12. Website Liaison
  13. MOTION (2) Policy Wording Changes – Ethics Policy (Emailed 1.16.25)
  14. 100th Anniversary Celebration @ The Gilmore
  15. YouTube Channel
  16. Other Motion (3)- By Laws/Nomination Form Change

Secretary – David Frazee

  1. Board Calendar format
  2. Making Archival Board minutes available to members
  1. Motion forms
    1. Send me Motion forms in time for adding to the agenda, and to fill in and note the discussion yourself on a blank form if you make a motion during the meeting, and then provide me with a copy.
    2. The secretary will do Motion #1 to accept the Minutes from the last BOD meeting.
  2. 2025 Goals –
    1. Provide assistance to chapter officers
    2. Review the New Website
      1. Identify bad links, duplicate listings, bad content, etc.
      2. Work to provide better content to advance MAFCA’s mission.
    3. Provide articles for The Flying Quail
  3. Other

Treasurer – Bill Truesdell 

  1. Financial update
    1. UBS statements distributed to Board members
    2. UBS CD updates
    3. Financial reports
    4. Motion (4) to move investments from UBS to Charles Schwab
    5. Motion (18) to add language to P2S06D to explain purpose of MAFCA Accounts
  2. Dues Offset Update

*    Dues Savings Account setup in December 2024 w/UBS

  1. Review Personal Goals
    1. Move investment accounts to a financial institution that will save MAFCA $11,335 in service fees charged by UBS
    2. Work on development of Upholstery Book for publication by 2nd quarter 2026
    3. Work with other directors and webmaster to make substantive changes to MAFCA’s website
  2. Review Actions Pending from previous BOD meeting
  3. Other

Marketing & Membership – Jay McCord

  1. 2025 Election and Candidates
  2. Motion (5) to Approve Nominating Committee.
  3. Help with recruiting candidates
  4. We will have 4 open positions for the 2026 Election.
  5. 2025 Members numbers to date
  6. Membership initiatives:
  7. Free New Membership program
  8. Cover the USA-Cover the World Initiative
  9. Event Kit Usage- Four appointments to date
  10. Ford Model A-Modern Antique Car
  11. Month of May Roadster Shirt Promotion
  12. Motion (6) Have a Roadster Shirt Promotion between Mid-May and the end of June.
  13. Motion (7) to order and sell a MAFCA wide brim Fedora Hat
  14. Facebook Power Point
  15. Motion (8) to stop Model A (All Car) Sales on the Facebook Page
  16. Motion (9) for Addition of Clyde Munson from Utah as an Administrator for Facebook Group
  17. Motions
  18. Motion (10) to Create a New Member Package, consisting of LesAndrews Volume 1, Ball Cap, Instruction Book, and current initiation package. Cost Retail $100 discuss discount.
  19. Goals for 2025:
  20. Touch as many new Model A Hobbyists and bring them into the club.
  21. Accomplish growth in membership for 2025
  22. Attend as many Chapter Meetings and Events as possible.
  23. Increase sales in our store by offering new products.
  24. Continue to grow our Facebook Group Page.
  25. Other

Technical Director – Paul Shinn

  1. Questions and answers from MAFCA email update
  2. Questions and answers from ModelAtech Questions email update
  3. Judging Standards Committee Update
  4. Motion (11) to Approve John Dyke Chief Judge for the 2026 MAFCA national meet
  5. Motion (12) to Approve Don Gibbard as member of Restorer’s Class Committee.
  6. Motion (13) to amend Section 2, Paragraph C of the Membership Policy to spell out the benefits of free and student memberships.
  7. Other

Chapter Coordinator – Doug Linden

  1. Chapter Activity:
    1. Motions to accept two new chapters
      1. Script “A” Club Ford Model “A” of Michigan (14)
      2. Crankin A’s of Daytona Beach, FL Inc (15)
    2. Chapter Status
      1. Good Standing
      2. Delinquent
    3. Newsletters
    4. Website Updates
    5. Liaison Reports:

*  Social Media

  1. Review Actions Pending from previous BOD meeting
  2. Other

Advertising – Dave Krill

  1. Advertising Business
    1. Nonrenewed ad, Model a Shirts
    2. European Tires* in limbo
    3. New ads * none
    4. Ad rates listed on website (possible motion).
    5. Facebook promotion.
  2. Michael Eisenbise developed ad. Ad released 1 Feb 2025.
  3. Ad reviewed by Ed Tolman, Dave Krill, Bill Truesdale, Jay McCord with changes
    1. 2026 MAFCA Membership Directory Advertisement.
  4. Work beginning to secure advertisers.
  5. May budget meeting / present costs.
    1. Hemmings Motor News.
    2. Insurance liaison.
    3. Insurance application, still needs to be easier to find.
    4. CCRG Grand Tour. Rejected by J.C.Taylor.
    5. MAFFI liaison
    6. Attended zoom board meeting.
    7. Addition progressing
    8. Happy Begg to report on meeting
  6. Personal goals
    1. Build a list of potential advertisers.
    2. Establish contact,
    3. Follow through by offering incentives to start.
    4. Continue developing computer skills.
    5. Attend MAFFI board meetings to stay current regarding MAFFI activities.
  7. Other

Publications – Sherry Winkinhofer

  1. Restorer Magazine

*    Mar/April 2025 issue status.

  1. New USPS Stamp Proposal
  2. EFC – Era Fashion Committee (Liaison)
  3. Concerns regarding Website
  4. Policy Change for Judging recertification
  5. Motion (16) Policy Change: P3S04 Fashion Judging Certification Program
  6. Fashion judging events – 2026 National Pendleton OR
  7. A-World and Youth Report
  8. MOTIONS

* Motion (17) to purchase reprints of Model A Instruction Book to sell on MAFCA Store.

  1. Other

Office Manager – Sandra Aguirre

  1. 2024/2025 Membership
  2. Hershey Plans for 2025
  3. New Merchandise
  1. Other