April 2009 Next General Meeting – Wednesday 1 April All members are invited to attend our next General Meeting to be held on Wednesday 1 April at 8.00pm. Graham Boulter will be holding an exciting presentation from Mal Cribb of Raceway Services who are forming an alliance with the Sporting Car Club in offering a diverse range of motoring services including overseas Motor Racing Holidays and Motor Museum Tours. This will be an added income source for our Club, come along and find out all about it! Prior to the meeting, from 6.30pm, we will be holding a barbecue tea. $10.00 per person includes all you can eat meat and salad as well as four raffle tickets (Please note that you can purchase more raffle tickets at the normal cost of 4 tickets for $2.00). Please notify the office of numbers attending for catering purposes by Friday 27 March.
From the President – Michael Keenan In keeping with the need for a Board to be pro-active, informed and accountable, the last meeting of the Club’s Board agreed to set up an internal audit committee. Not only is such a committee Best Practice it has become legislated requirement of Local Government, and in the US and Britain, in the wake of the recent financial instability, internal audit committees are mandated aspects of not for profit organisations. The internal audit committee has a critical role in extending the work of the Treasurer in managing the finances of the Club and in ensuring that the governance of the Club by reviewing the capacity to control expenses and to manage and fund activities. At the last Section Head forum, several matters were raised that could be addressed by an effective internal audit committee. These issues ranged across the spectrum from the irritating and minor to matters of good practice. They all addressed the way in which work is done. Internal Audit processes examine and evaluate such “ways of work” or the systematic processes of the Club. So whilst some might crudely title an internal audit committee a razor gang, which does convey some of the task, there is a lot more to be done, even in an intimate organization such as the Sporting Car Club. As such the Audit Committee, which is to be chaired by Rodney Gibb, is the fourth part of the Board’s infrastructure. With its peer standing committees – Facilities, Finance and Governance - the committees once staffed by the Board and Club members will enable information to be processed, plans to be developed and, most importantly, both the implementation and monitoring of those plans. One other important undertaking of the Board at its last meeting was to review its connection to the major internal structures of the Club, namely the Sections. It was agreed to follow through with the Section Heads the development of a more formal set of arrangements for getting the section’s input into the Board debates and to have the energies and organizational skills of the sections more effectively tapped. A key proposal is the recognition by the Board of the Section Forum as a stranding committee of the Board. This would ensure that its deliberations would be incorporated into the Board agenda. It may even mean the development of a direct input through a Section Forum delegate addressing the Board in the consideration of the Forum minutes.
Car and Trailer Storage at Blackwood WORKSHOP BAY WITH 2 post hoist. Bay measures 6 metres x 7 metres Or WORKSHOP BAY (clear area). Bay measures 6 metres x 7 metres Plus Open area suitable to store up to 3 trailers. Store cars at $200 per month per vehicle or store and work on cars by negotiation. Store trailers at $80 per month. Workshop is monitored alarmed. Insurance if required to be arranged by car/trailer owners at their cost. Contact Mike Drewer on m 0419 273 333 Or email m.drewer@bigpond.com
Don’t Miss
April 1 General Meeting Clubrooms
April 5 Working Bee Collingrove
April 5 Dawnbuster Run Fleurieu
April 11-13 HRR Easter Weekend
April 16 Hub Lunch Coromandel Valley
April 18 Drift Practice Mallala
April 19 RAA Trophy Day Veteran Section
April 19 Burnout Collingrove
April 19 Registration Day Classic Section
April 26 Come & Try Hillclimb
May 2-3 Round 2 SA State Motor Racing Champs Mallala