> The turnout for San Francisco Region's Round 14 at Golden
> Gate Fields, in
> Albany, CA, was 248 entries. The last car finished at 7:04 p.m.
> But the most intriguing number to me is: 31 new people joined
> the region in
> time for our final regular season event.
> - --John Kelly
Actually. John, after going through all the new registrations Monday night
before giving them to Pilar I found we had 37 new registrations - some of
these were +spouse and +family.
This means we have signed up at least 100 new members since the Members Only
Rule went into effect.
Registration at this event was an absolute zoo. We don't have the staff or
time to register 250 people and initiate a couple dozen people to SCCA
(explain how the event works, figure out what class their car is in and when
they run) at every event.
I personally think we have all the people we can handle for now and will
advocate Members Only for slush and No New Members accepted at event
registration.
Discriminatory? Maybe. But what are your priorities? I think we need to run
events for the benefit of our members, not cater to every single person who
wants to try out the sport today. If we don't do this I will guarantee that
at some of the slush events at GGF a lot of you will get two runs only and
the last group(s) will either run in the dark or not run at all.
A couple people have mentioned they can't "Bring a Friend" to one event. I'm
personally not opposed to selling a card to one friend of someone who's been
a member for a while so they can try out the sport. How do you regulate
this? Answer: Not easily. Especially when we don't have a permanent
registration crew.
And BTW we will not have a registrar as of 1/01. We need volunteers for next
year's crew. And you know how that goes - no Registrar, no events.
Sherry Grantz
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