Because the region owns all the assets that is under its charter name,
San Francisco Region of SCCA. All of the Region's chapters (Fresno,
Sacramento, Thunder Hill, and the Solo 2 Steering Committee) are under
the region charter.
Lolita and Mike wrote:
>
> on 10/26/02 20:24, Pat Kelly at lollipop487@attbi.com wrote:
>
> > The region's racing drivers, through increased entry fees, put up the
> > bucks for Thunderhill, plus many who contributed various sums.
> > The only dollars that Solo 2 puts into the region's coffers are our dues
> > money. Nothing else. If any solo 2er helped get Thunderhill going, it was
> > done privately with individual contributions.
> > I have never expected the region to put any money into our site. When
> > the whole TH idea was started, the first site looked at was a little south
> > of Crows Landing. We were asked if we'd like to have part of the site for
> > our autocross area, separate from the paddock, so it could be used at the
> > same time. That made sense.
> > But, that site went belly up, and so did the next one. When TH came up,
> > it was too far away, and the region's management of that era wanted the Solo
> > 2ers dollars to pave the paddock. The idea was we could use the paddock for
> > autocrosses. A good race track has to be putting on races in order to
> > survive, so the paddock idea was turned down by the Solo 2 contingent
> > because 1) we wouldn't be able to use except in the off season and 2) it was
> > too far away to attract enough folks to even have a solo 2 program.
>
> > Does that help clarify? :)
> Well, yes and no.
> Much clearer on the original funding for TH.
> Still can't fathom why anyone would figure that Region is entitled to the
> site fund.
> Thanks for the clarification though.
> MJ
>
> > --Pat K
> >
> > ----------
> >> From: Lolita and Mike <lomike@earthlink.net>
> >> To: <Smokerbros@aol.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> >> Subject: Re: autosuffrage: we got votes for sale here
> >> Date: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 8:25 PM
> >>
> >
> >> on 10/26/02 9:31, Smokerbros@aol.com at Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm not sure what you would have the BoD do to help us with our site
> >>> situation, but if there was something they could do, I'd bet that they
> >>> would.
> >>>
> >>> Charlie Davis
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >> Did I missing something?
> >> While I wasn't around at the time, it has been my understanding that the
> >> Region put up the money for TH.
> >> Is that incorrect?
> >> If not incorrect, the next logical question would have to be," wasn't SOLO
> >> II paying into the Regions coffers then?"
> >> If SOLO did help them buy TH, why shouldn't we expect them to help us buy a
> >> permanent site?
> >> ( I don't even want to get started about a viable site, a plan, et al right
> >> now. This is simply a philosophical question about support Vs thinking
>about
> >> grabbing the $$ and running)
> >> MJ
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