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Post by dkmura on Feb 3, 2024 17:45:42 GMT -7
This thread is to collect self-nominations for the FOUR competition board slots that are open for 2024. As we discussed at the 2/3/24 meeting, this board will help create and enforce rulesets for the year. If you'd like to be considered for one of these positions, please "step up to the bar", list your name and provide a short description of your background, platform, or why you'd like to be elected to this board. The outgoing board will put up a poll or election to select the board if we have more than four candidates. All current members of RMSCC are eligible to apply.
This application period will end on 2/27/24, so please don't delay if you're interested!
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Post by amiatanut/marc.gosselin on Feb 3, 2024 19:36:18 GMT -7
I’d like to be considered on the board. Ive been racing actively, consistently since the mid 1990’s, starting with HO and moving to 1/32 in the early 2000s. A number of guys I raced HO with were national champions in a number of classes. Learnt a lot from these guys. I moved to 1/32 when I realized my fingers were just too big to work on those small ho motors! A small number of us racing ho formed a 1/32 group and built a couple tracks to race on. A notice at a small hobby store was looking for interested people in racing 1/32, I was in! I went from a rookie, not knowing how to setup a car nor how to drive to winning my fair share and building some great cars. I had a beautiful sceniced 4 lane wood track, 12x24 in my basement for about 10 years, until I moved out here. I was in 2 clubs in NH, a Wednesday night group and one once a month. Lots of racing, many different classes and rules to deal with. I’ve competed in regional races (groups from NH, MA, NY, CT and Quebec) along with a 24 hour race held at the home of the owner of Slotcarcorner.com. Ive got lots of experience, abilities and would love to be actively involved in the formation of the class rules and help in other areas that I can.
Thanks for the consideration, Marc
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Post by blr on Feb 3, 2024 20:58:58 GMT -7
In my opinion I think we can put the nominees up on the page here but I feel we should do an in person private vote for the committee as well like we did for president today to keep it all private. Everyone that wants to vote should vote for 4 people they want on the committee. It keeps it more honest and less intrusive.
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Post by dkmura on Feb 4, 2024 12:34:01 GMT -7
In my opinion I think we can put the nominees up on the page here but I feel we should do an in person private vote for the committee as well like we did for president today to keep it all private. Everyone that wants to vote should vote for 4 people they want on the committee. It keeps it more honest and less intrusive. Once all the candidates for this board have been declared in this thread, we can use an online poll to collect votes if needed. That way the votes are collected electronically and kept private, except for the outcome.
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Post by Tom Dolan on Feb 5, 2024 8:32:19 GMT -7
I would like to be considered for the board. I have been playing with slot cars since 1962 and have a good knowledge of current and vintage cars. I have been featured in Bop Schleicher's books several times, I designed, built ( with no help from the club -not complaining, just saying-and with some of my own money and club money ) and maintain the Colpar track mostly by myself. I have helped many new members with car set-ups and driving tips and feel I would be a fair and valuable asset to the board. I have entered 3 proxy races and even won one of them a few years ago and have won my fair share of races locally.
Tom
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Post by David C on Feb 6, 2024 11:07:07 GMT -7
I'll throw my hat into the ring to be a member of the "Racing Committe". My experience/background with slot cars begins with a neighborhood club I was apart of back in the late 60's as an early teenager building and racing brands such as Cox, Strombecker, Revell, Eldon, Russkit, Riggen and others. Then once I got me drivers license at 16, real cars and girls changed my interests. In the early 2000's my interests was re-ignited at the Colpar hobby shop (previous location of many years on Havana North of Mississippi Ave.) where i learned of the re-surgency of slot cars. I started purchasing the brands available at the time such as Fly, Ninco, Pink Car and Spirit to name aoout club few. They were fairly inexpensive at the time costing in the range of $40-$60. I also learned that there was a group of guys that got together on Wednesday nights to race these cars Walter Penny's four lane Suzuka track. That was the precursor to the RMSCC and the idea to create a club began. Soon, some of us started building our own tracks. My track was "Castle Pines International Raceway" which was featured in "Model Car Racing" magazine (by Robert Schleicher) issue #60 (10th anniversary) November/December 2011. Subsequently, Jim bought that track. There were other tracks of the RMSCC and another club that splintered off from our club that is no longer active. As for tuning slot cars, I entered the Slot Car Illustrated Slot.it shootout proxy race in 2010 where you build up a Slot.it Group C car using only Slot.it parts including tires and sent it in to Dave Kennedy and opened up each of the 25 entrants' cars to inspect them to insure they adhered to the very strict rules. The racing took place on 12 different racetracks in the USA, Canada, New Zeeland and Australia which made it truly an International racing series. These tracks consisted of Ninco, Carrera, Scalextric Sport and wood tracks of various finishes. I could name all the entrants and tracks if you are interested. My car that I built/tunned ended up finishing in first place. I subsequently entered the following year, 2011 but this time I did zero tunning to my Slot.it car due to the fact that I had slod my track to Jim and had not track to test/tune a car on. I ended up in 15th place that year but also made the podium for my "fantasy livery" of a Porsche "Sunoco" livery which was voted on by participants of the "Toy Fair'in Munich, Germany that year. I also entered another proxy race. "The Last Open Road" which was based on the B.S. Levy book. I entered my MGTD with a brass chassis and won in 2011 sand 2012. So I do know how to set-up a slot car to compete. The last 5 years or so I have expanded my talents to "track building" and am starting to get into "casting resin" slot car bodies and building brass chassis mainly because it is getting so expensive to purchase the slot cars now on the market ranging for $60-$100.
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Post by blr on Feb 8, 2024 22:46:08 GMT -7
I volunteer to be on the committee to due my part strictly in keeping the racing with toys fun and not political! *** IAN FOR COMMITTEE ***
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Post by Jim W on Feb 22, 2024 11:16:36 GMT -7
Less than a week to add your name to the 2024 RMSCC Board Nominations
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Post by blr on Feb 24, 2024 16:13:13 GMT -7
To be honest I feel the “board” or “ committee” members should also have to be at least say 60-70% of the races to even qualify. How will they understand what the club is doing or feeling or even wanting if they aren’t around racing with us. Just my opinion.
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Post by Tom Dolan on Feb 25, 2024 9:24:39 GMT -7
I think there should be at least one founding member on the board. I also started the RMSCC page on Facebook ad well as the vintage club board and the NCSCC board.
Tom
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Post by BruceK on Feb 25, 2024 15:20:43 GMT -7
Hello racers! I would love to serve on the board. You all welcomed me into this group with open arms. You’ve been super supportive and helpful, even when I was crashing into you! I think it’s important to pay that forward and help out in any way I can. I’ve got a little less than two years of racing in so far and it’s so fun. I think it’s the perfect hobby. Since I’m still pretty new, I can really relate to a newer racer’s perspective. Anything I lack in experience I will make up for in doing my best to study and learn the details of every class and situation, so that I may render opinions and votes with knowledge. I really don’t race at night, due to poor night vision and just being too tired, but I will attend every Saturday race. I’ll listen attentively to and discuss what people’s opinions are at races and on the site. I’ll communicate often with the other board members. I will lean toward more simple. I will tend toward BS or BS+ with few if any modifications. There is another club with plenty of those. I will also tend toward single manufacturer classes (e.g. all Slot Its etc). Since I’m not able to host races on a home track YET, another piece of my platform will be to provide luscious danish Kringle pastry from my hometown in WI periodically. Who could vote against that? Bruce
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Post by amiatanut/marc.gosselin on Feb 25, 2024 20:44:27 GMT -7
At this time I am withdrawing my name from the board. I may not be attending much more than 50% of the races from here on out, due to many reasons. There are enough qualified candidates now anyhow.
Marc
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Post by Tom Dolan on Feb 25, 2024 21:19:25 GMT -7
At this time I am withdrawing my name from the board. I may not be attending much more than 50% of the races from here on out, due to many reasons. There are enough qualified candidates now anyhow. Marc Sorry to hear Marc. Tom
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Post by phlash on Feb 26, 2024 23:59:10 GMT -7
I have waited to see if we would have any more candidates than the four required to fill the committee posts. While for a brief moment, one more signed up, making 5 ... one other then aborted . . . . leaving yet again, essentially four “volunteers”.
Ideally, it would have been preferable to see maybe twice that many in the running for the ultimate vote. But apparently, not many cherish the notion of working within a group that will determine rulesets, schedules, and other aspects that make the club function cohesively.
If those four positions were determined by vote, it would at least confer some sense of “validation”.
Nonetheless and perhaps regrettably, I will therefore submit myself as the fifth “candidate” for the upcoming board. That’ll make five anyway! A vote will now be required. Yay
I’ll only cite the pertinent “credentials” all of you know already. Since the “appointment” of David Muramoto, John Parker and myself, to the current committee, I've endeavored to work together for the benefit and growth of our club. While there will always be differences of opinion between people, those differences can usually be settled amicably. With majority rule, all ideas, suggestions, criticisms, and compromises must be heard and resolved before rendering final determination on rules that will then be posted for the membership. It is with this knowledge and experience that I base my decision.
It’s been an honor to serve our club in this capacity for the past few years, and I thank you for your consideration!
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Post by amiatanut/marc.gosselin on Feb 27, 2024 13:58:02 GMT -7
After some arm twisting by a few members I will put my name back in the pot, please consider me for a board member.
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