I think that things went fairly well for the 43rd running of the Montana 500.  We blew up a few model T's in the race.  Then we went to Yellowstone and blew up a few more.  I would like to thank the folks from Bozeman Ford for the great service that they provided to us.  They bent over backwards over and over for us.  I would also like to thank all the support people, timers, flaggers, trouble trailer people and the teardown inspection crew. 

Janet and I have talked it over and the fall meeting will be held in October in Eureka, MT.  I will get in touch with Mike Cuffe to nail down the date and location.  I plan to have the directors meeting and the general meeting on the same day at the same location.  The directors meeting will be held right before the general meeting and will be open to all members.  That is, non-directors are welcome to monitor the director's meeting.

We are going to handle rule changes a little differently this year.  If you have any changes that you'd like to see, please send or e-mail them to me and I will pass them on to the rules committee that I have formed. The rules committee will put these ideas into the form of a motion. These motions will be printed in the next newsletter. The final vote will then be made at the fall meeting. If you cannot personally attend the fall meeting, you can try to get someone who is attending to proxy your vote. Each person attending the fall meeting can proxy a vote for only one person and only on issues announced before the meeting.

Some of the reasons for handling the rule changes this way are:

1. We need to finalize changes sooner so people can begin working on their cars.

2. If the ideas are put into motion form before the meeting, it will save time at the meeting.

3. Sending out ballots, as we've done in the past, is in effect conducting business outside of a meeting which goes against our club charter. Having a vote outside of a meeting is too easy for the person counting the votes to manipulate.

All submitted ideas may not make it to the general meeting. They must first get past the rules committee, then past the board of directors.