Secretary's Report April 2025
ARCHIVE REPORTS
CORVETTE CLUB OF MARION COUNTY
General Membership Business Meeting Minutes
April 2, 2025
PRESIDENT: Mike Stone
Mike called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Following the Pledge of Allegiance, Mike introduced Cheri and Morgan from Arnette House. Their program encompasses many services for at risk youth in the community including runaway or homeless as well as foster children waiting for placement or having outgrown the foster care program. Arnette House provides a safe place providing nutritional food, clothing and hygiene products while they counsel towards bringing families together. Arnette House has an emergency temporary shelter program accommodating up to 20 children who are between the ages of 10-17 who are runaways, abandoned, homeless, truant or have been locked out of their home because of conflict within the home. A SNAP Program (Stop Now and Plan) reaches out to the community providing strategies to increase social skills for children ages 6-11 who engage in aggressive or antisocial behavior and families who need counseling to bring their family back together. The children will continue going to school, have their friends over and go to friends’ homes to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Arnette House has been in existence for 44 years now, founded by the Arnette family after their son died of a drug overdose despite being drug free for many years. They wanted to provide a safe place where youth in the community could receive help in many ways that are needed including a substance abuse program. They have added a new member to Arnette House, Duffy, a dog who brings comfort to many. Education is a part of their program as well providing a schoolhouse on campus using the ISL Program to coincide with the school system. For ages 18-24, children at the Arnette House are provided vocational skills such as carpentry, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical to name a few. They are welcome to stay at Arnette House provided they have a job and are working towards supporting themselves. After learning about Arnette House, CCMC feels this is a worthwhile charity to support as the young people of today will be our future. At the conclusion, Mike, Tina, and Jack presented Cheri and Morgan with a check for $6000 to put towards their education needs at the schoolhouse. They accepted the check with appreciation to all CCMC members for their hard work and generosity to support them.
VICE PRESIDENT: Tina Farabee
Membership Update: Sixty-seven families are now members.
New Members/Visitors: Emerson and Coleen Smith have joined tonight. They own a 2019 Black Grand Sport. Our guests tonight were Candace and Dave Marston who have a 1991 Green Corvette as well as Carol Hazzard who is a guest of Larry Luke. Welcome!
New Car Purchases/Changes: Steve Gillette has purchased a 2009 Corvette Roadster that is air-conditioned so he can ride comfortably to corvette events. Congratulations!
Service Providers, Pros/Cons: None to report this month.
Trophies/Awards: Mike Kurlakowsky won second place at the Inverness Car Show on a very rainy Sunday for his 1994 Torch Red Corvette. Congratulations Mike!
Spring Picnic Update: Sixty people have signed up for the picnic on April 27th at Shel’s Car Barn in Salt Springs.
By-Law Update: Joyce Stone and I will be reviewing and updating this next week.
SECRETARY: Joyce Stone
A motion was made to approve the March General Membership Business Meeting Minutes, second made, all in favor; therefore, the minutes were accepted as posted.
TREASURER: Jack Carroll
Financial Report: Beginning balance March 1st was $19,643.92. Two bank deposits and one mobile deposit were made totaling $1,024.00. Six checks were written totaling $9,057.65. Ending balance on March 30th was $11,610.27. A motion was made to approve the financial report, second made, all in favor; therefore, the March 2025 Financial Report was accepted as shown.
Jack reported it was determined by the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service that CCMC is exempt from Federal Taxes, under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501 (c) (3) effective July 12, 2024.
Florida State also determined CCMC is exempt from payment of Florida State “sales and use tax” effective February 20, 2025.
SPONSOR AMBASSADOR: Roger Duty
Sullivan paid $2000 as Corporate Sponsor; Dr. Linn of Foot and Ankle Center of Ocala has become our first Platinum sponsor at $500; Gen-One paid $200. Ed Sullivan of WickED Performance will send his check this week as Gold Sponsor of $300.
EVENT COORDINATOR: Nick D’Altilio and Cheryl Whiteley
April Events: April 9th, Ice Cream Cruise-in at Twistee Treat at 6:00 p.m.; April 27th, CCMC Spring Picnic.
May Events: May 3rd, Cruise-in at Sullivan; May 21st, Ice Cream Cruise-in at Twistee Treat; May 24th, Memorial Day Cruise.
June Events: DeLeon Springs/Sugar Mill.
REMINDER: Payment for the St. John’s River Cruise scheduled for July 17th is due at the next General Membership Business Meeting on May 7th; $72.80 per person, $145.60 per couple.
NCM Ambassador: Dave Rosser
Coming up is a trip to Colorado Springs (which is like the one lap in Kentucky). April 23rd to April 25th is the Michelin Bash in Kentucky. NCM Anniversary celebration is the first week of September. Next year, NCM Museum in Motion will be riding the Tail of the Dragon, will keep you informed of the plans. June 6th to June 17th is the endurance race in LeMans, France.
Website: Linda Yanss
Ninety-nine percent of the website is done. Any questions please send me an email at corvclub@gmail.com; Linda encouraged everyone to get on the website and see how easy it is. There is a lot of club information, and it is all easy to navigate. The website for members and the club events is ccmcfl.org/zr1
Car Show Update: Roger Peterson
Sullivan Cruise-in is May 3rd from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Bring your chairs. There is a flyer and sign-up sheet under events.
The team leaders are in place for the November 8th car show. There is a judge sign-up sheet at the table in front. Art Roy has signed up 21 volunteers for parking. Volunteers are needed to help with traffic.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Birthdays: Nancy Duty
Birthday wishes are sent to Sallie Tanner, Barbie Selvaggio, Lee White, Jeanne Roy, Rene Duprey, Roger Peterson, and Nick D’Altilio.
Sunshine/Club Shirts: Nikki Colom
Get well cards were sent to Nancy Duty and Brenda Hawter. Hope you are feeling better soon.
The club shirt is a white-collar polo shirt for men and a white shirt/blouse for the ladies. Purchase your shirt(s), bring them to a meeting with the money and Nikki will have them embroidered and returned at the next meeting. The logo and name are $15. Checks can be made out to Brenda Hawter. All shirt embroidery/logo sales must go through CCMC.
Club Hats/Visors: Don Messenger
Mesh hats and baseball style hats as well as visors with the club logo already on are $15 each and are available at all meetings.
Club Badges: Ernie Brandes
Magnetic name badges are available for $11. See me after the meeting to order and the badge will be returned to you at the next meeting.
Food4Kids: Ernie Brandes
Thank you, Linda, and Tom Jones, for picking up and delivering food bags to the school in March. Art and Jeanne Roy will be doing this in April.
Mike and Ernie delivered the check to Interfaith for $2000 for the purchase of backpacks. There are 2000 children in the program. There are 369 volunteers working in the program. For every dollar they receive, 93 cents goes to Interfaith, and 7 cents goes toward expense. In September we will have new people when we pick up as Teesha is leaving and Clarissa has already left. We wish them well.
RAFFLES:
50/50: Nick D’Altilio won $70.
Mimi’s Gift Card: Karen Dold won the $10 gift card.
MOTION TO ADJOURN: A motion was made to adjourn the meeting, second made, all in favor; therefore, the April General Membership Business Meeting was adjourned at 7:55 p.m.
Submitted by Joyce Stone, CCMC Secretary