FSC was awarded 2022 Club of the Year from the The BMW Clubs International Council (BCIC) at the BMW CCA South Atlantic Regional Meetup in Tampa, FL on March 11, 2023! Thanks to all CCA, our Officers, BOD, AGs, volunteers and most importantly all our members! YaY us!

About the Award:
"The Club of the Year Award for officially recognised clubs honours outstanding performance in the field. This award acknowledges the active growth of a club, its social responsibility and exceptional dedication. For example, a club can be nominated for its organisation of independent club events, which highlight the significance of the BMW Clubs International Council or are particularly effective in promoting cooperation between BMW clubs and the BMW Group."
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There are around 800 officially recognised BMW clubs with over 230,000 members throughout the world.

TRANSCRIPT:
Hey everyone, I'm Lou Ann Shirk, I'm the Executive Vice President of the BMW Car Club of America. I'm here with Stan Dale, who is President of the (of the) SunCoast Chapter and I just want to congratulate you on this absolutely fabulous and prestigious award from the BMW International Council of Clubs in Germany. This is really really difficult award to get and I'm so excited to be able to have presented today in front of a huge group here in Tampa and there are over 230,000 members worldwide that fall under the International Council Clubs [Wow] and it covers about 54 countries, so this is, as far as I know, this is only the second time that a BMW Car Club of America Chapter has won this award so (um) congratulations on that. It's it was a long time coming, it's it's kind of a crazy thing when (when uh) I started this over a year ago and I wasn't able to say anything at all to Stan about it, it was driving me crazy and last week he had mentioned at a an event we were attending that he was so proud that they have won local regional and national awards and now you've won an international award so congratulations. [Stan] Thank you, Lou Ann, I'll tell you it's (it's) remarkable, it's (uh it's) all it's (it's) very humbling (um) the Chapter has worked such a hard (uh) couple of years to put together multiple chapters and (and) have events planned throughout the state. I got to tell you, it's not, it's this is all about the volunteers that do this our Officers, our Board, our Area Governors and our members and they all come out and participate, our vendors at our dealerships and our independent (uh) dealership or independent shops they all support us. It's amazing what this does to know that this is the so this is worldwide this is won worldwide is just (uh) very humbling, very proud of our folks. It's as we said, as we talked off camera, this is a (this is a a) "WE" this is all about us as a Chapter collectively. It's not about any one person and (uh and) that, I think it's (uh it's it's) an amazing, it's an amazing award. Yes, we appreciate it. [Lou Ann] I'm glad to have been a part of it and I'm very proud as a Florida SunCoast member and I'm also I tell you there's a lot of pride being a BMW of Car Club of America National Board member very proud of what you've done. We've thrown a lot at you in the past years. (um) Yeah with consolidation of Chapters and and really proud of the program that you've done with the governorships and and it's really shown that that's a really good retention tool and thank you very much for all you do for the chapter. [Stan] Well we gotta, I gotta thank all the leadership at BMW CCA it's just, (uh it's) it's remarkable to have all the support staff there, (uh) knows us, all the support staff there, you know just do a remarkable job, yourself, Frank and I'll leave all the names out not in unintentionally but it's just remarkable how the support that we get and (um) that's what makes it worth it it's a to be able to parlay that into the entire membership of Florida SunCoast is just (uh) as I said, it's very humbling. [Lou Ann] Well congratulations again, very well done. [Stan] Thank you very much, appreciate it, thank you so much, alrighty thank you everybody, we'll, as we always say, (uh) if you're sitting on a sofa, you're wasting time come on out, Happy Motoring, [Lou Ann] Happy Motoring, see ya.

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