I totally agree. The elected committee usually sit down afterwards and do some planning post AGM.
We always try to do a mixture of social and car related events to try and keep everyone interested.
As for your suggestions of PR with the police ect, that's a great idea. There was some banter after our Toowoomba cruise about organising some driver education and first aid training for those interested but as this was a much shorter term (Feb-Aug) our hands were tied a bit as an exec committee about what we could put in place and such weren't really in the position to undertake anything that required a long term commitment of greater than a few months.
As for sponsors and supporters we are ALWAYS keen to get more on board and we were looking at getting more non-car related sponsors as we recognise that each of our members have their own special talents. In 5 months we have pretty much gone from having no supporters to having organisations such as Repco, Fulcrum Suspension, Option 1 garage, CDR paint & Panel and Vroom Bar & Bistro who kindly offer up their cafe to us every month for our monthly meets.
If any of our members have suggestions I would like to think that instead of playing Chinese Whispers that they'd drop one of the execs a line and say "Hey. A friend of mine died of cancer, can we do something for Daffodil Day" or "I have a heavy right foot, can we do more track events". If its not something we can do straight away we have a "parking lot" of ideas for the club.