Good morning Drew and all, I would like to be part of the discussion on bike parking especially in areas along the rail-trail.
Regarding website, if you choose to keep domain with option to transfer to a non-profit, I can help with some suggestions for free space through company called Dreamhost. I do not think this can be MRTC but can discuss further if this option is preferred route. I also have someone that I would highly recommend to do web work at a reasonable price. He has worked on MRTC website.
I do not want to be on the Bike Board but would like to attend meetings if available so I appreciate you keeping me in the email loop. Take care, Ella
Ella Belling Executive Director Mon River Trails Conservancy P.O. Box 282 Morgantown, WV 26507 http://montrails.org 304-692-6782
On Oct 5, 2020, at 4:49 PM, Drew Gatlin jgatlin@morgantownwv.gov wrote:
Hello BikeMorgantown!
A few things:
First, I need the help of your expert minds! We need to perform a comprehensive assessment of the bike parking along the Morgantown Riverfront. A decent amount of inventorying has already been performed using RackSpotter.com http://rackspotter.com/. However, this did not include the following, which we need: Comments on each of the existing bicycle parking locations Is it enough? Is the rack design satisfactory? It necessary, or is it chronically underutilized? Identification of areas that lack any current bike parking and need installation of new parking Please let me know if you would like to be part of this project, and if so, how you would like to be involved. Final expected product would be: a map and/or document ID'ing all existing locations and needed locations with the above information. You could probably do this entirely in RackSpotter, but we don't have easy access to the database to manipulate the presentation of the data.
Second, www.bikemorgantown.com http://www.bikemorgantown.com/ is up for renewal. You have a few options: Ask the city to pay to renew the domain Abandon the domain and incorporate the content onto the morgantownwv.gov http://morgantownwv.gov/ website Allow the domain to lapse entirely Request that the city transfer the domain to some separate entity (would need to be a nonprofit, I think) Some considerations for the website: If you wish to have the city pay to renew the domain, you need to articulate why maintaining the website is a "need" - we continue to be in a spending freeze In 2018, the board drafted a new website for BikeMorgantown but never pulled the trigger: https://bikemorgantown.wixsite.com/home https://bikemorgantown.wixsite.com/home During that time, they unpublished most existing content from www.bikemorgantown.com http://www.bikemorgantown.com/ If we kept the existing domain, we would need to map the new content to it. If transferred to pages within morgantownwv.gov http://morgantownwv.gov/, it's likely that we will need to build several sub-pages. Third, we have a few people interested in joining the bike board. We should meet. Can someone throw out a day/time as a suggestion? I would prefer by the end of next week.
Hope you're all well! Drew
J. Drew Gatlin Staff Engineer 389 Spruce St., Rm. 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Office: (304) 284-7411 Cell: (304) 719-7900 Fax: (304) 284-7409 http://www.morgantownwv.gov/ _______________________________________________ Bikeboard mailing list -- bikeboard@lists.bikelover.org mailto:bikeboard@lists.bikelover.org To unsubscribe send an email to bikeboard-leave@lists.bikelover.org mailto:bikeboard-leave@lists.bikelover.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://lists.bikelover.org/hyperkitty/list/bikeboard@lists.bikelover.org/me... https://lists.bikelover.org/hyperkitty/list/bikeboard@lists.bikelover.org/message/T57WKDWOQLF4ISWWABNAWNHQYBKFXOA7/
