Bicycle Board Members,
Please find attached a zip folder that contains 6 documents: the agenda for this Thursday's meeting; minutes of our last meeting; our procedural guidelines; and 3 documents relevant to our goals.
In reviewing our procedural guidelines, I noticed that while Bicycle Board member term of office is 3 years, officer (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary) term of office is only 1 year. I, Don Dickerson and Betsy have been the officers for way over a year so I put officer election on the agenda.
Also I must say that while reading through the items in the Purpose section of our procedural guidelines, I felt very proud that we have held true to those items. While reading through the duties, I also felt very proud of how professionally and thoroughly we have executed them. (We still need to produce a comprehensive bicycle plan, though.)
On the other hand, I am terribly disappointed that the City has been practically unresponsive and even resistant to our recommendations and apparently powerless to get them implemented. (Does it really have to take a year to paint a stripe in the middle of the rail-trail down by the pavilion?!)
Therefore, when we get to the Goals topic on the agenda, rather than focusing on things we'd like to see done, I suggest we determine HOW to get them done.
See you Thursday!
Frank
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: BB meeting next week Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:23:40 -0400 From: Frank Gmeindl fgmeindl@verizon.net To: Bicycle Board bikeboard@cheat.org
Bicycle Board Members,
Please send me items that you wish me to include on the agenda for our meeting next week. Include topic, amount of time required to discuss the topic, and the desired outcome of our discussing it. I'll collect the inputs and send out the agenda Sunday.
Attached are the minutes of our last meeting. Thanks to Don Spencer for creating them.
Of course, we're going to prioritize candidates for replacing our two vacancies (other than the Youth Commission member). I am happy to announce that Jim Rye would like to rejoin.
Finally, we should complete refreshing our goals. Here's a reminder from our March meeting minutes.
Each BB member wrote down his/her heartfelt goal on a post-it note. These goals, as listed below (word for word), were then categorized into the following groups: WVU: . Getting more students out of cars and using bikes as a means of transportation . Work with regional wellness council to enable, promote, and reinforce active commuting among employees . Help WVU promote bike commuting and promote administration support of alternative transportation by faculty, staff, and students . All goals that pertain to WVU ENCOURAGEMENT . Make cycling more available and inviting to youth and public for fitness as well as transportation . Generate signed bicycle routes throughout the city connecting various destinations in the city . Influence one person to commute by bicycle . Bike route maps for commuters online and/or in print EDUCATION . Our education recommendations to the Traffic Commission are implemented . Children in schools-teach safe riding on roads, streets, and trails INFRASTRUCTURE . Maintain and improve roadways for safer bicycling (especially shoulders and grates) . Traffic calming everywhere . Neighborhood connections: For instance: Krepps, Star City Trail . Woods along the ridge just off the highway above the park OR through the park so families and others don't drive to the river trail to bike
Also attached again is the wonderful annual report that Betsy wrote for us to use to review the goals that we previously identified and our progress toward achieving them.
Now, the only excuse for not being prepared for the meeting is that you were out riding in this gorgeous weather!
Frank