Thanks to Chip, Ryan, Nick and Hugh for showing up at Starbuck's around 8 am today to plan the future of the Bicycle Board's Education Program.
Action Items Frank will arrange for him and Hugh to meet with Nathan Kyle, Christiaan Abildso and Kristen Dieffenbach to establish a regular bicycling education course in WVU's College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (CPASS). Frank will discuss with Jeff Mikorski storing at WVU Mountaineer Station our bumper stickers, business cards, booklets, etc. with WVU providing inventory control. Chip will query bike locker vendors about current popular locker access mechanisms in preparation for a definitive recommendation to Tom Arnold for approximately 4 lockers. Discussion
We discussed continuing the education program by developing alliances with WVU, MTEC and BOPARC so that they will offer a bicycling education course as part of their regular curricula and the BB will provide the instructors but the financing remains a question. As part of the WVU CPASS program students could become LCIs and follow their certification with teaching children the following summer. Nick presented a persuasive argument that we all should target educating children in the public schools with a progressive program similar to the European model that has children starting learning how to be safe pedestrians then in successive years increasing their bicycling competence until at approximately the age of 14 they can be certified as competent traffic cyclists. We discussed financial support from schools that have Safe Routes to School money and Kaleidoscope after school programs. We didn't decide anything specific. Hugh offered Mountaineer Station to store our bumper stickers, business cards, booklets, etc. and to establish an inventory control system if the City cannot do so. Somewhat off the topic of education, Chip learned that the City may still have $5K budgeted for bike lockers and we discussed an approach to providing a specific recommendation to Tom Arnold to purchase 4 lockers. Our discussion included locating lockers outside the parking garages. We discussed WVU and/or the City starting a bicycle rental program similar to DC's and Montreal's B-cycle program or Paris' Velib or B-Cycle.
Frank
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From: Frank Gmeindl frank.gmeindl@comcast.net Date: October 6, 2011 9:17:04 AM EDT To: Hugh.Kierig@mail.wvu.edu, "andrew@pathfinderwv.com Walker" andrew@pathfinderwv.com, chip wamsley chipwamsley@gmail.com, Jim Rye Jim.Rye@mail.wvu.edu, nick.hein@positivespin.org, Marilyn Newcome mjcycling@msn.com, Gunnar Shogren gshogren@gmail.com, Ryan Post rpostwvu@gmail.com, Elizabeth Shogren edz4@cdc.gov Cc: bikeboard Board bikeboard@cheat.org Subject: Regroup?
Education Committee Members,
What do you think about getting together to regroup now that the bicycling education grant is drawing to a close? There are several things that I think we need to resolve:
- Whether to continue offering courses and if so, which ones, who will teach them, when, where, how much to charge and how to market them.
- What to do with all the promotional materials that we now have including the seven video spots, Nick's video, remaining newspaper articles, WVU info kiosks, 3' x 8' banner, bumper stickers, business cards, billboard designs, poster designs, newspaper ad designs, Mountaineer Yellow Pages community page, police info cards, Street Smarts books, TS101 student packets.
- The future of the website, BikeMorgantown.com and the facebook page, BikeMorgantown.
- The bike route map.
- What to say in the final report on the grant.
Frank