Hello Board!

We had a lovely meeting in September. For a large part of that meeting, Frank facilitated a brainstorming session about our Bike Spine Network map. See minutes and detailed notes about that session attached. Send comments or corrections to the minutes to briankleary@gmail.com

Chip and I decided to postpone our October general meeting at least one week, and we may end up canceling it altogether.

In place of the general meeting next week, we urge you all to organize help advance some of the projects below. Perhaps you could even gather a subgroup and meet during our usual meeting time?

1) Develop the spine network review process (needs a leader)

2) Set a date and plan the sharrows / bike lane celebration (contact Chip)

3) Help draft the bike/ped facilities closure policy (contact me)

4) Explore areas of town underrepresented by spine network (contact Chip)

5) Help recruit new members to the board (contact me)

This last one is vitally important at this juncture. We've graduated quite a few members over the past year and we are likely to graduate a couple more soon. We need an influx of new (or returning) members willing to spearhead projects and help keep our momentum. The MMMPO is about to hire a consultant for a bike/ped plan update and that will mean that A LOT of things will be asked of the board. If you have any ideas about how we can best grow (or keep) our membership, please send them my way! Maybe we need to have a recruitment fair? Maybe we should contact all the other boards and have a *Morgantown Advisory Boards Extravaganza* where we all work to fill our membership?

Thanks!

Drew

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J.D. Gatlin
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
B58 Engineering Sciences Building
West Virginia University
Chair, Morgantown Municipal Bicycle Board
Morgantown, WV 26505