Movers and shakers of cycling in Morgantown, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to all of you. Whether or not you filled in boxes and wrote verbiage for the document submitted on Tuesday, your past and present dedication and enthusiasm for cycling in our town gave us the content we needed to present a strong application for the League's 2016 bicycle friendly community award. This was truly a group effort! I have mentioned before that we need local reviewers to both vet the application, as well as to give the League a sense of cyclists away from those of us who fill out the boxes. If you weren't part of the document creation process and you have some time over the next few weeks, OR if you know of a few other folks you wouldn't mind asking to participate in the review process, please consider signing up at the link provided in the email below. The deadline is tomorrow at midnight. I don't think the time requirement will be very demanding, but I am not privy to the process. There is also an informal review process described below. I plan to distribute the link widely throughout the community, and I'll ask your help in dissemination when the time comes. Thanks again to everyone, and thanks especially to my last minute application stitcher-uppers: John Whitmore, Derek, Chip, and Frank. Onward and forward!-Drew

_____________________________ From: Ken McLeod ken@bikeleague.org Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:57 PM Subject: Bicycle Friendly Community - Next Steps & Public Survey To: bikemorgantown@gmail.com

Dear [Applicant],

Thank you again for applying to the Bicycle Friendly Community program!  Now that the Fall 2016 BFC Application deadline has passed, our review process is officially underway.  To confirm, we have received the following application(s) from you:

00344 - Morgantown

In the past we limited local feedback to local reviewers who signed up at bikeleague.org/content/become-local-reviewer. We will continue to work with local reviewers and local advocates to gain an understanding of your community. All people who want to be local reviewers should sign up by the end of the week, August 19th at Midnight Pacific Time.

In addition, this round we are trying a new more public local review process. Next week we will send you a link for a survey open to the public so that members of the public can give feedback without signing up to be local reviewers. We believe this more inclusive feedback will help us better understand your community and provide valuable insights to you through the BFC feedback it generates. Responses to that survey will be due by September 12th at midnight Pacific Time.

We do not plan to publicize this public survey for each community and it is up to you to choose how you would like to distribute the survey. Please take some time in the next week to think about how you would like to distribute that survey to the public.

We currently expect that our award announcement will be made in early-to-mid November. Your community will be informed of the award decision at least one week prior to the public announcement.

Please feel free to contact us at bfa@bikeleague.org if you have any questions.

Best regards,

The Bicycle Friendly Community team

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