I would be willing to help with the parking assessment along the riverfront.

As for the website, incorporating it as part of the city website would be a lot easier for maintnenance since we now have a dedicated communications person on staff at the city. The reason the board developed our own website 10+ years ago was that we had some grant money and there was no dedicated person at the city. The revamp of the website came about due to running out of grant money and wanting to streamline the content after living with the original version.

Chip

---- Original Message ---- From: "Drew Gatlin" jgatlin@morgantownwv.gov Sent: 10/5/2020 4:49:30 PM To: "Bike Board" bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com Subject: [Bikeboard] Help! Website + Riverfront Bike Parking - Assessment + Meeting?

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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. 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 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 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

During that time, they unpublished most existing content from www.bikemorgantown.com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, 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