WBWC October Board Meeting Minutes	October 4, 2007

Present: Kris, Frank, Lily, Bob, Pete, Ken
Visitor: Jim Nieters

Meeting start at 7PM

Nancy Shore from getDowntown was not able to attend.  It was noted
that Nancy indicated the getDowntown program can't support the
"Share the Road" program by themselves, they will require support
from the City and other groups.

We discussed passing out stickers and WBWC info at the "Ride Around
Town" ride on Friday the 12th.

It was suggested that we might obtain more charitable donations if we
obtained a 501c(3).  It has not yet been determined what the ongoing
support requirements of a 501c(3) are.  Erica had volunteered to continue
looking into this while she was in Germany.

It was suggested that we start lobbying the City to create a Citizens
Advisory Committee for Bicycling issues.  Jim Nieters indicated he knew
the steps required to initiate such a process with the City.

We need to support and encourage Nancy Shore to continue the getDowntown
events like Bike Winter and Curb You Car Month.

A long discussion was held on the Safe Routes to School program.  We have
not been able to find people interested in attending the National Conference
in Dearborn, even if we pay the registration fee of $190.  One person from
the Ypsilanti area has signed up.  A number of suggestions were made about
people in the AA schools to contact.  We decided our best focus would be on 
getting more participation in events starting next May.

Lily indicated that Washtenaw Public Health has a grant to support two schools
in the SRS program, up to $1000 per school. She was to attend a meeting
on Oct 5th at Thurston Elem to find out more, somehow associated with a group
called: "Huron Valley Traffic Group" which none of us had ever heard of.
Lily wishes WBWC to write a letter of support to help obtain this grant.

We discussed the continuing effort to identify people living in the
surrounding townships that could support the Washtenaw NoMo plan in 
their area.  It was suggested we email Jan at Pittsfield Twp to see
if they are officially supporting/implementing the Non-Motorized plan.

Ken pointed out that the Ann Arbor NoMo plan already calls for the 
City's pedestrian crosswalk language to be updated to the State code. This
may be why Eli Cooper indicated that the City's legal department was
already looking at this issue.

Members were encouraged to send notes/emails to City Council members
thanking them for improvements to Packard and Platt roads completed
just recently.

Lily brought info on a new bike ride in Ypsi starting on Oct 21, not 
sure if this is a one time or on-going ride.


There was nothing new to report on membership

We have 4 board members so far for next year: Lily, Bob, Frank, Pete.  We
still need more.

A number of WBWC members attended the East Stadium Bridges meeting at
Pioneer High on Tuesday the 2nd.  It was fortunate we were there to
present some alternate opinions to the large number of Ann Arbor Golf
club members present.  Their overwhelming opinion is that any change to
these roads will destroy (litterly) their golf course, they came up with
many creative ways to express opposition to the plan.  On the other hand
they indicated they didn't care what the City did with the bridges over
State and the railroad because that wouldn't affect them, only the UM golf
course.


Other group reports:

Kris reported on an MDOT meeting (MDOT Access Management Project) where it
was indicated that it could be quite possible to add pedestrian activated
crossing lights on Huron Ave.

Bob reported that WCC seems to be finally repairing the part of the B2B trail
in front of their campus that has been torn up for 18 months or so.

Next regular meeting:  Nov 1, 2007

Adjourned at 9pm