Washtenaw Bicycling and Walking Coaliton Minutes

Washtenaw Bicycling and Walking Coalition
117 North Division Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan
734/487-9058
www.wbwc.org

WBWC Meeting Minutes – October 3, 2002

Bob Krzewinski (Bob Kr. below)., Kris Talley, Rebecca Kanner, Scott Koll, Ken Clark, Bruce Fields, Tim Athan, Jim Nieter, Bob Klingler (Bob Kl. below), Rob Red Redmond, Christa McDermott

Called to order 7:09.

2. Approval of 8/1 and 9/5 meeting minutes

3. Teasurers report: $120.94

4. WBWC General Business
a. Membership outreach - at the AABCC meeting there was a concensus that City/County maps should be distributed free. We decided to give these to new members.

b. Honorary Memberships - Lou Chaney, Reuben Chapman - We received a letter from Mary Chaney.

b. Annual membership renewals - Renewals will go out with newsletter in November.

c. November annual meeting Nov 7th 1319 W. Huron, directions/map on the website, Directors election - @ Scott's place. Ken will contact Norm Cox, Bob will contact Richard Kent. Jim suggested we invite prominent cyclists and pedestrians.

5a. Education/Outreach
Bike to Work Week 2003 (5/11-17) We may need to take this over for the county, since there are few other groups that will work on this. After November, Bob Kr. and Rebecca will head a discussion on this.
Educational Displays
Huron River Drive closure - we could work toward this in the future. The idea would be to start out with a one-time partial closure and one-way street, like the Dexter/Ann Arbor run, possibly May 11th of next year to coincide with BTWW. Jim will head a task force to work toward this.
Saturday event 5/17
Safe Biking course - Due to Bruce's digging, an officer in the AAPD will be teaching Road One to potential LCIs. Ken will have more information at a later meeting.

b. Non-Motorized Coordinators - AA/UM/Washtenaw - Ann Arbor is still saying that the Alternative Transportation Coordinator will be filled, but we have our doubts. Christa is looking for student groups that are working on non-motorized

c. Ann Arbor bicycle law enforcement - Ken gave an update on these discussions. As noted above an officer in the AAPD will be teaching Road I to potential instructors. We are looking for an organization that will be willing to take abandoned bikes for free give away, but without prior inspection. Ken is trying to arrange a time to meet with the AAPD representative to discuss Bicycling Street Smarts.

d. 2002 Elections
November election candidate questionnaire - Kris wrote a draft questionnaire for local politicians. Everyone will review a copy and get back comments to Kris. We will direct potential office holders to get responses back to Kris as well.

e. Other
SEMCOG map - comments to comment2025rtp@semcog.org
WATS Brochures
2002 Bicycle Summit (10/24 - Lansing)

6. Adjournment - 8:48pm Next meeting: November 7th