Meeting Minutes

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

October 2003 WBWC Meeting Minutes

1. Call to order
    7:05pm.  Attending: Riin Gill, Rebecca Kanner, Bob Goodsell, Kris Talley,
	Bruce Fields, Jim Nieters, Sue Gott
2. Approval of previous meeting minutes
    Modified to mention "take back your time" (?) day, approved with that
	change.
3. Treasurer's report
    Treasurer not in attendance.

4. WBWC General Business
    a. membership report/outreach
	1. Renewals
	    Bob emailed us to tell us that a copy of membership renewal
	    form will be included in the Sept/Oct and Nov/Dec
	    newsletters.
	2. WBWC brochure in AABTS newsletter
	    Rebecca will talk to Carol Hann about this. Tentatively
	    we'll use the usual WBWC membership brochure.
    b. 2004 
	1. Nominating Committee formation: 
	    From Bob: "WBWC elections - In November, dues paying members
	    of the WBWC elect approximately 1/2 of the number of
	    officers on the WBWC Board. The minimum number of Board
	    members is 3 with a maximum of 9. Board members who's terms
	    are expiring on 12/31/03 are Tim Athan, Ken Clark, Bruce
	    Fields, Rebecca Kanner and Kris Talley. Board members who
	    continue on until 12/31/04 are Bob Goodsell, Christa
	    McDermot and Jim Nieters. Leigh McCue's term would have also
	    expired on 12/31/04 but she submitted her resignation from
	    the WBWC Board in September. I stongly urge that we have
	    people nominated from the AABTS, MMBA, Velo Club and other
	    organizations."
	    Rebecca is the committee again.
	2. Board Elections (November)
	    Rebecca will contact mtn bike people.
	    She'll also look for a tri club person.
	    Paul suggests boy and girl scouts as well.
	    Rebecca will contact girl scouts at least.
	    Paul will contact Leukemia society?
	3. Officer Elections (December)
    c. AABTS Lu Chaney Fund mailing
	Lu Chaney Fund - Bob says: "Please discuss if we want to
	    support this (I strongly urge we do) and whether we want to
	    give our WBWC mailing list to the AABTS for a funding request
	    letter (I support this too).
	    We agreed to both.
    d. November annual member meeting - Thursday evening, Nov. 6
	Rebecca will call Scott to talk about setting up the annual membership
	    meeting.
	Kris will ask Norm Cox if he will speak.

5. Actions
    a. WBWC 2003 bicycling/walking project priorities
	1. Non-Motorized Projects - University of Michigan
	    Had a conversation with Sue Gott:
		Sue Gott has been planner at the university
		of michigan for a year, and worked on local
		planning issues previously.
		Pat Cunningham has retired, Dave Miller is now interem
		directory of parking and transportation.
	    Grounds department is responsible for condition of
		racks and path surfaces; contact her or them
		about any problems, for example with clearing
		in the winter.
	    She recently made sure railings on new ped bridge
		were up to spec for cyclists bridge-users.
	    Rebecca asked about bike coordinator. No plans for now.
	    She suggests setting up a meeting with us quarterly,
		with a focused agenda. Kris agreed to get this started.
	    Ken will mail Sue Gott pictures of examples of covered parking.
	    Various people advocated considering covered parking as
		a cheaper and denser alternative to lockers which would
		nevertheless satisfy most people's needs.
	    Suggests talking to Alan Levy (sp?), communications
		person in housing, about freshman orientation and
		such. Note that they're interested in convincing
		parents not having kids bring cars. So there might be
		opportunities for bike-related mailings to parents week
		before. Keep it short and to the point: they get
		inundated with stuff....
	2. Road Shoulder Paving (Talley)
	    Kris posted a road commission Q&A on website.
	    We need to organize letter-writing campaign to
		congratulate road commission on any projects
		recently that we liked.
	3. Huron River Drive (Nieters)
	    Nothing to report.
    Other
	1. Walking Group Formation (Iacomb)
	    Nothing to report.
	2. October Walk To School Day
	    Nothing to report.
	3. Report on Washtenaw/23 interchange meeting:
	    The consultants agreed that the should be "share the road" signs
	    as well as the wide sidewalks.  Unfortunately it doesn't look like
	    peds will get any help crossing the ramps.

7. Adjournment - Next meeting: Thursday, November 6th.

Adjourned 8:40ish.