Meeting
MinutesWashtenaw Bicycling and Walking Coalition
117 North Division Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan
734/487-9058
www.wbwc.org
WBWC Meeting Minutes – December 5, 2002
present: Roger Faber (new aabts president), Kris Talley, Bruce Fields,
Rebecca Kanner, Tim Athan, Steve Moore, Erin Grose, Robert Klingler, Bob
Goodsell, Scott Koll, Christa McDermott
Agenda
1. Call to order
7:10ish.
2. Approval of previous meeting minutes (November minutes below)
approved.
3. Treasurers report
We have approximately $324.
4. WBWC General Business
a. Membershipoutreach/renewals
Rebecca will email Steve to remind him to email list of members to Bob.
On memberships/renewals, we're *not* following up when people volunteer
to help, and we should. Steve Moore says he does have this info in
his database at least.
Steve Moore will approach Town & Country (?) in Saline about an
organizational membership.
b. 2003 Officer Elections (1 year term of office: Chair, Vice-Chair,
Secretary, Treasurer)
nominations: Bob
Vice-Chair: Kris
Secretary: Bruce
Treasurer: Scott
All passed.
5. Actions
a. WBWC 2003 bicycling/walking project priorities
Non-motorized coordinators for Ann Arbor, UM.
Bike-to-work-week, other education.
County-wide campaign for road-shoulder paving.
Sidewalk construction.
Kris proposes: Visible signals that support cycling: in particular:
replacing "sidewalk bicycle path" signs by "share the road"
signs
Bob Goodsell: make Argo Dam a pedestrian path. It is used this way in
practice.
Rebecca: Working with aabts and others on safety and law-enforcement issues
Tim Athan: county-wide paths
Kris on behalf of Jim Nieter: weekend Huron River Drive closures.
Tim Athan: legislative watchdog activities.
Bob Goodsell: pedestrian stoplight on Plymouth by Sunrise & North
Campus.
Tim Athan: better connections with aabts, velo club.
Erin Grose: work with people with disabilities; they may have similar
advocacy issues.
Christina: students, bike safety, and UM: Ann Arbor Cyclery: Pat
Cunningham
Tim Athan: put together powerpoint demonstration about our goals and
accomplishments. Also, booth materials, etc.
Next time we'll think about prioritizing projects, volunteering for
them, etc.
b. Non-Motorized Coordinators: Ann Arbor and University of Michigan
Bob wrote a letter to the U., and we got a response from the
transportation person (Pat Cunningham, director of parking and
transportation services) saying she'd be very interested in working with
us.
On our website there's a new sample letter on the website for people to
write to the council and request progress on non-motorized coordinator.
c. Education/Outreach
1. Bike To Work Week 2003
Bob and Rebecca discussed this; they're meeting again next week
(probably with Brandt) for bike-to-work-week; want to do city-hall
ride again, but also want to work with bike shops, etc.
AABTS can perhaps contribute copies of Street Smarts? City may make
bike-to-work week brochure or "yellow cards" (What are these?)
Kris will look at getting M-Fit involved.
Main problem is lack of people: the city used to have a staff person
that did this. Would be lovely to have funds to pay someone to do
this on a part-time basis. Rebecca is following up several leads on
funds; let Rebecca know about this. Scott Koll suggested Semcog and
Ann Arbor Community Foundation
Christina asked: what about major employers: Phizer, UM, Saint Joseph's,
ERIM/Veridian, etc.
Scott's working with MDOT/DDA to see if we can get bike-to-work-week
banners.
2. Street Smarts distribution
AABTS is passing one out to all members. Bob Kr. said we're also going to;
how? Bike to work week? Farmer's mkt, etc.? Library branches?
d. Snow removal initiatives
There's a link on the website to snow-removal policy and phone number.
Collect info. for other cities and for county, for website. Bob Kr.
will contact Ypsi.
Steve Moore says Saline enforces a 24-hour rule quite strongly.
Also look up policy for bike lanes, on-road stuff.
Tim will do Dexter and Chelsea.
e. Other
I'll recover the wbwc logo from the mac disk.
Bob Klingler also wants a streetlight initiative. He gave me (Bruce
Fields) brief instructions on reporting streetlights that are out, and
I'll put it on the web page.
Bob Kr. wanted us to announce that there'll be a ypsi meeting on revising
their recreational plan. Talk to Bob for details.
AABTS involvement: how do we get their membership involved? Currently
only advocacy-related stuff going on is in the safety committee; Roger
Faber would like to set up a formal advocacy committee. They have their
officer's email addresses on their website if we wish to contact them.
Bob Klingler encourages people to go to city council and planning
commission meetings and make comments.
Someone needs to notify newspapers and stuff. Bob Klingler will take
back this job for the next 4 months.
Scott Koll will make a list of accomplishments for the previous year,
for the newsletter, etc.
Roger Faber will talk to Dan about getting a link to our newsletter on
the aabts pages someplace.
Scott Koll took 3 videos that came in the mail (including "Perils for
Pedestrians (episode #69)" Thrills!), to examine and possibly show to
his neighbors.
6. Adjournment: Next meeting: Thursday, January 2
Adjourned 8:20