Meeting Minutes

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

WBWC Meeting 4/7/05

Meeting came to order at 7:20

Kris Talley conducted the meeting.

Paul Alman, Frank Schwende, Ken Clark, Ana Jacob, Brenda 
Bentley-Goenka, Scott Tenbrink, and Rita Mitchell were present.

1. The March meeting minutes were approved with a few changes.
2. Treasurer reports balance of $824.74.
3. New member intros - Scott, but he isn't really new :-)
4. Updates on Actions
    A. WBWC 2005 biking /walking projects
	Sidewalk Project (Krzewinski) - Bob is still collecting locations 
	    with problem or missing sidewalks.
	AA Bike-friendly city application (Van Dyke) - No update.  Scott 
	    believes that all the paperwork has been sent in.
	Curb Your Car Month 2005 (Briggs, Van Dyke, Talley)
	Finalize Plans for special WBWC/(AABTS?) at the AA Public Library.  
	    We have to be done by 8:30pm since the library closes at 9pm.
	    Some possible presenters:  WATS on their County-wide
	    Nonmotorized Plan, attorneys Briggs and Colegrove, attorney
	    James Partridge, a quick discussion of the Ann Arbor
	    Nonmotorized Plan, Brenda might like to do a presentation on
	    walking in Ann Arbor.
	Bicycling Magazine will be giving out the 50 free "Bike-Town" bikes 
	    at the Bike to Work Day festivities.
	Still need WBWC member support for Bicycling Ambassador program, bike 
	    valet parking, etc.  The Bicycling Ambassadors will go from
	    place to place giving out information, not approaching people
	    to encourage them to correct their behaviors.  The Ambassador
	    program will launch the 2nd of May.  The bike valet parking
	    will be at the Moonlight Delight (Midnight Madness) event
	    downtown from 6pm to midnight.  Traffic sting (Alman)  Paul
	    contacted the person he knows at the AAPD, who suggested
	    another officer to contact about this.

    B. Delhi Bridge - no update.

    C. Upcoming Events
	Earth Day at WCC, April 14th
	Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission Greenway Committee 
	    April 29 - 8:30am
	Ann Arbor GreenFair June 17th, 6pm -9pm downtown Ann Arbor.
	Bandemer Park Master Plan Meeting Thursday April 28th, 7pm @ 
	    Northside Community Center.

5. WBWC General Business
    A. Membership report/outreach
	New brochures/cards (Athan)
	Membership report (Schwende) - Last year we had 56 members, and 5 
	    organizations.  So far we've sent out 31 membership cards.  Of
	    those, 13 were no-fee memberships carried over from last year.
	    We decided (without objection) that memberships made after
	    October will roll over to the next year.
	Renew current bike shops and get new ones (Alman, Schwende)  Frank 
	    will send out the usual letters and Paul will follow up.
	WBWC Topica mail list (Fields/Clark) - Ken will ask the Topica staff 
	    again to put us in the public directory.
	We need to find a good place to get various cheap things that have 
	    our logo on them to hand out.  We talked about reflective slap 
	    bracelets, bags with our logo and other handouts.
	Special material for CYC month?

    B. Newsletter went on the website the first of the month.  The next 
	deadline is April 15th.  Bob is asking everyone for information
	for the newsletter.

    C. Reports from other groups
	AA Bicycle Coordinating Committee - No update.
	AA Environmental Commission Transportation Committee - No update.
	UM Nonmotorized Transportation Committee (Talley) - The University 
	    has hired a new transportation coordinator.
	League of Michigan Bicyclists - No update.
	AABTS Safety Committee - 16th of this month a training session on 
	    bike handling.  April 8th & 9th AABTS appreciation day at the 
	    Aberdeen bicycle shop.  April 16th, group riding , last weekend in 
	    May before Memorial Day Chelsea bike rodeo.  
	AA Non-motorized Transportation Planning Committee meetings - The 
	    consultant is working on cleaning up the plan for presentation to
	    the public.
	Parks and Recreation Greenway meeting - no update.
	Getdowntown program.  The Getdowntown program is looking for a forum 
	    to discussing the Greenway proposals.
	Thunderhead Alliance (Talley)
	Washtenaw County Nonmotorized Steering Committee (Van Dyke, Talley) - 
	    met last month.  Discussion was largely about how wide bike lanes 
	    should be.  The group also talked about different standards of 
	Friends of the AA Greenway (Mitchell) - The Womens Progressive Action 
	    Committee will be holding a discussion of the Greenway proposals.  
	Monday April 11th 7pm at a church on Independence Blvd.  Walk on 
	    Mothers day around downtown and proposed greenway sites.  There
	    was also a Council resolution on converting three City sites that
	    are on the proposed greenway as city parks that council rejected.

Adjourned 9:17pm