Morgantown Municipal Bike Board
Regular Meeting
Public Safety Building
December 7, 2006
New Action Items:
|
Due date |
Responsibility |
Action Item |
|
01/04/07 |
Reger-Nash and Gmeindl |
1. Finalize vision statement |
|
ASAP |
All members |
2. letter to MPO |
|
01/04/07 |
Rosembaum, Pearson, Gmeindl |
3. Implement an email list for the easy communication between Bike Board members |
|
01/04/07 |
All members |
4. considerations for additional members to Bike Board |
Meeting Minutes:
The December monthly meeting of the Morgantown Municipal Bike Board was called to order at 6:35 p.m. at the Public Safety Building by chairman Frank Gmeindl with the following members attending:
Betsy Shogren, Nick Hein, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bill Reger-Nash, Jim Rye, Don Dickerson, Chip Wamsley, Greg Good, Tyler Pearson, Marilyn Newcome, Greg Good, and Frank Gmeindl. Members missing were Rick Martin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Don Spencer, John Lozier, Sonitt Bhatt, Bruce Summers, and Nancy LaRocque. Two WVU students (Tim and Kendra) fulfilling a class requirement were also in attendance.
à Agenda Item 2 (agenda):
-All members present agreed to follow the given agenda.
à Agenda Item 3 (Open Action Items):
Ø Closed Action Items:
o Betsy Shogren sent all previous minutes to Linda Little.
Ø Open Action Items:
o Bike Board vision (Reger-Nash, Gmeindl)
o Email List (Pearson, Rosenbaum, Gmeindl)
à Agenda Item 4 (Ripe Banana Issues):
Nick Hein reported that the MPO decided to allocate 6% of all funds for non-motorized vehicle infrastructure (3% for roadways, 3% for separate bike/pedestrian facilities). While Frank says that the support for bike/ped facilities has been fantastic at the meetings, it is essential to continue to make the Bike Board’s presence and concern in this matter known. Bill Reger-Nash suggested that members of the Bike Board (and/or their significant others) immediately write a letter to the MPO in favor of bike/ped infrastructure; ideally, this letter would arrive in time for the 12/19 MPO meeting.
à Agenda Item 5 (Vision):
The Bike Board vision is still evolving at this time.
à Agenda Item 6 (Brainstorm Goals)
As per Frank’s instructions, all present members of the Bike Board spent ~ ½ hour brainstorming individual ideas onto post-it notes and sticking them anywhere on the wall. After all ideas were on paper, Frank read each one and asked for clarification from the author, if needed.
à Agenda Item 7 (Classify and Prioritize Goals):
Without speaking, the Bike Board members arranged all the post-it notes into groups, by subject matter. By arranging the notes without speaking, civility was assured and the process was done much faster than if there had been discussion. After a few sessions of this, all members present were satisfied with the group classifications.
In order to prioritize, all 8 groups of post-its were named by subject matter. The topics were:
(See attached document for details).
The top three topics (Infrastructure, Education, and Bike Commuting) were chosen by vote by the present members of the Bike Board.
A discussion then ensued on the next step to take (i.e. to tackle the big issues or the low-hanging fruit first); this topic will be revisited at the next Bike Board meeting.
à Agenda Item 8 (New Action Items):
(see table at beginning of document)
à Agenda Item 9 (Meeting Evaluation):
-Positives comments regarding the conduction of this regular Bike Board meeting included the following:
The next regularly scheduled meeting is January 4, 2007 at 6:30 pm, at the Public Safety Building.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Betsy Shogren
11/09/06