Morgantown Municipal Bike Board

 

Regular Meeting

 

Public Safety Building

 

July 5, 2007

 

New Action Items:

Due date

Responsibility

Action Item

 

Gmeindl

1.    Finalize vision statement

08/02/07

Hein et al

6.  Compose a report on meeting with Tom Arnold

08/02/07

Wamsley et al

8. Continue working on details for “Bicycle Morgantown”

08/02/07

Infrastructure Committee

9. Finalize recommendations on signage for the TC

 

 

Meeting Minutes:

 

The July 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, Marilyn Newcomb, Jonathan Rosenbaum, John Lozier, Don Spencer, Frank Gmeindl, and new members Alice Vernon, Autumn Bryson, and Gunnar Shogren.  Absent members were Sonitt Bhatt, Jim Rye, Greg Good, Tyler Pearson, Nick Hein, Don Dickerson, Chip Wamsley, and Bill Reger-Nash.

 

à Agenda Item 2 (Welcome New Members):

New members (minus Sam Stone) were welcomed to the Bike Board and brief introductions were made each member (new and old). 

 

à Agenda Item 3 (Agenda):

All members present agreed to follow the given agenda (with agenda items 6 & 7 switched in order). 

 

à Agenda Item 4 (Open Action Items):

Ø      Open Action Items:

o       #1-Gmeindl: Bike Board vision—no more changes made, but it is not to be called “finalized,” yet. 

o       #6-Hein-absent from the meeting

o       #8-Wamsley-absent from the meeting

o       #9-Infrastructure Committee (see agenda item 7)

 

 

à Agenda Item 5 (Ripe Banana Issues):

The next meeting of the MPO is July 19th at 7 PM at the City Hall.  The main topic of discussion will be a $2.00 User Fee per week for all people who work in the city of Morgantown.  If the public approves this fee, projects will be selected for funding.  It would behoove all members of the BB to attend this meeting to express support for the “Non-Motorized Projects,” with emphasis on the projects that support non-motorized transportation (not recreation). 

 

à Agenda Item 6 (Presentation to the TC)

Frank Gmeindl prepared a ~1 hour lecture to deliver to the Traffic Commission regarding the basics of safe bicycling for planners and public officials.  This presentation will be given to the Traffic Commission on 7/11, 1 hour prior to their regularly scheduled meeting. Frank did a dry run of the presentation to the Bike Board, with feedback and a brief discussion following.

 

à Agenda Item 7 ((Bike-and-Chevron Locations)

The Infrastructure Committee (actually Don Spencer and Frank) categorized the list of locations for the bicycles on roadways markings into city jurisdiction and county/state jurisdiction.  Present BB members were asked to vote on 10 city locations and 10 DOH locations for possible chevron placement. Frank will tally the results and send out a list of the possible locations, as prioritized by voting.  This list will be presented to the TC, as per their request. 

 

à Agenda Item 8 (New Action Items):

Frank will send the new BB members a copy of the guidelines (if he hasn’t already done so).

 

à Agenda Item 9 (Meeting Evaluation):

The BB ran out of time. 

 

 

The next regularly scheduled meeting is August 2, 2007 at 6:30 pm, at the Public Safety Building.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 pm.

 

Betsy Shogren

07/12/07