Morgantown Municipal Bicycle Board

Regular Meeting

Public Safety Building

June 5, 2008

New Action Items:

Due date	Responsibility	Action Item
7/3/2008	Hein & Spencer	24. Bring Kansas's bicycle question from the Driver’s exam to the next meeting.
7/3/2008	Rosenbaum	37. Develop a concrete plan for bicycle parking throughout the city; explore the applicability of WVU’s planning process and substance to the cities parking garages.
7/3/2008	Spencer	38. Schedule a meeting with the new director of the CVB to discuss bringing a large bicycle rally to Morgantown.
7/3/2008	Gmeindl	39. Put together a database of all Action Items, and bring a list of all present and past action items to the next meeting.

Meeting Minutes:

The June monthly meeting of the Morgantown Municipal Bicycle Board (BB) was called to order at 6:30 p.m. at the Public Safety Building by chairman Frank Gmeindl with the following members attending:

Don Spencer, Nick Hein, Marilyn Newcome, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Don Dickerson, John Lozier, and Hugh Kierig. Derek Springston, and Jennifer Selin were visitors. Absent members were Greg Good, Tyler Pearson, Bill Reger-Nash, Betsy Shogren, Gunnar Shogren, Same Stone, Alice Vernon, and Chip Wamsley.

Agenda Item 1 (Agenda):

Agenda approved.

Agenda Item 2 (Minutes of last meeting):

Changes to the minutes approved and appended to these minutes.

Agenda Item 3 (Action Items):

Open Action Items:

o #22 - closed. More children are coming to the training rides, and riding up to 8 miles from 6 to 13 years of age. John wants more adult cyclists to participate in training rides. See, http://www.maxschallenge.org .

o #24 - open. Nick explained how the law committee was looking into adding an additional question to the Driver’s Manual test that reflects information that pertains to Bicycling. The plan is to talk to someone at the WVDOH. However, Don doesn’t think the DOH is responsible for the Manual. Hugh says “Department of Revenue” is probably the proper authority. This action item has now been adjusted to "Bring Kansas's bicycle question from the Driver’s exam to the next meeting."

o #36 - closed. (see #37 and appended May minute changes)

o #37 - open. Although an actual meeting had not occurred yet, a discussion ensued where Frank desired an action item that can be realistically reached by a due date. Hugh described the process at the University, Frank thought we need to focus on the plan of action, Don S. described the process at the City where budget and plans are incorporated. Hugh thinks we need to work on design standards. We will now meet and figure out an approach to developing a plan. Don discussed specifically targeting garages, but many thought that looking at importance of location and type of parking purpose is more crucial. #36 is dropped because it is too broad and #37 changes to “Develop a concrete plan for bicycle parking throughout the city; explore the applicability of WVU’s planning process and substance to the cities parking garages.”

Agenda Item 4 (Ripe Banana Issues):

John Lozier wants to challenge more adults to participate in Max’s Uphill struggle (Aug 16^th). Training rides are every Sunday at 2:00 behind the post office in Sabraton.

Contact Nick by the 12^th of June to volunteer for the aid station at the Sprint, Splash 'n Spin triathlon.

Don looked into a National Bicycle Rally via the CVB “Convention Visitor Bureau", and talked to the new director about a meeting to discuss a possible bicycle event with up to 2,000 people. Don will schedule a meeting with the new director of the CVB to discuss bringing a large bicycle rally to Morgantown.

Agenda Item 5 (Autumn replacement):

The official list of candidates examined included Derek Springston, Chris Phillips, Steve Harouff (declined), David Bruffy (will be an ex-officio), Chet Parsons (was never invited), Jennifer Selin (already a City Board member, but said she will come as a volunteer, Jim Rye (resigned but can now come back). This leaves three candidates: Derek Springston, Chris Phillips, and Jim Rye.

We checked our schedule and found out that Sam Stone no longer qualifies as a member because he can no longer can meet the 4 required meeting attendances per year. The Board discussed Stone becoming an ex-officio. A check for consensus was not made but nobody objected either. Nick announced his resignation because of conflicts with time in relation to other work he is doing, but he wants to continue on as an ex-officio. This leaves three open slots with three candidates to fill each one.

All three candidates will now to be presented as candidates to the Traffic Commission.

Agenda Item 9 (New Action Items):

New Action Item "38": Schedule a meeting with the new director of the CVB to discuss bringing a large bicycle rally to Morgantown. Don Spencer.

New Action Item "39": Put together a database of all Action Items, and bring a list of all present and past action items to the next meeting. Frank Gmeindl.

The next regularly scheduled meeting is July 4, 2008 @ 6:30 pm, at the Public Safety Building. The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

6/10/2008

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Changes to the May 1, 2008 Bicycle Board Minutes - Jonathan Rosenbaum

The work "Topic" should be changed to "Agenda Item" throughout the minutes since this is the convention used in prior minutes, anotherwards "Agenda Item 1 (name of topic)".

Action Item #35 says "Work with WVU to develop detailed bicycle parking facility plan" should be "Develop a detailed bicycle parking plan with all interested people" because this is meant to formalize the Bicycle Parking Committee and to establish our plan of action and our recommendations. Furthermore, see below, #35 should be #36. (Note added after the meeting: Action Item #37 is now taking on this objective, and it should further be noted that #36 was officially closed at the May meeting.)

Topic #3, i.e., Agenda Item 3 (Action Items) #28 says "Rosenbaum reported on his second meeting with the MHS principal DeSantis. Rosenbaum states that the principal is supportive regarding a bicycle shelter and improvements as well as its location. He wants at least 10 students to demonstrate a willingness to bike to school before they would proceed with the Shelter. The importance of working with the Youth Commission was observed. Alice Vernon’s daughter may be a resource." Should be action item #34 not #28 and should say "Alice, Nick and Jonathan met with MHS principal DeSantis, and Alice and Jonathan also met with the UHS Principal on the same day. Both principals were supportive regarding secure/sheltered bicycle parking, however MHS principal DeSantis wanted at least 10 students to demonstrate a willingness to bike to school. The UHS principal would be satisfied with some student support, too. Alice Vernon’s daughter may be a resource. Closed."

#35 – says "This item became numbered due to the work of Jonathan Rosenbaum and Hugh Kierig in discussing specific location on the WVU campus where bike parking shelters and other bicycle facilities can be established. Rosenbaum reported that the talks were very positive and indicated that future conversation will likely include a WVU planner. The next step will be the preparation of a detailed plan encompassing facilities at multiple locations. In order for this to be achieved, conversations must continue." This action item should be #36 and should say

This item was included because a prior Ripe Banana issue was neglected in the previous minutes and the logistics changed. Tyler and Jonathan already had planned a meeting with Hugh Kierig concerning questions pertaining to Bicycle facilities at new building locations and to find out whether there would be enough room for a Bicycle Library at the new Bus facility at Health Sciences. However, the BB became aware that the Campus Planner was soliciting for information about bicycle facilities around the WVU campus, leading Jonathan to combine the existing meeting with all parties that included Bob Merow, Campus Planner and Ryan Post, WVU Cycling President. Chip Wamsley wasn't able to attend but provided feedback to Jonathan in a separate meeting. The end results were a series of two meetings where the Campus Planner received input and developed a campus-wide plan that included sheltered bicycle parking. If the WVU budget committee accepts the plans, expect great new bicycle parking at WVU next year which will include much better racks and shelters. This was a big success! Bob thought that there may be policies that require bicycle parking at new facilities, however, Jonathan learned from Facilities Planning Director Robert Moyer that the Parking and Transportation Plan are what we must work with. Additionally, VP of Facilities and Services, Joe Fischer told Jonathan that a new student services wing in Stansbury could provide the necessary space for a Bicycle Library. Closed."

#37 doesn't need to be included under the Open Action Items section because it was a new action item added on the day of the meeting and is already properly reflected in the minutes.