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Monday, 16 January 2012 16:30 |
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CRBC Meeting 1/9/2012
Present: Paul Rito, President
Chuck Anderson, Vice President
Lynda Bullard, Treasurer
Mike Shamalla, Secretary
Roy Greenfield, Executive Committee Member
Cliff Kanz
Terri Rudy, Nittany Mountain Biking Association (NMBA)
Dave Pontzer, NMBA
Jim Serene, Executive Committee Member
Brian Dempsey, Executive Committee Member
Joan Potter
Jean Bemis
Sue Barsom, Executive Committee Member
Blanca Villa
Joyce Eveleth
Cliff Kanz
Sue Barsom gave a quick review of the Kallari Bikes Project, introducing Blanca Villa, a member of Students Consulting for Non-Profit Organizations (SCNO). SCNO is helping CRBC with logistics of collecting and shipping the bikes to the Kallari Coop in Ecuador. SCNO is also spearheading a move to get area property management groups to collect abandoned bikes from their bike racks to give to the effort.
Joyce Eveleth, AmeriCorps volunteer for State College Borough, gave an overview of the borough's Bicycle Ambassador program. In addition to education and promotion of bicycle use, planning is progressing for the program to have the area's first diversion program. Any cyclist cited for a violation of traffic laws can have the ticket expunged by participating in a bicycling education class. CRBC hopes to assist in presenting the classes.
Jim Serene reviewed progress and issues relating to the January 26 presentation of "Bicycle Dreams" at the State Theatre. The CRBC is presenting this movie in cooperation with the producers to benefit our education programs. We have six co-sponsors: RBR Recumbent Bicycles, Matson & Associates, Freeze Thaw Cycles, Videon Central, and the Nittany Mountain Biking Association. Commercial sponsors paid $100 to participate and will receive 4 tickets and table space in the lobby of the State before the movie. Non-profits paid $60 for the same benefits. The State Theatre will take care of printing posters and will distribute them to local businesses and on campus. We will also distribute to non-core area businesses and remote locations.
Discussed expenditures for promoting "Bicycle Dreams". Sue Barsom moved and Lynda Bullard seconded a motion to spend up to $200 on posters for the movie presentation, and another $240 on tickets for the sponsors. The motion passed unanimously.*
The last order of business for the evening was election of officers for 2012. Paul Rito, Chuck Anderson, and Lynda Bullard agreed to continue serving. Mike Shamalla said he would continue as Secretary but would give it up if someone stepped forward. Joan Potter volunteered to serve as Secretary for 2012. Sue Barsom motioned to accept the slate of officers and Brian Dempsey seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
*-post meeting update. Poster printing cost expected to be approx $85, and an additional sponsor, The Bicycle Shop, signed on. |
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:01 |
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11/8 Meeting Summary
In attendance: Paul Rito, Chuck Anderson, Lynda Bullard, Jim Serene, Brucie Serene, Kate Marshall-Chase, David Chase, Beverly Crow, Pat ??? (did I miss anyone)
1) As further background about the award for Trish, Chuck suggested that we establish a "CRBC Hero" award with Trish to be our first recipient. The hero award will be given on an "as-befits" basis rather than doing one a year or on some other schedule. When something good is accomplished in the area for cycling, the award would go to the one(s) responsible. (I can see Joe Lundberg as a future recipient, F-T and the Bicycle Shop for their community involvement -- Eddies, too, but less so, and RBR is here, but services out-of-towners mostly).
2) Freeze-Thaw's raffle at their UK night function earned us $180 and a new membership. Jordyn, please pass along our thanks to all involved.
3) We signed up for a paypal account to accept donations for the Kallari bicycle collection project.
4) Lynda Bullard reported that our bank balance is approx. $3100 ($800 of that is committed to the Kallari project).
5) Membership. It was decided that we will maintain an annual membership with May (bike month) being the designated renewal month. Lynda Bullard reported that we have 20 current members including one business (Videon Central). Missing from that list is the most everyone, including myself. We have 198 people on the CRBC-L mailing list (but few participants in activities outside our core group).
To make signing up and renewing easier, I will add a paypal option and interactive form to our website. It is hoped that once that is active, all current executives and board members will help test the system by making their memberships current (including myself). Once the system is tested, I will make a post to the CRBC-L announcing it and will make a similar request to make themselves current for the year. That post will include a summary of CRBC "benefits" -- things like the rumble strip removal, bike month, other advocacy things, etc., etc.
6) We discussed creating a new, unmoderated mailing list for cycling related discussions (or sending folks to our existing forums), and changing CRBC-L to a moderated "announcement" list. The reason for this is to encourage people to stay on CRBC-L -- I have had multiple people tell me they signed off of CRBC-L after various flame wars or rants. We need to keep those folks on the list to keep them informed, and hopefully involved.
7) Discussed ways to become a clearinghouse for local rides. There are multiple activities going on, but people visiting or new to the area have no place to go to find late-breaking info on rides. I will look at the technical aspects of have such a clearinghouse and how it might work. Joe Lundberg is definitely interested and I think we could get the NMBA and the Creamery ride groups to join in, too.
That's all I've got,
Paul |
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:34 |
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The Centre Region Council of Governments' Executive Committee recently approved the submission of the Bicycle Friendly Community application to the League of American Cyclists. The CRBC would like to thank all the COG member communities and their staffs, and particulary Trish Meek, for their work helping to get the application ready. The formal submission date is February 2012, and we should know by mid next year how we fared in the eyes of the League. For more information on the BFC program, visit the Leagues page at http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bicyclefriendlyamerica/communities/ |
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:53 |
Congratulations to Videon Central, the Centre Region's first Bicycle Friendly Business!
Read the CDT story here:
http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/18/2917948/business-awarded-for-bike-program.html#storylink=misearch |
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:07 |
Locate and log your favorite bike rack by map here: http://tinyurl.com/CentreBikeRacks
or by form here: http://tinyurl.com/CentreBikeRacksForm
The CRBC is in the process of collecting data for an application for Bicycle Friendly Community status for the Centre Region Council of Governments. The council’s executive and transportation committees have endorsed work on the application and SC Boro, and College, Ferguson, Halfmoon, Harris and Patton Townships have all offered resolutions or proclamations doing the same.
We’ve worked to get rumble strips are mitigated, and they’ve been removed on RTs 45, 192 and 144 (PA Bike Routes G and V). Others will be paved over on the normal paving cycle and no more rumbles will be added. Now that that’s accomplished, we’re working on securing Bike Friendly status and now we need your help. There won’t be any meetings to attend, no committees to serve on, and no request for monetary contributions.
Simply, as you’re out cycling, walking, driving, hiking, dining, running errands, etc. if you take note of a bike rack at your apartment, business, church, school, shop, park, or wherever, could you let us know about it?
We’ve created a Google Map here: http://tinyurl.com/CentreBikeRacks, where you can add a pushpin to locate a bike rack and give us the associated info. If you check the map first, you can find out whether we already know about the rack.
If you can’t check or use the map, you can fill out a form here:http://tinyurl.com/CentreBikeRacksForm
Or, send an e-mail to Paul Rito with the following info (fill-in as much as you can):
Place: (for example, Wegman’s Market, XXX Township Office, Sunset Park, etc.)
Address: (full address would be nice, but even an approximate address will help, e.g., “200 Block of W. Hamilton Ave.”
Capacity: (estimate by number of wheel slots and whether the rack is one sided or two sided)
Zip: (Optional)
Municipality: SC Boro | ClgTwp | FergTwp | PatnTwp | HarisTwp | HalfmnTwp
Type of Location: School | Government Building | Library | Transit Station | Park & Rec Center | Office Building | Shops | Public Housing
Rack Type: Grid | Wave | W | U | Bollard | Low Profile | Other (see examples below)
GPS Coordinates, if known: (Optional)
Is the rack covered? Yes | No
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Thursday, 04 August 2011 14:58 |
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According to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Pennsylvania has more rail-to-trail projects than any other state. Those 138 trails average about 10 miles each, but the state also hosts the first stretch of the longest multi-use trail in the country: the Great Allegheny Passage runs from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Maryland, where it meets the C&O Towpath Trail to Washington, DC, for a total of 335 miles of person-powered travel.
Read the full story here: http://www.keystoneedge.com/features/trailspaeconomy0804.aspx?utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=The+Long+and+Winding+Road%3a+Trails+an+Economic+Driver+in+PA&utm_content={Email_Address}&utm_campaign=Trail+Mix+and+Batman
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