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January 17, 2007 Board Members Present Ted Tokumoto Tom Foote Almer Casile Dave Beck Jerry West Harley Parson Chris Larson Dirk Vandervoort Terry Heslin Lorien Lightfield Margie Rosenburg Dan Meeker Darren Lightfield Tom Chelstrom Kristi Regotti Bob Roehl Proxy Vote Dave Beck for Dan Meeker Bob Roehl for Dave Thomas Tom Foote for Kristi Regotti Ted to follow up with Chris Cook on membership flyers. Need to distribute at Bike Swap and members meeting. Dave Beck emphasized need for volunteer support for the Velopark. Plans for trail building starting in April. Estimate at least 3 to 5 trail building days. Need as many volunteers as possible. Need to firm up schedules for various SWIMBA activities to be able to present during March’s members meeting. Members meeting tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, March 7th. Need to confirm Foothills Nature center availability and reserve. Sprockids update presented by Heather Thiry. Need support for cost of Sprokids marketing material, estimated cost $1020. Final cost to be provided at a later date. For 2007, a clinic will be held to develop new instructors. Beginning classes fill up fast, need to expand. Less emphasis on advanced kids and elimination of the race camp. Those kids will be directed to the BYRDS program. Also, many inquires to do special group classes. Chel recommends that SWIMBA should establish a contact person to touch base with local shops to help promote Sprockids and biking education. Lorien to return grant money supporting bike maintenance program. Too, many other commitments. $500 minus cost of patch kits. Boise school district will be sending a check soon. Shafer Butte RTP required a $2000 commitment for site survey in 2006. This was approved by the board early 2006. Money will be used in 2007. Another $2000 required to make the total commitment meet the 20% matching fund requirement. Motion put forth to send a letter stating SWIMBA’s commitment to the Eastside Trail Extension project, along with a $2000 monetary commitment. Motion approved unanimously, 13-0. Ted to send letter to Al. Bogus Basin is applying for a RTP grant. They request a letter supporting their trail project. Motion was called to vote for sending a letter supporting the project. Motion approved unanimously, 13-0. Ted to mail letter to Craig Brewer. Dave Gordon planning to setup a trail building class to establish more help for trail building crews. Dan Meeker to follow up w/ Chris on Hull’s Gulch adopt a trail 2007 plans. Ted provided update on request by John Groom of the McCall ranger district to support trail project in Bear Basin. Ted waiting for more project detail from John. Cycle Idaho requesting help on managing financial transactions for sign up and access to SWIMBA website for Cycle Idaho sign ups and payment. Tom Foote ok with helping manage the financial transactions. Harley and Eric will create sign up form to be used on website. Tom Foote recommended that Cycle Idaho make it clear in all advertisement that SWIMBA’s only involvement was as a beneficiary of 40% of the net profit. Concerns were brought out about conflict of interest and setting a precedent. Darren clarified that this was only a commitment for 2007. Motion put forth to vote on accepting Cycle Idaho’s proposal to make SWIMBA a beneficiary of 40% of the net profit and to accept managing the financial transactions and allow usage of the SWIMBA website for sign ups. Motion approved. 11 for, 2 opposed and 2 abstain (Darren and Harley). Votes by Bob and Dave were only cast for the last agenda item. Dan Meeker solicited feedback on the level of commitment we should give to the Mountain Home Ranger District. It was recommend to commit 100 hrs for trail work on Gardener Peak. This was unanimously approved. |