Board Members Present

Members Present

Guests Present

• Meeting was called to order by Ted at 7:07pm.

• Treasurers Report (Tom Foote)

OLD BUSINESS:

• Tour De Fat update (Kristi): Date will be August 25^th. The New Belgium guys were in town working on permits last week. We’ll have a bigger area this year and the parade will be much larger. New Belgium and the Boise Police Department are asking for at least 50 volunteers. The parade permit could be revoked if the requested number of volunteers aren’t identified. A volunteer training session will be needed. We are planning on a larger volume again this year. Expect a 40% increase in beer sales.
  • Additional volunteers needed:
    • 20 – setup
    • 20 – tear down
  • David Thomas suggested sending a request for volunteers out to our general membership (email).
• Trailpalooza (Ted): Ted, Margie & Dave Beck went to a meeting with the Coop and it was impressive. 
  • The event will be on August 11^th from 9am to 5pm. Food will be served from 12pm to 2pm at Bogus Basin
  • There will be no soda. New Belgium beer and water will be served for drinks.
  • Rides: There will be beginning, intermediate and advanced group rides. We will need liability releases from all participants. An attorney should be consulted on this. In connection with the rides there will need to be sign up and information booths. Margie would like to organize the SWIMBA booth. Harley stated that we should try to keep the groups to 12 or less riders with 2 guides. Larger groups would not work as they would be difficult to keep together.
  • David Beck: This may very well be the largest and best covered event that SWIMBA has ever been involved with. We need to focus our attention. The committee will need the full support of the board.
• BYRDS (David Beck): Monday’s ride had 50 kids. We need more coaches. It is easy to become a certified coach. To get more involved email David Beck directly. Kids are flocking to BYRDS. Rides are Mondays and Thursdays.
• Velopark (David Beck):
  • A trail connection has almost been established (construction & easments) from the park location to the Stack Rock area. This should be complete by next spring.
  • Trails in the land fill property (close to Veteran’s Cemetary) are a possibility that we are working on.
  • Tom Chelstrom noted that since we are calling for volunteers for 3 events in August we need to be careful to solicit volunteers for their specific interests. The key will be to orchestrate a single call for volunteers with various different opportunities listed.
  • Look for a fundraising booth for the velopark at the Twilight Criterium on July 21. There will also be a movie fundraiser this weekend.
• BYRDS stage race (David Beck): This event will occur on July 29^th. This will be one of the biggest junior races and there will be teams present from around the country and beyond. The event will be supported by St. Luke’s. We would like a SWIMBA booth and some portable stunts set up. Let’s use this event to sell SWIMBA and Sprokids. Contact David Beck to discuss.
• Shaefer Butte (David Beck): It appears that we didn’t receive the grant that we applied for at this area. We need to come up with some money (i.e. we need to designate already committed funds to specific tasks associated with the Shaefer Butte project). Tom Chelstrom noted that we really need to spend the $5K grant from REI so we qualify for additional funds from that source.
  • David Beck moves to allocate the entire $5K REI grant money to the Shaefer Butte Phase II project plan. Motion is seconded by Dan Meeker and passes unanimously.
• Freeride in the foothills (Ian): We are working with Dave Gordon to find a location for a down hill only trail in the foothills. Success on this front should do a lot to reduce user conflict and illegal trail building.
• Annual Meeting:  Event will take place on June 20^th. Tom Chelstrom stated that we need to have a presentation on developments in the last year. It was suggested that Louie’s may have a better presentation space than Smoky Mountain Pizza.
• Board Election Committee (Tom Chelstrom): 
  • We have 6 board members seeking re-election and 3 open seats.
  • Approximately 9 qualified candidates have been identified by the committee.
  • Committee would like to move forward with distribution of the nominee questionnaire to the candidates. The board concurred. Any other interested parties should contact Tom Chelstrom.
  • Tom Chelstom moved to acknowledge Ted Tokumoto, Darren Lightfield and Jerry West for the great work they have done during their years of service with SWIMBA. The motion was seconded by David Thomas and passed unanimously.

NEW BUSINESS:

• National Trails Day (Ted): We need volunteers for leading rides. Harley has already volunteered.

Meeting Adjourned 9:05 pm