May 2020 Board Minutes

 

San Diego Mountain Biking Association Board Meeting

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 7:00 - 8:30 PM,

Location: Zoom Call

For information contact: 

Kevin Loomis President

President@sdmba.com  

 

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Introductions/Roll Call

 

Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items (2 mins. limit per individual; must fill out comment card prior to call to order) Opportunity for members of the public to     speak to the Board on any subject matter not on tonight’s agenda

 

Call to Order     7:05 p.m. 

 

On the call:  Board Members:  Loomis, Bartelt, Halsch, Allison, Sutton, Ingersoll, Gunderman, Krippner

Introductions  

 

Consent Agenda

    1.    Approval of April 2020 Board Minutes

 

Restricted grants:  

2.       Approval of April Financials

Treasurer’s Report

Al’s comments - see Treasurer’s report. 

Kevin commented on Archipelago fee carryover (to next year) - proposes to not have the fee carryover by default.

Don suggested next year to send out email to registrants from this year, stating you were registered last year, if you’d like to confirm for 2021, do so here by x date. If not, you may donate your registration cost.

Motion: Kevin       Second:   Matt

Old Business

    Item 1. 

Requests for Continuance on any current Agenda items

 

Closed Session

 

Discussion Agenda  

Item 1.  Covid-19 update (Susie)

       Re-opening summary; messaging; trail work guidelines; virtual advocacy 

            Meeting; virtual tools.  

Item 2.  2020 events and fundraising DRAFT Plan (Susie) -no updates

Wait until mid-summer for Trail Fest 

Item 3. Federal Ebike public comments due 6/8/2020 (Susie)

     SDMBA Survey results regarding ebikes   

Survey was done to get a feel for how people are thinking in order to put together comments for June 8th.     

Can we make a summary statement? Should we/do we need to take a position?

Situation is fluid - Review the data more often in order to eventually take a position. It is unknown what percentage of those purchasing eMTB ride on trail.

Note: 50% of survey participants are over 50.

           DRAFT of SDMBA EMTB position  

 

Item 4.  Trail Work Updates (Ben)

Pacific Highlands Ranch trail done. Cost Estimates sent to Pardee.

Daley Ranch - working on now/ Mini excavator deployed to Daley 5/19. 

Penasquitos - rerouting Sidehill Trail 

Item 5.  City of San Diego Parks Master Plan Public Comments Due 6/1 (Matt)

https://www.sandiego.gov/planning/programs/completecommunities/play-everywhere

Item 6.  Bell Program for PQ and Black Mountain (Matt)

2 stations will be @ PQ and 3 at Black Mtn. Cost - $1,000.

Item 7.  CAMTB update and consideration of 2 members for CAMTB Advisory Council (Susie) Kevin resigned last week due to time constraints.

50 people on a statewide call last week, used our Zoom account to enable this to happen! Let Susie know if we are interested in Advisory Council.

Item 8.  SLACK discussion (Susie) - no decision needed tonight. 

-Free

-Keeps long planning threads away from email inboxes. 

-play with it to get familiar - Susie will add a few willing participants 

 

Updates - (Non Discussion Items)

Item 1. 

        

Items for next meeting Agenda

 

Board member communications

 

Upcoming events -  

 

Adjournment:   _8:38 p.m. 

Next Meeting:  June 17, 2020