CAMBC Board Meeting Minutes
Date: August 24, 2015, 7:00PM, David Stackhouse’s house
Attendees:
Shawn Tevendale, Dave Stackhouse, Will Sanford, Sam Lindblom, Matt Jones, Kristi Lombard, John Lewis, Ken Crawford (secretary)
(3) Motions voted on
- $2000 Preddy Creek Trail maintenance Funds
- $1000 Tool Purchase
- $500 High School Racing Team Funding
Topics:
- Discussed CAMBC blogger/newsletter/
- Dan Testa prospective candidate. We need to start getting him information to write about.
- Website has the ability to package up all content into a quarterly newsletter
- Financial summary
- Best/healthiest year to date
- Great CAMBC brand
- $25,356.99
- Top of the Hops – Sept 29
- A few Jerseys are left at Sam’s house
- Need Chimney Chase check – all proceeds due CAMBC.
- Discussed Preddy Creek trail maintenance
- Propose $2K of advanced trail trailwork
- Motion to spend money on Preddy to do lap around outter loop –
- Cap at $2K – Brock (Ironwood Outdoor), request county to stage a machine and have Matt assist.
- Vote: 8 yay, 0 nay.
- Cap at $2K – Brock (Ironwood Outdoor), request county to stage a machine and have Matt assist.
- Events:
- SM100, September 6
- Shawn to provide some canopy
- Aid Station 6-> Challenge – No wrench support,
- Lockn’, September 10-13
- New Belgium Clips, September 17
- We get $1000 to $1200
- Paranormal, October 17
- 8-9 miles.
- Expanded acreage
- Expanded camping
- Team Funding -> CAMBC will solicit local bike teams to earn funds
- Ken takes Point on Paranormal
- Scope is food, cooking, tent, beverages, set ups, money box, volunteers from general membership to participate
- IMBA Trail Care Crew, October 17
- Show up on Thursday, flags trail, group ride,
- Friday they teach land manager training
- CAMBC provides breakfast
- Saturday classroom session up to 60 peeps
- IMBA has registration site
- CAMBC provides morning snacks, lunch
- Trail ends at 5:00, paranormal starts at 4:00.
- Ken to include Tim Moubray from Orange County Parks and Rec
- Need volunteers to get food for the weekend, tools, trailer,
- TAKMB – October 3.
- West side of McIntire
- Owner TBD, CAMBC jr. possibilities, Colleen? Chris Hoy?
- SM100, September 6
- Capital:
- Shed acquisition
- RTF shed needs to move
- Maybe we move trailer next to RTF shed
- Gentrification of site lends itself to a safe place for trailer
- tool purchases
- Approach Fifth Season for possible tools
- Motion – Jon approaches 5th seasons for discount for tools
- Ben Meadows.com
- Motion: Cap new tool purchase at $1000 – Voted. 6 Yays.
- Accessibility is key to make tools available to the location that will be using them.
- Shed acquisition
- Trail projects
- Ragged Mountain
- “No Bikes” signs are gone.
- Albemarle County has code that dictates only walking permitted at Ragged. Chris G. needs to have that code rescinded.
- Land is owned by the city, county land use code specifies hiking only.
- Preddy grade reversal clean outs – Voted for trail work funds
- Should CAMBC entertain trail grant writing. Define what grant, when to write and who to write.
- Action Items: Form a grant writing committee (David, John, Sam). We need a political advocacy committee (Shawn, Sam) to push for trail change.
- Ohill summer work summary
- 5-7 work days happened. Hiser great participant. University has shown enthusiasm.
- Jon C has been going to RTF board meetings. Gave report. City has new park land from 20S, Corey Park/Morris Creek. Desperate need for brush cutter. Meadowcreek Park wants bridges built. RTF workdays have many people show up for trail days.
- Ragged Mountain
- Summer Epic Ride Series – SERS. Drew Duke, Hiser, Matt Jones owns facebook page.
- Who is going to champion weekday rides.
- Matt Jones to sponsor Wednesday nite rides (Preddy Creek/Tevendale Farms)
- Who is going to champion weekday rides.
- Tech Support Issues
- Watch/observe/report to Matt to feed him write ups to post
- Should we hire a professional photographer to capture moments. End game is to get a photo archive for mailings and newsletters. $250 to $400.
- Should CAMBC financially support the local Mountain Bike Teams (Cutaway, CRC/BRC, Monticello High School)? If so, what are the constraints
- Sam is Monticello coach.
- (4) Teams including Miller. Monticello HS, CRC/BRC Jr Team and Cutaway (for profit)
- Joe Hoskins. Will be a team at CHS
- Can CAMBC contribute to success of sponsoring local student clubs
- Shawn explained NICA (www.nationalmtb.org) – A set of rules how teams will conduct, training, insurance, officials. Takes MTB from grassroots to something more official. Not cheap. Where does the money come from to make this happen.
- What is our return for our dollars. Our investment. How does this benefit local mountain biking in Charlottesville. Trail advocacy, trail maintenance, volunteerism, helping out with race events.
- CAMBC can help them fund raise. How much money do the teams need? CAMBC can teach how to build trails. Help in organizing, help in training.
- Will voices $500/team for trail building and trail building contract.
- $231/kid/season registration cost
- Getting a boys/girl club team is in best interest from CAMBC.
- Shawn has taken the position that if you put the BRC logo on your jersey for the MTB team he will give $500/team.
- Should we pursue jr membership level of fee for jr mtb members like $5.00
- Motion: $500 per team for one year in any area we have an MOU with, 3 hours/team member of trailwork broken into two sessions and CAMBC logo needs to go on jersey. – 100% Yay.
- Board Vacancies
- Jon Ciambotti and Kristi Lombard are resigning.
- Send out email to CAMBC membership soliciting replacements. Can board members stay on until replacements found? Kristi – Yes. Jon – Yes.
- Potential board member: Morgan Cuthirds – Fortuna founder.
- Sam says we are too old and we need younger hipsters as board members but doesn’t know any young people.
- John brought up park repair stations
- Should we purchase $1000 repair station and place at local parks.
- Tabling.
- John brought up idea of collecting strava segments to put together a map.