City of Batavia Bicycle Commission met Jan. 10.
Here are the minutes provided by the commission:
1. Joanne Spitz, John Burnham, Randy Deicke, Jared Heck, Amy Moore, Steve Ericksen, Jen Ress, Evan Thomas, Sergeant Michelle Langston
Absent: Troy Simpson, John Gamble, Brett Garrett, Dave Pedersen 2. Approve Minutes
3. Bikes for Batavia: Quiet and cold month. Received a new bike in the box. Have request for 2 boys bikes. Not a lot going on Jan-March. Everyone needs to be looking/thinking of our next location when we have to vacate this space. Prairie Path donated 12 bikes. Last work night went great, so Evan is in good shape.
4. Welcome Sergeant Michelle Langston, who has a long history on the Batavia police form, since 2008, and handles the social media for the police. She helped with videos the city did with us a couple years ago. She will attend meetings when she can and will be our new liaison for the BBC. THANK YOU Sergeant Langston and look forward to working with you on the issues of bike/driver safety and education. In the spring, officers will be trained for bike patrol! Mlangsto@cityofbatavia.net
Sadly, Randy is retiring. You will be greatly missed and we will be forever grateful for your work to get the BBC going, and for being the backbone to the city and getting so many projects approved/done. THANK YOU RANDY! We will miss your humor, your kindness, your help, your expertise.
Randy will check if Sergeant can get access to the zoom account to hold our meetings. And talk to the city about our finance account.
On-Line Classes from Ride IL: They are doing online classes. Would like to promote them on city website, and Sergeant Langton will look into Ride Illinois.
5. Road Safety: To be continued at each meeting. Consider outreach by neighborhood.
6. Bike and Pedestrian Survey: Need to promote this everywhere we can…. very important to get input from community. Interactive map you can comment, add places to suggest work, can go back often to add to it. Joanne will ask BPS to post it in their social network. Jen got it out to HCS. Meeting is Wednesday, and Sergeant Langston will try to attend future meetings. Thanks, Amy, for attending.
7. Other: Road Diet still on the table and city may be working on engineering specs and IDOT communication. Stairs by River St- We should all add to/comment on this on survey! No plans now with Shodeen project cancelled. We do not want this delayed, so please make comments on survey!
http://www.cityofbatavia.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01102022-1862
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