City of Batavia Bicycle Commission met Feb. 14.
Here are the minutes provided by the commission:
1. Joanne Spitz, John Burnham, Jared Heck, Amy Moore, Steve Ericksen, Jen Ress, Sergeant Michelle Langston, Troy Simpson, John Gamble, Brett Garrett, Dustin Pieper Absent: Dave Pedersen
2. Approve Minutes
3. Bicycle Friendly Community: Amy shared other items we would need to work on to get to the next level. These include: improving adult biking, more bike parking, bike count program, updated Bike/Ped plan, standards for bike design. Amy will forward list to bike plan consultants.
4. Bikes for Batavia: Quiet month. Sergeant Langston asked how we ID recipients, and police officers will share info on adults/children who need a bike. Officers have given residents their own bikes, and hoping we can get needs from our great police force.
5. Britta’s bike ride E to W: John B, John G, Michelle, Amy and Joanne will help. Will make sure Britta has the E to W path we have identified.
6. Koloni Bike Share: Koloni has not met all their agreed upon responsibilities, including advertising on bikes/racks. Staff response has not been good. County sending out RFP (request for proposals) to hopefully get new vendors to apply for 2023. Most rides are loop rides in same town. Aurora continuing with bike share. Elgin needs to do advertising for revenue. Other towns plan to keep the same number of bikes.
7. 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. Feb. 23 – virtual zoom meeting for community at 11am and 7pm.
8. NW Bike Rodeo: Jared and Steve will help plan this, as they did last year. Low turnout last year, due to late advertising of event and too late in season. Planning for May before school is out. They had a lot of volunteers from Delnor last year. At Delnor parking lot (could suggest other locations, easier to get to by bike). Evan supplied a few bikes for kids to use if they did not come with one.
9. Bike Education/Safety at schools: Keep safety program as is; designed by age group and all schools have the information.
10.Volunteers: We need to share need on social media, city email, and send info to Michelle for police. Need to find deadlines for the new city magazine and write article. Ask Laura to include in email to city employees. Can use volunteers for wellness fair, farmer’s market booth, bike corrals, rodeos, rides.
11.Bike to School Day: Shared info for Sergeant Langston. Joanne will let her know what schools would like police/fire there if they are able to visit. May 4, 2022.
12.Grant: Some bike related projects were funded last year. Due at end of March. Amy will get grant that Abby Beck wrote for the walkability project.
13.FROG: Discussed if BBC can take this on. Rotary was also asked. John shared idea with Heart and Soul…small group that would need many workers to support it. Do we continue? It is our major and only real source of income for BBC. Need or organize sign up, day of check in, stops along the way, sweepers, bus home, truck to help riders in need…many volunteers. A GREAT RIDE!
http://www.cityofbatavia.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02142022-1878
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