Bicycle Tasmania Minutes for Ordinary Monthly Meeting 2007/05/17 1 Action Summary ACTION Tim: contact Evan Evans to get Clarence BUG minutes sent to BT. ACTION Tim: to start organising Bike Breakfast. ACTION Tim: to start organising BIG RIDE – caterer, posters, fliers, contact Dave Hartridge Vets so no Vet event scheduled on same Sunday, fee TBD $15 (e.g. last year) or $20 (e.g. Century Ride). ACTION others: Tim and Andrew will *not* be at June, July, August, September meetings (Andrew had incorrectly said would be at June meeting). ACTION Andrew: contact Tony Freeman regards website access while Andrew away, organise for Spoke email to be handled between Linda, Tony, Ambrose. ACTION Andrew: finalize PayPal email names. ACTION Andrew: create web site page for BIG RIDE and add PayPal payment facility. ACTION Andrew: delegate someone for handling info@biketas.org.au and secretary.biketas@gmail.com email while away. ACTION Andrew: book New Sydney hotel for 18th October AGM. 2 Present Greg Mohr, Kathy Mohr, Ambrose Canning, Patsy Jones, Tim Stredwick, Andrew Heard. 3 Apologies Andy Semmler, Tony Fenton, David Edwards. 4 Confirmation of Minutes of Last Meeting Tabled and accepted. 5 Correspondence Incoming 5.1 Letter & cheque for $2147.89 from CyclingSouth for BikeWeek entry fees less expenses. 5.2 Email from Gary Adderton Rosny College regarding possibility of BT providing increased assistance at Salamanca 6 Hr HPV race 2008. 5.3 Email from Allan Welch regards unfixed lighting and cycles without lights along the Intercity Cycleway (HCC will be adding bylaw to require cyclists to have lights). 5.4 Newsletter Queensland Cyclist May/June 07 from Bicycle Queensland. 5.5 Resignation letter from Mark Broadley, Hobart City Council. 5.6 Letter and booklets from Cycling Promotion Fund for 2006 Australian Bicycling Achievement Awards. 6 Correspondence Outgoing 6.1 Nothing of significance. 7 Committee and Other Reports 7.1 Treasurers Report Andy reported bank balance at the end of April was $7486.56. I have also paid the remaining balance on our Personal Accident Insurance which was $6250 - so our May bank statement will have significantly decreased. Please note our P.A Insurance covers our members until the end of 2007 - not Feb 2008. 7.2 Kingborough BUG No report. 7.3 Hobart BUG Nothing much to report. 7.4 CyclingSouth Nothing to report. Refer to 6.10. 7.5 Clarence BUG No meeting. ACTION Tim: contact Evan Evans regards email list. 7.6 Tasmanian Bike Council Nothing to report. Refer to 6.10. 7.7 Web Site - Andrew Total web site hits: Apr:3413 Mar:5372 Feb:4706 Jan:4731 Dec:4979 Nov:5196 Oct:6019 Sep:4452 Aug:4135 Jul:6902 Jun:6026 May:3887 Apr:4859 Mar:5638 Feb:4359 Jan:4721. Website being moved to new hosting site, same URL but allows user access (FTP) for anyone to update the pages (especially while I’m away). New google email addresses for president, secretary, treasurer and membership secretary are being set up to replace the single info@biketas.org.au, to make administration of PayPal and handling of chaning personal emails easier. Also possibility of online forum. ACTION Andrew: contact Tony Freeman regards website access while Andrew away, organise for Spoke email to be handled between Linda, Tony, Ambrose. 7.8 Membership Ambrose reported total 184 members, 43 single, 19 single concession, 112 family, 10 family concession, 4 corporate members. 7.9 Social Rides Discussion on film/ meal social night. 6 tentative riders for upcoming Bruny Island ride. 7.10 Statewide Representitive Body Tim reported that meeting postponed until other action (by CyclingSouth) completed. 8 Business Arising 9 New Business 9.1 BIG RIDE ACTION Tim: to start organising BIG RIDE – caterer, posters, fliers, contact Dave Hartridge Vets so no Vet event scheduled on same Sunday, fee TBD $15 (e.g. last year) or $20 (e.g. Century Ride). 9.2 Tim and Andrew ACTION others: Tim and Andrew will *not* be at June, July, August, September meetings (Andrew had incorrectly said would be at June meeting). ACTION Andrew: book New Sydney hotel for 18th October AGM. 10 Meeting Finished 6.15pm. 11 Next Meeting The next meeting will be held at the Environment Centre, 102 Bathurst Street at 5.30pm on Thursday 21st June. 12 Items Not Discussed None.