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=== Executive Director's Report === | === Executive Director's Report === | ||
* | *Membership/Volunteers | ||
**New Membership Database | |||
**Implemented this year | |||
**New interface should make it easier to perform membership searches and updates | |||
**Our membership is important for both our revenue and to present to City Council whenever we have meetings with them | |||
**Our membership for the 2018-19 fiscal year has remained stable with no real growth or losses | |||
**We have many volunteers and this past year we had over 2,300 volunteer hours logged | |||
**With the increase in our shop fees we saw a 14% increase in revenue from shop fees for this past fiscal year, however, we did see a decrease in the number of shop hours used | |||
**We are still focused on accessibility and our shops continue to be accessible to all | |||
*North Shop Renovations Completed | |||
**Saw an increase in this shop’s revenue by 19% | |||
**We have a tidier, safer shop space now and this is all good news | |||
**One of our longtime volunteers Alex helped a lot with the renos and the rebuilding of the fence after the paving, along with many other volunteers | |||
*Bike Builder | |||
**Jan is our bike builder and he built 170 bikes this year | |||
**He also mentors our other volunteers and he ran 22 classes this year, including 5 winter cycling classes | |||
*Sales | |||
**Our bike sales keep happening earlier every year. This past year we saw a spike in our bike sales as early as March | |||
**It’s important to note that these spikes and dips in our sales are very difficult for all of our operations and on our staff and volunteers | |||
*The Spoke - Molly | |||
**This is an earn-a-bike program, but also a confidence-building program | |||
**Youth meet with volunteers and build up a bike over a 7-week period | |||
**>75% of youth in the Spoke were youth in need | |||
*Education Report - Molly | |||
**Last year’s pilot program to teach Jr. High kids mechanics skills has had some hurdles. We determined that the program would only be cost effective if schools paid for services | |||
**Although some schools have stated their interest in the program, none to date have found funding to run the program | |||
**We partnered with Ever Active Schools. The partnership agreement provides a sustainable way for us to offer effective in class and on road cycling education to kids from grades 3-12 | |||
*Advocacy | |||
**We have been less publicly active/visible/vocal in terms of advocacy | |||
**We are focusing more on reaching our key stakeholders | |||
**We connected with MLA David Shepherd | |||
*Alberta Cycling Coalition - Annie McKitrick | |||
**<albertacyclingcoalition.com> | |||
**Currently looking at the Traffic Safety Act, which is an Act that includes all provincial highway and road systems | |||
**As a result of our talks, which Chris was involved in, we have three asks of the provincial government | |||
**1). Is to require a safe passing distance of 1 metre and 1.5 metres for speeds greater than 60km/hr | |||
**2). Allow two-abreast riding when not impeding the flow of traffic, and | |||
**3). (This one is very applicable to urban areas) Cyclists are to ride as far to the right as is safe vs. what is practical | |||
**Calgary has successfully passed safe passing laws | |||
**We are working with Bike Edmonton to change the cycling bylaws in Edmonton and we would like you to sign our petition that we are hoping to bring before the Legislative Assembly encouraging the new government to take the suggestions of the former secretary and make the necessary changes | |||
*Miscellaneous details | |||
**No ghost bikes have been installed in the last couple of years thanks to the bike lanes helping to make cycling in Edmonton safer. There is still a lot of work to do | |||
**Just to go back to volunteers - we had over 130 volunteers over this past year with a total of 4,100 hours, which, as I say every year, only includes the hours that we can convince our volunteers to actually record, so the number is likely quite a bit higher | |||
**We had 16 volunteer orientations over this past year - if you don’t currently volunteer with us we would really encourage you to get involved in our shops or on our board, as well we have other opportunities available that do not require mechanical skills | |||
**Our Volunteer Party is coming up November 23, 2019 | |||
*Question from the audience: Ron asked about where we were with regards to our application for charitable status that has been in the works for the last 2-3 years? | |||
**Mike S. replied that our application was denied and that we are not focusing on that right now | |||
**Chris Chan added that in order for our application to be approved this would require us to really focus our mandate a lot more along with several, significant changes to our current operations | |||
=== Treasurer's Report === | === Treasurer's Report === | ||